Biography
Philippe Langlois heads the education and documentation department at Ircam.
Doctor of musicology, independent researcher, associate member of the La création sonore laboratory at the Université de Montréal, and composer of soundtracks for films and sound installations.
Producer of the Atelier de création radiophonique for Radio France on France Culture from 1999 to 2011.
Author of Les Cloches d’Atlantis, musique électroacoustique et cinéma, archéologie et histoire d’un art sonore (The Bells of Atlantis: Electroacoustic Music and Cinema, Archaeology and History of a Sound Art), published by éditions mf in June 2012 and reissued in 2022 in a revised and expanded edition.
Taught at the universities of Poitiers and Besançon, then co-founded the DNSEP / Master’s in Sound Design, teaching the history and theory of sound as well as radio art at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Tours-Angers-Le Mans.
Artistic advisor to the Analix Foreverand Chief Curator of the International Sound Biennial in Le Mans in 2026 and 2028