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 images, notably in collaboration with Le Fresnoy-Studio National des arts contemporains, Ircam, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Centre Pompidou and Ensemble Nikel.
Javier Elipe's scores have been performed in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and Estonia, at festivals including 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). 

Stefano Arrigoni
composer

Anesthetist and sound artist, he studies consciousness in all its states. He plays with discreet vibrations and subliminal sounds, convinced that there is something truer in all this. He records sounds just about everywhere, particularly during long walks in the mountains, to construct imagined landscapes, both near and far.

Lily Ballet
composer

After a degree in musicology and technical training in live performance sound engineering, Lily Ballet decided to move into music creation, joining SATIS's master's program in music for images. A violinist and singer, Lily Ballet's influences are varied, navigating between several electronic styles. 

Chloé Balourdet
composer

A pianist since the age of 6, Chloé began by improvising a lot during her auditions, and ended up composing works for piano. It was during her studies that she discovered a passion for film music. So, after graduating with a degree in musicology, she turned to composing music for film, enrolling at SATIS. It was at this school that she discovered MAO and composing software. Her musical universe focuses on an alliance between unusual sounds, classical and electronic instruments.

Cécile Brieu
composer

Cécile Brieu composes mainly for images. Depending on the project she's working on, she uses a variety of musical forms: classical, contemporary music, jazz or electroacoustic. Her compositions have been performed in cine-concerts as part of the Music & Cinema festival in Marseille and the Ciné Plein Air festival in Marseille. Performances have been entrusted to a plectrum ensemble, a classical chamber ensemble, a jazz ensemble or an acousmonium for electroacoustic diffusion. Performances were given at cinemas such as Les Variétés, Artplexe, Vidéodrome and Le Gyptis, as well as the Théatre de La Criée and the Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet in Marseille.

Noa Defos
composer

Noa Defos du Rau is a composer, musician and director. Trained at the Toulouse Conservatory and then at the SATIS Film School, she develops her work around the relationship between music and movement, particularly in the context of danced films. Her universe blends classical and techno influences, in dialogue with the choreographer, in a search for sensory aesthetics and visual experimentation. 

Kim Dosoung
composer

Kim Dosoung is an artist based in Marseille. He graduated from the DNAP in 2016 at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, then from the DNSEP in 2019 at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. He has taken part in several residencies, including "Réseau Altitude" with Artocène, at Villa du Parc in 2023, as well as "Bel Ordinaire" in 2024. He is currently pursuing a post-master's degree in art and teaching at ESAAIX.

Mélodie Duchesne
compositric

Mélodie Duchesne is a performer and composer of electroacoustic and visual music, interested in cross-disciplinary writing. Her artistic research combines sound, visual and live arts. Her compositions are performed on acousmoniums, for cine-concerts and short films. Performer for musical & vocal ensembles, with "Gamelan Bintang Tiga" (G. Sylvestre, J. Abt) & "Chœur Tac-Til" (N. Muslera), she also participates in sound creations "Nist-Nah" (W. Guthrie), "Spin" (É. Abecassis), "Tri Bhuwana" (P. Boivin), "Home" (J-L. Guionnet, É. La Casa), "Dewi Sri" (Pantcha Indra, Sanggar Pamor).
- melodieduchesne.free.fr

Clémence Guillin
composer

Trained as an anthropologist, Clémence Guillin is interested in various fields of research, including the anthropology of dance and migration. Her various projects have led her to seek out more sensitive modes of restitution. She then trained in documentary filmmaking, and is now refining her exploratory approach to sound. For the past three years, she has been training in electroacoustic composition at the Cité de la Musique in Marseille.

Matteo Honiger
composer

Matteo Honiger is 24 years old and comes from Toulouse. After graduating with a degree in computer science, he is now a student at Satis, in the "Musique à l'image" program. Pianist, drummer, beatboxer, guitarist and ukulele player, he's a real jack-of-all-trades, always thirsting to learn new instruments in different styles. This musical curiosity spills over into a wide variety of projects, including short films, animations, video games and cine-concerts.

Stella Lopez
composer

Stella Lopez, 22, is a musician and composer for images. A student at SATIS since this year, she explores electroacoustics and its relationship to images. Bassist, singer and drummer in several rock bands such as La Flemme, Tessina and Rahewl, she also uses these instruments to play with their sounds and create new universes. 

João Orecchia
composer

João Orecchia is an artist, composer and musician based in Marseille for the past two years. He has worked extensively on electroacoustic composition for film, theater and installation, as well as experimental compositions for unconventional ensembles. João is taking courses in composition and classical harmony at the Marseille Conservatory to further his skills in ensemble composition. He plays modular synthesizer and bass clarinet.
- www.joaoorecchia.com

Vivien Perrot
composer

Vivien Perrot is a second-year master's student at the ESAAIX School of Fine Arts. Since the beginning of his training, he has been developing his activity between self-destructive objects, studies of his perceptive environment and audio-visual performances. He focuses on the medium and its noise, a source of destruction and transformation of information. He formulates this process through sound, image and the individual, in a self-generating artistic practice: a dialogue between the medium and himself.

Léo Pinson
composer

Léo Pinson is a first-year master's student in musical composition for images in the SATIS department at Aix-Marseille University. After graduating with a degree in cinema, he specializes in writing music for images, a field that enables him to explore the encounter between music and the visual arts. Passionate about world music, his artistic research focuses on intercultural influences and traditional sounds, which he integrates into his contemporary compositions. Léo seeks to build bridges between Western and non-Western musical worlds, highlighting the sonic diversity of different cultures. 

Alan Saos
composer

Alan Saos, 22, is a student at SATIS, studying music composition for images. He is developing a practice centered on sound creation, nourished by a long-standing passion for electronic music, recording and musical mixing. Introduced to music at the age of 12 via digital tools, he has since built a personal universe in which sound material occupies a central place. His interest in instrumental textures, dynamics and contrasts drives him to explore new sounds and use tools such as electroacoustics.

Shani de Vecchi
composer

Shani has been passionate about music since childhood. From listening to practicing, he enjoys varying his activities, seeking out music from all horizons, performing and composing. He joined the electroacoustic course at the Cité de la Musique in 2023.

Lika Zhu
composer

After five years of nomadic life in China, she continued her studies at the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence. Using image and sound, she starts with a point, a line or a cube drawn from everyday life and nature, and then, through patient weaving and successive interlocking, composes a poetic world in the shape of an icosahedron.