Julien Lonchamp
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Julien Lonchamp is a French composer based in Edinburgh. He is interested in creating novel immersive “sound-worlds” by combining a wide range of processes (including microtonality, spectralism and spacialisation) in order to communicate abstract or complex ideas.
Julien’s music has been performed by a number of orchestras and ensembles including the Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble (ECME), Mr McFall’s Chamber, the Tinderbox Orchestra and the Viridian Quartet. His symphonic pieces “Helicotrema” and “Hologram” were premiered by the ECME in 2020 and 2015 at Edinburgh’s Reid Concert Hall.
Inspired by the holographic theory in astrophysics, “Hologram” plays with the dimensions of sound, juxtaposing and distorting them to suggest higher or hidden dimensions. “Hologram (augmented)” goes a step further by treating the “Hologram” recording as raw material, further extending its sonic dimensions via reversion, distortion, re-pitching and spacialisation. The piece was premiered at the 2017 Sound Thought Festival (Glasgow).
