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Jerome Soudan started playing music at the age of 5 years old atthe Conservatory of Chambery, France. He learnt to playorchestral percussions, the clarinet and later on, acoustic andelectronic drums. He obtained a master degree in musicologyspecializing in 20th century music at the University of Lyon, Francereceiving a distinction in 1993, after submitting his master thesis onindustrial music.

Jerome Soudan then settled down in Paris where he worked with numerous contemporary composerssuch as Kasper T. Toeplitz for the GRM (Maison de Radio France) or with rock bands such as LesTétines Noires or industrial bands such as Von Magnet. In 1996, he moved to Berlin where he startedto work as a composer and percussion player with the experimental band Column One. In 1998, hestarted his own solo project named MIMETIC.

In 2000, Jerome Soudan established himself in Geneva,Switzerland and began working with the contemporary electroacoustic group ART ZOYD in France. The group, which existssince 1968, has become one of the main references in terms of”new music”.

Since 2000, Jerome Soudan is also one of the official composersfor the choreographer Carol Brown (a New Zealander, establishedin London, UK) for whom he composed dance performances aswell as video installations. Other choreographers with whomJerome Soudan worked include Jan Linkens (Comic Opera ofBerlin, Germany) and Lionel Hoche (Neerdeland Dance Theater 2in The Hague, The Netherlands).

In 2003, Jerome Soudan founded with the Belgian, HermanKlapholz, a new electronica project called Wai Pi Wai. In 2005, hewon the award for the best design and artwork packaging for electronic music during the FrenchQwartz awards for the cover box of MIMETIC DANCING “The Changing Room”. The following year,Jerome Soudan released his first DVD with MIMETIC on the German label Ant Zen.

During all these years, Jerome Soudan released numerous CDs or vinyls with various bands ondifferent labels such as Ant Zen, Hands, Parametric, Moloko+. To date, MIMETIC holds no less then 15releases. Jerome Soudan took also part in several concerts, live acts, dj sets or performances allover the world (Europe, USA, Mexico, Canada, Japan …). In 2005, he received support from ProHelvetia for his international solo project tour.

In 2007, Jerome Soudan released a live album « All my lives » on theGerman label HANDS. Meanwhile, he was also composing the musicfor the film « Un éclat » by Rodolphe Viémont, staging Olivier Py.

In 2008, Jerome Soudan celebrated the 10th anniversary of his soloproject with the release of a 160 pages book with 2 CD’s calledMIMETIC X “one more than nine”. The book: International guests(Paul Kendall (Depeche Mode producer), Franz Treichler (TheYoung Gods), Luc Van Acker (Ministry),…) are giving their personalpoint on view on Mimetic in different forms (poetry, prose orjournalistic style). Christian Zanési (co-director of the GRM (Groupede Recherches Musicales) INA/RADIO FRANCE) wrote the Preface.

Jerome Soudan is actively pursuing his collaboration as composer and musicians with Art Zoyd forvarious special shows such as “Metropolis” (with the movie), “Eye Catcher” (with the movie), ortogether with GROUPE F (fireworks artists). He is about to compose the soundtrack of the next LechKowalski’s movie (who did “D.O.A” with The Sex Pistols, “Born to lose” with Johnny Thunders, “hey isDee Dee home” with Dee Dee Ramone, etc…)