Ludovic Bource

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Ludovic Bource, 2012

Ludovic Bource [ ly.do.vik buʁs ] (born August 19, 1970 in Pontivy , Bretagne ) is a French composer and arranger , who is also known under the stage names Dr Crunkenstein and Planet Get Down as a member of the French rap ensemble Svinkels . For his score for the feature film The Artist (2011) he won the Oscar and the Golden Globe Award .

Life

Ludovic Bource first came into active contact with music at the age of eight when he started playing the accordion . Despite moderate success, he did not let himself be discouraged and with the help of private music lessons he appeared as a musician at various festivals, celebrations, weddings and events at the age of eleven. After learning the piano at the age of 13 , he began studying at the Saint-Brieux and Vanne music schools . At the age of 19 he attended the SIM Paris jazz school. A mutual friend introduced Bource to French director Michel Hazanavicius in 1995 , for whom he then composed the music for three commercials.

After Bource had created enough compositions for Hazanavicius OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Himself (together with Kamel Ech-Cheik ) and OSS 117 - He is himself, in the style of the music of the 1960s and 1970s , he received great international attention for the composition to Hazanavicius The Artist . In April 2010, Bource, who describes himself as an autodidact, read the first draft of the script. He researched the soundtrack and composition of the silent film era , especially with regard to sound, rhythm, tempo and microphone position during the recording. For the theme music, he was inspired by works by Johannes Brahms . He also imitated the style of well-known Hollywood film composers such as Bernard Herrmann , Hugo Friedhofer , Max Steiner and Franz Waxman as well as individual compositions by the actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin . He then wrote a film score that was recorded by an orchestra of 80 musicians, the Brussels Philharmonic .

Filmography (selection)

Discography (selection)

  • 1997: L'implosion (from Sept, piano)
  • 2000: Bois mes paroles (by the Svinkels , composition and mix)
  • 2002: L'Imprudence (by Alain Bashung , composition and various instruments)
  • 2003: Le svink c'est chic et 2 autres morceaux sur Bons pour l'asile (by the Svinkels , production)
  • 2008: Dirty Center (by the Svinkels , production, piano and other instruments)

Awards (selection)

Oscar

European film award

Golden Globe Award

British Academy Film Award

César

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edouard Brane: Une interview du compositeur Ludovic Bource.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: concertclassic.com , October 24, 2011, accessed on January 14, 2012 (French).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.concertclassic.com  
  2. ^ Sylvain Rivaud: OSS 117, c'est un peu de la musique de cirque, ça part dans tous les sens! In: cinezik.org , April 23, 2009, accessed January 14, 2012 (French).
  3. ↑ Official press booklet in: festival-cannes.com , accessed on January 1, 2012 (PDF; 4.9 MB, p. 53, English).
  4. ↑ Philippe Banel: Ludovic Bource, compositeur du film The Artist: Interview du 20 October 2011. In: tutti-magazine.fr , 20 October 2011, accessed on 14 January 2012 (French).
  5. ↑ Benoit Basirico: A propos de THE ARTIST. In: cinezik.org , May 19, 2011, accessed January 14, 2012 (French).
  6. ↑ Jim Fusilli: Ludovic Bource's soundtrack for "The Artist", Echoes from a Silent Era. In: wsj.com , The Wall Street Journal , December 13, 2011, accessed January 14, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Bource, Ludovic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontivy , Brittany , France