H.B. : Who are you / how do you define yourself?
J-M.D: A visual artist of loudspeaker sound; a painter of sound images who draws his subjects and colors from everyday life; a sculptor-architect who builds and inhabits objects of vibrations; an explorer of curious auditory and mental lands; a child who still cannot bring himself to stop playing with everything he touches…
H.B. : How did this project come about / what path did you follow for its creation?
J-M.D: An encounter between the notion of construction that underlies many of my works, of percussion sounds created, collected and assembled over two or three decades, and the desire to see how far an “elementary” composition method could take me, technically reduced to a simple multiphonic montage by imbrications.
H.B. : What does the creation of an acousmatic piece represent for you today?
J-M.D: Allowing humans to immerse themselves in full listening, to discover or deepen what sounds can tell us and do to us, to experience the power of the real virtuality of loud-speaker spaces.
H.B. : What are your next projects?
J-M.D: Continue to deepen and diversify my sonospatial production through the Préludes à l’espace series; continue the development of my video-sound installations (Le théâtre des ambiguïtés, Toiles/Voiles, IA’s Dreams); finalize my acousmatic installations, notably Acousma-Parc…