Andrea Balency—Béarn

Andrea Balency-Béarn is French-Mexican contemporary music composer, film composer, performer and researcher based in London, UK.

Born in Paris and raised in Mexico City, she works in the fields of live performance, fixed media, dance, film and multimedia. She has worked with outstanding ensembles and entities including the Riot ensemble, Plus-Minus ensemble, Nash ensemble, the Royal Academy of Music and New Movement Collective, and her work - which spans from experimental electroacoustic music to film scoring - has been recorded and performed internationally.

She is currently researching sound-based interactive systems between acoustic instruments, score and real-time electronics at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she is also a film music lecturer. Her work often blurs boundaries between the aural and the visual, and uses digital technology as a mediator between performance and the phenomena of sound.

As a film composer, she has scored feature films and TV series for Netflix, Amazon Studios and the BBC, among others. Her latest scores include feature films Dust, directed by Anke Blondé, Three Years Gone, directed by John Gutierrez — both currently in post-production — and En el Camino, which recently won the Orizzonti award for Best Film at the Venice Biennale.

She performs as a member of UK electronic / alternative rock band Mount Kimbie.