Baptiste Bohelay

Developer & Designer — exploring interactivity, science, and sonic experiences since 2008.

Coming from a background in Science of Music, I have explored various fields: Video Games, Interactive Installations, Research in Music and Art. I kept one foot building my professional experience, one playing and collaborating with passionate artists.

I have been working with clients such as MTV, Heineken, Konami, the McGill University, Tangible Interaction, Gospel Musicians, and contributed to various art projects sometimes big, mostly small, always fun and very human.

Art

Art gathers interactive installations, comics, and sound and animation.

Interactive

Frozent Current — An interactive dance installation presented at the Yukon Centre — Ondes Sonores festival; my first public performance.
lebaptiste.com (former) — An early web experiment where you drift between galaxies — and the site’s form was meant to speak as loudly as its content.
Boite Musicale — Draw melodies on paper, then crank them through a musical box — with hands-on control over every sound.
Hart to Heart — With Marten Berkman: your shadow appears on the Hart River — stereo 3D, and a question about how we live with the land.
Cocoons — An interactive audio/light installation presented to the Fête des Lumières 2014. Unknown creatures that speak with a language of light, and we invite people to talk with them with flashlights.
Harta Sunetelor — A table of Bucharest sounds — move each object and eight surround speakers turn the table into a 360° map of the city.
the Womb — With Aditsu: 360° fractal projections in a yurt, shaped by hand sensors and a dancing overlay.
Lulu’s Unreal Exploration — Footsteps leave fading sentences that other visitors can complete.
Experimental Web — Since 2015 and Three.js, web experiments where form carries as much as content.

Comics

A collection of short comics, including 3 humans, 40 yo face, easy trick, far horse, Granma!, how to, knowledge is a feeling, liars!, nightmare, potator, receiving a letter is something special, Sooo… intimate!, step across the border, Support him, the end, touch, and finally home murder.

Sound

Original music and animation — looping videos from personal drawing and music experiments.

Programming

Badly Drawn — Draw silly things and share them live with friends.
Pi-Schedule — School timetable software for small schools.
OrchPlay — Educational software for students in musicology.
Orchview — Score annotation tool for music-theory research.
A.C.T.O.R. — Research database of annotated orchestral scores.
Visitor — Interactive control of lights and motors.
Halo — Light installation driven by audience movement.
Cocoons — Interactive control of lights for the band Purity Ring.
Cortex — Interactive control of lights and motors.
Social Mosa — Immersive Social Media Visualizer.
PES 2011 — Mobile Soccer Video Game.
Lulu’s Unreal Exploration — Personal Experimental iPhone game.
Spoken Voice Transformation — Real-time spoken-voice transform with a source-filter glottis model.
Horse Life — PC Horse Simulator.
Much More... — Other software, experiments, and commissions.

About me

Curriculum vitae — studies, professional work, and art projects since 2008.