Aya Shimano-Bardai/SB
Artist, Ph.D. Researcher
Lives and works in Paris // ayasbar[at]gmail.com
► Main areas of work
Sound art, video editing, cultural mediation.
Academic research and writing. Experiences in translation/interpretation.
(Languages: French & English -fluent, Japanese & Arabic -spoken).
► Education
2020| (Ongoing) Ph.D on sound art, Sorbonne University / IReMus, Paris
2015 | MA in Musicology, Sorbonne University, Paris
2013 | MA in Fine Arts, National School of Arts, Bourges
2013 | BFA in Fine Arts, National School of Arts, Bourges
► Courses
2015-2018 | Electroacoustic composition course w/Régis Renouard-Larivière
Conservatoire Erik Satie (Paris, France)
2012-2013 | Electroacoustic composition course w/Stéphane Joly, Conservatoire & ENSA (Bourges, France)
►Festival selections and installations
2018 | Muslab Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Réorienté, Les Sons tissés, Paris, France
2017 | Muslab Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
Piano et Acousmatique concert, Paris, France
Kling gut! Symposium, Hamburg, Germany
Sound like THIS Festival, Leeds, UK
SIME Festival (vitual concert), Lille, France
Audiograft Festival, Oxford, UK
2016 | Chambres à Part, Group exhibition, Paris, France
2015 | 35h, Group exhibition, Paris, France
Static Theater, Group project, Bergen, Norway
2012 | Biennale Off d’Art Contemporain de Bourges, France
2011 | Regards Croisés, Group exhibition, Bourges, France
A Guichet Fermé, Group exhibition, Bourges, France
► Conference presentations
« Terminological discourses in the field of sound art », EMS17 Conference, Nagoya City University, Japan, Sept 5-8th, 2017
« Nordic sound art: aspects of an artistic collectivity », Nordic Research Network conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, August 24-25th, 2017 (Recorded)
« A ‘Nordic’ approach in sonic practices », Sound Art Matters conference, University of Aarhus, Denmark, June 1-4th, 2016
« A sculptural dialect in sounding bodies », Sound and Sculpture conference, University of Huddersifled, UK, May 28-29th, 2016
► Writings
« Développement, définition et enjeux esthétiques de l’art sonore », under the supv of Dr. Marc Battier, Paris-Sorbonne (ongoing), Paris-Sorbonne University
« Terminological discourses in the field of sound art », Communication in/through Electroacoustic Music, Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Nagoya, 2017, p. 1‑6.
« Nordic sound art: aspects of an artistic collectivity », The North as home: Proceedings from the Nordic Research Network 2017, London, Norvik Press, 2020, p. 110‑121.
« Sound Art: perspectives de la Norvège et de son entourage nordique », MA thesis under the supv of Dr. Marc Battier, Paris-Sorbonne University, 2015
« Sustain: la durée sonore dans la modification de la perception physique et spatio-temporelle », MA thesis under the supv of Jean-Michel Ponty, ENSA Bourges, 2013 (Pdf) (Covers)
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