Alexander stordiau
About me
Composer/Producer with musicstudio in Aalst (region Brussels), Belgium.
I had my musical education (starting at age 11) at the music academies of Roeselare, Kortrijk, Brugge, Aalst and Gent. I'm a violinist and pianist with a classical education.
In formal musical life I have been member of several bands. There lies the most of my musical experience that is still useful nowadays.
My music can be associated with experimental electro ambient trance fusion influenced by Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Jean Michel Jarre.
I have two older brothers who were in possession of an excellent album collection. When I was young, in the evening lying in bed, I got familiar with the music of Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Janis Joplin, ELO, Pavlov's Dog, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Queen, Uriah Heep, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull, etc ... This period was crucial to my musical development : absorbing music during my sleep.
I work as an independent composer. During composing I'm very often astonished that music itself sometimes forces me to go in this or that direction. It is then as if the laws of the universe take over.
origin
Brussels, Belgium
genres
Electronic, Alternative, Ambient, Classic
associated acts
Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis
Promo video Volvo trucks
Wrote the track for this promo video. Music starts with the emerging Northern lights (at 01:11). You don't even see a truck passing....
Best performance with HR-glasses.
The Nymph
musicvideo
My musicstudio
Reviews on the compilation cd “The Invisible & Divided Sea” from the Scottish indie label “Bearsuit Records” on 1 december 2017
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-the-invisible-divided-sea
Always good to start on an upward curve with a spot of Vangelis-esque classicism, for Alexander Stordiau’s elegantly ethereal cinema-scoped ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’ ought to attract the ear of the Burning Witches posse as it manages to simultaneously stride the sound fractures that divide the disciplines of kosmische, cold war electronica and the whole Stranger Things community, beautifully ominous and longingly dream draped in a star glazing symphonic pristine. He features again much later in the track listing with the equally arresting ‘a shadow on the painting’ and into the bargain amid a deeply immersive head tripping mosaic cooks up something that we had to double check the credits to ensure it wasn’t cut by the hand of Biosphere.
The Sunday Experience
https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-invisible-divided-sea
Supplying me during the year with a never-ending variety of disjointed alternative lo fi post-rock and maverick electronic music releases, Edinburgh’s inimitable Bearsuit Records has kept up their impressive momentum by sending me this latest compilation of the kooky, odd and curious: to be fair, some of the artists on this compilation are actually more conventionally brilliant, especially the opening undulated Vangelis voyager style waltz into the cosmos, Fulfilling Eclipse, a serene with moments of trepidation electronic strings traverse by the Brussels composer/producer Alexander Stordiau and one of the album’s most outstanding contributions.
Luscious, sweeping strings glide over a softly pulsating throb, and it’s all very cinematic, very John Williams on ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’, Alexander Stordiau’s contribution to this collection. No two ways about it, it’s a grand opening worthy of JG Thirlwell.
Christopher Nosnibor
https://auralaggravation.com/2017/11/19/various-artists-the-invisible-divided-sea
The Invisible and Divided Sea’s varied artists establish the thematic flavor and include such expressive (and world-blanketing) performers as Alexander Stordiau (Belgium); Steeples for People (UK); PoProPo (Germany); Harold Nono (UK); Ullapul (France); Kirameki (Japan); Yponomeutaneko (France); Annie and the Station Orchestra (UK); Shinnosuke Sugata (Japan); The Moth Poets (UK); Petridisch (USA); Swords Reversed (UK); and Manga Brothers/Mangabros (UK).
https://bizarrechats.blogspot.be/2017/12/bearsuit-records-presentsthe-invisible.html
This economic label sampler features 17 tracks from 16 international artists clocking in at one hour. In typical Bearsuit fashion, the artists and selections run an eclectic gamut from the “electro ambient trance fusion” of Belgian composer Alexander Stordiau’s contemplatively cinematic ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’, wonderfully reminiscent of Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack work.
Jeff Penczak
http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2017/12/various-artists-invisible-divided-sea.html
