On January 27, 2026—on the anniversary of his sudden passing—the collective volume 24H/24 Paradise – Tribute to Philippe Franck will be published. It includes my post-scriptum text for the person who has shared my professional life since 2011.
This bilingual French/English book sits at the crossroads of sound and digital arts, practice-based research, and a poetico-political tribute. Bringing together artists, theorists, performers, and friends of Philippe Franck—a key figure in sound art and the founder of Transcultures—it orchestrates a polyphony of texts, narratives, and essays. Built around the eponymous work—an interconnected hybrid event between Mons and Seoul—it becomes at once an archive, a manifesto, an experimental laboratory, and a ritual of remembrance. Each contribution—whether theoretical, biographical, fictional, or performative—extends an aesthetic of fragments, flows, and interstices, sketching a discontinuous territory of affects, networks, sounds, and thought.
Contributors (provisional list) : Philippe Baudelet, Philippe Boisnard, Carole Brandon, Anne-Laure Chamboissier, Alexandre Castant, Natan Karczmar, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Régis Cotentin, Christophe Denis, Béatrice de Fays / B2fays, Frédéric de Lapaillonne, Natalia de Mello, Peter M Friess, Jordan Fraser Emery, Philippe Franck (in memoriam), Maja Jantar, Stéphane Kozik, Pierre Larauza, Christian Leroy, Gilles Malatray, Alexander MacSween, Marie Julie, Didié Nietzsche, Jean-François Octave, Gaëtan Le Coarer, Isa*Belle Vrammout, Daniel Van Acker aka Daniel Duchamp, Daniel Vander Gucht, Marc Veyrat, Christian Vialard, Dominique Vermeesch (do.space), Emmanuelle Vincent, Rudy Rigoudy, Robin Rimbaud – Scanner, Rafaël Sanchez, Biba Sheikh, Gabriel Soucheyre, Zoé Suliko, Yves Tassin, Jacques Urbanska, JJ Duerinckx alias Maurice Charles JJ, Khaldoun Zreik…
