I am a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience, specialized in signal analysis of electrophysiological signals, such as MEG, stereotactic EEG & multi-unit activity. As a senior researcher at the group Dynamics and physiopathology of neural networks and epilepsy, I develop analysis strategies for intercranial recordings, and develop the EpiCode repository. 

For over a decade I’ve been exploring new forms of engaging with interdisciplinary questions within the research collective OuUnPo and the art organization Vision Forum. More recently, we’ve focused more specifically in the overlap between neuroscience and music, resulting in the cross-disciplinary organization 1+1=3, wherein we develop multisensory neurofeedback performances and produce contemporary sound experiments and workshops. For this purpose we develop the EEGsynth, an open-source Python platform for brain-computer-interfaces. I use the EEGsynth in creative and educational workshops, as well as for recording and composing what I call neuroelectric music in which I combine electrical and magnetic recordings from different species, organs and objects  in sonic compositions together with modular and digital sound synthesis.

I recently started on a ANR-funded collaboration with MSH Paris Nord, Université Paris 8, CICM/MUSIDANSE, Soixante circuits, and Goldsmiths University of London, called the Brain Body Digital Music Instrument, in which I develop brain and muscle analysis techniques for sound synthesis and musical composition.

I first got interested in sound as a way to reflect on perception and signal processing. As an artist, I learned how important it is to listen. Taking the time to listen expands our awareness, and flips our habits of perception around: background becomes foreground, and noise becomes signal. When we feel disconnected, the act of listening brings us naturally back into the world. Listening also exposes how ever-present the human world has become. There is no sonic or electromagnetic wavelength that is not penetrated by our activities. Listening and recording becomes an anthropological study, in which we are never just observing from the outside. It is this navigation through noise towards the quiet spaces, that has let me to volunteer for Quiet Parcs International.