film soundtrack composer, sound / installation artist, curator – An architect designs works that occupy spaces; I create sound sculptures that fit in the flow of time and perception
March 4th – March 31st – Residency at AIR-Artist in residence
Concert March 27th 2024 at Salon Krenek,
“In the ethereal realm of electronic soundscapes, the Buchla100 becomes not just an instrument but a vessel through which uncertainty finds expression. This performance is an exploration of the delicate dance between structured composition and the unforeseen, a sonic journey that mirrors the very essence of uncertainty itself.” France Jobin
Photo by Karlina Knezina
France will take part in the first artist residency program at Erica Synths Oct 30th – Nov 3rd 2023
She chose the Pērkons and proceeded to prepare a concert given at Erica Synths garage space.
France wishes to ackownledge the support of the Socan Foundation.
France will take part in an artist residency at EMS Stockholm with the beloved Serge and Buchla 200.
France was guest composer at EMS 24 October – 2 November, 2022
France spent 10 days working with the Buchla 200, the Serge, the nord modulars and
the syntrx by Erca Synth. She managed to build a brand new sound bank which will be used
for many upcoming album that have ben commissioned.
France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, film composer,
and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”, reveals a minimalist approach
to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations incorporate both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces.
Her work can be “experienced” internationally in a variety
of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals.
Jobin has solo recordings on many renowned labels. Her sound art is also part of countless compilation albums. While her music often makes use of restraint and limit, she isn’t one to shy away from extremes. Her skillful interplay between highs and lows, louds and softs, creates an intricate narrative, which stretches the listener’s perception and continually refocuses attention.
In 2021, she presented the world premiere of Entanglement AV with Markus Heckmann at Mutek Edition 22. Influenced by theories in quantum physics since 2008, the pandemic has allowed her time to study and dive into this scientific universe. Entanglement is the first iteration of this large-scale project.
In 2020, she composed the soundtrack for Ouroboros – Maxime Le Flaguais’s first short film. In November 2019, she presented her first modular concert (Buchla 100) at the Ernst Krenek Institute in Austria.
She has performed and exhibited at a number of different locations world wide. France Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create new environments.
She is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd.
The Canadian-born sound artist, composer and curator France Jobin immerses herself in the electronic sound worlds of Ernst Krenek’s Buchla synthesizer during her stay in Krems and is inspired by atonal tonal language and works by the composer’s random elements (aleatoric). She explores parallels between atonal-aleatoric principles and modular sound synthesis in a new composition.
For many years, France Jobin has been exploring the sounds and sounds that surround us daily, collecting and “recycling” field recordings to present them in a whole new light. Her audio art refers to her as a “sound sculpture” and shows a minimalist approach to complex sound environments in which the analog and the digital intersect.
France Jobin, composer, sound artist
Ernst Krenek Forum
Minoritenplatz 4
3500 Krems
Austria
France Jobin acknowledges the support of Conseil des arts et des lettres Québec.
Perth – January 25 – 31
Melbourne February 1 – 10
Brisbane February 11 – 13
Perth – January 25 – 31
Audible Edge Festival organized by Tone List
Field Recording & Electronic Composition Masterclass
27 Jan | 10am – 1pm
28 Jan | 10am – 1pm
PICA Northbridge – Old Customs House Fremantle
Facilitated by renowned minimalist composer and sound artist France Jobin, this two-day workshop will immerse participants in the composition of music using field recordings and different sound processing techniques.
Requirements: Please bring your best pair of headphones, a recording device (lo-fi gear is fine!) and a laptop.
Participation cost: Free, but EOIs to info@tonelist.com.au are essential.
Day 1: Listening & recording
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 10am
Participants will explore the urban environment through sound walks and recording. Recording techniques both conventional and unconventional will be used in order to facilitate new ways of listening to the environment and considering how and why to capture sounds for use in composition. Jobin will also discuss how the recording process itself can facilitate a deeper connection to place, self and others.
Day 2: Processing & composing
Artsource Old Customs House, 10am
Jobin will discuss her own process of manipulating and assembling sounds into compositions. Both technical and conceptual aspects of the processing and composition stage will be discussed, and participants will work on generating short studies to share and discuss with the group.
Concert at PICA
27 Jan | 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Perth Cultural Centre, 51 James Street, Northbridge, Perth, WA, 6003
Artists:
– Ben Greene, Matthias Müller & Kirsten Symczycz
– Laura Altman
– Ryan Burge & Christian Marien
– France Jobin
– Plant: Éric Normand & Jim Denley
Melbourne – February 1 – 10
MESS residency – France will be taking part in a 10 day residency at MESS.
Concert
Saturday 2 February, 3pm
MUMA | Monash University Museum of Art
Ground floor, Building F
Monash University, Caulfied Campus
FREE/// All welcome
In collaboration with Room40, Sound Spaces presents France Jobin and Heinz Riegler.
France Jobin: Intrication
Inspired by quantum entanglement, I have attempted to discover the relationship between sound and observing sound.
France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, composer and curator residing in Montreal, Canada. Her audio art can be qualified as ‘sound-sculpture’, revealing a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analogue and digital intersect. Her installations express a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces. Her works can be ‘experienced’ in a variety of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals across Canada, the United States, South America, South Africa, Europe and Japan.
Heinz Riegler: Score for Uncertainty 3
(Improvisation for Magnetic Tape, Guitar, MP3 Players, Found Objects)
Austrian-born artist Heinz Riegler creates an evolving sound space that folds into itself, building on his Score for Uncertainty work that was debuted at Gallery 5020, Salzburg, in 2017. Part performance, part installation, this piece evolves in unexpected ways, pulling both the listener and the performer through the space.
Heinz Riegler is a musician, artist and curator working between Australia and Europe. Working with an interdisciplinary focus, he operates at the intersection of sound art, installation and performance. Since 1989, Riegler has been releasing musical works with a variety of imprints, such as Room40 and Warner Records, and has played concerts in Australia, Europe, Japan, the UK and USA. In a curatorial capacity, Riegler co-produced a season of performances at the Gallery of Modern Art Cinémathèque, Brisbane, and is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the minus20degree Winter Biennale in Flachau, Austria. Riegler is an ARIA Award winner and was twice nominated for the Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship.
Brisbane – February 11 – 13
12 Feb 2019 @ IMA
The IMA and Room40 present MONO 31 with France Jobin and special guests Robert Crouch and Yann Novak.
Jobin will present Intrication, a work inspired by quantum entanglement, seeking to discover the relationship between sound and observing sound. Jobin is a sound and installation artist, composer, and curator based in Montreal, Canada. Her sonic work has been described as sound sculpture, fusing both musical and visual elements to create experiential environments where analogue and digital intersect. She often draws inspiration from architecture and her work has been staged in unconventional spaces and at festivals across Canada, the United States, South America, South Africa, Europe, and Japan. MONO is a program of sound curated by Lawrence English of Room40.
Robert Crouch is an artist and curator whose work encompasses sound, performance, and technology. His work can be understood as a conversation between tonality, context, history and subjectivities
Los Angeles based artist and composer Yann Novak explores how intangible materials—sound and light—can act as catalysts to focus our awareness on the felt presence of direct experience.
France would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Le conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for their support.
Laboratorio de arte sonoro –
Semana #1 – 4 – 12 de Septiembre – Exploratorio
Semana #2 – 18 – 22 de Septiembre – MAMM (LAB3)
Inauguramos nuestra plataforma itinerante con un nuevo taller para el mes de Septiembre.
A raíz de su visita durante la Semana de la Escucha, la artista France Jobin quedó profundamente interesada por explorar más a fondo Medellín y sus sonidos, y es así como nace un laboratorio para proponer el arte sonoro, la música ambient y la escucha minimalista dentro de nuestro contexto.
“Soledad, Medellín” comenzará con una primera etapa de escucha y grabación de campo en el territorio, que se desarrollará en el Exploratorio del Parque Explora; y culminará con una segunda etapa de procesamiento del paisaje sonoro y con el proceso de difusión multi-canal para una instalación a realizarse con los participantes en el LAB3 del Mamm Medellín.
El laboratorio busca reconocer una multidimensionalidad de la escucha al introducirse en el entorno para sentirlo, procesarlo e imaginarlo, en su soledad, que es también esa del escucha.
El laboratorio es gratuito, con cupos limitados e inscripción previa. Más información: http://auditum.co/evento/
“Soledad” will bring the participants closer to their territory by the “act of field recording” in various parts of the city that are sonically contrasting in terms of social dynamics, geography and neighbourhoods. The multidimensionality specific to Medellin offers a rich sound palette that may enable the participants to reconnect with their environment.
Throughout this process, we will share knowledge, perceptions and thoughts which I hope will inspire the participants to re-connect with their environment and ultimately, themselves. The idea of solitude is not approached from a perception of isolation but rather from a recognition of one’s connection in a world of disconnect. Technology has enabled us to be more connected yet, we have never been so apart. Social media sells this illusion of hyper connected society yet, more people are unhappy and isolated.
With this workshop, I-we hope to achieve a state of “Soledad”, similar to a zen state, utilizing technology, the act of listening and ambient minimal sound art in order re-connect with one, and ultimately others.
“Soledad” will conclude as a multichannel sound installation created by the participants to be presented September 22nd and 23rd at MAMM -LAB3. They will be taken through the entire process of the creation of a sound installation up to and including the inauguration of their project, an opportunity for us all to experience a collective solitude through sound art.
France Jobin will be travelling to Medellin, Colombia in July and September 2018, to take part in an international residency organized by Éter Lab and Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin..
The first half of the residency will take place July 12th -26th 2018 during Auditum Festival – Semana de la Escucha.
July 18th 2018 – 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
She will be teaching her Masterclass Intro-specciòn Medellín – un taller de arte sonore at Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin. – LAB 3
Cra. 44 #19a-100, Medellín, Antioquia
In spanish only:
Escuchando desde adentro – La arquitectura del sonido y nuestras expectativas.
La instalación, la música y elementos visuales inspirados por la arquitectura y el manejo del espacio, convergen en el trabajo de France Jobin, artista sonora, compositora y curadora de Canadá. Es reconocida por sus “esculturas sonoras” en tiempo real que revelan una aproximación minimalista a paisajes sonoros complejos, mezclando influencias digitales y analógicas.
En este taller, la artista introducirá su práctica, específicamente los aspectos alusivos al sonido y los espacios; las relaciones de estos sonidos con la música tradicional, el cine y otras características de la experiencia de la percepción sonora en su sentido abierto a las diferentes formas de la escucha.
“La sinestesia que se produce en los espacios arquitectónicos es la la fuerza que me impulsa a explorar el sonido. Mientras un arquitecto hace diseños pensados para ocupar un espacio, yo me intereso por elaborar esculturas de sonido que encajan en la fluidez del tiempo y la percepción. El entorno, por ejemplo, le da forma y un carácter arquitectónico a mis piezas y a su sonoridad. Por otro lado, cuando hago instalaciones y conciertos tiendo a ubicar parlantes en lugares específicos que tienen correlación con la arquitectura del espacio. De esta manera logro esculturas sonoras que no son necesariamente objetuales”.
July 20th 2018
She will also present Inter/sperse* at Domo del Planetario as part of the program Micro-estruendos en el domo.
Artistas: Carmen Gil Vrojlik (COL) · France Jobin (CAN) · Merino (COL)
In spanish only:
Un vuelo por el espacio fulldome, microsonido y ambient en el Domo del Planetario, hoy espacio de tradición en nuestra celebración anual. Concierto de cierre de la Semana de la Escucha 2018, una exploración abierta de la escucha en la inmersión y la quietud.
Esta propuesta para el formato fulldome parte como un vuelo por el espacio, por la representación en diferentes culturas de constelaciones como dioses y seres híbridos que a su vez se unen con los humanos y crean otros seres, que se aparean con bestias y crean otras bestias, que a su vez arrasan con su entorno. ¿Qué pasa con el híbrido que se cruza con otro híbrido?
“Ser afectado por la sinestesia en una forma positiva con respecto a los espacios arquitectónicos, es la fuerza que me impulsa a crear exploraciones con sonido. Un arquitecto diseña trabajos que ocupan un espacio; Yo diría que me encargo de construir esculturas sonoras que encajan con el flujo del tiempo y la percepción. Para mi, el entorno arquitectónicamente moldea las piezas y cómo deberán ser escuchadas.” – France Jobin
A very special thanks to Miguel Isaza!
with the kind support of:
Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada
Éter-Lab, Museo de Arte Moderno Medellin
*Inter/sperse is a concert adapted from an in-situ sound installation that addressed the territory and surroundings of Museolaboratorio (Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara) which was supported by the LUX residency program, Museolaboratorio, 901 editions, Conseil des Arts du Canada.
Entre-deux @ n38e13 in Palermo, Sicily
May.21.2017
France has been invited to present Entre-deux, a 4-channel site-specific sound installation, 144 minute cycles
Entre-deux will be presented in the context of Innerscape organized by Vacuamoenia. Innerscape is a week-long project where artists are invited to reflect through their own compositions on a type of exploration in unusual landscapes, trying to make to hear the inaudible.
Entre-deux will be presented for the closing of the event May 20th 2017.
Artists involved and compilation album
More about Entre-deux :
Jobin was one of five international artists selected to present her sound installation, Entre-Deux, in the new media exhibit Data/Fields, curated by Richard Chartier at Artisphere in the Washington, DC area, along with Ryoji Ikeda, Mark Fell, Caleb Coppock, and Andy Graydon. Her proposition received critical acclaim from the national press.
Created entirely with actual field recordings from across the globe and on location around Artisphere, Montreal sound artist France Jobin’s site-specific work Entre-deux explores acts of systemic, yet subjective, information gathering. Spaces and times are chosen for their inherent beauty, then processed and reformed as location and experience itself becomes transposed. Entre-deux is the re-placing of data. RC
This residency is made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Research grant for New Media and Audio Artists.
LUX RESIDENCY PROGRAM
April.24 – May.27.2017
Inter/sperse @ Museolaboratorio in Città Sant’ Angelo, Pescara, Italy
Vernissage – May.27.2017
Catalogue
France is the first artist to take part in the new LUX RESIDENCY PROGRAM. She was invited to create and present Inter/sperse, an in-situ sound installation that will address the territory and surroundings of Museolaboratorio.
Credits:
Curator: Fabio Perletta, Carla Capodimonti, Rossano Polidoro
Lighting design: Marco De Leonibus
Director of Museolaboratorio: Enzo De Leonibus
Technical Support: Daniele Cilli
Sounds: In and around museolaboratorio
Guitar: Marco De Leonibus
Voice: Sandro Naglia
This residency is made possible by the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts,Travel Grant to Media Artists – International Residencies program.