Biography

Julien Bayle is a multidisciplinary & independent artist based in France, working at the juncture of sound & visual. He merges visual art, music composition and physical approach of sound art by creating advanced programmed installations and audio/visual live performances.

His work is based on both experimentations and programming, using concepts of time expansion & contraction as main guidelines. His interests for microsound and granular synthesis recently started to expand his work and open a new way of including field recording based sounds into his practice.

He seeks to depict a world saturated by meaningless informations , societies complexity through a positive-nihilist kind of deconstruction of processes, structures and results.
He describes his work as “located at the border between his inner world and the world”, this constantly changing limit representing his vision in a specific moment of time.

He performs & exhibits his work internationally in festival & galleries like MIRA Festival in Spain, ELEKTRA in Canada, Todays Art in Netherlands, ACT Festival in South-Korea, Day for Night in US, Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, David Roberts Art Foundation in London, for the main ones.

He teaches creative technology & new media art as guest professor in various art schools in Europe & outside.

He founded and leaded the now defunct art label Bordille Records with François Larini, and worked closely with & records for Canadian imprint Yatra Arts and was part of the selected artists for SHAPE Network.

2017, he founds and launches vøid label for editing and publishing his new works.

2020, he launches Structure Void intended to cover all his teaching, consulting and programming activities for companies, artists, institutions and individuals. Especially he teaches and leads an acclaimed course merging art + tech for french artists about ableton live 11 suite and Max 8.

2021, he starts new art projects and explorations involving sound, visuals & new aesthetics.

2022, he becomes one of 2 curators of ELLI Media and also its Director of Audiovisual.

His sound work is released and distributed through yatra artsvoid labelbordille recordselli recordseter lab.

Live performances
2023 ∙ flow, TBA
2021 ∙ the.collapse, Mois Multi, Montréal, CA
2020 ∙ ALPHA, L’entrepont, Nice, FR
2019 ∙ STRUCTURE LIVE, Scopitone Festival, Nantes, FR
2018 ∙ FRGMENTS, Escuchar program Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, AR
2018 ∙ FRGMENTS, Cynetart Festival, Dresden, DE
2018 ∙ FRGMENTS, Elastic Arts, Chicago, US
2018 ∙ ALPHA, Volumens Festival, ES
2017 ∙ FRGMENTS, ACT Festival, KR
2017 ∙ MATTER project, Marseille, FR
2016 ∙ STRUCT (Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain PACA), FR
2016 ∙ ALPHA (DAVE Festival, ACT Festival), DE, KR
2016 ∙ SIG.TERM (Todays Art, Electrons Libres), NL, FR
2016 ∙ SIG.INT (Elektra, IX Symposium), CA
2016 ∙ ALPHA (Biennale NEMO, Sensimo Festival, DAVE Festival, SPEKTRUM), FR, UKR, DE
2015 ∙ ALPHA (Mirage festival, Sound:Frame festival, Elektra, David Roberts Art Foundation, Transient Festival, Day for Night), FR & Austria & Canada & UK & US
2014 ∙ ALPHA (Scopitone Festival, RIAM Festival), FR
2014 ∙ Disrupt!on, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
2013 ∙ Digital Organisms ∙ Norberg Festival, SE
2013 ∙ Digital Organisms ∙ Festival TLN, FR
2013 ∙ Horror Vacui ∙ Störung Festival, ES
2012 ∙ Waves ∙ Störung Festival, ES
2012 ∙ Uncanny ∙ Pecha Kucha, FR
2012 ∙ Cold Beats ∙  M4_u festival, UK
2012 ∙ Noise Atmosphere ∙ Interact Gallery, UK
2011 ∙ Several live performances, FR
2010 ∙ In/Out Festival, USA
2010 ∙ Flow / SHARE event, USA
2010 ∙ Codelab Festival, FR

Installations / Exhibitions
2018 ∙ STRUCTURE, MIRA Festival, Barcelona, ES
2017 ∙ FRGMENTS, Commissioned by Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2016 ∙ FRACT ∙ Museum of Transitory Art ∙ Ljubljana, SL
2015 ∙ Uncommon Circles at All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm ∙ David Roberts Art Foundation ∙ London, UK
2015 ∙ Random Marseille ∙ Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar, Théâtre National de la Criée, FR
2015 ∙ Electronic Cities / ut0pia ∙ Galerie Karima Celestin, FR
2014 ∙ signal.interrupt ∙ Galerie Karima Celestin, FR
2014 ∙ Disrupt!on ∙ The Enclave, UK
2013 ∙ Project 1111 ∙ Creative Technology Live, UK

Releases
2022 ∙ Mir ∙ (ELLI Records)
2020 ∙ spectres ∙ (ELLI Records)
2020 ∙ GRID ∙ (ELLI Records)
2020 ∙ the.collapse ∙ (Eter Lab)
2018 ∙ Violent Grains of Silence ∙ (ELLI Records)
2017 ∙ KALCEMR ∙ (VØID Label)
2017 ∙ UNPREDICTABLE ∙ (VØID Label)
2017 ∙ KARST ∙ (VØID Label)
2016 ∙ interstices (live recording) ∙ Yatra Arts
2016 ∙ Void Propagate ∙ Éter Lab
2016 ∙ Inner ∙ Bordille Records
2016 ∙ ALPHA (live recording 15.05.15) ∙ Bordille Records
2015 ∙ Uncommon Circles (reedit) ∙ Bordille Records
2014 ∙ Gap EP ∙ Yatra Arts
2013 ∙ Uncommon Circles ∙ Bitsquare Records
2013 ∙ Digital Organisms (live) ∙ Bitsquare Records
2012 ∙ Ambient atmosphere on Air (live) ∙ Bitsquare Records
2012 ∙ Online Patterns (live) ∙ Bitsquare Records
2012 ∙ Bits trilogy ∙ Bitsquare Records
2011 ∙ Dark Electronic Ondulations ∙ Bitsquare Records
2011 ∙ Parts ∙ Bitsquare Records

Teaching / Consulting
2020-present ∙ Teaching, Consulting, Design, Structure Void, FR
2010-2019 ∙ Teacher / individuals or groups (sound & visuals design, programming), Julien Bayle Studio, FR
2014-2016 ∙ Guest art teacher (a.v creative programming), ESADMM, FR

Workshops
2022 ∙ Generative live performances, France
2020 & 2021 ∙ Sound design and Sonification for Data Art, France
2020 ∙ Sound design for generative art, France
2019 ∙ Designing Live performance Systems, 2 days, Seoul, KO
2018 ∙ Audioreactive System Design for Performances, 1 week, HEAD, CH
2018 ∙ Audioreactive visuals strategies, 1 week, Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, PT
2017 ∙ Working with sound descriptors, 2 days, Seoul, KO
2015 ∙ Network Based Art Installation, 1 week, FH St. Pölten, AT
2014 ∙ Ableton Live & Max for Live, 1 week, FH St. Pölten, AT
2013 ∙ Designing Sound plugins, 3 days, Paris, FR
2012 ∙ Live Performance systems design, 2 days, Leicester, UK

Lectures
2023 ∙ Œuvre ouverte et art génératif, France
2019 ∙ Art & Science collision, Scopitone Festival, Nantes, FR
2018 ∙ Ghosts & Algorithm, Buenos Aires, AR
2018 ∙ ALPHA & FRGMENTS, perspectives and collision , Buenos Aires, AR
2018 ∙ Conversation with Ken Vandermark (Experimental Sound Studio), Chicago, US
2016 ∙ Noise & Process (ACT Festival), Gwangju, KO
2016 ∙ Sound & architectural space (SONICA), Ljubljana, SL
2016 ∙ Modular System and space / Analysis, ambisonic spatialization & visual representation of sound (IX Symposium), Canada
2016 ∙ Sound art residency at EMS Stockholm, Sweden
2015 ∙ One full week inside Max7 at ESADMM, Marseille, FR
2015 ∙ Le son visualisé at Mirage Festival #3, Lyon, FR
2014 ∙ Lecture about data/sound/visual at École Nationale Supérieure de Photographie, FR
2014 ∙ Short Lecture about Disrupt!on ∙ Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
2013 ∙ Generative Art Workshop ∙ ESADMM, FR
2013 ∙ Next Generation Creative Tool ∙ Culture Tech Festival, UK
2013 ∙ Approaches of A/V Live performances ∙ Norberg Festival, SE
2013 ∙ Official demo of PUSH controller for Ableton, FR
2012 ∙ Live performances with Max6 ∙ Creative Technology Live, UK
2011 ∙ Designing audio softwares with Max6, FR
2010 ∙ Designing hardware controllers, France & USA

Books & DVD
2014 ∙ Interactive Multimedia Programming with Max6
2013 ∙ Max for Live Ultimate Zen Guide
2012 ∙ C Programming for Arduino
2011 ∙ Ableton Live 9 & Max for Live (Elephorm)
2010 ∙ Interface Design cookbook