Briand, Olivier

After studying the piano, Olivier Briand discovers, at a very young age, synthesizers and is immediately fascinated by them. He 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". 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.