COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGNER

Fabien Bourdier lives and works between Paris and his recording studio in Tours, France. He teaches sound design at École Supérieure d’Art et de Design Tours Angers Le Mans. Fabien studied filmmaking in Angoulême and developed an interest in field recording and sound editing during his travels across the Mediterranean, Europe and India. He studied tabla under Iswar Lal Mishra, professor at Banaras Hindu University from 2000-2005. Fabien has composed the music and sound for documentaries, fiction films and television programs which have been disseminated in many international film festivals including Real Cinema, Sundance and Rotterdam Festival. In 2009 he won the “Electronic Art Award” for music and sound creation at the international competition organized by IMEB Bourges for a series of films he created which were broadcast in numerous international video art festivals including Oslo Screen Festival, Istanbul Kurie Festival and Geneva Mos Espa.