Frédéric Le Junter

Frédéric Le Junter at the age of 5 was deeply impressed by the sounds and visual material of the harbor of Dunkirk, France, where he was born. Interested by chaotic events like meteorology and, more widely, complexity, he began at 28 to build instruments and mechanical sound machines that play with hesitation and instability – as he does himself. With impossibility to become a virtuoso of any instrument, he is first interested in bodily sound actions. He often begins with a simple, acoustic or amplified instrument that he uses with an adapted tool for a while and sometimes making a machine that plays it. What he likes to hear is a rumor, a soundscape in which randomness and determination merge, the defined and undefined. He shows his work in the forms of sound and visual installations, concerts, and sound actions, mainly in Europe since 1984.