About

Mael Oudin is a Franco-Canadian composer, arranger, double bassist and conductor. Nourished by multiple musical influences and stimulated by an overflowing curiosity, he works with filmmakers, circus artists, actors, and many kinds of musicians.

He has a master degree in classical composition at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) where he studied between 2009 and 2015 harmony, counterpoint, fugue, analysis, orchestration, renaissance polyphony, post-tonal composition, film music and conducting. In parallel, he studied bass and jazz harmony at the Conservatoire du 9e arrondissement and musicology at the University of Paris-Sorbonne where he graduated from a master’s degree in research.

By composing several music for graduation films in animation schools, he develops sustainable collaborations in this field. He is the author of about fifteen original music for fiction films (Melody for Agnès, La chasse aux toiles), advertising (especially for the brand Dior), or more recently for an immersive film commissioned by the planetarium of Montpellier (France).

Since 2014, he has been part of Cirque Rouages, for whom he composed music for shows Sodade, Boate, Ondes and plays bass, keyboards and electronic music. These shows have been performed more than 200 times in Europe and Asia.

Mael Oudin is also sought by other musicians for his skills in composition, arrangement and artistic direction. He wrote in 2013 the vocal arrangements for Jacques Vidal’s album Cuernavaca on the music of Charles Mingus, distinguished by the press. He conduct and write arrangements for the 15 musicians band Moger Orchestra, who performed on the biggest stages of Brittany. He also wrote arrangements with the band Bêtep for “Le chemin de l’arc en ciel”, a film-concert with narrator about the unknown composer Alexandre Spengler.

Much of his work questions the role of music in storytelling and the image through his compositions for theater and cinema. He also works on the relationship between writing and improvisation, which he does not conceive of as opposing entities but as interrelated modes of expression. Finally, he is interested in bridges between acoustic, amplified and electronic music that he tries to coexist in an original way in his work.