After a classical education at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, where he was awarded the First Prize in 1997, he graduated with a D.E.A. (post-graduate diploma taken before completing a PhD) from the EHESS - IRCAM in Paris. His thesis analyses «The new relationship between a musician and his instrument in contemporary works for cello and electronics». He is the only French soloist in permanent collaboration with a national centre for contemporary music, because, since 1999 he has worked at GRAME - centre national de création musicale, Lyon - developping new works for cello. He also frequently collaborates with composers like Robert Pascal, Frédéric Pattar, Jesper Nordin, Jean François Cavro, Nicolas Gilbert, Carlo Forlivesi, Eryck Abecassis, Fausto Sebastiani, Paul Bothen, Ye Guohui, Malika Kishino, Jean Marc Chouvel, Kazuko Narita, Maurizio Giri, Serge Provost... His latest CD «Works for cello» by Jonathan Harvey won the «Coup de Coeur 2003» by the Academy Charles Cros.

While provoking a meeting between «exact sciences» and artistic expression, Benjamin Carat favours the intrinsic magic of interactive and mixed works, by the fusion of electroacoustic and instrumental traditions. He is touring regularly abroad, like in Sweeden, China, Canada, and Italy. With GRAME in Lyon and the Piezzomusik Association in Brest he has developed actions for raising the awareness of contemporary music by using the electronics in artistical practices. He now teaches cello and mixed musics at the ENMDAD in Brest.

A Lyon CNSMD (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse) Award winner, a solo violinist with the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, and a founding member of the AYIN Quartet, Jérémie Siot enthusiastically journeys through the repertoire of our time, and his investigations into sound take multiple forms. He contributes to the GRM educational workshops led by Christian Eloy and Jacques Lejeune, and has discovered a passion for sonic manipulations and the new string instruments born of technological advances. These experiments prompted him to enrol for the SONUS electroacoustic course at the Lyon CNSMD, under the tutorship of Denis Lorrain and Robert Pascal. He collaborates closely with GRAME on the interpretation of mixed works and on the development of new string instruments.