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外 文 名 Bruno Coulais
出 生 地 法国
出生日期 1954年1月13日
代表作品 《Microcosmos 微观世界》、《Himalaya 喜马拉雅》等
流 派 原声
艺人资料
纵横法国电影、电视领域的新锐音乐高手Bruno Coulais。他拥有10年以上音乐制作经验﹐更曾4度获得Cesar Awards (法国凯萨奖)。可以说是当今法国数一数二的电影配乐家,精致细密的弦乐编排,让他的作品向来深受学院派的欣赏与喜爱。至今担纲过的电影配乐几乎都是以法国电影为主,也许是因为他的作品向来并非是主流的商业电影,让Bruno Coulais的音乐总是带有一份冥思、宁静的特质。惯於以自我对於影像第一直觉配乐的Bruno Coulais,很少会为了剧本或是电影中所发生的故事地点,而去修改第一印象的音乐感觉。
他所配的很多电影音乐为国内原声迷所熟知与了解,Bruno Coulais 曾以《Microcosmos 微观世界》、《Himalaya 喜马拉雅》、鸟类生态纪录片《Le Peuple Migrateur (Travelling Birds) 迁徙的鸟》、尚雷诺主演的动作片《赤色追缉令》等片四度入围法国凯萨奖最佳电影音乐奖,并以《Microcosmos 微观世界》、《Himalaya 喜马拉雅》抱回两座大奖,知名的电影音乐作品包括:惊悚片《夺面解码》、凯萨琳•丹妮芙主演的《对不起,爱上你》、法国著名影星苏菲•玛索领衔主演的《卢浮魅影》,以及由杰哈德巴•狄厄主演的电视电影《基督山恩仇记》等。2005年最红火的《放牛班的春天》更是被原声迷奉为天碟的专辑。也为Laika的动画片《Coraline鬼妈妈》创作电影配乐。
2013年,他为Lady Ô创作原声大碟。
Bruno Coulais (born 13 January 1954) is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He is also being declared the Danny Elfman of France due to his scores have a chorus singing light in his scores.
Life and career
Coulais was born in Paris; his father, Farth Coulais, is from Vendée, and his mother, Bernsy Coulais, was born in Paris. Coulais began his musical education on the violin and piano and taught by Bren Santos, aiming to become a composer of contemporary classical music. However, a series of acquaintances gradually re-oriented him towards film music. Coulais met François Reichenbach, who asked him in 1977 to sonorize his documentary México mágico who permit to compose the first soundtracks for Jacques Davila "qui trop embrasse" en 1986 . Until the end of the 1990s, he remained low-profile, composing mainly for television. His name can often be found from TV films by Gérard Marx and Laurent Heynemann. He also composed the soundtracks for Christine Pascal's 1992 film Le petit prince a dit, and Agnès Merlet's Le fils du requin in 1993.
In 1994, he met the television producer Josée Dayan, who let him write a theme for the TV series La rivière esperance, aired on the France 2 network in autumn 1995. He worked with Dayan again with other major productions such as Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Balzac, and Les nuiteux.
The largest turning point of his career came in 1996, when he worked with directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou of the documentary Microcosmos. This single film, which gave a great significance to the music in it, was a great success and made Coulais one of the most wanted composers of French film music. In 1997, he won the César award for the best musical score in a film, as well as a Victoire de la Musique. His reputation was confirmed by the soundtracks to Himalaya (1999) and Les rivières pourpres (2000), and after that Bruno Coulais's name was to be found on most new French blockbusters, such as Belphégor and Vidocq.
After producing the soundtrack to Winged Migration in 2001, Coulais announced that he wanted to significantly reduce his contributions to film music, and instead concentrate on other projects, such as the creation of an opera for children, and collaborations with Akhenaton, Akhenaton's group IAM and the Corsican group A Filetta, with whom he had worked since he had made the soundtrack for Jacques Weber's film Don Juan in 1998.
In 2002, his name was found on the ending credits of the animation L'enfant qui voulait être un ours, and in 2004, on Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Agents secrets. The same year, he wrote the soundtrack to the film Les choristes by Christophe Barratier, which subsequently became an international hit. The music for this film received as great praise as the film itself, and it won Coulais his third César award. Since then, Coulais's collaborations in cinema seem to be limited to works by directors with whom he already shares some history, in particular Jacques Perrin, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, and James Huth.
In 2009, he won the 37th Annie Awards in the "Music in a Feature Production" category for Coraline.
In 2009 he also collaborated with Irish band Kíla to produce the soundtrack for the beautifully and uniquely animated feature film, The Secret of Kells, which tells the story of a parentless boy, Brendan, and his involvement with The Book of Kells. The music is equally light and dark and the textures and sounds equally European and Irish.
In 2013, he wrote the soundtrack for "Lady Ô", the evening show of the Futuroscope, directed by Skertzò and starring Nolwenn Leroy as the storyteller.
Bruno Coulais's musical style may vary significantly between different projects, but there are some constant factors visible: his taste for opera and for human voice (in particular that of children), for a search for original sonority, for world music and mixing different musical cultures, and finally, a certain tendency to give preference to the ambience created by lighting rather than the film's narration.