Music, Moving Images, Double Bass

Florent Ghys is a multimedia artist and double bass performer playing with moving images and music. 

He composes with notated music and videos and performs on the double bass. Florent is fascinated by the use of recorded media to create audiovisual pieces, integrating samples from radio, TV shows, weather forecasts, and other field recordings into his compositions.

Central to Florent Ghys' work is the incorporation of playfulness in the creative process, the focus of his doctoral research at Princeton, where he developed the “Ghys Entertainment System,” a digital environment which enables the real-time creation of audiovisual works. 

Ghys’ whimsical creative approach infuses his works with humor, absurdity, and a sense of incongruity. His creations consist of short forms and accumulative miniatures often designed to compel the analytical mind into a state of contemplative surrender.

Florent’s music is centered around his instrument, the double bass, and his dream of creating an “alto bass”, an imaginary instrument which would fill the gap between the orchestral bass and the violoncello.