The Team

Sound engineer and composer, a graduate of ENS Louis Lumière, Martin left IRCAM in 2010 to join the Music Unit team. His role is to steer innovation projects, identify technological opportunities and develop the company's patent portfolio, notably the Decorrelated Spatial Synthesis and the MyBeeKnows binaural rendering engine. His many studio collaborations include Ibrahim Maalouf, Balake Sissoko, Bruce Brubaker and Vanessa Wagner, as well as live performances across Europe with Kaija Saariaho, Sivan Eldar and Georges Aperghis. With his mastery of traditional mixing techniques and spatialization technologies, he was one of the first Dolby Atmos mixers in France (Alain Souchon, Patrick Bruel, Alexandre Tharaud).

Since 2022, he has been vice-president of the French section of the Audio Engineering Society.

A musician and producer, Jérôme Boivin (aka Pepouseman) founded the Etlanuit studio with Pierre Luzy in Paris in 2000, which was transferred to the current Music Unit site in 2004. His role is to oversee the company's day-to-day operations and support the teams in charge of accounting, human resources and legal affairs. An active member of two French contemporary music groups, Java (rap-musette) and La Canaille (rap rock), and a regular collaborator with Marc Nammour and Loïc Lantoine, Jérôme has broadened his field of expertise to become a multidisciplinary artist: video director and editor, assistant director and musician for the theater, notably alongside Gildas Milin, Michel Didym, Gérard Watkins and Véronique Bellegarde.

Sound engineer, composer and producer, a graduate of INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), Alexandre Chaigne is studio manager for Music Unit studios, and he's also managing the production, distribution and marketing of solutions developed by the Leson by Music Unit branch. He has worked with many artists on stage and in the studio, including Percujam, Ibrahim Maalouf, Quentin Kayser, Joanne Radao and many others. Combining technical precision with artistic vision, he has regularly lent his talents to renowned institutions such as the Opéra National de Paris and IRCAM.

Composer and producer, Julien Chirol is co-founder of Music Unit with Issam Krimi and Pierre Luzy. He is a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) and the École Polytechnique, two institutions where he now regularly teaches. His role is to implement the strategy and projects determined by the Board of Directors he chairs. In addition to his on-stage and studio collaborations with numerous French - Camille, Alain Souchon, Jean-Louis Aubert - and international artists - Feist, Saul Williams, Angélique Kidjo, Jane Birkin, Yuri Buenaventura - he develops his own projects in the fields of contemporary art and improvised music. Julien is also a legal expert in the fields of music and audio.

A musician and sound engineer, Pierre Luzy laid the cornerstone of the Music Unit edifice in 2000, after graduating from the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), when he set up his first professional studio in Paris with Jérôme Boivin. In 2004, this studio was transferred to Montreuil, where he co-founded Music Unit with Julien Chirol and Issam Krimi. His role is to use his golden ears, honed by 25 years of mastering experience, to develop and fine-tune the audio technologies for Leson by Music Unit. Pierre's credits include numerous collaborations as a musician - James Mac Gaw, Kinski Elevator, Moolbeat, Fred Pallem, Armand Amar, Thomas de Pourquery, Vanessa Paradis - multiple releases as a solo artist, and several hundred albums recorded, mixed or mastered by himself.

Sound artist and composer, computer music producer at IRCAM and Max developer at Cycling'74, Manuel Poletti is responsible at Music Unit for the development of large-scale sound installation projects and the design of software technologies dedicated to augmented instruments, computer-assisted composition and sound spatialization. Manuel regularly collaborates with many leading contemporary artists, with whom he creates elaborate sound devices and content in the fields of performance, art, design and architecture.

Sound designer and producer, Jérémie works as an assistant and sound engineer at Music Unit studios. After a Master's degree in “Music and Musical Production” at the SAE Institute Paris and the Gustave Eiffel University, as well as various experiences at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP), Ferber and Midilive studios, he worked on the production of various emerging projects in the rock, metal, folk and jazz aesthetics. Trained in recording and mixing, he now specializes in immersive sound.

A telecommunications engineer, Kevin Schires obtained his PhD in computer and electronic systems from the University of Essex in 2013. He specialized in the study of optoelectronic components as an engineer at Huawei, then as a researcher at Telecom Paris, where he developed semi-automated measurement protocols and published several articles in high-impact journals. Passionate about music, sound and video, fields for which he has programmed numerous software programs, he is now in charge of IT project management at Music Unit, where he develops Leson audio processing solutions.