Qualia

Immersive Audio Performance / 20' / 2023

Qualia are the subjective properties of experiences, the way they appear to us. These attributes are at the root of differences in sensations, be they perceptual experiences, bodily sensations or affects. The sight of a red flower will not provoke the same sensation as a purple one, just as a piano note will not affect us in the same way if played by a violin.

These sonic differences are explored using machine learning algorithms in a continuity-based performance, where timbral and spatial characteristics are explored in collaboration with the machine.

📷 Laura Criollo-Carrillo / 2023 📷

dis/order

Generative Audiovisual Creation / Sound Artist / 2023

dis/order is a generative audiovisual project that explores the balance between order and chaos through technology. Created by Jean-Philippe Jullin and Jules Roze, this immersive experience engages the computer in the creative process as a third limb using artificial intelligence and complex algorithmic feedback systems.

dis/order attempts to find stability and coherence in digital noise, drawing the audience into a quasi-synesthetic experience based on the laws of physics. This performance presents the evolution of a computer-generated organic structure, pushing it to higher levels of organization, order, and dynamic harmony.

📷 Jules Roze / 2023 📷

Hypnagogia

Autonomous Audiovisual Installation / AV Artist / 2023

Hypnagogia is an audiovisual study of autonomous algorithmic behavior, inspired by the semi-conscious state between wakefulness and sleep.

Using machine learning to control sound and video in an unsupervised manner, the installation continuously tends towards order or absolute chaos. An artificial agent then attempts to balance and maintain different types of visual and sound patterns, offering the possibility to explore the behavior of autonomous systems in an immersive experience.

📷 Pierre Inglebert / 2023 📷

Synapses

Interactive Audiovisual Installation / AV Artist / 2023

Synapses is an interactive installation that explores the connection between humans and machines. It uses machine learning and neural networks to study how these technologies understand human movements and affect our perception of the world.

The installation has light and sound controlled by two independent agents and sensors. Viewers can interact by creating shadows that change the light, influencing the system's response. This installation reflects on the relationship between humans and machines in the era of AI.

📷 Pierre Inglebert / 2023 📷

Canevas: Symphonic Future

Immersive Orchestra Experience / Sound Analyst & Programmer / 75' / 2023

Breaking the fourth wall and disrupting the conventions of the orchestral concert, Canevas: Symphonic Future invites the audience to wander through a musical ensemble of 34 virtuosos surrounded by four large screens broadcasting images generated by the music in real time.

It is an immersive musical experience that reimagines the traditional format of the symphony orchestra by making generative video based on real-time analysis of the orchestra's musical performance.

Presented by Arsenal Art Contemporain Montréal

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📷 Juliette Langevin/ 2023 📷

Latences

Visual and Sound Exhibition / Sound Artist / 2022

Photographic exhibition with sound compositions embedded into the frames.

Latences is a multidisciplinary collaboration that combines sound compositions and silver photographs. It explores the representation of the memory within the of the mind, by putting in unison stasis and movement. Each composition suggests, while allowing the viewer to dress the scenes of our own emotions.

Team: Maureen Sassi, Zak Colello, Jean-Philippe Jullin

📷 Pierre Inglebert / 2022 📷

5 Directions

Album / Musician / 2022

This third album by Ensemble d’oscillateurs is pointing towards a future for sine wave-based ensemble performances.

The title, 5 Directions, indicates different roads that could be taken by this kind ensemble where 10 musicians are performing on analogue oscillators.

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Artwork of 5 Directions

Nuages

Fulldome A/V Performance / Sound Artist & Programmer / 30’ / 2022

Realized at SAT Montreal, in partnership with CRSH, ÉTS and NAD.

An interactive poem based on various forms of clouds, presented as a series of perspectives exporting a single imaginary universe.

Team: Yan Breuleux, Marie-Ève Bilodeau, Ghyslain Gagnon, Myriam Boucher, Marie-Ève Morissette, Jean-Philippe Jullin, Nicola Giannini, Rémi Lapierre, Venus Grivegnée, Mathieu Deblois, Claude Asselin, Philippe Lefrançois-Racz, Romain Salha

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📷 Yan Breuleux / 2022 📷

Aus' Dreams

Octophonic Sound and Light Performance / 90' / 2022

Aus is the name of my computer. This work explores his return to life.

The goal was to achieve an equitable collaboration, without one having more control over the performance than the other. After aestheticizing the sounds, Aus chooses their order of playback during the performance and alters my actions to beautify them.

Half-algorithmic, half-composed, this work invites self-abandonment, an attempt to engage in a state of latency in order to resonate with a whole.

📷 Nicola Giannini / 2022 📷

Public performance of Aus' Dreams

Le Chant du Canevas

Interactive Installation / Sound Artist & Programmer / 2021 🏅

Realized during HACKLAB21 at SAT Montreal, organized by MusicMotion.

Le Chant du Canevas is an immersive work that invites you to explore a painting through your ears. An inclusive experience, designed by and for a blind person.

Loudspeakers are placed around the work in order to create an immersive musical structure containing sound ambiences. A vibrating jacket provide the users sensations to support the sound, and supports a physical exploration experience.

Team: Victor Drouin-Trempe, Debbie Doe, Jules Roze, Marie-Ève Morissette, Jean-Philippe Jullin, Denise Beaudry

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🏅Desjardins Prize🏅

📷 Sébastien Roy / 2021 📷

INUA

Qaumajuq's Inaugural Show / Sound Engineer / 2021

INUA is the inaugural exhibition of Qaumajuq, the new Inuit art centre at the WAG.

INUA brings together work created by over 90 Inuit artists from across the northern Canada, as well as some living in the urban South. The exhibition also features a selection of works by circumpolar Indigenous colleagues and, in some cases, collaborators from areas such as Alaska and Greenland.

INUA also celebrates the past work of Inuit artists, who have always embraced the future, drawn from existing collections.

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Artwork of Curfew

Curfew

Short Movie / Sound Engineer / 2021 🏅

Realized by Mélaine Ricard-Boulieu

After meeting on a dating app, Tom and John decide to give each other a chance to be more than just two anonymous bodies, as they take a walk in the snowy Montreal winter. Even though John does not speak nor French, nor English, the two starts bonding. But the curfew is just around the corner...

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🏅Best Canadian Short - ReelOut Film Festival🏅
🏅Nomination - Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 🏅

Nadir

Acousmatic Music / 10’ / 2021 🏅

A nadir is the point on the celestial sphere representing the vertical downward direction. It is the position of the sun at midnight. By extension, it means the worst time, the time of least hope and success.

Nadir is the study of the lowest point. This work describes a descent in layers, depicting a dystopian vision in which any sense of improvement is illusory.

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🏅 Semi-finalist at 2022 Petrichor International Music Competition🏅
🏅 Honorable Mention at 2021 EMC Contest 🏅
🏅 5th place at JTTP 2021 🏅

📷 Ryunosuke Kikuno / 2020 📷

Artwork of Nadir

Espace d'un Instant

Interactive Composition / 7’15 / 2020

Espace d'un instant is a fixed acousmatic piece accessible through an application specially developed for its listening.

In this application, it becomes possible to move inside the sounds and get closer to them, thanks to the tracking of your head by your webcam.

A MaxMSP patch is available to download

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nioses

EP / 15’ / 2020

Acousmatic Music

📷 Solène Essomba Tana / 2020 📷

Artwork of nioses

Dates & Publications

February 16 2024
Qualia
live@CIRMMT, CIRMMT, Montreal, CA

February 15 2024
dis/order
The Electric Spring Festival, Huddersfield, UK

December 20 2023
Qualia
Ultrasons, UdeM, Montreal, CA

November 30 2023
Qualia
Melting Links, Codes d'Accès, CIRMMT, Montreal, CA

Novembre 9-12
dis/order
Sound/Image 23, Greenwich, UK

October 15-20 2023
Hypnagogia - An Autonomous Audiovisual Study
ICMC23, Shenzhen, CHN

October 13 2023
Hypnagogia
Printemps Numérique, OCTOV / MTL Connecte, SAT, Montreal, CA

September 27 2023
Hypnagogia
Composite #36, MAPP_MTL + Mila, Montreal, CA

July 23 2023
Érel
Euphonia, Radio Grenouille, Marseille, FR

June 4 2023
Hypnagogia
La Soirée d'à Côté (Coop Lézarts / Chaufferie), Montreal, CA

May 26 2023
MapSpat
COBS 2023, Montreal, CA

May 11 2023
dis/order
Dérapage (Cinémathèque Québécoise), Montreal, CA

April 19-20 2023
Hypnagogia
Ultrasons, Montreal, CA

September 13-15 2022
Aus' Dreams
AIMC 2022, Online

August 27-28 2022
Aus' Dreams
Festival de Musique Submergée, Saint-Adèle, CA

August 2022
Nadir
2021 EMC Contest, Musicworks, CA

November 28 2021
Nadir
Moments de Silence, Montreal, CA

October 15-17 2021
Le Chant du Canevas
HACKLAB21 (SAT), Montreal, CA

August 2021
Nadir
JTTP 2021, CA

July 25-31 2021
Espace d'un Instant
ICMC 2021, Santiago, CHL

2020
nioses EP
Radio Québec International, CA

Patches

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About

Jean-Philippe Jullin, sound and audiovisual artist, is currently pursuing a master's degree in composition and sound creation at the Université de Montréal. His artistic path lies at the intersection of art and technology, where he explores the possibilities of co-creation with machines through interactive and immersive systems.

Recipient of scholarships for excellence from the Faculty of Music and funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQSC), his compositional work has been acclaimed by Musicworks magazine and the JTTP competition. He also took part in the latest conference on musical creativity through artificial intelligence.

Beyond his academic career, Jean-Philippe is actively involved in collaborative artistic projects, using emerging technologies to create experiences of active contemplation that question our perception of space and time.

📷 Inès Viollet / 2024 📷

Artistic Approach

My artistic interests revolve around exploring the complex relationship between humans and machines in sound creation systems.

Traditionally, this relationship has been approached in a binary way, with machines seen either as simple tools or as technologies that make us dependent and passive. Our interaction with machines, however, seems to me to be more complex and nuanced. A variety of interactions are possible, and playing with them can lead to a vast playground of sound and art.

In this way, I strive to foster a balanced collaboration between man and technology, where neither entity is totally subordinate to the other. The field of co-creation allows me to experiment around methods involving systems thinking and machine learning, seeking to create experiences of active contemplation that challenge our perception of space and time.

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