Born in 1978 in Paris, Frédéric D. Oberland began music on the piano at the age of 6. As a teenager, bored with his inability to play jazz piano for the weakness of his left hand, he gave up on classical music and turned to electric guitar. A multi-instrumentalist and experimenter at heart, he now tackles every instrument that he comes across with the same passion (fender rhodes, harmonium, banjo, found objects, toy instruments, saxophone, clarinet, computer music…). Having studied cinema (La Fémis) and political science (La Sorbonne), Frédéric integrated the experimental film lab L'ETNA in 2002, making a few political short films, that were then selected in various international film festivals (France, Japan, Egypt). He also composed many soundtracks to experimental, fiction and documentary films (Augustin Gimel, Hugo Verlinde, Jayne Amara Ross, David Bart & Laurence Balan, Mikaël Rabetrano, Fx Drouet, etc). Focusing on music, he has since collaborated with a wide range of talent: from modern-classical (Gaspar Claus, The Rustle of the Stars with Richard Knox) to ambient outfits (Colin Johnco, Monolyth & Cobalt), folk (21 Love Hotel, Arborea), spoken word (Elisa Point, Brian Lewis Saunders), pop (Alice Lewis, The Fitzcarraldo Sessions), free-noise (Le Réveil des Tropiques, Medecine Music, Brahman/Arshgeil) to electroacoustic (Bérangère Maximin, Sacha Gattino) or live cinema (providing a live soundtrack to the films of Mark Tribe, Ken Brown and Boris Lehman). In July 2010, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris afforded him a carte blanche 'Les Songs d'une Nuit d'Eté', featuring a retrospective of his work. Since 2009, much of his time as been devoted to a project entitled FareWell Poetry, a collective comprised of parisian musicians and the poet/filmmaker Jayne Amara Ross.

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