Birth name Olivia Louvel Albums Doll Divider Record label Ici, d'ailleurs... | Name Olivia Louvel Origin Paris, France | |
Genres Electronic music, Electronica, Pop, Experimental music Occupation(s) Composer, Producer, Singer, Visual artist Instruments Vocals, Laptop, Programmings Labels Cat Werk Imprint, Optical Sound, Angelika koehlermann, Ici, d'ailleurs..., Parallel Series Role Composer · olivialouvel.com Similar People Paul Kendall, Recoil, Antye Greie, Alan Wilder, Planningtorock Profiles | ||
Music group The Digital Intervention | ||
Olivia Louvel Live at Spirit of Gravity / venue:Green Door Store, Brighton (UK) 03.08.2017
Olivia Louvel is a French-born, British composer, producer and artist whose work draws on voice, computer music and digital narrative. In 2011, she won the Qwartz Album Award at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards for 'Doll Divider'.
She operates on the frontier of art and electronic music. Her work also ranges from video art to live performance. She has opened for artists such as Planningtorock at the Earsthetic Festival Brighton Dome, Japanese avant-garde artist Phew (singer) and Recoil for various concerts on the European 'Selected' tour.
Contents
- Olivia Louvel Live at Spirit of Gravity venueGreen Door Store Brighton UK 03082017
- Early career
- Solo works
- Collaborations Other projects
- Visuals
- LP
- EP
- Collaborations
- Compilations
- Awards
- Nomination
- Grants
- References
Early career
Initially trained in classical singing, she began to work as a singer for the renowned flying trapeze circus 'Les Arts Sauts' performing at 12 metres in the air a Meredith Monk composition 'Madwoman’s vision'. She toured with them for 3 years. From 1996 to 1999, she attended the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris, and graduated in 1999.
Solo works
In 2003, with her first computer, she began to produce her debut album 'Luna Parc Hotel', released on Angelika Koehlermann in 2006. With guest appearances by Michael J.Sheehy and Sébastien Libolt.
Inspired by silent-movie star Louise Brooks and her book 'Lulu in Hollywood'. Released as a digipak CD on Optical Sound Records and Fine Arts run by French artist Pierre BelouÏn.
Initially released as a digital version on Ototoi Music / Optical Sound. 'Doll Divider' was originally inspired by A4 paintings which she made using pages from fashion magazines and repainting on top of the photos of the models. Collectively these paintings are called "Processed Dolls". Following her Qwartz Album Award in 2011, she created her label Cat Werk Imprint. 'Doll Divider' was re-released as a limited edition vinyl, enhanced and remastered version, catalogue number CW01.
A minimal soundtrack based on haiku by poet Bashō released on Cat Werk Imprint. The limited Edition CD is adorned with a hand-drawn 'Magic Fish Dog', a character invented by Olivia Louvel The project 'ō, music for haiku' was originally performed in its first incarnation at Festival En Boite, Lyon (F) in the electronic bandstand designed by Cocktail Designers.
11 songs complemented by a series of experimental short films shot in West Sussex, reinventing herself as a bird-woman.
'Bats' was remixed by Simon Fisher Turner.
"A multimedia suite by composer Olivia Louvel digs deep into the psychic warfare between two 16th century British Queens" A digital transpositon inspired by the reigns of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. As well as the publication of a CD, there is a dedicated website featuring 3D animations. www.dataregina.com
Collaborations & Other projects
Under the moniker of The Digital Intervention, she worked with Paul Kendall (long term Mute Records collaborator) on the album 'Capture', which was released in 2003.
December 2014, she produced an exclusive mix for Electronic Beats, "odd and fantastic", which features her remix of Antye Greie aka AGF ’s 'Poemproducer'.
In 2016, she contributed a moving audio-visual project 'Afraid Of Women' to #Rojava, a female:pressure campaign curated by Antye Greie-Ripatti that aims to show solidarity and raise awareness for a special de facto autonomous zone in northern Syria.
With Paul Kendall as The Digital Intervention, they produced the piece 'When the sea will rise II' for Acoustic Cameras, a project which invites sound artists to annex the real-time flow of webcams located in various places around the world.
She remixed the track 'Paris' by Fiona Brice released as the ep 'Postcards Reframed' on Bella Union.
Along with Daria Baiocchi, Fiona Hallinan, La Cosa Preziosa, Vicky Langan, Úna Lee, Jenn Kirby, Claudia Molitor, Gráinne Mulvey and Rachel Ní Chuinn, Louvel contributed to the collaborative art project 'Mean Time' with her composition ' 25 minutes and 21 seconds'. The event was broadcast live on Nova, RTÉ Lyric FM from Richmond Barracks, Dublin, clawing back time lost in 1916.
Visuals
An early version of 'o music for haiku' was screened at the Festival Electron in 2008.
She produced several video clips to accompany her releases: For'Lulu in Suspension' (2008), she filmed herself within projections of a montage of Louise Brooks'. In 2011, she produced the video 'Army Of Dolls' in which she appears, her head hidden in a paper bag mask, along with projections of her 'Doll Divider' art. In 2012,' Night and Day' for her cover of the Cole Porter song. Also she directed a promotional film for Paul Kendall's release 'Angleterror'.
In 2014, she produced a series of 7 short experimental films for her sound art project 'Beauty Sleep'.