My music is aired on Heart Of Space radio, check out the “Hybrids” program.
An extract of the presentation : « In music, hybrids (or fusions) result from thinking outside the box, creating new combinations of genres, styles and instruments. As you’ll hear on this transmission of Hearts of Space called HYBRIDS, the results are often surprising, satisfying and…vigorous. »
I’m very glad to see Life Unfolding’s music broadcasted this way, thank you very much 
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I’m now learning to tweet . The URL is : http://twitter.com/jazzcomputer.
I’m not sure I’ll tweet a lot these times because a new album is on its way, but I’ll tweet about the new tracks when they’ll become ready. Also, maybe will I keep in tune with all those modern things .
Any retweet is welcome .
Cheers, Y.
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 (including Roland D-50) ; 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 .
About the gear, the guitar I play the most is a Brian Moore 2.13 with Van
Zandt pickups, a piezzo for the acoustic guitar-like sounds, and a built-in MIDI interface for the synths. These synths are only VST running in a Cubase / MS-Windows bi-CPU computer with a RME Hammerfall Multiface II sound card. I also own a vintage Ovation Anniversary 84 model, and a Blade Levinson, Jazz Master model.
I use intensively Absynth and FM-8 from Native Instruments, among other synths and samplers, and I think that Spectrasonic’s Omnisphere will be widely used on the next album I’m working on for a couple of months. This album will be more ambient than the things I’ve made before, stay in touch to hear about it !
You may ask yourself why is the music on this site free ? Here’s an answer :
There’s no patent for using a minor scale, nor licence fees for playing the patterns Charlie Parker or Jimi Hendrix discovered and shared with the world. Nor in mathematics or physics should we pay for using a theorem or the formulation of a natural law. As such, our debt to the past and present musicians is immense, and when we write a musical piece, improvise on a set of chords or even mix down a couple of tracks with a personal home studio, we should remember that there’s no lonely creation, no inspiration cut apart from the rest of mankind, culture and history.
So, the music you will find on this web site can be freely listened to and shared with anyone ; it will be a pleasure and an honor for me to know that other people may enjoy tracks which needed hours and hours of late and lonely work, haunted by the present and the past of music. It would even be greater if someone would like this music enough to play it, and change it the way they like to, as everyone has always done in the jazz tradition or even in wider paths.
It would be great if you only could indicate that I made these tracks you may share, or wrote the theme you are playing. Yet, there is no right to sell, in any way, the music I offer here. Click here to consult the complete Creative Commons licence.
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