Course title:

Sound and vision

Course description:

In this workshop, participants will choose a piece of music from a pre-selected list and attempt to translate the atmosphere and energy they feel through the music into a video. The project will be created using After Effects. There will be no narration, storyboarding, filming, or post-production. The approach will be visual, graphic, experimental, and intuitive.
The energy, sounds, and rhythm of music evoke emotions, inviting us to disconnect, to be willingly immersed, to let go. By disconnecting us from the physical world, music extracts something tangible and opens access to an abstract visual space, in which sounds are translated into shapes, colors, lights, and movement. This formal and rhythmic exploration will be the focus of this workshop.
« It’s not what moves that matters, but how it moves » ——Norman MCLaren

Bio:

Sylvia Tournerie is a French graphic designer whose practice is deeply connected to music and visual culture.
She’s been graduated from Penninghen in Paris in 1994, where she studied under prominent figures in graphic design and typography such as Roman Cieslewicz and Peter Knapp.
Her practice is rooted in experimentation and a strong visual instinct, combining rigorous graphic structures with expressive freedom. From record covers to editorial design and visual identities, her work explores rhythm, movement, and the power of images. Through a refined yet bold aesthetic, she creates designs that are both conceptually driven and visually striking. She has collaborated with major cultural institutions such as Arte, Hermès, Loevenbruck Galery, the Centre national de la musique, the Centre national des arts plastiques or the Editions of the Philharmonie de Paris, and now leads the art direction of french music label Delodio since 2017.
Known for her bold, intuitive approach, she crafts strong visual identities that balance experimentation with clarity.