Biography
Born in France in 1976, Julien Bayle develops a practice situated at the intersection of sound art, installation, and live performance. His work explores the perception of time, thresholds of listening, and the relationship between structure and emergence.
His approach combines algorithmic writing with the raw presence of sound, in a constant tension between formal control and drift. He designs autonomous, often generative systems that make invisible dynamics audible: oscillations, triggers, densities, voids.
Minimalism serves as a plastic foundation — used as a method: reducing to expose, truncating to reveal. What remains — pulses, shifting textures, luminous gestures — becomes the material of a language that rejects ornament and seeks the essential.
Julien Bayle composes with machines as one composes with constraints: not to dominate them, but to let new forms emerge. Each piece is the result of a rigorous research process, where rhythms, instabilities, and systems are tested, challenged, and deployed in a living apparatus.
His works take shape in space: they inhabit the site or force it to reveal itself differently. Sound becomes volume, duration, physical pressure. Image and light — when present — follow the same logic of reduction and dialogue with emptiness.
Julien Bayle builds systems like one sculpts time: through reduction, tension, and iteration. His works do not represent — they operate. They deploy sensitive logics, where precision and wavering coexist in a fragile balance.
He also designs his own digital instruments, extending his sonic research into the architecture of software itself. His practice is rooted in the history of computer music, spanning algorithmic composition, dynamic systems, and perceptual experience. He also teaches these tools — particularly Max — by articulating technique, aesthetics, and critical thinking. Julien Bayle also teaches & designs program for creative & art as both an Ableton Certified Trainer & a Max Certified Trainer.
Live performances
2025 ∙ super.system, San Francisco Music Festival, US
2023 ∙ flow, Nantes, FR
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
2025 The Art of Max for Live book (FR & EN)
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