born 1969
San Francisco

Québecois-Californian composer and sound artist Éric Marty works in interactive audio, mixed music and hybrid forms. His honours include the Canada Council for the Arts' Stauffer Prize, the ALEA III International Composition Prize, top honours from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, SOCAN (Canada), and ASCAP (USA), and fellowships at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the Fondation Camargo near Marseilles.

His work has been exhibited and performed at the World Music Days (Zagreb 2005), The Ojai Music Festival, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Klangraum Festival (Stuttgart), the International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference (Ohio), the Cape Town Philharmonic International Summer Music Festival and WAKS Classical New Music Festival in South Africa, the Festspiele Europäische Wochen Passau, the Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg, and the MANCA Festival in Nice.

Reviewers have called Marty's music surrealistic, exotic, quirky, and deliciously unstable. Drawing on cognition and natural systems, he creates surreal environments populated by sonic organisms with lifelike behaviours. His work explores the hybridization of soundscapes and the transubstantiation of architecture.

Marty studied at l'Université de Montréal, McGill University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Marty teaches sound and interactive art at the University of Georgia (USA), and previously taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. Recordings: CRS, Merz/Solitude, Edel Classics (forthcoming).