Eric Raynaud
About Eric Raynaud
FRANÇAIS
Issu d’une pratique de la composition et de l’art sonore, Eric Raynaud développe une pratique artistique centrée sur la création d’environnements immersifs et de situations perceptives. À travers le son, la lumière, l’image générative et l’espace, il compose des œuvres qui cherchent moins à représenter le monde qu’à modifier temporairement la manière dont nous l’habitons.
Le son constitue le point de départ de sa recherche, non seulement comme matériau mais comme expérience de la résonance. Cette attention portée aux phénomènes vibratoires, à l’écoute et à la perception irrigue aujourd’hui l’ensemble de son travail. Ses projets prennent la forme de performances, d’installations ou de créations scéniques où différentes présences, sonores, visuelles, architecturales et humaines, se rencontrent pour former un même champ d’expérience.
Son travail s’intéresse particulièrement aux moments de suspension, lorsque les repères habituels du temps, de l’espace et de l’attention se déplacent. Il explore les conditions qui permettent l’apparition d’états de contemplation, d’absorption ou d’expérience extatique, entendue comme une sortie momentanée de l’expérience ordinaire. Les dispositifs qu’il conçoit cherchent à ouvrir des espaces de résonance où l’individu peut faire l’expérience d’une forme de présence élargie, à la fois intime et collective.
À travers cette recherche, Eric Raynaud envisage l’œuvre comme une architecture sensible : un espace temporaire au sein duquel les frontières entre intérieur et extérieur, réel et imaginaire, individuel et collectif deviennent plus poreuses. La composition y devient l’art d’organiser des relations, des présences et des intensités afin de faire émerger des formes d’attention partagée.
ENGLISH
Eric Raynaud (Fraction) is a Paris-based artist whose work explores resonance, perception and immersive experience through sound, space and generative systems.
Originally trained as a composer and sound artist, Raynaud approaches artistic creation through the lens of resonance and perception. Sound remains the foundation of his practice as a way of shaping attention and creating conditions for altered experience. His work explores how subtle interactions between sound, light, space and movement can produce moments of suspension, where ordinary perceptions of time and environment begin to dissolve.
Rather than seeking spectacle, his practice is driven by an interest in fascination, contemplation and forms of contemporary ecstasy. Through immersive environments and generative systems, he develops perceptual situations that invite audiences to step outside everyday rhythms and enter temporary states of heightened presence, reverie or collective absorption.
His performances, installations and immersive environments seek to create temporary perceptual territories where ordinary relationships to space, time and attention can be suspended. Rather than representing the world, these works construct conditions for experience, inviting audiences into environments shaped by converging sonic, visual and physical forces.
At the core of his practice lies an interest in collective states of perception and forms of contemporary ecstasy. Through spatialized sound, generative processes and immersive design, he develops situations where the boundaries between individual and collective experience become porous, opening spaces for contemplation, transformation and heightened awareness. These environments can be understood as temporary “other spaces” — autonomous perceptual architectures that exist alongside everyday reality.
Over the past fifteen years, Raynaud has developed projects at the intersection of sound art, performance, digital creation and artistic research. His work has been presented internationally through performances, exhibitions, residencies and research programs, including collaborations with the Society for Arts and Technology (Montréal), IRCAM (Paris), 4DSOUND (Budapest) and numerous festivals dedicated to experimental and immersive practices.
Alongside his artistic work, he develops tools and methodologies for immersive creation. He is the creator of Xp for Live, a spatial audio platform designed for artists working with immersive environments and live performance. This research into spatial composition, perception and interaction continues to inform both his artistic and technological developments.
In 2024, he was appointed Associate Composer at Hexagone Scène Nationale by the French Ministry of Culture. Through this collaboration, he develops new projects exploring the relationships between immersion, digital culture and contemporary forms of live performance.
His works is also featured on ifdigital, Institut Français Digital Plateform
