Ysanne Spevack was born on 24 June 1972 and is a British and American composer, conductor and arranger who plays violin, viola and cello, and assorted multi-instruments including mbira, keyboards and guitar.
18 Facts About Ysanne Spevack
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Ysanne Spevack did this leading a team of artists and scientists from many disciplines for each event.
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Ysanne Spevack is based between New York, London, Austin TX, and Los Angeles.
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Ysanne Spevack began touring Europe aged 13, playing classical chamber music repertoire including Mozart, Vivaldi and Haydn under the direction of Susan Collier, who is the mother of Jacob Collier.
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Ysanne Spevack's great uncle, Edward Summers, was a professional violinist who played for silent movies, and her cousin is classical violinist Geoffrey Trabichoff.
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In 1995, Ysanne Spevack began to play electric violin with electronics for many producers and DJs in the underground Acid House, Techno and Drum and Bass music scenes of London, notably with Sister Bliss from Faithless, Tiesto, Talvin Singh, T Power and Tsuyoshi Suzuki.
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Ysanne Spevack began her recording career in 1996 by recording and releasing her first studio album, under the moniker Mee.
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Ysanne Spevack produced the music on the album Time Dragons, a spoken word album.
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In 2003, Ysanne Spevack was invited to perform electric violin for Peter Sellars at the Venice Biennale.
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In 2009, Ysanne Spevack recorded the track Salahadeen with the Master Musicians of Joujouka, David J and Dub Gabriel.
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The performance lasted for two hours, with Ysanne Spevack singing and vocalising Beecroft's manifesto.
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Ysanne Spevack played strings on the Smashing Pumpkins Teargarden by Kaleidyscope EP series that featured Billy Corgan, Kerry Brown and Linda Strawberry.
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In September 2011, Ysanne Spevack joined David J and Ego Plum to play music for the Los Angeles stage production of The Chanteuse and the Devil's Muse, and in November 2011, she joined David for the Los Angeles stage production of Silver for Gold and the Redcat Theater.
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In 2016, Ysanne Spevack created a multisensory performance with music, food, technology, video and other modalities, as featured in The Huffington Post and widely reported internationally.
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Ysanne Spevack was interviewed about this for Future Human from Nokia Bell Labs.
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Ysanne Spevack wrote orchestral arrangements and recordings that were released on the Psychic TV album, Fishscales Falling.
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Ysanne Spevack primarily composes soundtracks for film, commercials, and documentaries, including her original music for ads for Vans, Chanel, and Mars.
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Since 2014, Ysanne Spevack has combined her knowledge of music and food by creating immersive experiences based on emerging crossmodal scientific understanding of how the sense perceptions are inter-related and integrated.