Jean-Philippe Renoult

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jean-Philippe Renoult (born October 28, 1963 in Paris ) is a French media artist , essay writer , music critic and professor of radio design. He specializes in electronic music and digital worlds.

biography

As a sound artist, Jean-Philippe Renoult practiced the technique of field recordings (recordings in public spaces) from an early age . His works are presented as listening devices, such as Pourtant Tout Simple, an electroacoustic commissioned work for GRM ( Groupe de recherches musicales ), or I could never make that Music Again in collaboration with Jean-Yves Leloup as part of the gallery's Radiodays series of events De Appel (Amsterdam). This work, which was released on CD by the Sub Rosa label , won the fourth Qwartz Award for new music and electronic music.

Renoult is the author of Global Tekno: an initiation journey into the heart of electronic music , for which he was awarded the 1999 Académie Charles Cros Prize for Music Literature.

As a music critic and editor-in-chief, he published from 1994 to 1999 for the monthly specialist electronic music magazine, CODa Magazine . His reviews appear in Art Press, Mouvement - here he publishes an article about Christian Marclay , or The Residents , about the so far unique training MCD - Musiques et Cultures Digitales. Renoult also contributed to the poptronics.fr website .

In his role as radio maker and presenter, he has been broadcasting music-critical contributions on Radio FG , Radio Nova and later France Culture since the 1990s , where he was employed on the regular broadcast team from 1999 to 2005 at the suggestion of Daniel Caux. There he produces formats for the relevant series Les chemins de la musique and Carnet de notes . His trademark is the combination of pop culture and musical expertise. For France Culture he also designed a studio for sound art for the first time under the title En Echos / SonoTech as well as the weekly discussion series Net Plus Ultra, which deals with the Internet and cyber culture.

Since 2001 he has presented and moderated the Cinema de Demain series of events at the Center Pompidou in Paris . In 2005 he started the discursive series Voir et entender , which deals with the relationship between sound and image in cinema and contemporary art. Since 2005 he has been creating radio reports for international broadcasters: ABC (Australia), BBC (Great Britain), ORF / Kunst Radio (Austria) as well as for Resonance FM (London) and the Radia network. Jean-Philippe Renoult works in collaboration with his partner DinahBird. They create film music, sound installations, artistic devices for radio transmission.

Since 2012 Jean-Phillipe Renoult has been Professor of Radio Program Design at the Institut supérieur de l'image et du son (ISIS Paris).

Exhibitions

  • 2011–2014: Tag Audio Loops, traveling exhibition, etc. a can be seen at the Sculpture Museum, Marl (Germany)
  • 2014: 2 mn 35, installation for the exhibition Re-Former le Monde Visible, Marlène Rigler (dir.), Le 116 Kunstraum, Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis).
  • 2015: Vue du Ciel, installation, curator: Agnès de Cayeux, Le Bel Ordinaire de Pau
  • 2016: The Hum, installation for Radio Revolten as part of the exhibition “The Great Murmur: The Metamorphosis of Radio” 3, Halle (Germany).

bibliography

  • with Jean-Yves Leloup: Global Tekno: voyages initiatiques au cœur des musiques électroniques. Foreword by Ariel Kyrou, photographs by Pierre-Emannuel Rastoin. Le Camion blanc, Nancy 1999. (Reprint: 2007, ISBN 978-2-35012-190-1 )
  • Ariel Kyrou: Techno rebel: un siècle de musiques électroniques. Postface. Denoe͏̈l, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-207-25352-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art Radio , online reference.
  2. fr Installation presented on , online reference.
  3. exhibition summary , the bird-renoult.net .

Web links