florent c. darras

French composer and sound artist. Born 1986 in Japan. His current work focuses in particular on the formal consequences of analogies between the living and the artificial, aiming to develop conceptions of sonic time and space inspired by environmental models. His music creates connections between the worlds of audionaturalism (field recording, bioacoustics), spectral music, repetitive music, and electronic music.

Florent C. Darras collaborates with ensembles such as Ensemble intercontemporain, 2e2m, Court-Circuit, TM+, Ars Nova, Cairn, and Multilatérale, and internationally with the Muromachi Ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, and United Instruments of Lucilin. His music has been broadcast on Radio France, played on the GRM’s acousmonium, and performed at venues including the Philharmonie de Paris, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, St Mary Church Tokyo, Suginami Hall Tokyo, National Hall Taipei, Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum in Shanghai, Centquatre-Paris, IRCAM’s Espace de Projection, Salle Cortot, La Seine Musicale, Arsenal de Metz, as well as at festivals such as ManiFeste (IRCAM–Centre Pompidou), Présences (Radio France), Mixtur (Barcelona), and the 2015 World Expo in Milan. In 2022, his sound installation Mersion was produced in partnership with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux. From 2022 to 2024, he is composer-in-residence at Cité musicale-Metz and the Orchestre National de Metz Grand-Est.