Bastien Pons

Jacques Tati is usually described as a master of visual comedy.

The description is accurate, but incomplete.

To watch Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle, PlayTime, or Trafic while concentrating on the soundtrack is to encounter an artist…

Experimental ambient album Blinded by Bastien Pons receives a 9/10 rating from SoundNex, highlighting its immersive sound design, artistic integrity and cinematic atmosphere.

Bastien Pons’ Blinded

Receives a 9/10 Rating from SoundNex

Independent music review platform SoundNex has awarded…

When I released Blinded, I had no expectations regarding sync licensing.

To be honest, I wasn’t even sure that my music – dark, slow, textural and deeply influenced by musique concrète – would have any place in that world…

David Lynch and the art of listening: when sound becomes cinema

David Lynch didn’t just use music in his films. He used sound the way other directors use light: to bend reality, to make emotions physical, to turn a room…

Black Clouds: when an experimental work reaches one million views

Reaching one million views on YouTube is usually associated with immediacy, speed, and mass appeal. Viral content. Instant hooks. Easily digestible formats.

Black Clouds took the opposite path.

Slow, dark…

Imagine turning on your tape recorder in 1948 and recording… a train.

Not to transcribe it into notes on a staff, but to use that recording itself as the music. That’s exactly what Pierre Schaeffer, a French engineer and…

Experimental music can feel intimidating. No catchy chorus, no clear rhythm, sometimes just layers of noise, silence, or textures that don’t sound like “music” in the traditional sense. Yet this is exactly what makes experimental and avant-garde music so unique…

Releasing an album is only the first step. The real challenge begins once the music is out in the world—making sure it actually reaches listeners. For a project like Blinded, with its experimental and unconventional sound, promotion is not…

NOT AVAILABLE by The Residents

I don’t remember exactly when I first heard Not Available. But I remember the aftertaste—like waking from a dream where everyone was wearing masks and no one would explain the rules. It didn’t feel…

People often ask me where my sounds come from. The answer is usually disappointing: I don’t travel to the Arctic to record glaciers melting, I don’t own vintage synths from East Germany, and I don’t (yet) live in an abandoned…

Or: why I finally started a blog

Let’s be honest: I never thought I’d write a blog. I make sound, I shape silences, I obsess over hiss, crackle, and broken gear. Words? Not exactly my native tongue. But here we…