Eryck Abecassis
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Eryck Abecassis is a composer, musician and an electric guitar player. He composes and plays a wide range of music including orchestral to chamber music, electronic, theater, street theater, and cinema.
He moved to Paris in 1976 to study Cinema, and also worked as a photographer. In 1979 he decided to concentrate on music.
He started doing workshops on instrumental research at the IRCAM
(Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination) in Paris. (where he also did a Computer Music Course)
He has been commissioned to compose music for Radio-France, Gmem, Ina-Grm, Grame, French government. His music has been played in International music festivals of "Présences", "Les musiques-Marseille", "Musiques en scène-Lyon","Amplitude- festival Denmark","Computer art festival - Padova " and some others.
As an electronic musician he travels in many countries like Spain, Brasil, Germany, Austria, England, Sweden, South Korea, Italy... Digging his style now at the edges of contemporary and electronic "noise music", with a large use of the computer, both in writing process and like a musical instrument.
He has composed music scores for film and documentaries, like Hava Aney Dey
directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
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He moved to Paris in 1976 to study Cinema, and also worked as a photographer. In 1979 he decided to concentrate on music.
He started doing workshops on instrumental research at the IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
(Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination) in Paris. (where he also did a Computer Music Course)
He has been commissioned to compose music for Radio-France, Gmem, Ina-Grm, Grame, French government. His music has been played in International music festivals of "Présences", "Les musiques-Marseille", "Musiques en scène-Lyon","Amplitude- festival Denmark","Computer art festival - Padova " and some others.
As an electronic musician he travels in many countries like Spain, Brasil, Germany, Austria, England, Sweden, South Korea, Italy... Digging his style now at the edges of contemporary and electronic "noise music", with a large use of the computer, both in writing process and like a musical instrument.
He has composed music scores for film and documentaries, like Hava Aney Dey
Hava Aney Dey
Fiction Feature Film / 93 mins / 35mm / Hindi stl-English / French / German / 2004Hava Aney Dey was shot on location, in the northern suburbs of Mumbai - India, in October – November 2003 with a mixed crew composed of French & Indian technicians...
directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta is an independent film director and screenwriter of Indian origin.-Biography:Born in Mumbai , on 2 September 1965...
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Stage
- Saved (incidental music, play by Edward Bond), 1984
- Les carnets de Junko, 5 comedians, cello, marimba, 1989
- Rois de cœur (dance music, choreography by Dominique Petit), 1991
- Bâtisseurs (incidental music), soprano, tenor, 1992
- récif (street theatre show), 1998;
- Cosmogonia (spectacle), 1998;
- La cage (pocket opera, libretto by Christophe Tarkos), mezzo-soprano, comedian, any 6 players, 1999 (collaboration with Thierry Aué);
- Passages (spectacle), 2002;
- Tempête (street theatre show), 2003;
- Le monde à l'envers (street theatre show), 2005