Sound as matter,matter to build with,
matter to dream with.

Sound reaches memory before language does.

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Schedule
Jul–Aug 2026Sonne, Moor und Sterne8.1 sound installation with Kollektiv Eigenklang — festival, Lower Saxony
Until Feb 2027SommeilLive 3D sound project — studio
Feb 2027La Belle et la Bête — Philip GlassSpatialisation, assistant to Thierry Coduys — Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Jun 2027Pascal DusapinSpatialisation, assistant to Thierry Coduys — Grand Palais, Paris
Jul 2027SelvaInstallation with Camp.Liure, produced by Detz Lab — commissioned by the DRAC
Summer 2027ProsodiaLive performance inside an installation, with Manon Alla
About

Sound is not just something we hear: it is a material that shapes our imagination and our bodies. Each sound suggests its own story, its own pulse — like little lights that shimmer in the dark.

Beginning

At eight, alone in the living room, I put a classical CD on the hi-fi at full volume. Physical, immediate, overwhelming. It stayed with me.

BTS Audiovisuel in Toulouse, then ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris — Master's in Sound, 2021.

Since

After Louis-Lumière I co-wrote and co-directed Laniakea. Alongside it, a professional practice in cinema sound — films selected at Venice, Guadalajara and Visions du Réel, working with Ken Yasumoto and Bénédicte Schmitt.

Today my practice is fully dedicated to 3D sound, alongside Thierry Coduys.

mateo.rousson@gmail.com

Portfolio CV SoundCloud
Designing sound space · 2025

La Salle des RefletsRoom of Reflections

Sound installation for the exhibition Un Bruit de l'Extérieur by Claire Poisson — Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry-sur-Seine

La Salle des Reflets ▶Enter the room — binaural · headphones
20.137 minBinaural

Built from echography recordings of my sister during her pregnancy. The room asks one thing of you: slow down.

Sound sculpture · 2025

Petit GrainLittle Grain

Stereo sound sculpture — shown in Un Bruit de l'Extérieur, Galerie Fernand Léger · currently at Hôtel Rochegude, Albi, with La Pel

Petit Grain

A robot of two small speakers. Now and then a seed falls, top to bottom, marking time like an unreliable hourglass.

Un gran pichon, un res pichon, un pichon tot. Un element pichon que compausa lo tot, e que rampèla qu'al delai del visible, es la vida que pren son temps.

A little grain, a little nothing, a little everything. A small element that makes up the whole, and reminds us that beyond the visible, life is taking its time.

Performance · 2025

Performance

Live sound creation, text, singing and object manipulation · 20 min — with Nina Besana-Mourlaas

She sings and narrates excerpts from the artist's personal notes. I take the installation live. Between poetry and sound.

Writing & directing · 2024

Laniakea

Short fiction, 27 min — with Tom Cogo · sound design, music, mixing · Avant La Nuit & Immercif

Written like a music album. Almost silent, shot on 16 mm.

Extract
Sound design · 2019

Oh Corbeau! Oh Corbeau!

Animated film by Pierre Garcia-Rennes · sound design and mixing · Studio ByeBye Bambi, Montreal · 8 min

★ Berlinale 2019 — Generation K+~30 festivals5.1

Adapted from an Oji-Cree legend. Since these legends are oral, we used neither voices nor music — only the music of the natural elements, speaking for itself.

Collective · Occitan, decolonial

Detz Lab

Multidisciplinary creative collective

Detz Lab works in the Occitan language. In the wake of decolonial thinking, the collective appropriates and reinvents the collective imagination through films, videos, events and shows.

In 2027 I'll create a mixed art installation with Camp.Liure for Selva, commissioned by the DRAC.

detz.fr ↗
Collective · audio-visual, participatory

Kollektiv Eigenklang

Germany — since 2017

Eigenklang builds interactive happenings where visitors take part in the work rather than consume it.

In summer 2026 we made an 8.1 sound installation for Sonne, Moor und Sterne, a festival in Lower Saxony devoted to the moors.

kollektiv-eigenklang.com ↗