Jazzcomputer.org

I play guitar since I was 15, and I listened to a lot of music at this time : Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, and also the rock and roll of the Rolling Stones among many others. I’m proud of having bought albums such as Wish you were here, Going for the one or Klaus Shulze’s Mirage when they were released.

Jazz was for me like a revelation,  especially the fusion styles but I’ve learned to listen to other kinds of jazz, more ancient, especially John Coltrane and Miles Davis. After all those years, the first Chick Corea Elecktric Band remains one of the best groups I’ve ever heard and seen, with Scott Henderson playing guitar. Scott remains my major influence on improvising techniques. But how could I avoid to mention Frank Zappa, John Mc Laughlin, Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report among many others ?

I studied jazz at the CIM. Pierre Cullaz was my guitar teacher, and I had occasions to play with lots of musicians there, including the student’s salsa big band.

I’ve always been interested in computer science. During the eighties, I wrote the music you can hear on my first album, using an Atari ST with a couple of synths ; the spreading of the internet in the late nineties made me learn many things about networks and computers, especially using Linux.

During 2005, I’ve decided to plug my guitar again after a long break. Computers were yet powerful enough to make quite everything in electronic music ; the possibities offered by the Internet to release albums from home, without the hassle of searching for labels, marketing, and all that stuff, gave me a real new start.

So here am I, gathering what I like the most : tweaking synths and climates and melting the results with guitar improvisations, and hoping you to enjoy my albums .

Jazzcomputer.org’s albums have been downloaded more than 1000 times since November, 2010 (not including the listenings on the site) and the music have been broadcasted on these radios, at least : Hearts of Space, Sounds of Ambience, Lounging Sound, Syndae, Eldoradio, Elektroland, Stillstream
Interviews are available on Electronicmusicmall , Progarchives.com and check out Progarchives.com’s reviews.

About the gear, the guitar I play the most is a Blade Levinson Jazzmaster model, with a Roland MIDI converter. I also own a vintage Ovation Anniversary 84 model. Then, there are two MIDI keyboards, a foot controller and a Behringer mixing table for the synths : only VSTi running in a Cubase with a RME Hammerfall Multiface II sound card. I use intensively Absynth and Camel Audio Alchemy among other synths and samplers.

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