JAMES EVENT LIBRARY - DR. FRANÇOIS EVANS
BMus (Hons) (Ulst), CCIM (IRCAM, Paris), PhD (City, Lond), FISM, MRSM, MMPG, FRSA
Dr François Evans is a classically-trained composer, music producer, conductor and multi-award-winning university associate professor, with over thirty years’ teaching and music production experience. He has composed, conducted and produced many feature film scores, including the soundtrack to Edgar Wright’s first movie.
In 2013, in an abandoned nursery school in West France, he set up the Laboratoire Musical Phonoscopique (La.M.P.), a hybrid analogue/digital vintage recording studio, sporting a rare collection of vintage synthesisers. There he is currently completing work on his first album of pop ballads, under the name 'After Magritte'. He is a member of the new duo 'Buggy Park'. La.M.P is registered with the Association of Independent Music, UK.
In 2013, in an abandoned nursery school in West France, he set up the Laboratoire Musical Phonoscopique (La.M.P.), a hybrid analogue/digital vintage recording studio, sporting a rare collection of vintage synthesisers. There he is currently completing work on his first album of pop ballads, under the name 'After Magritte'. He is a member of the new duo 'Buggy Park'. La.M.P is registered with the Association of Independent Music, UK.
Training at the prestigious Institute for Research & Co-ordination in Acoustics & Music (IRCAM) in Paris has enabled him to integrate ‘spectral’ studio composition techniques into his music. These open doorways into excitingly-expressive new sound worlds.
Experience -
* Associate Professor in Music.
* Award-winning lecturer (Teaching Fellow and nominated 'Most Inspiring Teacher'), with extensive experience in national and international degree-level course validation and link tutorship.
* Set up and runs hybrid analogue/digital recording studio in West France.
* Composed, produced and conducted ten feature film and fourteen short film scores in Britain, France and Italy (including recordings at Air studios).
Experience -
* Associate Professor in Music.
* Award-winning lecturer (Teaching Fellow and nominated 'Most Inspiring Teacher'), with extensive experience in national and international degree-level course validation and link tutorship.
* Set up and runs hybrid analogue/digital recording studio in West France.
* Composed, produced and conducted ten feature film and fourteen short film scores in Britain, France and Italy (including recordings at Air studios).
AVAILABLE MASTERCLASSES (can be adapted as required)
* Mechanics of Film Scoring
* Film Scores Worth Getting to Know
* The Hidden Corridors of Spectral Music
* Arranging & Recording Vocals
* Pavlovian Wolves: The Film Sound World of Wolfen (1981)
* Mechanics of Film Scoring
* Film Scores Worth Getting to Know
* The Hidden Corridors of Spectral Music
* Arranging & Recording Vocals
* Pavlovian Wolves: The Film Sound World of Wolfen (1981)
* These Masterclasses last for 2 hours with a 20 to 30 minute Q&A.
* Total cost £300 plus travel.
* Please note – accommodation & food should be provided where applicable.
* Total cost £300 plus travel.
* Please note – accommodation & food should be provided where applicable.
