Mar 2026·essay·7 min
On Being Many: A Defense of the Hyphenated Practice
The market punishes legibility. The work rewards multiplicity. A note on resisting the urge to simplify yourself for an algorithm.
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BASED BETWEEN COVENTRY · BEIJING · THE WORLDScroll→
00 / Index⌘ COMPOSER · FOUNDER · ACADEMIC LEADER
BENOÎT
GRANIER
Building things that didn't exist before — in music, technology, and education — for 20 years.
- CEO
- CTO
- Educator
- Artist
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Decision ·
Direction
CEO of Artful Technologies · Director of Innovatoire CIC
- ARTFUL TECHNOLOGIES
- KRAFTSOUND
- INNOVATOIRE CIC
Artful Technologies
Artful Technologies builds tools where the expressive experience is as important as computational power. The philosophy is simple: aesthetic experience, interaction, and expression are core functionality — not a layer on top. Innovation happens when technical systems remain permeable to artistic intuition.
The flagship product is Kraftsound — the world's first 3D-printed playable disc platform. Fans design and print physical records from the music that matters to them. The fan as maker. The object as proof of connection.
Innovatoire CIC
Innovatoire CIC is a pioneering education and research centre bridging arts, engineering, and business. The mission: empower people to tackle complex creative challenges and build innovative solutions aligned with the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Where disciplines collide, new things become possible.
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Systems ·
Infrastructure
Building production-grade technology at the intersection of forensic AI and creative tools. PACE-AI's evidence analysis platform. Kraftsound's NFC disc ecosystem. CoolieTool's privacy-first audio toolkit.
- PACE-AI CTO
- Kraftsound Tech
- CoolieTool
Pedestrian Collision Evaluator (PACE-AI)
Forensic AI platform
Pedestrian collision evidence analysis for law enforcement. Built at the intersection of machine learning and legal accountability.
KRAFTSOUND
Platform Architecture & Development
I write the code. From the audio-to-geometry pipeline that converts music into 3D-printable groove geometry to the full NFC disc ecosystem.
COOLIE TOOL
Audio Privacy Toolkit
Browser-native, 100% client-side. No audio ever leaves your device. Psychoacoustic watermarking, AI detection, and professional metadata management.
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Knowledge ·
Transmission
Assistant Professor and Course Director at Coventry University. Acting Deputy Head of School. 20 years teaching across Beijing, Singapore, and the UK — from CCOM to the RSA.
- Coventry University
- SFHEA
- FRSA
04 / 04
Expression ·
Emotion
35 years as composer and electroacoustic artist. Premiered at Carnegie Hall, the Smithsonian, Harvard, and Xi'an Conservatory of Music at Sonic Futures 2026.
- 30+ Works
- Xi'an 2026
- Carnegie Hall
BENOÎT GRANIER — COMPOSER · FOUNDER · ACADEMIC LEADER
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02 / Selected Work
Things I've shipped, shown, or signed.
- 01AtlasA realtime collaboration substrate for distributed creative teams. CRDT engine + opinionated UI primitives.Founding CTO2025
- 02Luminary StudioFounded and scaled a creative-technology studio shipping work for major cultural institutions.Founder & CEO2024
- 03Field Notes on Listening12-channel sound installation translating machine-learning latent space into a walkable architecture.Artist · Composer2024
- 04Patterns of PracticeA semester-long curriculum on systems thinking for non-engineers. Now run at three institutions.Lead Faculty2023
- 05LoopAn open-source toolkit for self-hosted personal AI agents. 3k+ stars, used in production by indie studios.Maintainer2023
- 06Second MirrorGenerative video diptych on identity and computational portraiture. Acquired by a private collection.Artist2022
03 / Lab
Half-finished things,
on purpose.
A working notebook of experiments, prototypes and research. Some will become work. Most won't. That's the point.
⌁ vision · generativein progress
Latent Garden
Walking through a diffusion model as if it were a botanical illustration.
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⌁ agents · uxprototype
Quiet Protocols
What if calendars negotiated with each other before bothering humans?
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⌁ writing · webshipped
Slow Compute
Essay-as-software: a website that processes its own argument over 24 hours.
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⌁ researchongoing
The Boring Stack
Cataloging the technical choices that *don't* show up in talks — but should.
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⌁ education · embodiedin progress
Hands on Knowing
A toolkit for teaching abstract systems through physical gesture and choreography.
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⌁ art · mlongoing
Mirror Stage
Self-portrait series: one image per week, fed through last week's image as a model.
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04 / Writing
Notes from the in-between.
Long-form thinking, cross-posted to LinkedIn so you can read it where you already are.
Jan 2026·engineering·12 min
Boring by Choice: Architectural Decisions That Aged Well
Five technical choices I made three years ago that I'd make again — and three I wouldn't.
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Nov 2025·craft·9 min
Treating Art as Research, Research as Art
Why my studio practice and my engineering practice ended up converging — and what showed up in the gap.
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Sep 2025·essay·5 min
The Fifth Hat: Why You Should Be Slightly Bad At Something Public
An argument for keeping one part of your practice deliberately amateur. Forever.
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