Christophe Chassol
is a composer with an atypical background and equally unique composition methods. Combining documentary film and musical composition, he captures his encounters with a camera, edits the footage into visual motifs onto which he adds his own chord sequences. He calls this method “ultrascoring”.

“We go out and film places and people... They talk to us. Every sound in the camera becomes musical raw material. I make loops of the images, stretch them, lengthen them... Then I sew the movie together with the chords”.

Born in 1976, Christophe Chassol entered music academy at age 4 and studied there for 16 years. He secured a grant from Boston's Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in 2002. For the next 15 years, he composed for cinema, television and advertising.

In subsequent years he performed regularly with French pop artists such as the band Phoenix and Sébastien Tellier. More recently, Chassol has worked with American singers Frank Ocean and Solange, contributing to their respective albums.

Chassol is also active in contemporary art, collaborating with artists Sophie Calle, Laurie Anderson and more recently Xavier Veilhan at the Venice Biennale in July 2017. His work Cuba in Cohen, created for the occasion, is currently exhibited at Montréal's Musée d'Art Contemporain.