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Laurent DAILLEAU
is the sole French virtuoso of the Theremin, active
on the international scenes of electroacoustic and
improvised music in festivals like Musique Action,
with releases on Sonoris, 33revpermi, 23five.
Trained as a classical organ player, he started playing theremin in the nineties. Performing on a theremin/laptop computer system, he works with composers interested by the instrument (Kasper T. TOEPLITZ, Christophe HAVEL, Atau TANAKA, Todor TODOROFF, Stevie WISHART, Francis FABER, Riccardo NOVA, Phil VON, Giuliano d’ANGIOLINI...). He has composed several musics for the theater, and worked with french choreographer Michel Schweizer in the late eighties. Two of his works were commissionned by the french ministry of culture (the most recent being a piece for orchestra premiered in 2000). |
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| He is a member of Art Zoyd (since 2001)
and a guest musician with contemporary music ensemble
Proxima Centauri. He often performs solo, and works on
a regular basis with other performers [his latest
project being S.S.S/ Sensors_Sonics_Sights with
Cécile BABIOLE (video/sensors) and
Atau
TANAKA (BioMuse, computer)]. He recorded
several cds in the last few years, among them his first
solo album, "supersternal notch" (Sonoris, 2001). In
2003, as guest curator, he organized "33 RPM/ Ten Hours
of Sound from France" at the SFMOMA (San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art).
Laurent DAILLEAU homepage |
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