"Seb Brun, an art of rythm both organic and mechanic wich strikes the heart of contemporary music"

Sébastien Brun is a multidisciplinary music activist, composer, and producer.

as a craftsman, He hits drums, metal things, buttons, merging acoustic textures and electronics effects with a singular and rough playing.

His work explores repetition, stacking, overlays, distortion, energies, speeds, and differences of scales of perception of time and sound spaces. 

He is also interested in the role of the body in music and collaborates with performative theater, contemporary dance and extreme circus. 

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Seb Brun is a drummer, composer, and producer. His work operates at the intersection of rhythm, electronics, and embodied sound perception. He approaches the drum kit as a dynamic system — expanded through analog and digital processes — generating a raw, unstable, highly tactile sonic material. His research focuses on stacking, repetition, speed modulation, time-scale shifts, and the transformative potential of sound on the body.

Brun’s practice combines a physical engagement with his instrument and a precise, analytical treatment of sound as perceptual phenomenon. He composes through texture and duration rather than melodic structures, building continuous tension where sound functions as force rather than code.

His solo project ar ker investigates the expressive potential of the augmented drum kit: prepared surfaces, sensor feedback, re-injection, saturation. Built in layers, between fractured rhythmic micro-events and abrasive drones, ar ker challenges instrumental stability and opens a field of tensions between control and release, articulation and collapse.

He is the founding member of Parquet, an instrumental ensemble that critically translates the vocabulary of techno into performative structures: minimalist motifs, rhythmic trances, and deliberate structural erasures. Avoiding typical club formats, Parquet conceives the stage as a perceptual and physical transformation zone. The group includes figures from experimental and improvised music.

With Simon Henocq, Seb Brun has developed a radical and distinctive duo at the crossroads of electronic, noise, and performance-based music. Using heavily processed drums and guitar, they create a dense, raw, and sensual sonic material where sound becomes flesh. Their performance merges hypnotic pulses, industrial textures, real-time interaction, and distorted forms. Less club-oriented than Parquet — which they both contribute to — the duo explores harsher, more abstract territories while maintaining the physical intensity of rhythm. Together, they deconstruct formal conventions and assert a contemporary, embodied vision of electronic music.

A key figure in the French experimental scene, Brun runs Carton Records he founded in 2009. He regularly collaborates with artists including Julien Desprez, Clément Edouard, Simon Henocq, Fred Galiay, Vincent Courtois, and Joce Mienniel, sarah adjou, and is active in interdisciplinary contexts such as performative theatre, contemporary dance, and extreme circus.

Across solo work, group projects, and collaborations, Seb Brun constructs a dynamic and unstable sonic language — one that demands presence, resists reduction, and activates the listening body.