Frank Pecquet

Frank Pecquet is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences, HDR) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, École des Arts de la Sorbonne, and a member of the Institut ACTE research center, where he directs the research program “Arts et design sonores” (2022–2026). He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Computer Music from the University of California, San Diego (1993, under Brian Ferneyhough), a Ph.D. in Musicology from Université Paris 8 (1985, under Daniel Charles) and completed the Cursus in Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM (1992). He obtained his Habilitation à diriger des recherches in 2018.

As of 2026 he is a research fellow at the Instituto de Artes of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), on a PAPD grant with CRCT leave, where he co-supervises doctoral theses and co-leads a seminar on research-creation.

His written work moves between composition, musicology and the philosophy of sound and technology. He is a prolific author, whose publications include ‘Le design sonore’, alongside P.Duponey (Dunod, 2021), ‘De la composition musicale au design sonore’ (2022), with Éditions Delatour, ‘Valeurs et usages du so’n (2024), and ‘Sons en quête de sens’ (2025). A further volume, ‘La fabrique des sons en art et design sonores’ will be published in December 2026.

His creative work includes Piamenca and Hétérophonie (2020), Hamoonie, which was presented at the National Gugak Center in Seoul (2025), and Le quotidien du Flux, an electronic symphony (2025).”