Breton bard Julian Cuvilliez awarded in Los Angeles for the music for the film “Le Pacte Gaulois”

He is part of the very small family of Breton bards. Julian Cuvilliez is at the same time archaeomusicologist, luthier, composer and performer. It was at home, in his Near Deaf studio in Lanmeur in Finistère, that he partly composed the soundtrack of the documentary film. The Gallic Pact, directed by Sébastien Duhem. Extremely precise and documented work rewarded in Los Angeles during the “Archeology channel” festival.

For 18 years, Julian Cuvilliez has worked with all kinds of specialists, musicians and scientists, to find the ancestral sounds of Brittany. “My work in archeomusicology allows me to study old instruments from the Iron Age to the Middle Ages, violin making allows me to reconstruct them as they were at the time and art gives me the opportunity to demonstrate it “, explains the artist. Among the instruments he was able to recreate, we discover this small lyre, which dates back to the 5th century BC. “It is about the reproduction of the bust of the bard with the lyre which is the most fantastic representation of lyre of the Celtic and Gallic world known to date”, further details the enthusiast. This little lyre is the starting point for the team’s scientific, artisanal and artistic work.

Sébastien Duhem’s film, which retraces the Gallic rites, has already been awarded as much for the sets as for the music and the costumes. at the London Screen Power Film Festival.

Julian Cuvilliez’s musical universe creates bridges between genres and provokes the encounter of many styles such as rock, classical, traditional and ethnic music with the sole guideline: to make ancestral and native music ever more current. By approaching as closely as possible the historical reality and the instruments of the time, he brings them to light thanks to the data collected by musicological researchers. It is within his artistic project Ar Bard, that Julian confronts knowledge and merges old chords with current music. Sa work that is exported all over the world is intended for a large audience through the production of albums, shows, concerts or film scores. Julian’s next conquest: the Netflix platform, for which he composes the music for a series devoted to the life of the most famous Gallic figure, Vercingétorix.