Malena Fouillou is a computer music designer with the Next ensemble at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Initially oriented towards film sound recording as a teenager, she soon turned to the piano and entered the Conservatoire d'Agglomération du Val d'Yerres, where she played the Baroque and Romantic repertoire.
After studying acoustics at university, she joined Ircam in 2022, graduating a year later with a master's degree in ATIAM (Acoustics, Signal Processing, Computer Science Applied to Music) as an engineer. This experience proved to be a turning point in her career, as she decided to enter the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (formerly ENS Cachan) immediately afterwards, in order to direct her research and scientific knowledge towards musical creation. Together with Victoire Brunat (ENS design department) and Thé Nguyen (violinist at CRR Aubervillier), she composed a piece for violin and electronic sound and visual devices.
It was only natural that she should become a director of computer music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), thanks to her tutor Jacques Warnier, with the Next ensemble.
Since then, she has played the mixed repertoire with digital technologies with instrumentalists such as Tristan Pereira (percussion), Chloé Riès (oboe), Elodie Baert (horn), Louis Hognon (saxophone) and Ami Flammer (violin). She performed pieces by composers such as Guilherme de Almeida, Takuma Saïto and Emre Eröz at their conservatory prizes. It was at the CNSMDP that she met Fernanda Gonzalez and Rémi Briffault, with whom she played Trace X by Martin Matalon. From there, she joined the Luz y Fuerza project as sound engineer and computer music producer.