LAURENT DAILLEAU

Trained as a classical organ player, LAURENT DAILLEAU (born 1959) 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). 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 for 23five, he organized 33 RPM/ Ten Hours of Sound from France at the SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

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