Frederick Rousseau

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Frederick Rousseau (born April 8, 1958 in Paris ) is a French musician, arranger , sound engineer and music producer in the field of electronic music . He worked with well-known musicians such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis .

Career

Collaboration with Jean Michel Jarre

Rousseau was born in Paris. As a teenager, he tried different instruments and finally decided on keyboards . From around 1980 he worked as a demonstrator in Musicland in Paris. There he met Jean Michel Jarre know the first polyphonic was initially to develop sequencer involved and accompanied Jarre after 1981 to the China - tour , where they performed in front of up to 60,000 spectators. Jarre released the concert recordings in 1982 as the live album The Concerts in China . When recording Jarre's 1984 album Zoolook , Rousseau played some of the keyboards and was responsible for programming the Fairlight CMI . However , Rousseau turned down the offer to work on the follow-up album Rendez-vous .

The two musicians only met again in 1990, when Rousseau took part on July 14, 1990 as accompanist for Jarre at his concert Paris La Défense - Une Ville En Concert . With over 2 million viewers, the event achieved an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

Collaboration with Vangelis

Rousseau had known Vangelis since 1980. When Vangelis was doing sound recordings in the Paris branch of Nemo Studios, he would order the necessary electronic instruments from Musicland , and Rousseau, as an employee, would deliver them to him in the studio. This loose contact led to Vangelis recording his album The City in Rousseau's studio Mega in 1990 . After that, Rousseau worked regularly with and for Vangelis, usually five to six months a year. In the nearly 20 years that followed, Rousseau was involved in every album project as an accompanist, sound engineer or co-producer. He worked on the film scores for The Plague , Bitter Moon , 1492 - The Conquest of Paradise and Blade Runner .

Solo career

The first self-release dates back to 1982, when Rousseau and Francis Rimbert recorded the album April Orchestra Vol. 48 (Présente FR2) via CBS as part of the April Orchestra series . Both knew each other from working with Jean Michel Jarre. Another album followed in the series in 1985 under the title April Orchestra Vol. 61 Présente Earth , which only contained compositions by Rousseau. In 1987 he set up the Studio Mega recording studio in Paris together with Thierry Rogen . There he also recorded the album Overview , which was released in 1987. The Illustrator series was also created in Studio Mega. Numerous well-known French artists have also recorded albums in Studio Mega, including Mylène Farmer , Jean-Louis Murat , Indochine and Jean Louis Aubert . In 1992, Rousseau decided to close the studio and only record his own works.

His solo albums were characterized by the combination of electronic music with traditional non-European music. In 1997 he adapted Japanese folklore to Mô and African rhythms to Woods , but without being committed to ethno-pop . Numerous other projects followed, including two contributions to the Oxygène series by the French label Origin (1997) and the five-part series Terres De Légends (2000). In addition to music, Rousseau is also interested in computer animation .

Rousseau has been working for IRCAM since the late 2000s . His first task was to develop the technical inventory. He currently works for the department that is responsible for the connection between IRCAM and the music industry.

Discography

Only solo releases are listed.

  • 1982: April Orchestra Vol. 48 (Présente FR2)
  • 1985: April Orchestra Vol. 61 Présente Earth
  • 1987: Overview
  • 1988: Illustrator IV
  • 1990: Illustrator V
  • 1992: Illustrator VI
  • 1995: Spirit In the Woods
  • 1997: Mô
  • 1997: Woods
  • 1997: Abyss
  • 1997: Oxygène 3: Le Sous-Bois (Musique Et Chuchotements)
  • 1997: Oxygène 6: La Forêt (Musique Et Sérénité)
  • 2000: Terres De Légends ( Pentalogy )
  • 2002: Travels
  • 2005: Tears

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Dennis Lodewijks: Exclusive Interview: Frederick Rousseau. In: elsew.com. July 16, 1998, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c David Davies: Frederick Rousseau: born to synthesize. In: PSNEurope. March 18, 2011, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  3. ^ Frédéric Rousseau - April Orchestra Vol. 61 Présente Earth at Discogs
  4. ↑ Frederick Rousseau - Overview at Discogs
  5. ↑ Research / Creation Interfaces department. (No longer available online.) IRCAM, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; accessed on February 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ircam.fr
personal data
SURNAME Rousseau, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French techno musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris