Jean-Baptiste Favory


Jean-Baptiste Favory 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, is the daughter of conductor Jean Fournet. His father is actor Michel Favory. 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, once again in Monterrey, he met the Mexican Free-rock group Los Lichis. Their collaboration led to Several concerts and recordings, In Mexico, France, and the USA.
From 1998 to 1999, he participated in masterclasses at the Iannis Xenakis musical center in Paris, where he studied from Jean-Claude Risset, Curtis Roads, Trevor Wishart, Gerard Pape and Julio Estrada. Thereafter, he obtained a 6-month residency in the CCMIX studios and became a sound engineer for Paul Méfano and Eliane Radigue.
From 1999 to this day, Jean-Baptiste Favory hosts the radio program Epsilona, dedicated to experimental music from the entire world. Some of his well known guests include: Eliane Radigue, Julio Estrada, Jean-Claude Risset, Gérard Pape, Denis Dufour, Jean-Claude Eloy, Michel Chion, Paul Méfano, Haino Keiji, Allain Gaussin, Bérangère Maximin.
Since 2000 he has contributed music and sound to various theater productions with directors Marcel Bluwal, Jean Gillibert and Gérard Maro.
In 2007, he joined the CLSI : "Circle for Liberation of Sounds and Images". This is a composers/performers' band created in 2007 for the interpretation of graphical scores with electronic devices in real time. The circle was directed by Paul Méfano and in 2008 and 2012 they performed concerts at the prestigious Stockhausen festival in Kürten. They recorded with saxophonist Yoshk'o Seffer, a former member of Magma.
At the end of 2022 and in 2023, the electronic piece "Des spheres" was broadcast during several shows at the planetarium of La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, accompanied by a 360° video representing a journey through our galaxy over 51 minutes.
Favory's works are played in Europe and USA, and most of his works has been released on cd, lp and tapes in France, USA, Mexico, Russia and Great Britain.
"The imagination is effortlessly pushed to the limit: Favory's essential quality is to render the obvious without having to prove it."

Works

Crash test La partie pour le tout L’Eve future Hadaly habal Le grand conseil de Sirius a rendu son verdict Parasites! Leyendas urbanas Bruit mauve La catastrophe d'assèchement Zona del silencio La bande à desseins Chicharra Pour les voyageurs Cosmos privé Big ending UNISONO I Le voyage immobile UNISONO II Bad tape nostalgia UNISONO III UNISONO IV Fading spaces Microsphères El ojo doble Things under -Organic compositions for guitars & electronics- Le passager
  • UNISONO V
  • db -David Bowie's seven lives-
  • Parades Postlude Ciels Voladores PAUL & paul
  • ''La grande marée''

Discography

  • I was thinking
  • Les signes au loin
  • Des sphères
  • Ciels
  • Le passager
  • Cosmos privé Things under Voyage immobile UNISONO Big endings
Collaborations :
  • Los Lichis : Eerie breedings
  • Los Lichis : Small Mole & The Flavor Jewel Trio
  • Los Lichis :
  • Los Lichis : Cheap funeral music
  • CLSI / Yochk'o Seffer / Thollem McDonas : Rencontres électriques
  • Jiyo et Yebi : Impro sessions 2013/2014
  • Los Lichis : Dog
  • Bad tape nostalgia et Motor revers with
  • Spirit of the matter : Zuble land
  • 100.000 Années : Split CD with. Piece: Des sphères
  • Documents : D10a,
Compilations :
  • CRU3 : Le passager
  • Le train fantôme : Bruit mauve -extrait-
  • Zone de rêves : Eve
  • Détonnants Voyages : Leyendas Urbanas – extrait-
  • Lieu-non lieu, hörspiel IV : ''Zona del silencio''

Essays