Olivier Briand (France) for Prog Electronic - Progressive Rock Music Forum

https://soundcloud.com/#olbriand:

"After studying the piano, Olivier Briand discovers, at a very young age, synthesizers and is immediately fascinated by them. He becomes an active member of a musical group "syntax error" (see on my photo album !) and thus realizes his first recordings.. After studying Economics, he decides to devote himself exclusively to music and tours with a street theater company "Oposito", thus learning stage work (he participates in shows performed in front of 10000 people). He then works in a recording studio ("Anamorphose") as a programmer, sound engineer and MIDI specialist. At the same time, he is commissioned by the French Ministry of Education to train teachers of music to musical data-processing. He also works with Philippe Brodu at "Studio Claviers", a shop specialised in high technology keyboards and computer music. This does not stop him writing and recording his own music (for the theatre, films, shows, videos and choregraphies, etc.) nor performing live indoors and outdoors (using lasers, slides, videos, digital pictures, special effects, fireworks,etc...). Since 1993, he has produced several CDs: "Au dela des nuages", "Patch Work Music", "Live 96", "Flibustieres", "Close Ecounters", the last in 2007 is "Intuitions", a work on piano solo which you can listen to on the Ipod. His music uses all the classical styles common to the "Berlin School" (instrumental electronic music) while merging very diverse influences scaling from Pink Floyd to African Pigmees and from Mozart to Klaus Schulze.The use of instruments of different origins and periods allows for the exploration of varied and constantly renewed sound fields. His next CD is in production for 2009, with the use of a great collection of modulars synthezisers..."

A few more tubes:

Olivier Briand Live in solo with only synths and samplers, extracts from Fleuriaye concert (near Nantes in France) with lights...1996...

Improvisation with analog synths:

Extract from the 2012 DVD "Rêves et cauchemars" live (available exclusively from www.pwm-distrib.com)

Trailer from the same DVD:

All Olivier's music can be bought from http://pwm-distrib.com/shop/fr/3__olivier-briand, and there are eight CDs and a DVD in total...

Lots of music appears to have been created by this guy, but samples on line are rather limited to say the least.

Seems like he's gonna be a dead cert for PE, but we need more stuff to listen to really...

Edited by yam yam - March 08 2013 at 11:46

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Svetonio Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213	Topic: Olivier Briand (France) for Prog Electronic Posted: March 08 2013 at 02:27
	http://www.last.fm/music/Olivier+Briand http://www.myspace.com/olivier_briand Edited by Svetonio - March 08 2013 at 02:32

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: March 08 2013 at 11:41
	https://soundcloud.com/#olbriand: "After studying the piano, Olivier Briand discovers, at a very young age, synthesizers and is immediately fascinated by them. He becomes an active member of a musical group "syntax error" (see on my photo album !) and thus realizes his first recordings.. After studying Economics, he decides to devote himself exclusively to music and tours with a street theater company "Oposito", thus learning stage work (he participates in shows performed in front of 10000 people). He then works in a recording studio ("Anamorphose") as a programmer, sound engineer and MIDI specialist. At the same time, he is commissioned by the French Ministry of Education to train teachers of music to musical data-processing. He also works with Philippe Brodu at "Studio Claviers", a shop specialised in high technology keyboards and computer music. This does not stop him writing and recording his own music (for the theatre, films, shows, videos and choregraphies, etc.) nor performing live indoors and outdoors (using lasers, slides, videos, digital pictures, special effects, fireworks,etc...). Since 1993, he has produced several CDs: "Au dela des nuages", "Patch Work Music", "Live 96", "Flibustieres", "Close Ecounters", the last in 2007 is "Intuitions", a work on piano solo which you can listen to on the Ipod. His music uses all the classical styles common to the "Berlin School" (instrumental electronic music) while merging very diverse influences scaling from Pink Floyd to African Pigmees and from Mozart to Klaus Schulze.The use of instruments of different origins and periods allows for the exploration of varied and constantly renewed sound fields. His next CD is in production for 2009, with the use of a great collection of modulars synthezisers..." A few more tubes: Olivier Briand Live in solo with only synths and samplers, extracts from Fleuriaye concert (near Nantes in France) with lights...1996... Improvisation with analog synths: Extract from the 2012 DVD "Rêves et cauchemars" live (available exclusively from www.pwm-distrib.com) Trailer from the same DVD: All Olivier's music can be bought from http://pwm-distrib.com/shop/fr/3__olivier-briand, and there are eight CDs and a DVD in total... Lots of music appears to have been created by this guy, but samples on line are rather limited to say the least. Seems like he's gonna be a dead cert for PE, but we need more stuff to listen to really... Edited by yam yam - March 08 2013 at 11:46

Sheavy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 28 2010 Location: Alabama Status: Offline Points: 2855	Posted: March 09 2013 at 13:00
	I'll bring to Philippe.