NEO2 ENGLISH TRANSLATION Claude has left the decalogue of electronic music, on which he had based his former projects Sas-31 and Lovelovelove, in order to embrace minimalism and orchestral arrangements. The categorical baroque of this new project allows Claude, who has been playing the piano since his childhood days, to finally feel free. Impulsively he says: “I felt the need to trace back my own steps. I have been studying music since I was 6 years old and wanted to return to the past. After closing the chapter of Lovelovelove in 2007, a time during which I rejected several record deal offers, I started to coordinate a formation of twelve instrumentalists in order to set up My Name is Claude. I invested too much energy in things like managing a simple rehearsal and it did not leave me with sufficient time to compose. That is why we became a quartet… and from there the evolution went on until I became a soloist. It was very difficult to feel free when at the same time I had to fight with so many people! Despite all this I am still being accompanied by several musicians when I'm on stage”. Pensively he says: “With ‘Science of Doubt’, besides trying to travel through different musical landscapes, I wanted to analyze the world in which we live, the impressive relations that are being constructed between man and machine. I wonder myself how we can find ourselves in such a situation…”. The aesthete says: “The fundamental importance of the image is a concept that is intimately related to the proposal that I make as a musician. In fact I see myself as an artist who incorporates photography and video-projections to his live concerts. The garments that I wear on stage for example help me to protect myself, not so much from the public as from my own emotions”. The music fanatic says: “At this moment I am inspired by Arvo Pärt - Estonian composer, father of the sacred minimalism - and Blonde Redhead, but when you are focused on producing your own music, what you really need to listen to is silence”. The dualist says: “In past years sometimes the artist in me has gotten more attention than the musician, but from 2005 onwards it has been the music that has taken me to places that I could have never imagined. For that reason, for a little more than two years now, I have not been producing anything that does not involve my live shows in one way or another. I am sure that in a not so distant future both facets will be completely united”. The cosmopolitan says: “Montreal gave me a European taste and now I adore this continent, which is where I live nowadays. On my last tour I have passed through Paris, London, Berlin… I do not believe that I will ever live in Canada again, although I will forever be connected to my country”.
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