Héloïse Garry

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Composition
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Héloïse Garry is a French composer working at the intersection of filmmaking, theater, and performance, exploring the aesthetics of totality across art forms. Her compositions and performances reflect a deep interest in cross-cultural and linguistic experimentation and sonic storytelling. Her work has been presented at SXSW, NIME, ICMC, Splice, NYCEMF, ICAD, Audio Mostly, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Internet Archive. As a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, she researched the politics of independent Chinese cinema and the role of music in the films of Jia Zhangke. She has been an artist-in-residence at Gray Area, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program, and has collaborated with IRCAM and the Columbia Computer Music Center. In 2026, she received an MA from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where she studied with Ge Wang, Mark Applebaum, and Jarosław Kapuściński. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Film & Media Studies, Economics, and Philosophy from Columbia University, Sciences Po Paris, and Sorbonne University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition at the University of California, Berkeley.
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