Fallon Mayanja

Fallon Mayanja is a Paris-based sound artist, composer and performer whose work explores listening as a relational, political and embodied practice. Graduated from the Post-Diploma in Sound Arts at the Fine Arts of Lisbon and holding a Master’s degree from INA GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales), they build immersive listening environments through live electronics, voice and archival materials. Their practice engages with Afro-diasporic cosmologies, speculative narratives and collective modes of creation. Working across performance, sound composition and staged pieces, Fallon conceives sound as a space for attention and transformation. 









Fallon Mayanja is a Paris-based sound artist, composer and performer whose practice investigates listening as a transformative, relational and collective act. Trained in sound arts and musical research, they graduated from the Post-Diploma in Sound Arts at the Fine Arts of Lisbon and hold a Master’s degree from INA GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales). Their work unfolds at the intersection of performance, live electronic composition, sound pieces and immersive environments.

At the core of Fallon’s practice lies the construction of listening environments. Drawing from a broad understanding of listening - encompassing the porosity of touch, the tangibility of sound and the intangibility of silence - their work mobilises sound as a perceptual and relational field. Through analog synthesis, voice, oral archives and electronic textures, Fallon composes organic soundscapes that operate as narrative spaces, where fiction, memory and embodied knowledge intertwine.

Their research is deeply informed by Afro-diasporic histories, queer speculation and afrofuturist imaginaries. Influenced by Detroit techno, sonic ritual and experimental vocal traditions, Fallon develops electronic narrations in which rhythm, repetition and duration become tools for storytelling and world-building. These sonic landscapes often function as poetic and political zones, amplifying silenced voices and attending to what resists articulation.

Collaboration is central to their methodology. Fallon regularly works with other artists, musicians, performers and communities, conceiving sound as a shared and evolving space of encounter. Their performances have been accompanied by an evolving listening protocol, developed through long-term research, which invites both performers and audiences to adopt active, situated and attentive modes of listening.

More recently, their work has expanded toward staged forms, where sound, voice, body and spatial design are tightly interwoven. Through these architectures of listening, Fallon creates temporary spaces of attention and care, where listening becomes an aesthetic and political gesture, a way of being together and imagining other forms of relation.