Jean-Michel Serres

Composer-pianist, Poet, Literary Study, Graphic Designer

Profile:

Jean-Michel Serres is composer-pianist who pursued the possibility of piano solo music and, piano and string instruments music in Post-classical, Indie Classical, Minimal Music and Ambient genres. As for him, to compose and find unique, excellent and eternal melodies is the highest pleasure and purpose. His style is contemporary also orthodox, his composition and arrangement are sweet and refreshing, minimal but profound, various also universal. Serres is also pianist who plays Classical Music. His main repertory is Satie, Séverac, Mompou, Granados, Albéniz and Grieg.

Genres:

Post-classical, Neoklassik, Indie Classical, Modern Classical, Minimal Music, New Age, Ambient, Electronica ; Piano Solo, Two Pianos, Piano Duo, Piano & Violin / Cello / Viola / Contrabass Duo, Piano Trio, Piano Quartet

My fans also like… :

Erik Satie, Federico Mompou, Déodat de Séverac, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, George Winston, Harold Budd, Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Joe Hisaishi, Quentin Sirjacq, Henning Schmiedt, Fabrizio Paterlini, Carlos Cipa, Dustin O’Halloran, Nunu, Akira Kosemura, Hideyuki Hashimoto, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley

labels:
Apfel Café Music, Apfelsaft Cinéma Music, Apfel Zwei, Apfel Platten, Random Recordings, Berberis, Hardonymus Records, Cowshed Records, Structural Damage Records

skills:
Synthesizer Programming, Logic Pro, Playing Piano, Performance by Ableton Live, DJing by TRAKTOR, Audio Mastering, Graphic Design by Adobe Illustrator, Final Cut Pro, Semiotic/Semiological Analysis, Mathematical Logic, History of Philosophy

mail: jeanmichelserres(dot)apfelzwei(at-sign)gmail(dot)com

Apfel Café Music is the main label of Jean-Michel Serres, for Piano based Music, Post-classical, Ambient, Environmental Music, and Electronica. It pursues perpetual, precious, heavenly and graceful also common, normal, familar, calm and comfortable music for ordinary life and background music. Enjoy the silence…

Apfelsaft Cinéma Music is the sub label of Jean-Michel Serres, that produces BGM and plain ordinary music for living room. Enjoy the calmness…

Apfel Zwei is the private label of Jean-Michel Serres for electronic music, following to Apfel Platten. Apfel Zwei covers especially Minimal, Microhouse, Dub Tech, Tech House, Leftfield and uncategorized electronic music Jean-Michel will originate. Inheriting legacies, excellences and essences of Chicago House, Detroit Techno, Minimal Techno and Dub Techno, Apfel Zwei pursuits and provides new standard, authentic, conservative, global, universal, neutral, serious, sophisticated and intelligent, but groovy and funky, also redefined and new-generation electronic music among House, Techno and Dub. It’s fit for floors and lounges, valuable and practical on DJ sets. On the other hand, Apfel Zwei heads for breaks the divides of the musical genres and styles, then seek the profound value of music and the foundation of the groove in music. Enjoy the loudness !

musical instruments:
Apple / Mac mini Intel Core i7 2.6GHz 8GB 256GB SSD, Logic Pro X ; Ableton / Live Suite 9 ; Kensington / Expert Mouse ; Novation / LaunchKey 61 ; Roland / TR-8 + 7X7 ; KORG / Volca Beats ; t.c. electronic / desktop konnekt 6 ; Mackie / 1402 VLZ-3 ; JBL / 305P MKII ; FOSTEX / PM0.4 ; Auralex / MoPad ; SONY / MDR-7506 ; SHURE SE215-K-A ; Denon / PMA-600NE ; JBL / Stage A130 ; Audio-Technica / AT6098

plug-in synths & rhythm machines:
Arturia / ARP2600 V, Jup-8 V3, Modular V, Piano V, Prophet-V2, Solina V, Spark 2 Vintage Drum Machines, Stage 73 V ; AudioRealism / ABL Pro ; AudioThing / Latin Percussion, SR-88, MiniBit ; Beepstreet / Sunrizer, Cherry Audio / DCO-106 ; d16 / Drumazon, Nepheton, Nithonat, Phoscyon ; Dmitry Sches (Plugin Alliance) / Thorn ; discoDSP / Discovery ; Future Audio Works / Circle ; GForce / Minimonsta, Oddity, Virtual String Machine ; KORG / TRITON, TRITON Extreme, M1, MonoPoly, MS-20, Polysix, Wavestation ; Native Instruments / A-200, Jay-Bass, FM8, Massive ; Oli Larkin (Plugin Boutique) / VirtualCZ ; Roland / Sound Canvas VA SC-88 ; Sonic Academy / Kick 2 ; Sonic Charge / Microtonic ; Spectrasonics / Omnisphere, Trilian ; Togu Audio Line / TAL BassLine 101, TAL NoiseMaker, TAL U No-LX-V2 ; U-he / Hive 2, Repro ; Waldorf / Largo ; XLN / Audio Addictive Keys

plug-in effects:
Audio Damage / Dubstation 2 ; AudioThing / Megaphone, The Orb, Outer Space Vintage Tape Echo, Speakers, Valves, miniVerb ; d16 / Syntorus, Tekturon, Decimort 2, Godfazer, Spacerek ; iZotope / Ozone 6 ; MeldaProduction / MDynamicEQ ; PSP / Vintage Warmer 2 ; Signum Audio / BUTE Loudness Analyser 2 ; Togu Audio Line / TAL Chorus LX, TAL Filter ; Valhalla / Delay, Plate, Shimmer, Room, Vintage Verb, UberMod, Space Modular, Freq Echo, Super Massive ; Waves / Native Power Pack, MondoMod

plug-in arpeggiator:
Arto Vaarala / Kirnu Cream

Instruments for Piano Solo Composing:

Apple / Mac mini, Logic Pro X ; Muse Group / MuseScore ; Kensington / Expert Mouse ; Native Instruments / KOMPLETE AUDIO 1 ; JBL / JBL 305P MKII ; Auralex / MoPAD ; Novation / Launchkey 61 ; KORG / Nano Kontrol 2 ; Arturia / Piano V2, Stage-73 V ; Valhalla / VintageVerb, Plate, Delay, Shimmer, UberMod ; iZotope / Ozone 6 ; Signum Audio / Bute Loudness Analyser 2

live equipments:
Apple / Macbook Air ; Ableton / Live Suite 9 ; TASCAM / US-200 ; Novation / Launch Control XL, Launch Pad Mini ; Akai / MIDI MIX

DJ equipments:
Apple / MacBook Air, Native Instruments / TRAKTOR Pro 3.2, TRAKTOR KONTROL Z1 & X1 Mk2, SONY / MDR-7506, Denon / PMA-600NE, JBL / Stage A130, Audio-Technica / AT6098