Sylvain Chauveau (born 1971) is an

instrumental music An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instr ...

and

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

artist and composer from

Bayonne, France Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine ...

Background

Sylvain Chauveau was born in

Bayonne Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine ...

, France (1971), and currently lives in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...

. He is a composer of minimalist music for acoustic instruments and electronics since 1998. He plays live worldwide. He has released solo records on Sub Rosa,

Fat Cat Fat cat is a political term originally describing a rich political donor, also called an angel or big-money man. '' The New York Times'' has described fat cats as symbols of "a deeply corrupt campaign finance system riddled with loopholes", w ...

, Flau, Creative Sources, Nature Bliss, and Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier. He has composed soundtracks for feature films, dance shows, and creates sound installations. Sylvain Chauveau is also a member of Ensemble 0 (with Stéphane Garin, Joël Merah and many more), of

avant-rock Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with ...

band

Arca ARCA or Arca may refer to: Companies * Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH, the German film production company of Gero Wecker * Arca Fondi SGR, Italian asset management company * Arca South, an industrial estate in the Philippines * ARCAspace, an aerospac ...

(with Joan Cambon).

Solo discography

Albums

Le Livre noir du capitalisme __NOTOC__ ''Le livre noir du Capitalisme'' (''The Black Book of Capitalism'') is a 1998 French book published in reaction to '' The Black Book of Communism'' (1997). Unlike the earlier work, ''Le livre noir du capitalismes primary goal is not to ...

" (Noise Museum, 2000, re-issue as "The Black Book of Capitalism", Type, 2008) *"Nocturne impalpable" (DSA, 2001, re-issue Minority Records, 2014) *"

Un Autre Décembre The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizin ...

" (130701/

, re-issue Minority Records, 2015) *"Des Plumes dans la tête" (DSA, 2004), original soundtrack (out of print) *"

Down to the bone Down most often refers to: * Down, the relative direction opposed to up * Down (gridiron football), in American/Canadian football, a period when one play takes place * Down feather, a soft bird feather used in bedding and clothing * Downland, a ty ...

" (DSA, 2005, re-issue Nature Bliss, 2007, re-issue Ici d'Ailleurs, 2015) *"S." (Type, 2007) *"

Nuage (album) Nuage (French for "cloud") may refer to: Music * "Nuages", a 1940 jazz piece by Django Reinhardt * ''Nuages (Live at Yoshi's, vol. 2)'', a 1997 album by Joe Pass * ''Nuage'', a 2007 album by Sylvain Chauveau * "Nuages", the first movement of ''No ...

" (Type, 2007), original soundtrack *"Touching Down Lightly" (Creative Sources, 2009) *"Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" (Type, 2010) *"Abstractions" (Flau, 2012) *"Simple (Rare and unreleased pieces 1998-2010)" (FatCat, 2012) *"Kogetsudai" (, 2013) *"How To Live In Small Spaces" (, 2015) *"Post-Everything" (, 2017) *"Pianisme" (Sub Rosa, 2019) *"Life Without Machines" (Flau, 2020) *"L'effet rebond" (Sub Rosa, 2022)

Collaborations

*ensemble 0 (Stéphane Garin / Sylvain Chauveau / Joël Merah and more) *Arca (Joan Cambon / Sylvain Chauveau)

References

Fat Cat Records
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External links

* French electronic musicians 1971 births Living people {{France-musician-stub