Sylvain Chauveau is a critically acclaimed instrumental music and electronic music

Electronic music

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 artist and composer from Bayonne, France.

Background

Sylvain Chauveau was born in Bayonne

Bayonne

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, France (1971), and now lives in Brussels

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, Belgium

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. Since 1998, he composes music for piano, strings, winds, voice and electronics.

He plays live worldwide.

He has released solo records on Type, FatCat, Creative Sources, Nature Bliss, and Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier.

He has composed soundtracks for feature films and original music for dance shows.

Sylvain Chauveau is also a member of the avant-rock band Arca (with Joan Cambon), of the collective 0 (with Stéphane Garin and Joël Merah), and of the improv duo On (with Steven Hess).

Albums

• "Le Livre noir du capitalisme" (Noise Museum, 2000, re-issue as "The Black Book of Capitalism", Type, 2008)

• "Nocturne impalpable" (DSA, 2001)

• "Un Autre Décembre" (130701/FatCat)

• "Des Plumes dans la tête" (DSA, 2004), original soundtrack (out of print)

• "Down to the bone
  Down to the Bone
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  " (DSA, 2005, re-issue Nature Bliss, 2007)

• "S." (Type, 2007)

• "Nuage (album)" (Type, 2007), original soundtrack

• "Touching Down Lightly" (Creative Sources, 2009)

• "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)" (Type, 2010)

Collaborations

• 0 (Stéphane Garin / Joël Merah / Sylvain Chauveau)

• Arca (Joan Cambon / Sylvain Chauveau / JP Isnardi / Woodey Peguilhan)

• On (Steven Hess / Sylvain Chauveau)