Daniel Biro

Daniel Biro (born 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a French musician, sound-designer, composer and producer of electronic, instrumental, and multimedia works. His music draws upon diverse roots in jazz, rock, classical, and electronic music. As an improvisor, Biro specializes in exploring the sonic depths of the Fender Rhodes electric piano, with which he performs regularly. Daniel Biro is currently based in London.

He studied at the Jazz Conservatory of Monaco under the direction of Roger Grosjean and the Nice University in France.

In the 1980s and 90s, Biro formed pop-rock bands such as the electro outfit IC and L'Orange with French vocalist songwriter Véronique Joly. He also toured worldwide as a keyboard player with Dennis Greaves' The Truth and EMI-signed Big Bam Boo. He has also been very much involved with contemporary dance, notably with choreographer Jane Turner with whom he has developed new real-time interactive dancers/musicians technologies based on Emergence Theory, where simple patterns generate complex results.

In 1993, Biro founded Sargasso Records to promote contemporary experimental music.

In 2008, Biro co-founded Esfor Limited with music consultant John K Hall.

He plays and records with his jazz/psychedelic band Mysteries of the Revolution formed together with multi-instrumentalist Peter BB Davis.

As a singer-songwriter he has released the album 'Songs of Refuge' (Sargasso).

He has recently formed Echo Engine an new ambient jazz band with guitarist Rob Palmer, sound-designer Adrian Newton in collaboration with saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis.

He is not the Daniel Biro from Hawk Nelson.

Biro has scored numerous short films and documentaries by French director Olivier Sarrazin.

Instrumental Compositions:

• Shir Hadash (2009) for 5 male voices, electric piano and electronics
• A Thin, Still Sound (2008) for bass clarinet and live electronics
• e-Merge (2004) for 5 voices and e-Merge computer system
• Black Fire On White Fire (2003) for amplified calligraphy, voice, 7 clarinets and electronics
• Re-sound (2000) for electric piano and tape
• Elegant Enigmas (1999) for harpsichord and electric piano
• Slow, Flow, Blow (1998) for 7 clarinets
• The Comparative Anatomy of Angels (1996) for 3 voices and tape
• Beba in White (1995) for 3 electric guitars and tape
• With These Gloves You Will Enter Mirrors Like Water (1995) for voice, string 4tet and synthesizer

For Contemporary Dance Performances:

• e-Merge
• Hybrid
• Desert
• Beauty And The Beast
• Soho Square
• A Still Point Of The Turning World

For Theatre:

• Membres Only
• HalfLife
• Dead Man's Coat
• Pedalo
• W.C.
• Firelines
• No Strings Attached
• The Woman Downstairs
• Horace
• 3 Plays by Yeats

For Film:

• Poolside
• The Incandescence Of One Man's Journey To Remain A Solid Object
• Carey Jones Architects
• 4014
• Book of Dust
• Lessons in How to Wear Red
• Wrap Me In Film
• Death Leap
• Viva Il Reggimento

For Television:

• Carrément Cornichon (French TV) 2012
• Rêves De Sable (French TV) 2011
• Bioattitude Sans Béatitude (French TV) 2008
• Parce Que Vous Ne Valez Rien (French TV) 2007
• Sous La Barbe De St Nicholas (French TV) 2006
• In 2 Minds (BBC) 2003

As Film Director:

• Poolside – (2010)
• The Pinocchio Files – (2010)
• In Light (2009)
• O2:2:CO2 (Day, Night, People, River) – (2009)
• The Incandescence Of One Man's Journey To Remain A Solid Object – (2008)
• Carey Jones Architects – (2007)

Windjammer (with Echo Engine) (2014) – Blue Serene Focus BSF1001/12
You Turn Me On EP (with Mysteries Of The Revolution) (2014) – Blue Serene Focus BSF1001/11
Shir Hadash (2014) – Sargasso SCD28076
Songs Of Refuge (2012) – Sargasso SCD28069
A Still, Thin Sound (2009) – Sargasso SCD28063
Mysteries Of The Revolution (2007) – Blue Serene Focus BSF1001/10
The Long Journey Home (with Rob Palmer) (2004) – Sargasso SCD28050
2 People In A Room (with L'Orange) (2002) – Sargasso SSD39011
Elegant Enigmas (1999) – Sargasso SCD28028
The Comparative Anatomy Of Angels (1996) – Sargasso SCD28022
Soho Square (1993) – Sargasso SCD28021