Ludovic Bource

Ludovic Bource ( ly.do.vik buʁs; born August 19, 1970) is a French composer and arranger, who is also known by the stage name Dr. Crunkenstein and Planet Get Down as a member of the French rap ensemble " Svinkels ". For his film music for the feature film The Artist (2011), he won the Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Life

For the first time active with the music came into contact Ludovic Bource at the age of eight, when he began playing the accordion. Despite moderate success, he was not discouraged, and with the help of private music lessons, he performed at the age of eleven years at various festivals, parties, weddings and events as musicians. After he had learned the piano at age 13, he began at the music schools of Saint- Brieux and Vanne study. At age 19, he attended the Paris Jazz Academy SIM. Through a mutual friend, the French director Michel Hazanavicius Bource was introduced in 1995, for which he then composed the music for three commercials.

After Bource for OSS 117 Hazanavicius - The spy who loved himself (along with Kamel Ech- Cheik ) and OSS 117 - He himself is enough compositions in the styles of music of the 1960s and 1970s had created, he received international attention for the composition Hazanavicius on The Artist. In April 2010, las Bource, who describes himself as an autodidact, the first draft of the script. He researched on the film music and composition of the silent film era, especially as sound, rhythm, tempo and microphone position during the recording was concerned. The theme music was inspired by works of Johannes Brahms. Furthermore, he imitated the style known Hollywood film composers as Bernard Herrmann, Hugo Friedhofer, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman and individual compositions of the actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin. Then he wrote a soundtrack that a comprehensive 80 musicians orchestra, which grossed Brussels Philharmonic.