Jean-Baptiste Favory was born in Paris in 1967. His mother, Catherine Fournet (1945), is the daughter of conductor
Jean Fournet. His father is actor Michel Favory (1940). After briefly studying piano in his early youth, he returned to music as a keyboardist for several rock bands in the 1980s. At the same time, he became interested in experimental music and, in 1990, he composed his first concrete pieces as an autodidact. He began composing in 1989 and his first works were broadcast on the national French radio
France Culture in 1994. In 1995, he composed the first
sound design for an Internet provider,
Infogrames. The same year, he started working for theatre, composing sounds & musics for Victor Haïm. From 1996 to 1999, he worked in
Luc Ferrari's studios '''', and was assistant to Composers such as
Gavin Bryars,
Luc Ferrari and Brunhild Ferrari. In 1997, he obtained a two-month residency in
Monterrey, Mexico, to compose
Leyendas Urbanas, a composition with a 180° video projection by Pierre Jacob premiered the planetarium of the city. Two years later, once again in Monterrey, he met the Mexican Free-rock group
Los Lichis. Their collaboration led to Several concerts and recordings, In Mexico, France, and the USA. From 1998 to 1999, he participated in masterclasses at the
Iannis Xenakis musical center in Paris (
CCMIX), where he studied from
Jean-Claude Risset,
Curtis Roads,
Trevor Wishart,
Gerard Pape and
Julio Estrada. Thereafter, he obtained a 6-month residency in the
CCMIX studios and became a sound engineer for
Paul Méfano and
Eliane Radigue. From 1999 to this day, Jean-Baptiste Favory hosts the radio program
Epsilona, dedicated to experimental music from the entire world. Some of his well known guests include:
Eliane Radigue,
Julio Estrada,
Jean-Claude Risset,
Gérard Pape,
Denis Dufour,
Jean-Claude Eloy,
Michel Chion,
Paul Méfano,
Haino Keiji,
Allain Gaussin, Bérangère Maximin. Since 2000 he has contributed music and sound to various theater productions with directors
Marcel Bluwal,
Jean Gillibert and Gérard Maro. In 2007, he joined the
CLSI : "Circle for Liberation of Sounds and Images". This is a composers/performers' band created in 2007 for the interpretation of
graphical scores with electronic devices in real time. The circle was directed by
Paul Méfano and in 2008 and 2012 they performed concerts at the prestigious
Stockhausen festival in Kürten. They recorded with saxophonist Yoshk'o Seffer, a former member of
Magma. At the end of 2022 and in 2023, the electronic piece "Des spheres" was broadcast during several shows at the planetarium of La
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, accompanied by a 360° video representing a journey through our galaxy over 51 minutes. Favory's works are played in Europe and USA, and most of his works has been released on cd, lp and tapes in France, USA, Mexico, Russia and Great Britain. "The imagination is effortlessly pushed to the limit: Favory's essential quality is to render the obvious without having to prove it." == Works ==