Leon MILO, composer and percussionist, creates music and sonic environments in which instruments, electronics, natural sounds and synthesis are unified.
His works are presented the world over and include instrumental and electroacoustic music for the concert hall, dance, film, television, radio, public sound installations, galleries and museums.
Commissions have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Ensemble, The Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway, New Music Los Angeles, Los Angeles Piano Spheres, The International Beethoven Festival, IRCAM (Paris), Radio France, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Mexico City, 38éme Rugissants, (Grenoble) and the Festival Ile de France…
“La Derniére Minuteâ€, a short fiction film for Canal+ for which Leon wrote music and created sound design was chosen as an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, 2004 and went on to win best sound track for European short fiction in Barcelona.
In September 2008, he will be presenting new works for Organ, Piano and Electronics for performances at the Bonn Cathedral in honor of Messiaen’s 100th. birthday and produced by the International Beethoven Festival. Performers are Markus Karas, Organ and Susanne Kessel, Piano.
An ongoing project for an exhibition in London (The London Project") is ongoing and will integrate sound and image with fine artist Natasha Newton.
Leon Milo and Susanne Kessel have recently founded the Duo “Pianowaves†which gave it’s first performances of works for Piano, electronics and percussion at the 2007 Beethoven Festival in Bonn.
For more info, music and sound, please visit:
http://www.leonmilo.com
If you are looking for great sounds, please visit my
Freesound pages
Natasha Newton and I now have our own Myspace page for the London project:
www.myspace.com/leonmilonatashanewton
My web log
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