Julien Civange

Infobox musical artist
Name = Julien Civange


Background = musician, composer

Julien Civange - Musician, composer, Lyricist, Producer, born in Paris, France.

DJ at the age of 10 on the French underground radio "Carbone 14", then musical reporter for the major French magazines, radio and TV stations, Julien Civange,leaves the world of media at the age of 17 with a significant experience of the entertainment world. He has met numerous musicians (Bo Diddley, Charlie Burchill, Joe Strummer, Téléphone) who contributed to his musical autodidact background.

At 16, Julien Civange created the rock band La Place, with two school friends. In its very first version the band sounds like a mix of punk energy and funk music.
David Bowie who wanted the "best beginners band of the moment" invited La Place as an opening band for his concert with Tin Machine at la Cigale (1989).

Following a Tour Sauvage and hundreds of live shows before various change of line-up and 4 years stuck in a basement, from which they emerge to make 7 concerts with the Simple Minds (april-may 1995). Two months after, they were invited by the Rolling Stones at the Olympia (July 1995).

After this concerts, the band who had never had a label until then signed with an indie one (La Bande Son Canal +) and recorded their first and last album. Their ultimate glimpse of the music industry they had often hijacked was the featuring of the multi-million record seller Guy-Manuel Homem de Christo from Daft Punk and DJ friends as the opening of their last concert at la Cigale (Paris) in 1997

Emmaus Mouvement and other artistic contributions

Since then, Julien has composed and produced music for humanitarian causes ("Emmaus Mouvement" (1999), the Emmaus 50th Anniversary 's record, featuring Joe Strummer, Jean-Louis Aubert, Marianne Faithfull, Air, Manu Chao, Linton Kwesi Johnson, les Rita Mitsouko... ), composed or supervised soundtracks for films ("The Dreamers" (2003) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Cannes-nominated "Roberto Succo" (2001) directed by Cédric Kahn, "Sensi" directed by Xhang Jimou, "Looking for Jimmy" directed by Julie Delpy , "Secret Things" directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau), for play ("Hamlet" directed by opera directors Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier, "Caligula" directed by Charles Berling), as well as for art Installations (The Diary of John Doe by irish artist Bryan Mc Cormack or Lude by Josephine Michel)

Music2Titan

It's more "abstract" production is Music2Titan : Four musical themes composed with Louis Haeri that were placed on board ESA's Huygens probe in October 1997. Their vocation is to strengthen ESA and NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan with the aim to leave trace of our humanity to the unknown and build awarenessabout this adventure. "Hot Time", "Bald James Deans", "Lalala" and "No Love" have reached Titan on January 2005 after a 7 years and 4 billion kilometer journey. Never will human signs have traveled and landed so far.

Articles & Reference

* European Space Agency (ESA) publication : [http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMIEAXJD1E_0.html]
* Philipkdickfans.com publication : [http://www.philipkdickfans.com/news/archive9.htm]
* European Space Agency (ESA) publication - january 31st 2005 : [http://asimov.esrin.esa.it/esaCP/SEMXQIO3E4E_index_0.html]
* Article by Bertrand Dicale in Le figaro 2512-2004 : [http://www.precoces.org/site/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5223&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0]
* Radio France : [http://www.radiofrance.fr/reportage/laune/?rid=90000019&arch=1]
* The Guardian (uk) [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/jan/13/thisweekssciencequestions2]
* Nasa Web site : [http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=10376]
* Le monde : [http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=881971]
* Presse review accessible from [http://www.music2titan.com]