Who I am

Past

Present

What are my musical influences?

What I play on

Future...

WHO I AM:

A composer, born in 1965, and working mainly for computer games since 1987.

A guy fascinated by all kinds of altered-state-of-consciousness-music, mainly shamanic ritual music, and techno-trance, but also some sacred music and some meditative "new-age" music.

A humain being, co-renter of this nice planet, like you...

WHAT I DID:

In the last 4 years, apart from my normal life, i've done for CRYO the soundtracks of the following games:

• RIVERWORLD  (Cryo) PC NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO CD
• ATLANTIS  (Cryo) PC NOW AVAILABLE ON DOUBLE AUDIO CD
• LOST EDEN   (Virgin Games) PC, 3do, CDI, Macintosh, NOW AVAILABLE ON AUDIO CD
• DRAGON LORE (Mindscape) PC, 3do
  • DRAGON LORE GOLD This special U.S. version features more than 14 new tunes, and hundreds of new sounds.
• COMMANDER BLOOD (Mindscape/microfolies) PC
• MEGARACE (Mindscape) PC, 3do,
• KGB (Virgin Games) PC, Amiga (.mod conversion by Alex Abekian)
• DUNE (Virgin Games) PC, Amiga (.mod conversion by Alex Abekian)
  • An audio CD was available at Virgin Records, entitled "EXXOS, DUNE, Spice opéra" ref: CDVE 911 or : 263 059 PM 257

  In the prehistoric times, I did also the soundtracks for the following games:  

• EXTASE PC, Amiga, Atari ST (no music on Atari version!)
• JUMPING JACK SON (infogrames) Amiga
• MURDERS IN SPACE (hitech) Atari ST
• FULL METAL PLANET (hitech)Atari ST
• KULT (Ere informatique) Amiga, Atari ST
• PURPLE SATURN DAY (Ere informatique) Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad
• TEENAGE QUEEN (Ere informatique) Amiga Atari ST
• BUBBLE GHOST Amiga

And many others wich are slowly going into collective oblivion  (nobody will complain...)

also:

Multi Media Music: Thanks to my friend PIERRE ESTEVE, Multi Media Music releases sountracks of interactive games on audio CD, not only our own music, but all good soundtracks we can publish in partnership with many game companies. Click  here to visit.

For my pleasure only, I've also done some techno-transe music, many tunes never released. Some of them are in my

WHAT I DO NOW: (October 1998)

I'm now living in the beautiful island of Madagascar, trying to forget everything about computers and games, and having a completely different life. Ten years doing the same job is a very long time, and I think one must change sometimes. I don't know how much time I will stay, maybe I will be back in some months or some years, carrying new musical influences, who knows?

 

WHAT ARE MY MUSICAL INFLUENCES?

I listen to different kind of music

• MIDDLE-EAST music
• AFRICAN music
• INDIAN music
• BALINESE music
• RITUAL, SACRED, HOLY, SHAMANIC music of the whole world.
• The good AMBIENT (if it's music)
• The good JUNGLE / TRIP-HOP (one find some weird stuff under this denomination)
• The good TECHNO-TRANSE (there is not so much...)
• The good NEW-AGE (there is even less!)
• Classical music
• sometimes I listen also some progressive rock, heavy metal, trash, blues.

It includes, alphabetically sorted:

• ASTRAL PROJECTION
• BLACK SABBATH
• BJÖRK
• BRIAN ENO
• DAVID HYKES
• DEAD CAN DANCE
• DEPECHE MODE
• ENNIO MORRICONE
• ENYA
• EMIR KUSTURICA
• ERIC SATIE
• FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON
• GONG
• HALLUCINOGEN
• JOHN BARRY
• KATE BUSH
• KING KRIMSON (the eighties series)
• KRAFTWERK
• MAGMA
• MALICORNE
• MEAT BEAT
• MIKE OLDFIELD (some)
• MINISTRY
• MOZART
• NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN
• PETER GABRIEL (mostly Passion)
• PHILIP GLASS
• PIERRE HENRI
• PINK FLOYD
• SHYLOCK (I'm sure you don't know this one!)
• STEVE ROACH
• STRAVINSKY
• TANGERINE DREAM
• TALK TALK ("Spirit of Eden" is great!)
• THE ORB
• TRANS-GLOBAL UNDERGROUND
• VIVALDI
• WIM WERTENS
• YES

If you feel shocked to see some of your favorites names/bands near others wich seems weird to you, remember that there are musics for every moment of the day multiplied by the number of differents emotions you could feel, multiplied by the number of seasons, multiplied by the number of places you can listen music...

Even if I like techno-transe, it would never comes to my mind to listen it on a beautiful beach in south of India...

WHAT STUFF I USED TO DO MY MUSIC:

If you feel some interest about it, here is my gear list...

• Kawai K4
• Korg WS (Only for the DUNE CD)
• Yamaha SY77 (Only for the DUNE CD)
• Roland D70
• Roland S750 18 Mb.
• Novation Bass-Station
• E-mu Morpheus
• Yamaha TX-81Z
• Vocoder Roland SVC 350
• Midi-ized EMS synthi-A (with the 1973's AKS digital sequencer, still working! )
• Pentium 150 32Mb/5Gb storage+ Steinberg Cubase+Session+many appz...
• Digidesign Audiomedia III
• Creative labs AWE32
• Mackie CR 1604 mixer
• Roland A-880 midi patcher
• Lexicon LXP-5
• Boss SE-50
• Berhinger Ultrafex II
• Dozens of acoustic things without headphones plugs, but in the forest or on the seashore, it's more handy:
  • Djembes
  • Darbookas
  • Double stone-flute
  • Ocarinas
  • Quena
  • Flutes
  • Sanzas
  • Didgeridoo
  • Guimbards
  • Tibetan bowls
  • My voice

WHAT I'M GOING TO DO :

(October 1998)

 

If someone has a suggestion, or has some skills in reading in the future, let me know !     ;^)

 

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