One practice, four tenses.
I'm BENOÎT GRANIER. I run my professional life as a single practice with four interlocking modes: I lead a company, I architect its systems, I teach what I'm learning, and I make art that asks questions the other three modes can't.
For most of my career these felt like four jobs in tension with each other. Now they feel like four instruments in the same room. None of them is a hobby. Each one informs the others in ways that are hard to legibilize on a CV — and that's the point of this site.
I work best on problems that are weird enough to require multiple disciplines at once: new categories, ambitious cultural products, infrastructure for creative work, and the fuzzy edge between research and shipping.
// The four modes
Setting strategy, raising stakes, deciding what *not* to do. Five years scaling teams from kitchen-table to category leader.
Shipping production-grade systems — distributed, observable, opinionated. Type-safe by default, boring by choice when it matters.
Teaching the bridge between disciplines. Guest lectures, workshops, mentoring — turning complexity into transferable models.
Generative practice exploring perception, machine listening, and the texture of attention. Exhibited & performed internationally.
// Selected timeline
- 2025—2026
Acting Deputy Head of School, School of Art and Creative Industries, Coventry University.
- 2024
Innovatoire CIC — helping young people take their first steps into the creative industries.
- 2023
Artful Technologies Ltd — tools where expressive experience matters as much as computational power. Kraftsound, CoolieTool, PACE-AI.
- 2018
Course Director, BSc Music and Audio Production, Coventry University.
- 2010s
Beijing chapter — Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music (CEMC & Composition), Peking University and Dulwich.
- 1990s—
Electroacoustic composition: sound as material, space as instrument. An ongoing practice.