A musician by training (piano prize in François-Michel Rignol's class), Gaël Tissot's discovery of computer programming and poetic writing had a profound impact on his career. They led him to the Toulouse Conservatory (electroacoustic music prize in Bertrand Dubedout's class), the Lyon Conservatory, Berkeley University and to write a thesis on François Bayle's electroacoustic music.
Gaël Tissot designs sound installations that combine music and poetic texts. Following in the footsteps of the digital arts, he hijacks computer technologies and tools insofar as they allow him to imagine new listening situations: geolocalized, participative sound works, spatialized sound... And if the word "trobador" is exactly the same as the French word "trouveur", then behind a computer keyboard, listening to the rustle of the world around him, perhaps he's simply a contemporary troubadour.
Gaël Tissot has held residencies at venues dedicated to the digital arts (Château Ephémère, Université de Grenoble, Bel Ordinaire...) and at various festivals in France and abroad (Athens Digital Arts Festival, Safra'numériques, Recto-VRso-Laval Virtual, La science de l'art, Piksel-Bergen, Manifeste-IRCAM...). His works have won several awards (Destellos Foundation International Prize 2018, second prize in the Mauricio Kagel International Competition...).