Julien Ottavi is part of a generation of audio artists to emerge in the 90....s that indicated some of the directions that music and soundart is taking. While at art school, he organized a series of concerts, bringing international artists from the experimental scene to Nantes, drawing touring musicians to movements happening outside of Paris. This became not just a destination but a nexus for collaborations. This resulted for example in the group Formanex to perform graphical scores of electro-acoustic music, and in Apo33, an artists collective to facilitate, nurture, and disseminate creative audio practice. In this way, Julien represents the energy and initiative of a present day artist – activist through practice, organizing as performance, publishing as networking, open source and open aesthetic. This fluidity of working across boundaries of style and role are seen in his music, physical with computer, performative and reflective.
A mediactivist, artist-researcher, musician and anarchitect, an active member of apo33, Co-director of Area10Medialab inn London, Julien Ottavi is involved in research and creative work, combining sound art, new technologies and construction of electronic devices. An activist in the free software movement, he participated in the production and the diffusion of Apodio free multimedia software. He participates in, and produces, numerous events such as conventions of researchers, artists and activists, sound art or multimedia festivals, workshops on free sofware, etc.He played and collaborate regularly with Brandon Labelle, Keith Rowe, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Jerome Joy, Christian Galarretta, Achim Wollscheid, Elpueblodelchina, Randy Yau, Ilios, Jean-Philippe Roux, Dominique Leroy, Dion Workman, Yvan Etienne, Brice Jeannin, Jenny Pickett, Mike Bullock, Seth Cluett...etc.
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