JEROME JOY

le monde renversé - adynata & impossibilia

2013

Biography

Jérôme Joy is a French composer born in Nantes in 1961. Since the early 1980s, his works have been presented at international events devoted to experimental, improvisational, electroacoustic, electronic and instrumental music—in real time and networked (telematic). He is currently a professor at the École nationale supérieure d'art in Bourges and the co-director (with Peter Sinclair) of Locus Sonus, an art research laboratory. In addition to these activities, Joy is pursuing his doctoral studies in research-creation in sound art and experimental music at the Université Laval in Quebec City. For over twenty years, the composer has participated in numerous international festivals, exhibitions and conferences. He has also benefited from residencies in Europe, Asia and North America. His recordings are distributed by Metamkine, Tiramizu, 23Five/SFMOMA, Fibrr Records and OHM Éditions. He has published a book entitled LOGS (Éditions è®e), as well as numerous articles in French and English periodicals.

About the work

A new movement is gradually taking over the world, turning shortages into their opposite. The world turned upside-down, inverted, shattered, is the underlying principle of the rhetorical device known as adynaton. The series adynata & impossibilia combines videos, words and sounds. It offers combinable stages to probe its subtle modifications, both mobile and immobile.

Beside a mountain path
An exquisite find
Is a tiny violet!

(Bashō)