Jenn Hutt is a Baltimore-born experimental violinist, composer, and multidisciplinary performer, based in Paris since 2005. She performs with her violin, electronic machines, voice and body, and composes for theatre, film, tv, sound installation, performance, dance, orchestra and string ensemble. Her music and playing style is deeply influenced by her roots in the Baltimore indie music scene… dark and experimental, featuring elements of art pop, electronica, punk and film music.

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Jenn has worked with artists and groups such as Jonathan Capdevielle (FR), Will Oldham (US), Franky GoGo (FR), Arthur Gillette (Moriarty) (FR), Moriba Koïta (ML), Katrina Ford (US), Rosemary Standley (FR), Bianca Bondi (ZA), Majida Khattari (MA), Safia Benhaim (FR), Clelia Patrono (IT), Marc-Antoine Perrio (FR), Nidi d’Arac (IT) and Faren Khan (FR) and trained with violinists Mark Feldman (US) and L. Subramaniam (IN).

She has been performing internationally for over 20 years and her compositions have been heard at l’Arsenic Theatre, Lausanne, Theatre des Amandiers, Paris, T2G Theatre Gennevilliers, Paris , le Quai Theatre, Angers, Theatre Saint Gervais, Geneva, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, La Quadriennale de Prague, The Institut du Monde Arabe, Fondation Louis Vuitton, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, MAtera INtermedia Festival, MMK Moderne Art Frankfurt, EntreVues Belfort International Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, and the Human Rights International Film Festival in Mexico, among others.

composition

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“HE WAR” - Prague Quadrennial - (performance)

Artist/Concept: Majida Khattari
Sound design/Music: Jenn Hutt

OFFICIAL SELECTION NEW YORK ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL (USA), OFFICIAL SELECTION MATERA INTERMEDIA FESTIVAL (IT)

 “VOYAGE DANS UNE GUERRE INVISIBLE” - CANAL + - (documentary film)

Director/Writer : Paul Moreira
Production: Premieres Lignes (FR)
Music: Jenn Hutt/Benjamin Lauber

OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE AMNESTY REEL AWARENESS FESTIVAL TORONTO (CA) , OFFICIAL SELECTION INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS, (MX) 

 “JUNGLI (WASH)” - (art video/soundpiece)

Composition: Jenn Hutt Video: Jenn Hutt
A short experimental film gleaned from Iphone images and original electroacoustic music.

“HI TOUCH” - (art video/soundpiece)  2020

Composition: Jenn Hutt and Clelia Patrono
Video: Clelia Patrono

A composition made during lockdown between two sound artists/composers reflecting on the sensations and feelings related to coming to terms with our inevitable reliance and the inestimable impact of the internet and AI.

“FUTURS CHAMPIONS” - ARTE - (documentary film)

Director/Author: Pierre-Emmanuel Luneau-Daurignac
Music: Jenn Hutt
Prodution: CineTeve Productions (FR)
This edifying international investigation lifts the veil on the globalization of inhumane training methods where children pay the price for our appetite for medals.

“FROZEN HANDS” - Mick Strauss - (string arrangements)

Song/Video: Mick Strauss
String arrangements: Jenn Hutt
Production: Air Rytmo (FR)

Band is Arthur Gillette, Vincent Talpaert, Maëva LeBaerre, Jenn Hutt, Rowen Berrou, Brendan de Roeck

"SUSPIRIA, LES BONIMENTEURS" - (performance)
CND Centre national de la danse

Creation/composition/music/texts:
Jonathan Capdevielle, Arthur Gillette, Jenn Hutt

Les trois performers coupent le son de l’un des films-cultes du cinéma italien, Suspiria de Dario Argento pour en réinventer, en live, les dialogues, les bruitages et la bande originale. A base d’improvisations, de spirales instrumentales et vocales, le discours-doublage constitué de dialogues et de chansons, balaye une certaine histoire de la danse et incorpore en mashup au gré des performances des extraits d’oeuvres littéraires. L’érotisme, la sauvagerie et la cruauté de ce conte filmé en Technicolor à l’esthétique d’un Disney trash, propose une mise en scène de l’institution et du pouvoir dont les femmes sont maîtres.

“EMAMA” -  Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, FR) - (performance)

Artist/Concept: Majida Khattari
Composition/electronics: Jenn Hutt
Images: Institut du Monde Arabe

“LE SANG NOIR” - (film) - PRIX EUROCKS ONE+ONE DU FESTIVAL ENTREVUES DE BELFORT (prix du son/musique esprit libre et novateur)

Director/Author: Safia Benhaim
Music: Arthur Gillette/Jenn Hutt
Prodution: Bathysphere Productions (FR)

PRIX EUROCKS ONE + ONE - FESTIVAL ENTREVUES DE BELFORT (FR), MENTION SPÉCIALE DU MEILLEUR FILM - LAGO FILM FESTIVAL 

"IT'LL END IN TEARS" - (performance)

Costumes/Concept/Texts: Curious Orange
Composition/Musicians: Jenn Hutt/Clelia Patrono
Dancers: Naibi Fuentes, Sabrina Gargano, Christyna Jaime

 “L’ESPRIT DU LOUP” - (short film)

Director/Writer : Katia Scarton-Kim
Production: Bagan Films (FR)
Music: Jenn Hutt

PRIX BEST SHORT FILM ATHENS JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (GR)

“THE DAYDREAM” - (sound installation)  Fondation Louis Vuitton (FR),  33’

Artist/Concept: Bianca Bondi (Villa Medici, Nominee Prix Marcel Duchamp)
Composition/electronics/field recordings: Jenn Hutt
Guitare: Marc-Antoine Perrio
Mastering: Bart Celis
The Daydream is a soundtrack on a loop, sometimes the soundtrack is accompanied by distant water or birds squawking. It is a series of vibrations, a raw guitar and the ripple effect; and on rare occasions The Daydream is almost silence.

“END GAME” - ARTE (FR) - (documentary film)

Director/Author: Pierre-Emmanuel Luneau-Daurignac
Music: Jenn Hutt
Production: Yuzu Productions (FR)
This unprecedented investigation conducted in 6 countries (USA, UK, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany), covering a large variety of sports over a period of two years, shows that sexual violence in sport is not the result of isolated incidents, but rather reveals the abuses of an entire system. It breaks the silence on one of the biggest taboos in sport today.

PRIX MEDIA ENFANCE MAJISCULE 2021 (FR), ETOILE AWARD SCAM 2021 (FR), AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL AU CINEMA POUR LES DROITS HUMAINS, RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL (UK), TORONTO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (CA)

 “LA FIÈVRE” - (film) TIGER AWARD, Rotterdam International Film Festival

Director/Writer : Safia Benhaim, Production: Bathysphere Productions (FR) Music: Jenn Hutt/Arthur Gillette

TIGER AWARD ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, CAMIRA AWARD FESTIVAL FRONTEIRA (BR), JURY PRIZE FESTIVAL FRONTEIRA (BR), DIALOG PRIZE EMAF 

"STILL WATERS" - (sound installation)
Le Parvis Centre d'Art Contemporaine (FR)

Artist: Bianca Bondi
Music/Field Recordings/Sound Design: Jenn Hutt
Video: Chagar Productions

“SENSE” - (live performance)

Electronics/Sound Design/Violin: Jenn Hutt
Electronics/Sound Design/Guitar: Clelia Patrono

My live duo with composer/musician Clelia Patrono - Electronics/Minimal/Ambient/Soundscape/Atmospheric
~Bruxelles/Paris~

performance

discography

  • Still Waters (LP) - Jenn Hutt

    electronics, field recordings, voice
    Taxi Gauche (CH)

  • Argile (LP) - Marc-Antoine Perrio

    violins
    Michelle Music (FR)

  • In the Dark (LP) - Mick Strauss

    string arrangements, violin, voice
    Air Rytmo (FR)

  • Escapist, Heal 'Til You Live Forever (LP) - Marc-Antoine Perrio

    violins vocals
    Orfèvre (FR)

  • Southern Wave Night Birds (EP) - Mick Strauss

    string arrangements and violin
    Air Rytmo (FR)

  • Beware (LP) - Bonnie "Prince " Billy

    violin, vocals
    Drag City (USA) / Domino (UK)

  • Wounded Healer - Celebration (LP)

    violin
    Bella Union (UK)

  • Le 30eme Jour (LP) - Faren Khan

    Arrangements, composition, text, vocals, violin
    Al Sur (FR)

  • Migratory Words (EP) - Soon Clyde

    violin

    self-released (USA)

  • Stay (EP) - Bonnie "Prince" Billy

    violin, vocals
    Drag City (USA)

  • A Man Needs a Way - Soon Clyde

    violin, vocals
    self-released (USA)

  • Southern Wave (LP) - Mick Strauss

    violin, vocals, synthesizers, arrangements
    Air Rytmo (FR)

  • IT/Aliens - Nidi d'Arac

    mandolin, string arrangements
    Goodfellas (IT)

  • Arc and Sender (LP) - Arc and Sender

    Violin
    High Two (USA)

  • Twilight (LP) - Television Hill

    self-released (USA)

  • Quipu - Atome Primitif

    violin, arrangements
    self-released (IT)

  • Here is Night Brother, Here the Birds Burn (LP) - Love Life

    violin
    Jagjaguwar (USA)

  • Long Live the Well-Doer (LP) - Abouretum

    violin
    Box Tree REcords (USA)

soundtracks

  • "Futurs Champions" - dir. P-E Luneau-Daurignac, ARTE (FR) (2024) - original soundtrack

  • "Sang Noir" - dir. Safia Benhaim, Bathysphere Films- original soundtrack with Arthur B. Gillette

  • "Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama", dir. C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan (2010)- original music by Faren Khan

  • "Lil' Buck, Real Swan" - dir Louis Wallecan, (2019) Lechinski, Machine Molle, and Tanit Films - original soundtrack with Arthur Gillette

  • "Blank Lands" - dir. Luca Tommassini, (2016) Nacne - original soundtrack

  • "Le Raton Laveur, Roi du Survivalisme" Nord-Ouest Documentaires / France Télévisions / CNC, 2021, original soundtrack composition with Arthur B. Gillette

  • "End Game, Breaking the Silence" (2020) dir. P.-E. Luneau-Daurignac, YUZU Productions, ARTE France, composition original soundtrack

  • "Jean Rouch, Cineaste Aventurier" (2017) dir. Laurent Vedrine, ARTE France, Roches Noires Prod

  • "Voyage dans une Guerre Invisible" (2014), dir. Paul Moreira, Premières Lignes Télévision, composition soundtrack originale

  • "L'Esprit du Loup" dir. Katia Scarton-Kim, (2016) Bagan Films - original soundtrack