Laurent Sauvagnac

Paris, France

Laurent Sauvagnac (born June 19, 1970 in Paris) is a French film score composer and a sound designer who graduated from the Berklee College of Music (Boston).

After his graduation (Master II) in Paris, he left France in 1996 for Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music and specialize in film scoring and perfect his piano jazz.

Sauvagnac began his career in 2000 in Paris, creating original music for Cartier, Louis Vuitton and Henessy. He is known for the film scoring of the L’Oreal, Pond's, Bioderma and Dolce & Gabbana commercials in collaboration with X-Track (music placement & online radio).

In 2002, he composed and produced the music of a fashion show for Jean-Paul Gaultier mixing Strauss waltz with electronic music. During the same year, Sauvagnac chose to pair up with the film score composer Stephane Zidi for a few projects. The duo created original music for: Champion, Korean movie by Kyung-Taek Kwak (with the Philarmonic Orchestra of Prague), Tel épris by Fabien Onteniente (Kien production, 2001), Comme deux gouttes d’eau (Demd prod, 2002), Laura, le compte à rebours a commencé (Samla prod, 2006), La Lance de la destinée and La Main blanche (Vab prod, 2007), La Légende des trois clés (Nelka films, 2008), «Cellule Identité» (Demd, 2008), Brigade Navarro (JLA, 2008), L’Amour vache and 10 jours pour s’aimer (Bankizz, 2010), L’Internat (Gaumont-Leonis, 2009), La Maison de Rocheville, Je vous aime très beaucoup (Nelka films), «Victoire Bonot» (Vab, 2010), «Clara» (Cinétévé, 2009), Le Chasseur (Son et Lumière, 2010), Les Ripoux (Panama, 2010), L’Amour encore plus vache (Bankiz, 2010), Le Sang de la vigne (Telecip, 2011), Police District for Capa Drama, Engrenages for Canal+. A short film: 36e sous sol by P.H Debiès. They also composed the music of a documentary about Paris called Sur les toits de Paris, le monde des couleurs - Gédéon produced by Electric Picture.

Since 2005, Sauvagnac created Hého Design with Marc Debiès, working as a sound architect and an artistic director. It is an essential component of perception of space, time and directly affects the state, behavior, welfare, or stress of the user. With this sound material, Heho designs and creates perceptions to improve the architecture, environment and communication according to the objectives and needs. Hého has been working for the Luxury Hotels Ritz, Plaza Athénée, Le Fouquet's Barriere or British Airways. Since 2013, Hého has been working with Unibail-Rodamco in jumbo malls like So Ouest or Aeroville. Sauvagnac and his team created an original concept with spatialized sound events getting through 12 speakers in a gigantic glass roof.

Running parallel with music composition, Sauvagnac created a music publishing company, M Factory Publishing, in 2014, thanks to the discovery of heterogeneous artists, new talents, producers and beatmakers. The company already placed several sound tracks on short films, full-length movies and teasers. He also runs M Factory Studio with Pierre Lemariey as sound engineer and producer associate. They produce, distribute albums and manage artists careers.

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