Biography
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Born
19 July 1969 (age 54)
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Born In
Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
David Fenech is a French composer, performer, and improviser. his works include acoustic, electronic, tape, and digital media, sound installations and film scores. born in july 1969 (at the same time men were walking on the moon), david had a guitar for his 10th birthday and never ceased making music since then.
after creating the musical collective peu importe in grenoble in 1991 (free improvisation and songs - many gigs in europe) his music has shifted to more personal and strange areas, mainly using voice as an instrument.
he released his first solo cd called grand huit, in 2000, on the now defunct tout l'univers label. the record is like a long movie for the ears, with 8 different clips. he then released a lp in duet with moka , called les vaches (cows) on romulus and remus.
as a soloist, david fenech plays guitar and ukulele as well as small instruments such as melodica, cavaquinho, toy piano and xylophone. as an improviser he played with musicians such as james plotkin (old, khanate), Felix Kubin, Tom Cora, gino robair, Ramona Cordova, Rhys Chatham, Jad Fair, Klimperei, James Plotkin (khanate), Shugo Tokumaru, Mr Quark, Toog, Dragibus, X-ray Pop, Daniel Palomo Vinuesa, Ghédalia Tazartès , Jac Berrocal.
he recorded concrete music at la muse en circuit with laurent sellier, at the coream studio with claude hermitte. contributed to many compilations on tape, cd, vynile or mp3 format.
he also wrote the score for tant de chiens , a short movie by stephane ricard produced by arte tv and la poudriere, and then they worked together on an interactive installation called eloise, based on the idea of a musical tamagotchi.
he also leads the demosaurus label (ghedalia tazartes, frank pahl , compilations with jad fair, yximaloo…) and has written articles and reviews in magazines such as revue et corrigee and chronicart. from 2004 to 2006 he wrote a daily audioblog that was read by thousands of readers per day and has been elected among the 50 best blogs by Les Inrockuptibles in 2006. he now focusses on recording his own music.
Sites: YouTube and http://DavidFenech.Fr/wp/
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