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Fred learned his trade in Paris as a recording engineer at the Studio du Palais des Congres working on movie scores and top French artists, he became the personal assistant to

producer Andy Scott and worked on the last two albums of Daniel Balavoine.
He moved to England to be the personal recording and mixing engineer of the Eurythmics recording and mixing album: Savage, Revenge.

Throughout his career, he has mixed, recorded, and produced albums for the likes of,

Danny Wilson, The Prodigy, Depeche mode, Tom Petty, Paddy Casey, David Gray, Bob Dylan

and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/89938-Fred-Defaye

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Fred's main field of composing music is for the contemporary dance world: Jose Agudo Dance, Time/Dropper (2010), Sweetshop Revolution Tree (2015), London College Fashion (2010/15),

artistic director Garance Marneur for Levy Dance in San Francisco, Pull Me Closer, Rush Part 1/2, Alone Together, SF International Art Festival (2016/21) and so many more.

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International touring as sound designer and live sound engineer includes choreographer:

Lea Anderson (2015/16), Yang Liping  Under Siege, Rite of Spring (2017/19), working with

Composers: Steve Reich, Micheal Nyman, Gabriel Prokofiev, Kareem Roustom, Sk Slhomo for Shobana Jeyasinhg Dance (2010/Present), Viviana Durante Company & Joy Alpuerto Ritter, composer Lihn Qun Wong Isadora Now (2020/21), Ivan Putrov Dance for Ukraine (2022/present),

Akram Khan Company Portraits in Otherness (2021/22), Dickson Mbi Enowate Sadler Wells composer

Roger Goula ( 2022/ Present), Fengling Production, Nine Songs, Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight 2024 (2021/Present), working with Lighting designers: Fabiana Piccioli, Lucy Carter, Lee Curran,

Guy Hoare, Video artists: Yeast Culture, Sander Loonen.

Live sound engineering for artists, Patti Smith (2015),  Andrew Poppy (2012/Present), The KLF Welcome to the Dark Ages (2017), Richard Reed Parry (2019), the Barbican Theater (2021/Present).

 

Sound designed for theatrical experiences created by Punchdrunk The Black Diamond (2010),

he was a member of People Show Theater, sound designing People show 119: Gost Sonata with Oscar-nominated composer and film director Mike Figgis, directed by award winner Josette

Busshell-Mingo (2007/09), mixing art instalation Quantum Ghost for artist Libita Sinbungu and

musician Demelza Toy Toy (2019), sound designing and composing music for theater director Valentino Villa Au Bord, Triennale Milano Festival (2022). Sound designed "The Gates of Kyiv" directed by Roxana Silbert (2024)

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He has composed the music for Philipp Plein Women's Fall/Winter fashion show Milan (2016/17),

and sound design for Tods, Burberry, London, Paris (2015).

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Fred is a guest Tutor at Montview University for site-specific theater practice (2021/present),

has guest lectured at the Scandinavian University of Art and SAE London.

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Project leader, sound designing, mixing in VR and 5.1 surround for Valve Corporation (1998/2011), on acclaim video game titles: Half -life (1&2) Portal (1&2), Team Fortress (1&2), Left for Dead(1&2).

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His artistic footprint spans continents from UK houses of Sadlers Wells,  Barbican , Limbury,

Royal Festival Hall, the music venues of the o2 Arena, Glastonbury Festival, International touring:

Lincoln Center NYC , Internationaal Amsterdam, Amare Den Hagg the Hague, Guzen X  Macao,

to the classical stages of The Bolshoi, Canadian Opera Toronto, Dante Alighieri Ravenna,

Opera de Rouen, Dongguan Opera China and the challenges of Desert X AlUla.

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