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| 2005/2004 |
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Various collaborative projects keep coming with less or more success in the ending. Brickfilming becoming hype, I got the honnor of a French arty TV program by Xmas 2004. With the buying of several orchestral libraries, I accomplish an old dream : compose and arrange for orchestra. How hard it is ! Bassist in band called "Chevrolet" , we've reached a very serious level in blues/rock covers. Some concerts done and coming. I'm beginning to be a "genuine" bass player ! I'm writing new songs that I've difficulties to finish. Never satisfied. |
| 2003 |
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Release of Nowhere In Space episode 1, animation movie so long to achieve.
Immediate success and reached a good place in the brickfilms charts, mostly for the soundtrack. Collaborative work on a amateur animation project with american & canadian director. In charge of all the audio side : music soundtrack, mixing, Foley work, authoring... However the project left because of the lack of time. My band seems to have new colors. Very hard year on the personal side. |
| 2002/2001 |
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"Via Gras" is no more effective, the band has paused
after several dismissions / admissions. Not easy to find
motivated & disposable musicians ! Written new songs, but many of them have ended in the junk ! These two years were not so effective mainly due to difficulties to have a solid setup, reliable & easy to use... Meanwhile, my studio has kept expanding to new devices : microphones, analog synth, and several guitars. I'm also going in the video domain and starts to think of several sceneries. |
| 2000 |
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2000 had been a quite productive year with at least 3 songs ! Due to personnal conflicts, I've left the music association where I was guitarist / front-end mixer. Otherwise, many meetings with interesting people. Studio is going into digital with the buying of a digital console & audio card. |
| 1999 |
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Founding member of Via Gras, a pop/rock cover band, with musicians
full of energy, some shows done in bars with a hot hot hot audience. Some songs written, a fairly amount of them going straightly in the recycle bin ! First steps as a bass player and singer, new Korg synth bought. |
| 1998 |
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Discovering the ECSVT
on the net, an association of amateur composers who
uses Steinberg's Cubase VST software. Active collaboration on the first projects. The association has a small stand, hosted by Steinberg, at the French music fest where one of my compositions does a big impression ! Buying of my first "real" guitar : a Fender Stratocaster US of course. |
| 1997/1996 |
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Still student in Mech. Engineering, I have quite good time, but no gear and no
money at all. First steps on Cubase PC sequencer. Participation to the creation of a numeric studio in my university (Allen & Heath GS3, Genelec 1029A, Creamware solution) and concerts recordings. I'm often return engineer. In 1997, lighting supervisor for a student acclaimed musical "Little Shop of Horror" and technical director of an international student theater festival (FESTUPIC). Failed some exams due to these activities... In 1996, lighting assistant in this festival and props/sets assistant of the "Rocky Picture Show", first attempt at a student comedy in the university. |
| 1995 |
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Animator at a student radio called
Graf'Hit. The program is "Oxygène", and the aim is to diffuse music that is hardly heard on
commercial radios : ethnic, early electro, medieval, lost OST,... Very interesting but very time-consuming too ! Keyboardist in a rythm'n'blues cover band called "Schmoll", many great show with sometimes more than 10 musicians on stage! Discovery of Pro24 and soon Cubase on ATARI computer. |
| 1994 |
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Keyboardist in a band called "Bubble Blue", dedicated to pop/rock covers. Many concerts, and a status of "pseudo-idols" in our university...at least for the singer and the guitarist ! |
| Teenage |
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Leaved piano and music theory (incompatible with schoolwork). Learned guitar and first band soon after called "Haute Tension" and doing some crappy covers of French alternative rock - i.e. Punk. First polyphonic synth bought, along with a basic sequencer soft called Trax. Early electronica pieces recorded in summer, ending to the making of a lame one-copy pseudo album with the worst inlet ever ! |
| Childhood |
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Learn music stheory at 7. Learn piano at 8. First big music impressions in these years when hearing Beethoven, Jarre, Vangelis, Morricone and watching anime mangas on the TV. First synth at 11 (Roland SH101 w/ Japanese manual...). First "songs" on a sequencer running on an Amstrad computer. 8 bits rules ! |
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