Javier Elipe Gimeno
Composer, teacher-researcher and doctor of musicology

Javier Elipe Gimeno is head of the "Métiers de la musique pour l'image" program in the SATIS department at Aix-Marseille University. He trained in composition, piano and musicology in Spain, Paris, Geneva (Switzerland) and Tallinn (Estonia), with composers Martín Matalon, José Manuel López López, Michael Jarrell, Luis Naón, Éric Daubresse and Mauro Lanza.
In 2012-2013, he completed the Cursus in Composition and Computer Music at Ircam - Centre Pompidou.
He regularly carries out projects linking instrumental music and image, notably in collaboration with Le Fresnoy-Studio National des arts contemporains, Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Percussions de Strasbourg, Centre Pompidou and Ensemble Nikel.
Javier Elipe's scores have been performed in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and Estonia, at festivals such as Ircam - ManiFeste (Paris), Archipel (Geneva) , Semaine du Son (Geneva) , Estonian Music Days (Tallinn, Estonia), Composers Festival (Tartu, Estonia) , Ensems (Valencia, Spain) and La Biennale de Venise (Venice, Italy).

Émile Ayoub
Composer

Passionate about music since the age of six, Émile Ayoub initially trained at a music school. Over the past five years, he has honed his skills as a self-taught pianist. His solfeggio level reached Cycle 2 year 2, so he was able to develop some basic musical training. What sets him apart is his bivalent passion: his interest in oriental, urban and even electronic music. This diversity influences his creativity, marking his compositions with a unique fusion of several distinct universes.

Gabin Bergamini
Composer

Gabin Victor Joseph Bergamini is a student at the Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. He creates dreamlike, often arrhythmic soundtracks for short films, installations and comic strips. These compositions are created by mixing different M.A.O. software, ambient and noise sounds, images transformed into sound and some instrument recordings.
In addition to this activity, he works on digital and plastic forms, ranging from comics to generations of 3D images, which he seeks to link to his sound work.

Samuel Bester
Composer

Samuel Bester likes to explore the ambiguity between reality and what we perceive of it through nuance, distortion or accident, amplifying the interrelations between perception and emotion. Time and memory have key functions: they summon a poetic language, often metaphorical, amplifying curiosity by blurring apparent meanings, triggering unexpected mental images. Samuel Bester's protean, intermedial work in sound, image and installation is shown at film festivals, concerts, contemporary dance and music performances, and in art galleries and museums.

Mélodie Duchesne
Composer

Mélodie Duchesne is a performer and composer of electroacoustic and image-based music, interested in cross-disciplinary writing and expressive processes. Her experimental artistic research borrows from the plastic, visual, sound and living arts.
A performer in ensembles - musical with "Gamelan Bintang Tiga" by Gaston Sylvestre, Jérémie Abt - vocal with "Choeur Tac-Til" by Natacha Muslera, she also takes part in sound creations ("Spin" by Eryck Abecassis; "Tri Bhuwana" by Philippe Boivin; "Home" by Jean-Luc Guionnet & Eric La Casa; "Dewi Sri" by Pantcha Indra & Sanggar Pamor, in Java).
His compositions are performed on acousmoniums and for film-concerts.

Tyfen Guilloux
Composer

Tyfen Guilloux is a musician and multidisciplinary artist. She has lived in Marseille since 2016, where she developed a sound practice and a strong relationship with improvisation, before joining that of electroacoustic composition. She is one half of Quel Enfer! a string and tape duo with Luci Schneider, as well as the performance duo Zone Négative (w/ Nora Neko), and since 2018 has been editing the hybrid-themed collective publishing project La Veille, whose name she bears.
She thus pursues a practice split between several languages, and is particularly interested in questions of memory(s), otherness or commonality, and the phase shifts that the vertigo of the great whole produces.

Neeko Jourdan
Composer

A young digital artist in her fourth year at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, Neeko Jourdan's work explores what it means to be a non-binary person born during Generation Z. Iel performs through installations that combine sound, images and video, in an immersive theatrical scenography.
His main subjects are often linked to the psychology behind trauma, putrefaction, illness, the fear of aging and dysfunctions in the real world.

Maëlle Marsan
Composer

Maëlle is a young artist, pianist and dancer, who graduated from the Conservatoire Régional de Reims in Piano and Contemporary Dance.
After obtaining a degree in psychology, she undertook a long trip to Latin America, which nourished her imagination. She is currently studying at the Beaux-Arts d'Aix-en-Provence. Her practice revolves around exploration with the living, where improvisation gives rhythm to the continuous flow. Through movement, musical experimentation and altered states of consciousness, she explores different sensory fields of awareness, notably by creating devices offering sonic and kinaesthetic experiences.

Corentin Ménard
Composer

Born on March 17, 1998 in Marseille, Corentin Ménard's musical career began in 2020, when he discovered MAO on FL Studio. He decided to continue his studies in musicology, and then at SATIS in audiovisual school. In 2021, he formed a music group called Interphase with friends he had met in musicology. In parallel with his studies, and since 2022, he has been devoting time to self-taught piano learning.
Currently a Master's student at SATIS, with a specialization in music to image, he strives to integrate the visual dimension into his sound creativity.

Robin Ravez
Composer

Originally from Lille in the Nord region of France, Robin Ravez began playing the piano at the age of ten. After three unsuccessful years at music school, he began taking private lessons with a jazz piano teacher, who introduced him to the way music works (chords, different rhythms, keys...). At the same time, he taught himself guitar and singing. In high school, he discovered MAO with Ableton Live, then went on to study Audiovisual at university, where he began composing songs in a Pop/Rock/Hip-hop style. Currently at SATIS, he is studying visual music, sound engineering and music theory. He is currently working on a Concept EP.

Kimberley Richard
Composer

A native of the Indre department and holder of a Brevet d'étude musicale, Kimberley Richard has always had a passion for the world of music and audiovisuals. She plays the transverse flute and alto saxophone, and also does a bit of Computer-Aided Music. Her university studies focused mainly on sound, with a BTS MAV specializing in sound professions and a professional license in New Sound Technologies. Currently in her 1st year of a Master's degree in Music for the Image at SATIS, she continues to pursue her dream of working in sound design or composition for the image.

Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan
Composer

Born in Marseille (1985), he lives and works in Marseille. Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan works with sound and image. He studied engineering and then obtained a PhD in Physics (Institut Fresnel, CNRS x AMU), during which he began to practice photography and sound creation. He then attended the École de photographie d'Arles and the École de cinéma documentaire de Lussas. His work then focused on making films, which were selected for several festivals in France and abroad. At the same time, he extended his plastic research to include installations, performances and sound pieces.