Music
Pierre Estève was born in 1961 in Cahors (Lot). Lives and works in Paris where he is settled since 1987. Sound artist, Composer, Sculptor, Poet and Adventurer, Pierre Estève investigates new fields of creation mixing arts, in particular music, natural elements and new technologies.
Award Winning of several musics compositions and the Innovation of the new technologies at the SATIS, Satisfecit price, he gives Master’s degree class and conferences in several Universities and at Ircam, on auto-generative music and sound design, interactivity and semantics of Sound.
Iconoclast composer with a classical music education (Conservatory and conductor), specialized in virtual orchestras and world instruments, Pierre Estève surpasses with each creation.
His own collection « MADe IN », produced by Shooting Star, turns around sound materials and elements. His re-interpretation of traditional instruments coming from all over the world, opens the door to new audio experiences. Pierre Esteve is always listening to what surrounds him and its novelties. Attracted from a young age by early computers, synthesizers and drum machines, re-discovered later by the techno generation, he was a pioneer in developing sound libraries for sampling in France.
After signing a contract with WEA as a singer, he becomes a very well known composer in featuring soundtracks for video games.
Each project is, for him, an occasion to explore new musical worlds: Techno hard trash for «VIRUS», Barbarian choirs for «DRAGON LORE 2», baroque and contemporaries’ music for 2nd World in «OBSCURA», Celtic mysteries for «ATLANTIS 1 – the lost tales», Chinese, Tibetan music for «ATLANTIS 2», electronic music for « ATLANTIS EVOLUTION – Beyond Atlantis», ritual and religious music for «DEO GRATIAS», as well as his numerous ethnic music for documentaries, are all ways for him to discover and to share.
He actually prepares the next albums of his MADe IN series : «FLOWERS OF CHANGE» and « STONE », for which he has enriched his fabulous collection of world instruments. He moreover prepares exceptional sounds, recorded in prehistoric caves on stalactites and stalagmites.
Art
Lives and works in Paris where he is settled since 1987. Sound artist, Composer, Sculptor, Poet and Adventurer, Pierre Estève investigates new fields of creation mixing arts, in particular music, natural elements and new technologies.
Graduated of The Sorbonne in Musicology and of the Academies of Avignon and Montpellier in Harmony, Fugue and Musical Analysis, Gold medallist in Chamber music and guitar, he has also completed a preparatory class in mathematics.
Award Winning of several musics composition and the Innovation of the new technologies at the SATIS, Satisfecit price, he gives Master’s degree class and conferences in several Universities and at Ircam, on auto-generative music and sound design, interactivity and semantics of Sound.
Invested in his time, as an artist, citizen and father, his participatory monumental art installations focus on the human relationship to nature in a disruptive context of globalization and exponential acceleration.
Invested in his time, as an artist, citizen and father, his participatory monumental art installations focus on the human relationship to nature in a disruptive context of globalization and exponential acceleration. He believes that new solutions and radical changes have to be found in our ways of life, to imagine new models of society and build a more resilient, ecological, intelligent and peaceful world.