Whim Therapy

Under the name Whim Therapy, Jérémy Benichou has been developing a solo project since 2020 that sits between electronic music, studio pop and soulful textures, with a marked taste for sounds recorded while traveling and then reworked into slow, airy and rhythmically mobile compositions. Trained in France at the Music Academy International in Nancy and with experience teaching guitar, Jérémy Benichou first gained recognition in the circle around Diva Faune, which he joined as co-composer, musician and arranger for a repertoire at the crossroads of electro, pop and folk, before also working for other artists under the name Jamy Ben. Whim Therapy stems from this background but branches off toward a more experimental approach focused on production and new methods of writing. For the track “Let It Go”, presented in 2021 at the AI Song Contest, Whim Therapy collaborated with Sony CSL’s French team and incorporated artificial intelligence tools into the composition process — not as a substitute but as a source of formal, rhythmic and textual proposals. This approach clarifies Whim Therapy’s aesthetic, where human songwriting, production accidents and shifts of groove coexist within supple, detailed and open electronics.