Marc Siffert
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Marc Siffert After starting out as a rock bassist, he discovered the double bass at the age of 19 and won a Gold Medal at the Conservatoire National de Région de Montpellier 7 years later… then Conservatoire Supérieur de Genève, prize from the Charles Cros Academy… Endowed with this classical formation, he played with the Skokie Valley Orchestra of Chicago, among others, the Orchester National de France or even the Capitole but he will very quickly be attracted by contemporary creations and will mobilize his know-how for opera, theatre, dance, animated cinema… His musical approach tends towards a total exploitation of the resources of the double bass, in a game where the body and the material unite in the search for a sound. Refusing any label, any partitioning, he is also a creator of sound spatialization devices in real time and works on spectral explosion. Iconoclastic and subversive but always honest, he goes beyond the notion of style to favor that of intention…
