The Louvre invited me to compose music for masterpieces in the permanent collection and to play them live, in the museum, in front of each painting. The performance takes the form of a guided tour where I wander from painting to painting with my electronic music instruments on a workbench with wheels.

At each stop, I invite the group of visitors who follow me to immerse themselves in
each work while listening to the music. My intention behind each composition: to bring the image to life with my own emotional perception of the work. Often, the time of observation prolonged by the the duration of the music allows to imagine a story. Sometimes, this new musical dimension gives the illusion that elements of the image are moving...

The music adds a notion of duration while the image is frozen. This parallel offers a new sensory and unusual way to discover the museum and its wonders.

Nocturne Insolite au Louvre is the EP that includes the compositions that were performed during these guided tours. 

Released on Yotanka Records
Mixin & Mastering by Antoine Thibaudeau

"Nocturne Insolite au Louvre" EP

"Rivière", from my upcoming EP "Nocturne Insolite au Louvre" the track is up on all platforms.

This track is the result of an ongoing performance at the Louvre in Paris. The museum invited me me to create a musical guided tour for six great paintings in their permanent exhibition.

I composed one music track per painting, with the intention to make the paintings come alive through sounds, like a story, based on my own perception of the images. I am really happy with the result and it was great just letting my inspiration flow looking at the artwork.

Released on Yotanka Records on May 9th, 2023
Mix and mastering: Antoine Thibaudeau
Cover artwork: Anna Butynski

Rivière

The Louvre invited me to compose music for masterpieces in the permanent collection and to play them live, in the museum, in front of each painting. The performance takes the form of a guided tour where I wander from painting to painting with my electronic music instruments on a workbench with wheels.

At each stop, I invite the group of visitors who follow me to immerse themselves in
each work while listening to the music. My intention behind each composition: to bring the image to life with my own emotional perception of the work. Often, the time of observation prolonged by the the duration of the music allows to imagine a story. Sometimes, this new musical dimension gives the illusion that elements of the image are moving...

The music adds a notion of duration while the image is frozen. This parallel offers a new sensory and unusual way to discover the museum and its wonders.

Nocturne Insolite au Louvre is the EP that includes the compositions that were performed during these guided tours.

Released on Yotanka Records
Mixin & Mastering by Antoine Thibaudeau

Portrait Équestre

Effet d'Hiver

Deux Princesses

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Management: music[at]yotanka.net

Imagine a style of electronic music that’s perfect for dancing in a dark club or lazing on a sunny beach, and you have imagined Birrd’s debut album, with its cosmic harmonies and reconstructed real-world sounds that combine to form a highly personal and deeply melodic version of machine music. 

Curiosity—a distinct approach to life—gives birth to new forms of expression, which in turn create new desires. In the case of 30-year-old Stefan Vogel, alias Birrd (the Anglicized version of his German surname), curiosity has fostered soaring discovery. With the covid lockdowns came the ideal opportunity to devote himself to his passion: melodic electronic music that is at once laid back and dreamy, but with swing, evoking such disparate scenes as the Corsican coast and the New York skyline, which are among the numerous inspirations for this Franco-Italian-American artist. 

Birrd has travel coursing through his veins, hence his ongoing desire to seek out new horizons. Nothing, however, predestined him to be a composer of emotional, energetic techno. His childhood beginnings on piano and recorder evolved into an adolescent infatuation with guitar and keyboard blues and playing in a band. When the band split up he turned to composing with machines, starting from simple motifs to create beautiful sounds. Having shed his initial belief that electronic music necessarily had to be brutal and loud, he incorporated the influences that have colored his music ever since, including Pink Floyd’s guitars, Worakls, NTO, Joris Delacroix, Rodriguez Jr.’s synthesizers, and Stephan Bodzin’s melancholy. 

Four years spent in Munich exposed him to the local techno scene and confirmed his true love: melodies, harmonic progressions, the combination of the epic and the sensitive, where the urge to dance is just one of several possible reactions.  

Birrd is a paradoxical personality, a traveler tethered to his base in Rouen, a composer of electronic music that is just as much at ease in a grand hall as in one’s living room, flirting with techno but without the bleakness, more synth than turntables. When not producing music for commercial advertisements or meditation apps, he is hard at work blending various facets of a previously distant culture. He codes his MIDI controller, staying clear of factory presets and nurturing his own sonorities comprising everything from the surf on a beach to a bicycle shifting gears. Through harmonic loops, from clear techno roots to inspiring melodies, Birrd eloquently conveys his passion.