Biography /
Martin Messier

Martin Messier is a composer, performer and videomaker. Though sound is the driving force of his work, Messier also quickly took an interest in the clash between electroacoustic music and other art forms, as well as in artistic collaboration. It is through the relationship between sound and material (objects or bodies) that Messier’s work takes shape. He gives life to sound through different objects such as alarm clocks, pens and self-conceived machines. At the heart of this encounter between sounds and objects is the idea of pushing the envelope of the everyday imaginary, of magnifying these objects by giving them a voice and by reinventing their function. In 2010, Messier founded 14 lieux, a sound production company for the performing arts, in order to provide a platform for this kind of sound work in the art scene.

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