IUNI — a mirror in the name, a mirror in the sound. From Lyon, Antoine Chrétien weaves piano, synthesizers and voice into music born from the need to slow down — his own, first. Between neoclassical minimalism and healing ritual, a body of work that doesn't ask to be listened to, but to be inhabited.
Find all of IUNI's music on streaming platforms. Ambient, intuitive piano, sound rituals.
When the piano speaks to me, I send you a melody fragment.
Ambient, rituals, intuitive piano — long-form pieces to accompany your meditation, relaxation or work session.
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Imagine a small room, dimly lit, silent.
Cushions, blankets, mattresses on the floor.
You lie down. You close your eyes.
For one hour, I play for you — piano, voice, gentle melodies and deep synth waves.
It's not a concert. It's a space, for you, with the music, for a little over an hour.
I started sound rituals because I needed a place where music asks nothing of you.
No attentive listening, no judgment, no posture.
Just a sound that carries you, and the right to let go.
IUNI is available for your events — seminars, weddings, festivals, retreats. A bespoke sound ritual, tailored to your space and intention.
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Insight Timer is the world's largest meditation community. IUNI offers guided sessions and soundscapes designed for deep relaxation, sleep and presence — available for free. Hours of ambient music, contemplative guitar and synthesizer pads to accompany your meditation, yoga or quiet moments.
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Cosmic Alliance is an audiovisual performance by the Super Organique collective. IUNI unfolds his electro-neoclassical universe — piano, synthesizers — while Symbiose creates live visuals through liquid art, blending liquids, pigments and chemical reactions, projected in real time.
The show has been presented in Hong Kong (French May), at 104 Paris, at MIS Ceará (Fortaleza, Brazil) and at Patchlab Festival (Poland).
Antoine is a jazz drummer by training, based in Lyon. It all begins with the drums.
Rhythm as a first language, the body as a first instrument.
Over time and through personal growth, he opens up to other territories: first the piano, then the guitar, then the voice. Each instrument arrives when something within him is ready to welcome it. He explores analog synthesizers in parallel — Moog, Korg MS-20, Prophet — and the prepared piano, searching in timbre for a form of intimacy that words alone cannot carry.
In 2019, meeting Kurmå changes the trajectory. Through Sam, he discovers sound journeys — those spaces where music stops being played for someone and begins to move through those who listen. The first sessions with Sam and Gabriel ground him in this approach: sound as care, the musical gesture as offering. It's a turning point. Antoine finds a language that finally matches his sensitivity — that of a deeply emotional musician who has always felt music before thinking it.
In 2021, he launches the IUNI project — a mirror-name, IU/NI. A space where composition meets ritual, where the neoclassical minimalism of a Nils Frahm or a Hania Rani crosses the ambient textures of Ólafur Arnalds and the organic warmth of Aukai. He blends his instruments, modular sounds and shamanic-inspired chants born from his sound journeys with Sam.
Today, he hosts sound rituals in Lyon — immersive listening sessions where music seeks to become healing — and performs Cosmic Alliance with Symbiose as part of the Super Organique collective, recognised by the Institut français for international distribution.
Piano concert, electro-ambient set, sound ritual for your events — I'm available. Tell me about your project.
