00.Gary Duvernay is a designer, artist, writer and DJ whose practices moves between sound, form, and perception. He explores sound as a critical metarial — to question how social and political constructions resonate within our daily environments, and how communities emerge, fracture, and heal through shared sonic experiences. His works unfold across installations, sound art, performances, and texts, each developed through a sensitive inquiry where emotion, intuition, and theory intertwine. Drawing from both embodied experience and conceptual frameworks, Gary Duvernay approaches creation as a means to reveal, support, or deconstruct the systems that shape our collective realities. His practice navigates between poetic intensity and analytical depth, using sound and design as instruments of reflection and resistance — tools to sense, to feel, and to think otherwise.

Contact
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01.vibrations are dead, long live vibrations : towards a listening and composing of wished worlds

english
2026
text & publication



120 x 200mm


Vibrations Are Dead, Long Live Vibrations explores sounds as ambient, relational, and political materials through which collective life is both shaped and contested. Situated within contemporary France, and informed by experiences in electronic music scenes and emerging movements such as the Front Électronique,it examines how sonic communities operate as leaderless yet enduring forms of political organisations. Rather than responding solely to moments of electoral urgency, it asks how these communities sustain alternative temporalities in which other futures can be sensed and rehearsed. By experimenting to make acoustic justice sensible, the research rethinks acoustics as the distribution of the sensible — what is heard, made hearable, or rendered unheard — within environments marked by power, violence, and care. Through methodologies rooted in sonic practice itself — deep listening, non-fidelity recording, atmospheric composition, and sonic fabulation — the project addresses those who actively shape acoustic environments. It proposes listening and composing as ethical, collective practices capable of redistributing the sensible and cultivating atmospheres of social justice, solidarity, and possibility.

1/8    vibrations are dead, long live vibrations : towards a listening and composing of wished worlds
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5/8    vibrations are dead, long live vibrations : towards a listening and composing of wished worlds
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7/8    vibrations are dead, long live vibrations : towards a listening and composing of wished worlds
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02.unearthing the rumbling.

design academy eindhoven
netherlands
2025
installation

aluminium, wood, cement, speakers and screen.
1400 x 700mm


This project explores the acoustic and architectural echoes of post-industrial spaces, focusing on the Lieu Unique in Nantes. Once a biscuit factory, now a cultural hub, the building symbolizes a broader tendency to repurpose industrial sites without acknowledging their labor history. Through a sculptural installation, embedded speakers and moving images, the work gives form to what remains unheard: the rumbling of past work and collective memory. Field recordings and archival sounds—strikes, machines, voices—emerge from within the structure, resonating through cracks in concrete and wood. By listening through the grounds, visitors encounter a space where time folds—past and present blur, and speculative futures emerge. By looking through the ceilling, visitors glorify past struggles and protest to reclaim the victorious past of workers. Rather than build over the past, this piece builds with it, proposing a method of sonic memory. It is both a critique of cultural erasure and an invitation to hear what still lingers beneath the surface of renewal.

1/4    Unearthing the rumbling, Gary Duvernay
2/4    Unearthing the rumbling, Gary Duvernay
3/4    Unearthing the rumbling, Moving Images Extract, Gary Duvernay
4/4    Unearthing the rumbling, Sound Piece Extract, Gary Duvernay
03.drifting soundscape.

face æ
france
2025
installation & text

aluminium, steel, silk, nylon.
700 x 400mm

What if sound was a way of walking ?
Inspired by Guy Debord’s—Théorie de la Dérive—this artwork is not a static form—but a ritual signal. An aberrant fragment of sonic momentum, sculpted not fro the eye, but for the soma. It mimics the path of a wanderer: no center, no linearity, only intuitive turns and shifting gravitives. 
Each surfaces carries the echo of a sound not yet heard—sediments of noise layered with the possibilities of becoming. To wander is to resist the imposed cartographies. Through this piece, sound becomes an act of spatial disobidience, a movement of refusal. It doesn’t illustrate—it invites.
The scultpure is not a monument. It’s a drift. A resonance. A threshold.


1/10 Drifting Soundscape, Gary Duvernay 
Video by Carg0

2/10 Drifting Soundscape, Gary Duvernay 
Picture  by Carg0
3/10 Drifting Soundscape, Gary Duvernay
Picture by Carg0
4/10 Drifting Soundscape, Gary Duvernay
Picture by Carg0
5/10 Drifting Soundscape, Gary Duvernay
Video by Carg0
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04.aura fyri

les ateliers de la ville en bois
nantes, france
2024
exhibition

group exhibition by v sens
(elodie savary, lucie lancien, gary duvernay)
02 may - 05 may 2024

Aura Fyri is a multi-sensory exhibition that unfolds through perfume, design, sound, and graphic art — a collective attempt to reimagine the aura of the forest through sensory dialogue. Conceived by V SENS (Élodie Savary, Lucie Lancien, Gary Duvernay), the exhibition explores how perception, memory, and imagination intertwine when nature becomes experience rather than landscape. Through a constellation of works — a perfume organ, an olfactory corridor, a sound bubble, a wind-touch machine, and a kinetic light sculpture — the collective invites visitors into an ecosystem of sensations. Here, scent becomes language, sound becomes movement, and light becomes breath. Aura Fyri is less a representation of the forest than a reactivation of its presence — an ephemeral, shared space where the senses listen, respond, and resonate.

1/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
2/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
3/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
4/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
5/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
6/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
7/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
8/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
9/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
10/10    Aura Fyri, V Sens 
Picture by Gary Duvernay
05.dancing through political turmoil: bassiani, georgia and techno sounds

to hold the world under the tongue
english
2025
text & publication



critical inquiry lab211 x 155 mm


 Dancing through political turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and techno sounds unfolds as a political exploration of how club spaces can become acts of resistance. Through the pulsations of techno and the collective energy of Bassiani, the text traces how sound and movement intertwine with the struggle for freedom, identity, and self-determination in contemporary Georgia. Written as part of the publication To Hold the World Under the Tongue, a collective recollection developed within the Critical Inquiry Lab under the guidance of Danae Io.

1/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
2/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay

3/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
4/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
5/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
6/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
7/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
8/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
9/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
10/12    Dancing Through Politcal Turmoil: Bassiani, Georgia and Techno sounds, Gary Duvernay
11/12    To Hold the world under the Tongue, Critical inquiry Lab 
Design by Sasha & Emma
12/12    Guide Map of To Hold the world under the Tongue, Critical inquiry Lab
Design by Sasha & Emma
06.face æ

france2024-
label

trans-disciplinary label by
alix plessis, lucie savarin, pablo potrel, gary duvernay

Face Æ is a transdisciplinary label and curatorial platform exploring the intersections of sound, design, and the poetic. Conceived as both a publishing space and a collective experiment, Face Æ invites artists to question the ways in which form, rhythm, and perception translate across mediums. Each release — whether musical, visual, or textual — acts as a fragment of a larger ecosystem where listening becomes a mode of thinking and creation a form of dialogue. The label moves between the club and the studio, between writing and performance, tracing new languages of sensibility and presence. Guided by a desire to dissolve boundaries, Face Æ cultivates a terrain where sound reveals its material depth and artistic practices converge into a shared vibration — at once intimate and collective, visceral and reflective.


1/9 Face Æ Logo, Ben Guegan
2/9 Daimon Makes Surface, Face Æ VA001 
Graphic by Ben Guegan
3/9 Still from Daimon Makes Surface, Face Æ VA001 
Video by Carg0
4/9 Beneath The Quiet Of The Shattered Istäcke, Face Æ VA002
Graphic by Ben Guegan
5/9 Série Topographique, Lucie Lotz,  Face Æ VA002 
Picture by Carg0
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6/9 Beneath The Quiet Of The Shattered Istäcke, Face Æ VA002 
Video by Carg0
7/9 Rhizome Of The Lost Steps, Face Æ VA003
Graphic by Ben Guegan
8/9 Rhizome Of The Lost Steps, Face Æ VA003
Video by Carg0
9/9 Unio Mystica, Arsène Martinet, Face Æ EP001
Graphic by Ben Guegan
07.unknown trialogue (acte one)

netherlands2026
ep

self-released
Bandcamp | unknwon trialogue (acte one)

unknown trialogue (act one) - gdss

sounds never heard still remains sounds.
atmospheres never felt still remains atmospheres.

voices vibrate even when they are buried.
violence reorganises the air long before named.

what is muted does not disappear.
it lingers in pressure, in echo, in distortion
between silence and noise, something continues to sounds

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Born from a feverish cross-pollination, unknown trialogue (act one) is the result of an artistic research on atmospheres of acoustic justice intertwined with an evolving musical language. The EP unfolds as a trialogue between atmospheric noise systems, loop explorations and non-fidelity field recordings.
Rather than resolving tension, the compositions sustain it — hovering in pre-rhythmic states where repetition destabilises itself and movement emerges without certainty. Sounds are treated as materials and infrastructures: something that shapes bodies, communities, and power relations. Through this trialogue between research, composition, and affects, the EP proposes an artistic discovery to be explored. 

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In a time marked by extreme far-right violence, when fear is amplified and simplified into spectacle, other currents must intervene. This project wants to listen for what is too often silenced. In that spirit, this EP has no fixed price. For those in need, take it freely — listening should never conditioned by capitalism's violence. For those who can, contributions are invited and will be fully redistributed to humanitarian initiatives (Médecins Sans Frontière in Palestine, Congo, Sudan...) and to support media independency in France.  

releases april 20, 2026

mastering by arnaud bouillon
cover by gary duvernay
texts by gary duvernay


4/4 an unstable agreement between flesh language and machinery thinking - unknown trialogue by gdss
2/4  a body always misaligned rhythm - unknown trialogue (acte one) by gdss
3/4 a heart never fails you - unknown trialogue (acte one) by gdss
1/4 unknown trialogue - gdss, self-released, 20 avril 2026
Graphic by Gary Duvernay
08.seule le nuage m’illumine

revue cabane n°2 : refuges
france
2025
text

Tilleul Publications
210x300mm

Seule le nuage m’illumine is a long and intimate reflection on the pace of ambient musiqu holds in my life. Through late-night online listening, what began as deeply personal moments slowly opened onto something larger: a community formed through distance, attention, care, and a quiet politic of fragility shaped by who is heard, and allowed to drift. 
It weaves together memories of these private listening rituals with a broader theoretical inquiry into online listening as a possible refuge. Drawing on the idea of the technologies of the self, it asks how ambient sounds, plateforms and repetition can become tools for grounding, healing, and collective sensitivity outside of a fast capitalism. 

edition: teddy pouteau
graphic: teddy pouteau

1/5    revues cabane 2
Design by  Teddy Pouteau
2/5    seule le nuage m’illumine
Design by  Teddy Pouteau
3/5    seule le nuage m’illumine
Design by  Teddy Pouteau
4/5    02 refuge
Design by  Teddy Pouteau
Picture by Shanna Warocquier
5/5    revues cabane 1&2
Design by  Teddy Pouteau