Music, Moving Images, Double Bass

Florent Ghys is a composer, visual artist, and double bassist working with audiovisual media. His work begins with ordinary sound objects and images — a passing train, a tennis match, a bowed string — which he transforms through accumulation and saturation into worlds that feel at once familiar and strange.

 

Central to his practice is the audience's perception: pieces often start simple and grow more complex until analytical listening gives way to a state of playful surrender.

 

Ghys's interest in saturation responds directly to the media overload of scrolling culture and algorithmic feeds, offering instead a curated excess that can feel pleasurable rather than depleting. Some of his work extends into social commentary, engaging with found material — including contentious or ridiculous media — without delivering a verdict, leaving space for audiences to arrive at their own response, often blurring the line between humor and seriousness.

 

A committed DIY practitioner, Ghys builds his own instruments and tools, including custom Max for Live devices and Jitter patches built on simple, non-AI rules, valuing the slow, hands-on process of making as much as the finished work.