After studying the piano, Olivier Briand discovers, at a very young age, synthesizers and is immediately fascinated by them. He becomes an active member of a musical group "syntax error" (see on my photo album !) and thus realizes his first recordings.. After studying Economics, he decides to devote himself exclusively to music and tours with a street theater company "Oposito", thus learning stage work (he participates in shows performed in front of 10000 people). He then works in a recording studio ("Anamorphose") as a programmer, sound engineer and MIDI specialist. At the same time, he is commissioned by the French Ministry of Education to train teachers of music to musical data-processing. He also works with Philippe Brodu at "Studio Claviers", a shop specialised in high technology keyboards and computer music. This does not stop him writing and recording his own music (for the theatre, films, shows, videos and choregraphies, etc.) nor performing live indoors and outdoors (using lasers, slides, videos, digital pictures, special effects, fireworks,etc...). Since 1993, he has produced several CDs: "Au dela des nuages", "Patch Work Music", "Live 96", "Flibustieres", "Close Ecounters", the last in 2007 is "Intuitions", a work on piano solo which you can listen to on the Ipod. His music uses all the classical styles common to the "Berlin School" (instrumental electronic music) while merging very diverse influences scaling from Pink Floyd to African Pigmees and from Mozart to Klaus Schulze.The use of instruments of different origins and periods allows for the exploration of varied and constantly renewed sound fields. His next CD is in production for 2009, with the use of a great collection of modulars synthezisers...