| CHRISTOPHE DEMARTHE COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGNER COMMISSIONED WORK AUDIO SAMPLES VIDEOS BIOGRAPHY PERSONAL PROJECTS CONTACT |
| BIOGRAPHY (EN) (FR) Christophe Demarthe is a composer and sound designer based in Paris. For many years he has been working at the border of sound and visual arts, creating music and sound architectures for theater, dance, visual arts, film, radio, television, fashion. In his commissioned work Christophe Demarthe proceeds in small steps, by subtle intuitions, through an incessant game of back and forth between the project under construction and his sound work. Since 2010 he has been producing soundtracks for dance productions in France and abroad (Superamas, Anne Juren, Annie Dorsen). He started his first artistic collaborations in the 90s with the radio director Jean Couturier (France Culture), theater director Bruno Lajara (501 Blues), filmmaker Yann Fischer Lester. In parallel he studied philosophy of art at La Sorbonne. In the 2000s, while continuing his work for radio and theater, he started composing for TV movies (Canal +, France 2, France 3). Since 2007 he has regularly cooperated with visual artists Pierre Beloüin, P. Nicolas Ledoux and Ultralab, for sound, interactive or video installations (Jeu de Paume, Rennes Biennial, Nuit Blanche...). Since 2012 he has created music and sound design for the brand Louis Vuitton. Christophe Demarthe started his musical career as co-founder and lead singer of Clair Obscur, one of the first groups in the 80s which made connections between music, visual arts, dance and theater (Le Palace with Killing Joke, La Cigale with The Nits, Wiener Festwochen...). In 2004 he created Cocoon, a global project - still active today - mixing electronic music, video and performance (Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou, Ososphère, Interstice, Qwartz Awards...). Today he is still diversifying his activities by launching Acoustic Cameras, an online collection co-edited by Optical Sound and La Manufacture des Cactées, inviting sound artists to compose pieces for live webcams located throughout the planet. |