several exciting collaborations between December 2023 and February 2024
Philippe Deschamps is a French composer of film music, who also produces ambient music.
Trained in classical piano as a child, he first played bass and guitar in several rock bands, before studying sound in a film school in Paris. He started working as a sound engineer and sound editor. Then he wrote many film scores, such as Habitations légèrement modifiées and La nuit aux amants.
After improvising on electric guitar in front of an image by the artist Laurent Batard, with the experimental drone track Unanswered Strings Il, he started in the summer of 2022 a project of ambient music around the color blue, between space ambient (Blue Question) and drone ambient (Mountains of wind). Ambient music is for him a genre that questions the listener, by inventing unheard of sounds, by creating unreal spaces and temporalities. Inspired by William Basinski, Brian Eno and Chihei Hatakeyama, he seeks to create moments of deep listening conducive to sound meditation, contemplation and dreams.
Blue Baths, his debut ambient EP was released on July 21, 2023. He collaborated with Center of Attention on Song of the Blue River. After The Groundwater of Tomorrow and Shimmering Mirror, In a Silent Sea is his third appearance on a Mare Nostrum compilation.