Diane Schuh is a composer, researcher and landscape architect. She holds a PhD in aesthetics, arts science and technology, majoring in music (Université Paris 8) and a Diplôme d'État (D.P.L.G.) in landscape architecture and design (ENSP Versailles). She studied violin at the Conservatoire and composition with José-Manuel López López. In this context, she composed pieces for 2e2m, Ensemble Cairn and Ensemble Sinkro.
Her doctorate in the CICM team (Centre de recherche en Informatique et Composition Musicale) of the Musidanse laboratory, under the direction of Anne Sèdes and the co-direction of Alain Bonardi, is entitled “Symbioses, milieux, jardins en mouvement : ce que le jardinier fait à la musique”. This thesis studies the transfer of models and methods from gardening to composition. In particular, her research explores the pedagogical and operative potential of the symbiosis model in the development of compositional and listening devices that invite attention to living.
In 2023 she won the EUR ArTec call for research projects for her Mycelium Garden project and the MSH Paris Nord call for projects for her LICHENS project.
As a lecturer, she also taught electroacoustic composition at Paris 8 University.
She is currently working on two funded research projects. In response to the Plaine Commune call for projects “Projets Communs Enseignement supérieur et recherche”, she is proposing the co-construction of listening and sound recording workshops in the garden, and studio composition workshops with autistic audiences, in partnership with MSH Paris Nord and La Maison de l'Autisme. The second project, SOIL (Soil Observation through musical Interaction and Listening), co-led with Paul Goutmann and John Popham, supported by La MSH Paris Nord and the Albertine Foundation, explores solid-state sound spaces to listen to and compose with the underground. In septembre 2025 she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from EUR ArTeC for her research-creation project “sound ecologies and co-creativities beyond the human”, co-supervised by CICM-Paris8/APM-IRCAM.