biography
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Valentin Sismann is a French acousmatic music composer and video artist. After making the film In Repetito Religare with Audrey Colard, he decided to combine electroacoustic and video art in his practice. His work has been shown in some twenty countries in group exhibitions, screenings and concerts. In 2024, he won the DJTAL Humain prize for his video Screensong and the petites formes prize for his acousmatic piece Loinaître.
Valentin
Sismann's work revolves around a reflection on recording media and
their writing possibilities. In his works, whether acousmatic or
video, he seeks to develop a language related to these time-based
media,
a temporal writing invoking poetry, humor and musicality. In his
acousmatic works, he often questions the boundary between the
anecdotic and the abstract, the recorded and the composed. He plays
on the sometimes poetic, sometimes harsh transition from one of these
worlds to the other, in dialogues of spaces, in a language as
narrative as it is musical. His video works, though more critical, are a continuation of his musical thinking. While inspired by electroacoustic composition
processes, the aim of each work is often the construction of a new
musical system, made possible by the video medium.
[ works catalogue ]
prizes
Special mention, Ibrida
Festival
2024
3rd place in Experimental category, Josiah Media Festival 2023
Mention, Prix Russolo 2024
petites formes Prize, TPMC 2024
Special mention, Ibrida
Festival
2024
DJTAL Humain Prize, Art Mercator 2024
Mini Bear award, Small File Media Festival 2024
3rd place in Experimental category, Josiah Media Festival 2023
Winner in Surround 5.1 category, Mixage Fou 2020
education
2023-2025 Master's degree in music and sound creation, Paris VIII University
2020-2025 Diploma in music studies, Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental de Pantin
2020-2023 Higher diploma in sound engineering, École supérieure de réalisation audiovisuelle - Head of Video Game section, Paris
certifications