Composer
Vincent Trollet pays close attention to the sound of speech and the experience of time. He explores sound as a living being, using a variety of vocal, instrumental, gestural and scenic expedients. Not formally attached to any dominant aesthetic of contemporary music, he wants music to explore boundaries through the experience that arises from the meeting with theatre, text and virtual reality.
Born in Pau in 1978, he began by studying piano and then devoted himself to composition. He studied composition with Edith Canat de Chizy at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, and also obtained a higher diploma in Musical Acoustics at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, which gave him in-depth knowledge of acoustics and technological environments. He then chose to continue his studies at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, where he obtained a Master's degree in Composition and Music Theory. His main teachers were Michael Jarrell (composition), Luis Naón (electroacoustic music) and Eric Daubresse (computer music).
The year 2010/2011 represents a turning point. He was admitted to the Computer Music course at IRCAM in Paris, where he received intensive training in computer music. A new direction took shape, leading him to explore experimental forms of music. It was also a time when he began to meet other composers of his generation, and a few months later he founded a collective from which a contemporary music ensemble, the Ensemble Regards, was born.
From 2016, he will be working with Vahram Zaryan, performer and mime artist, to create a triptych entitled Oblique. This theme is enriched with new meanings as the creations progress, in which several artistic practices are present: mime, circus arts, music and text. In 2019, he will be writing the music for Arianna, a show in which three musicians, a dancer and an actor seek to convey the borderline experience of two women, the mythological Arianna and Valentina Terechkova, the first woman cosmonaut to go into space.
In 2020, he co-founded the Pronaos collective. For the first project, the Arianna Laboratory, materials from space research were used as a starting point for sharing artistic practices and developing a series of eight sound and visual installations.
In 2023, he was invited by the Institut Français de Palerme to take up an artistic residency.