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Portrait

Anthony Saba is a musician (guitar and bass), composer and sound designer for 15 years.

He has been commissioned for the following sectors: short film, dance, theater and advertising.
Attracted by the different media and multi-arts collaborations, he learned to adapt to the requirements and constraints of this type of project.
His assets are his autonomy: composition from instruments (guitar / bass), recording voices, programming mao, sound synthesis and mixing,
and his signature: musical originality for all audiences.
He uses Peak, Logic Pro, Live, Reason and T-Racks on computer.
One of his albums "raw materials" has been nominated for the International Electronic Qwartz in 2006.

Feel free to contact to get information:
synanton [at] gmail.com (replace [at] with @)



He has parallely developped the Syn-’s universe, a project which refers essentially to the nature facing the machine. He works in a permanent process of research dealing about the mixing of music with litterature, dance, theatre, visual arts or the video.

In this large artistic framework, he uses the indispensable tools that are the acoustic and the electronic instruments: cymbal, bass guitar, electro-acoustic, electric and classical guitar + laptop and fx.

The compositions by Syn- sometimes break out violently in tribal and post-indus universe and expect also a carefully and beautiful attention to this scripted, orchestrated, hypnotic and beautiful music, called ambient music from the listener. Lively and organic, they start resonating sounds with natural origins (recording of voices, sounds..) and artificial origins (numerical sounds) and in their turn throw auditory images.
More than intellectual, his musical conception is sensual and intuitive.

He occasionally works for companies and artists: Aube L (guitar and bass player 2008-2010), Julie Jegrand, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ann Hamilton, Rhys Chatham, Von Magnet...

He is the co-fonder of the independent label Prasca, oriented towards music coming from the post-rock movement: international post-indus, ambient and experimental productions. The global project is gathering the different forms of arts.

So as to make you an idea about Syn-’s works,
you can listen to some tracks from his 3 albums produced by Prasca.

Its second release matières premières has been nominee Qwartz [Research] 2005 to the international competition Qwartz Electronic Music Awards among six others albums by composers such like Parmegiani and Zap Meemees.



Aube L & Syn-

Already bassplayer in Aube L’s band from March 2008, Syn- used to share the stage with Aube L for an electro/post-rock duo project from septembre 2009 to July 2010. Based in Paris. (read the following..)


Prasca

2001. As Paumero Reno (Inbloom/ visuals), Anthony Saba (Syn-/ music) and Castel Agnès (écriture) used to work together since 1998, they create PRASCA association. (read which follows ...)


Jungle Bells

by Dominique Pichon. A musical symphony for 20 electric guitars and 20 tubular bells. Participation of Syn- (read which follows ...)


King Lear

by William Shakespeare. Stagecrafted by Stéphane Hervé and played by la cie Trafalg’art. Music composed and played live by SYN- (read which follows ...)


The hand of the devil

by Maurice Tourneur, adapted on stage by Jessica Quintyn and played by lthe "Théâtre de la Rumeur". Musical composition by SYN- (read which follows ...)


Hunting Scenes From Bavaria

by Martin Sperr. Piece of theater interpreted and played by la cie La Tonka. Musical composition : SYN- / scenography : Inbloom. read which follows (...)


The subdued light

First musical experience with Syn- (electric guitar) and E.5131 (lyrics, bass player). Read which follows ...