Sound Design

Composing the sound - the music - of places, objects and experiences

(local authorities, cultural institutions, brands, festivals, architects, set designers, laboratories, companies seeking a living sound signature)

From public spaces to cultural and brand venues, Fred Voisin designs permanent or temporary sound installations that give a place its own voice. Bespoke generative processes, rather than pre-recorded loops, are preferred through to real-time audio synthesis.
For example, Fonocanal (detailed presentation), a permanent sound installation on a bank of the Canal de Bourgogne, continuously plays sounds generated in situ and in real time according to the weather, the seasons and the time of day, and sometimes original recordings celebrating the local area. It was commissioned by the association Ici et là, une poétique du canal de Bourgogne, in collaboration with Voix Navigables de France. Or Caresses de Marquises, a twelve-hour concert for artificial neural networks for the Nuit Blanche in Paris 2004, broadcast on the canopies of Gare de l'Est (commissioner: Nicolas Frize, Ville de Paris).

Applications

• Generative in situ sound installations, driven by real data (weather, movement, flows)
• Sound identity and scenography for museums, cultural venues, brand spaces
• Performances and interactive devices for events, festivals, inaugurations
• Design of bespoke, evolving, interactive, intelligent sound devices

Productions

• 2021 — Fonocanal — permanent sound installation, on a bank of the Canal de Bourgogne — listen
  • Broadcast « Les voix du canal », interview, France 3 Bourgogne - France TV, 2024
  • « Installation d'un Phonocanal à l'écluse de Saint-Martin-sur-Armançon : de quoi s'agit-il ? », L'Yonne républicaine, 2021
  • « L'éclusophone, le Fonocanal et les points d'ouïe à découvrir cet été le long du canal de Bourgogne », L'Yonne républicaine, 2021
  • Cartes postales sonores d'Ulysse à Tonnerre — arts and cultural education project carried out with the Ulis class at the École Pasteur de Tonnerre, with Ladislas De Monge and Johan Dirksen, 2020-2021
• 2022 — Tact — interactive sound and visual installation, participatory creation through touchscreen gestures, with Zoé Aegerter (design), Georges Aperghis, Fabien Bourlier & Didem Coskunseven (creation and sound design), Romain Barthélémy (sound design), Pascal Vaccaro (development), Ircam - Centre Pompidou, Manifeste festival, Paris — manifeste2022.ircam.fr
• 2015 — Ping...Song — interactive musical table-tennis installation, sound design and computer music realization, Ircam's Sound Music Movement Interaction team (Frédéric Bevilacqua, Eric Boyer, Jules Françoise), Ircam Open Days — manifeste2015.ircam.fr
• Caresses de Marquises — 12-hour performance-concert for artificial neural networks, Nuit Blanche 2004, Gare de l'Est, Paris (artistic direction Nicolas Frize) — robinmeier.net