René Aubry has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 17 episodes and was first played on 16 June 2016.

With compositions for dances by Carolyn Carlson, Pina Bausch and Philippe Genty, film scores and 14 albums to his name, René Aubry is a popular, prolific and discreet composer. This native son of Epinal has forged his own path as a self-taught composer of songs without words.

And yet like other sound artists cast in the same mould (from François de Roubaix to Pascal Comelade or even Ennio Morricone), René Aubry has settled into our musical world.

As a young man, he developed a…