My name is Denis Gente, I live and work in Brittany
I work with sound as a central material — not as illustration, but as a space for attention, fiction, and ecological resonance. My practice draws from ambient field recordings, captured through directional and wide microphones, often processed and expanded through spectral analysis and algorithmic composition. The sound becomes a hybrid body: partly observed, partly invented.
My installations are interactive, designed to respond to presence, gesture, or touch. They unfold as semi-random sonic environments, where listening becomes an act of exploration — sometimes intimate, sometimes disoriented.
A consistent thread in my work is the fragility of non-human life: species, landscapes, or phenomena under pressure from human activity. But I approach these topics through poetic shifts rather than commentary — letting sound suggest, displace, or linger.
Alongside the installations, I frequently design and lead participatory workshops, often in connection with FabLabs, schools or local communities. This “shared making” feeds the work itself, and invites other perspectives into the process — technical, intuitive, or simply curious.
My pieces are spaces for listening, interpretation, and co-construction, where sound reveals both what is vanishing, and what can still be imagined.