Patrick Kersalé is an ethnomusicologist, archaeomusicologist and musician. Since 1991, he has worked in some forty countries in Europe, Africa, America and Asia, photographing, recording and filming traditional musicians and studying their music. Musician, lecturer and teacher, he is the author of hundreds of publications (records, books, DVDs, films, articles, teaching aids) devoted to traditional music.

Between 2009 and 2022, he is studying musical instruments from the Angkorian period through iconography, epigraphy and archaeological objects, as well as through synchronicities, defined by certain quantum physicists as "remarkable coincidences of events linked by meaning". In parallel with this research, he is reconstructing the vanished instruments that existed between the 7th and 16th centuries, including several types of harp, zither, cymbal, drum, trumpet and conch.

Since the beginning of 2023, he has been putting his experience at the service of Egyptian archaeomusicology, joining a research team on the history of music therapy.

The fruits of his research are now published on the various sites mentioned below.

He is a member of the Société des Explorateurs Français, SACEM, SCAM and SPEDIDAM.

French ethno-archaeo-musicologist Patrick Kersalé has spent thirty years in Asia, searching for historic instruments and studying surviving traditional music, but it was not enough for him. Based on his research, he rebuilt extinct Angkorian instruments from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries! Several kinds of harps, monochord zithers, cymbals, drums, trumpets, and conches have thus literally been brought back to life!

To bring the ancient Khmer's musical instruments back to life, Patrick Kersalé created the Sounds of Angkor project including:

• A classical research project in the field
• Workshops dedicated to the reconstruction of missing Angkorian musical instruments
• A musical experimentation laboratory consisting of the Sounds of Angkor troupe based in Siem Reap
• Publications for the general public in French and English through different websites (SOUNDS OF ANGKOR, CHAPEI DANG VENG, BRONZE DRUMS), YouTube channels (TUK-TUK.TV, GEOZIK, lectures in Asia and Europe
• A music school based in Siem Reap specializing in the teaching of ancient musical instruments (harp, monochord zither, lute, flute …)
• Permanent exhibitions of rebuilt instruments at Theam's Gallery in Siem Reap and Golden Silk Pheach on the way to Banteay Srei temple.

Patrick Kersalé is also a musician and a solo harpist. If classic composers take time for reflection and inspiration to design a musical work, Patrick Kersalé draws inspiration from the world around him: place, objects, sounds, light ... but also and especially people with their personality, thoughts, emotions and, most importantly, the quality of their listening. He invites the public to generate positive ideas, thoughts of love which will feed his music and in return, feed thoughts and emotions.