Christine Ott (born 10 August 1963) is a French pianist, vocalist, ondist, and composer. She was a member of

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's band for eight years and played in classical orchestras for ten. She has collaborated with

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, Syd Matters, and Jean-Philippe Goude. Ott has released four solo albums: '' Solitude Nomade'' in 2009, '' Only Silence Remains'' in 2016, '' Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)'' in 2020 and '' Time to Die'' in 2021. She also composed the soundtrack for F. W. Murnau's ''Tabu'' in 2016. She has created several live soundtracks shows, including for

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's movies and Robert J. Flaherty's ''

Nanook of the North ''Nanook of the North'' is a 1922 American silent film that combines elements of documentary and docudrama/docufiction, at a time when the concept of separating films into documentary and drama did not yet exist. In the tradition of what would ...

''. Ott formed the duo Snowdrops with Mathieu Gabry in 2015. Together, they composed the original score for ''

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'', by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, and in 2020, they released the album ''Volutes'', on Injazero Records. ''

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'' selected the release among its ten best contemporary discs of 2020, writing, "what's remarkable is how radically different Christine Ott manages to make the ondes sound on each track: from a primeval, guttural sound on the 13-minute Odysseus to a chirruping boy soprano on Ultraviolet."

Discography

Solo works

* 2009 '' Solitude Nomade'' * 2016 '' Only Silence Remains'' * 2016 ''Tabu'' * 2020 '' Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot)'' * 2021 '' Time to Die''

''Snowdrops''

* 2020 ''Volutes'' * 2021 ''Inner Fires''

As guest or session musician

* 2004 ''Tout sera comme avant'' by

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* 2004 ''Contre le centre'' by Mobiil * 2005 ''Le point de coté'' by Dominique Petitgand * 2005 ''Plays the Residents'' by Narcophony * 2005 ''Fragile'' by Têtes Raides * 2008 ''Aux solitudes'' by Jean-Philippe Goude * 2008 ''Ghost Days'' by Syd Matters * 2008 ''A l'attaque'' by Loïc Lantoine * 2008 ''

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'' by Julien Doré * 2009 ''The dark age of love'' by This Immortal Coil * 2011 ''613'' by Chapelier Fou * 2011 ''Tels Alain Bashung, Aucun express'' (

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) * 2012 ''Everything was story'' by Raphelson * 2013 ''Ghost Surfer'' by Cascadeur * 2016 ''Unworks & Rarities'' by Oiseaux-Tempête * 2017 ''Earth'' by Foudre! (side-project of Mondkopf, Saåad & Frédéric D. Oberland) with Yann Tiersen * 2001 L'Absente * 2001 '' Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain'' by

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* 2002 ''

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'' * 2005 '' Les retrouvailles'' * 2006 '' On Tour'' * 2008 '' Tabarly'' / Pierre Marcel

Soundtracks

Personal works

* 2011 ''La fin du silence'' by Roland Edzard * 2016 ''Minute Bodies'' by Stuart Staples, Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott * 2018 Manta Ray (film) by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, with ''Snowdrops''

Collaborations

* 2001 ''Swing'' / Tony Gatlif * 2008 ''35 rhums'' /

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by Tindersticks * 2010 ''Les Salauds'' by Tindersticks * 2011 Claire Denis Film Scores by Tindersticks * 2011 ''Ou va la nuit'' / Martin Provost by Hughes Tabar-Noval

Ciné-concerts and performances

* 2012 '' Tabu'' * 2013 ''

'' * 2013 ''24h of a Woman's Life'' with Michel Druez * 2014 ''Stories & Légends'' by

; "Lotte, mon amour" * 2016 ''Iranian Tales'' (with Snowdrops)

Classical music

* 1995 Les trois petites liturgies de la présence divine * 1997 Les Adieux by Marcel Landowski * 1998 il Mantello, opéra by Luciano Chailly * 1999 Ecuatorial by

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* 2013 Les Innatendus III (Ed Mickaël, Nocturne; André Jolivet, Suite Delphique;

Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss-French composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Honegger was a member of Les Six. For Halbreich, '' Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher'' is "more even ...

, Symphonie n°2 pour orchestre à cordes)

Videography

* 2005 Live with

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* 2006 On Tour, Yann Tiersen * 2010 Carte blanche to Christine Ott, Neuilly Theater

References

External links

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