Jean-Baptiste Favory

Jean-Baptiste Favory (born 1967) is a French sound artist and composer of musique concrète, electronic and instrumental music. Biography Jean-Baptiste Favory was born in Paris in 1967. His mother, Catherine Fournet (1945), is the daughter of conductor Jean Fournet. His father is actor Michel Favory (1940). After briefly studying piano in his early youth, he returned to music as a keyboardist for several rock bands in the 1980s. At the same time, he became interested in experimental music and, in 1990, he composed his first concrete pieces as an autodidact. He began composing in 1989 and his first works were broadcast on the national French radio France Culture in 1994. In 1995, he composed the first sound design for an Internet provider, Infogrames. The same year, he started working for theatre, composing sounds & musics for Victor Haïm. From 1996 to 1999, he worked in Luc Ferrari’s studios , and was assistant to Composers such as Gavin Bryars, Luc Ferrari and Brunhild Ferrari. In 1997, he obtained a two-month residency in Monterrey, Mexico, to compose Leyendas Urbanas, a composition with a 180° video projection by Pierre Jacob premiered the planetarium of the city. Two years later