Yann Coppier

Yann Coppier (FR) is a sound artist, producer, performer and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides his personal projects within the fields of music and sound art, theatre, dance or film, he has been head of the Sound Line at The Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2014 to 2020. There he developed an ambitious artistic research project with support from the Danish Ministry of Culture. Making extensive use of the absurd, in his research sonic dramaturgy – and not technology - occupies the primary focus, in an attempt to restore and develop the lost meaning of sounds and to open an alternative field of artistic investigation. He released a massive publication in Journal For Artistic Research (JAR) about "Absurd Sounds" in 2021, focusing on a creative method based on ideas rather than technology. There he develops 3 case studies, each one answering its own absurd question: What if silence were louder than noise? What if there were no sweet spot? What if there were no (virtual) reality? His recent projects often feature complex multichannel compositions in the real and virtual world, in which he plays with our perception of what sound is and what it could become.