Roxane Métayer is a visual artist and musician based in Brussels. Her work primarily focuses on forest wildlife and flora. The living world and our connection to it play a central role in her creations. Her music combines collages of sound recordings captured in nature (forests, marshes, ponds, clearings, etc.) with various wind and string instruments, such as the violin, as well as her own voice. Through imitation, she stages fictional wildlife and flora.

From hours spent filming and recording, Roxane has developed a sensory memory from which she draws to cultivate a universe that resembles a form of animal and vegetal mimicry. By performing in the forest, she uses her instrument as a tool for interspecies communication and composes her music through bioacoustics. She also narrates her experiences in nature through her texts. In crafting her lyrics, she explores various narrative genres, blending poetry and fiction, occasionally adopting the tone of an epic, an ode, or a lament.

Her latest project is a sound installation designed for diffusion through an octophonic sound system. An initial version, titled Appareils Sporophoniques, features ceramic speakers and a box equipped with a microcontroller programmed in C++ to move sounds between the different speakers. This project first took shape in sound art venues such as Overtoon in Brussels and the STUK art center in Leuven. In 2024, during a group exhibition titled C’est le nom de cette pierre qui fait paysage at ISELP, she activated the speakers during live performances, offering immersive sound experiences where the audience was invited to lie down for a « sound nap. » She is now continuing her research during her residency at Kamiyama Kair on Shikoku Island in Japan, where she is developing the project with speakers sculpted from local cedar wood.

Roxane’s journey includes numerous collaborations with artists, musicians, and dancers, including Charles Dubois, a drummer from Angers; Suzan Peters, a Flemish accordionist; Benjamin Verdonck, a Flemish artist; Magali Cote, a Brussels-based dancer with a disability from Ateliers Indigo; Siet Raeymaekers, a Flemish dancer; and David Jarrin, a banjo player. She also conducts music creation workshops for young audiences at the Maison des Cultures in Molenbeek, the Arts et Marges Museum, and the Ateliers de la Voot in Brussels.

She has released several albums on labels such as Matière Mémoire, Kraak, Morc, Primordial Void, Wabi-Sabi Tapes, and Marionnette Label, as well as with Vlek for the duo Sage Alyte. Roxane has performed in venues such as STUK, Café Oto, Ancienne Belgique, Ateliers Claus, Atelier 210, Beursschouwburg, and Instants Chavirés. In 2023, she expanded her activities beyond the European Union by performing at the Mutant Radio Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, organized in partnership with the Shape+ platform, and touring in Japan with the support of WBI.

In 2022/2023, Roxane Métayer was selected by the European platform for innovative music SHAPE. Her album Perlée de Sève was named one of the best experimental music on Bandcamp in February 2023. Her work has been featured in international press, including Anxious Musick Magazine (Poland), It’s Psychedelic Baby! Magazine (Slovenia), ATTN Magazine and Fifteen Questions (England). has also been broadcast on international radio stations such as BBC and NTS (England), Lyl Radio (Belgium), Noods Radio (Bristol), Fluid Radio, Totally Radio (England), BFF.fm (San Francisco), Radiohoerer (Germany), Radio Panik (Belgium).