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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 over 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 device, made possible by the video medium.

_{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}

_{Honorable mention, SoundChain International Composition Competition 2024}

_{3rd place in Experimental category, Josiah Media Festival 2023
Winner in Surround 5.1 category, Mixage Fou 2020}

_{PT210M & PT210P Avid Certified Pro Tools Music & Post Professional 2023
Wwise 101 & 110 Certification 2023
Dante Level 1 (2nd Ed) 2022
First Certificate, University of Cambridge 2019}

other education

_{Spatialized interpretation of acousmatic music worskhop, Musiques & Recherches, Brussels, Belgium, 2022}