Frédéric Tentelier
Frédéric Tentelier is visual artist and musician, who creates musical theater and sound installations and composes music using field recordings, Fender Rhodes, organs, banjo, and objects. He lived in côte d’Opale, northern France and is interested in recording in particular spaces, using graphic scores, topographic maps, harmonic translations or improvisations. His approaches the technique of field recording as a harmonic and musical material, but also as a temporal material structuring musical forms. Time and silence are the bases of his music and he often assembles various materials, accumulated during long periodes of suspended time.
His work is centered on the arrangement of various materials, juxtaposed by analogy or association of ideas and is particularly interested in links between forgetting, memory, time, sound and silence. He sets event on the boat (musical theater performances by musicians, singers and actors), composes music and writes lyrics. He also creates sound pieces, paper collages and installations... He collaborates on many theatrical projects as a composer of stage music. As an artist he accompanied the Lille Opera and worked on various musical theater and opera projects. He is inspired by a natural spoken language which he attempts to poeticize by striving to transfigure the sounds, the rhythms, the double meanings and the transformation of certain syntactic logics. A member of different ensembles and groups (post-folk, improvisation...) where he plays Fender Rhodes, organ, banjo or field recordings. He is also an active member of the collective Non-Lieu in Roubaix and coordinates theatrical and musical courses and workshops in numerous theaters and establishments in the Hauts-de-France region.