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Eric La Casa

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Biography

1968: Born in Tours, France.

1987-91: Studied history of art (University of La Sorbonne, Paris).

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1988: Starting sound experiments.

Since 1991: Sound artist.

(award: Festival "Soundscape before 2000")

- tape music composer

A research based on the landscape, its sound substances, its inner language, within a sensitive listening of the world.

[7 solo CDs, many CDs compilations : Japan, Germany, Taiwan, usa…]

+ Previous releases CD:

L'empreinte de l'ivresse (Digital Narcis Ltd, Japan), The Stone of the Threshold (The Ground Fault, Usa).

+ New CD (October 2000): Les Pierres du seuil part 4-7.

- "sound plastician"

(sound environments and installations: Clepsydre, Chute, mi-lieu…)

A research dedicated to the concept: the place - the sound/one place - one work.

- radio producer

(sound essays for the national radio program ACR-France Culture)

New work: Vent sur Ecoute (dedicated to the wind).

Work in progress: Ward Weis (a portrait of this sound artist).

Since 1996: Journalist for the french magazine of new musics: Revue et Corrigée.

Interviews with Pierre Marietan, Claude Schryer, Eric Cordier, Yann Paranthoën, Cédric Peyronnet, René Farabet, Slavek Kwi, Jocelyn Robert, Jean-Luc Guionnet,…

1989-1998: Director of La Légende des voix (label of experimental music).

10 releases (Arsenije Jovanovic, Jim O'Rourke, Syllyk, …)

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