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David Lemoine (b. 1978) is a musician and sound artist.
Singer in french "weird punk" band Cheveu (2003-2018), he also co-founded BrutPop (2010) a duo developing tools (music instruments, sound installations, production frames) for artists with mental health conditions. Approaching sound through immersive installations since 2020, he also runs for the last three years a recording studio and artist residency in the south of France.

Self-taught in music after studies in political science, he co-created with Etienne Nicolas and Olivier Demeaux the trio Cheveu in 2003, toured for 15 years, mostly in Europe and US, and produced records on independent labels.

Together with Antoine Capet in BrutPop he focused on giving artists with special needs the same freedom to create he had experienced as an underground musician. He also researched passive sound installations, exploring the impact of sound on psychotic patients.
Events produced by BrutPop presented works linking creation by people with mental condition, underground culture, and the contemporary art scene. The duo also co-authored a documentary, catalogs and articles, developing a reflection on the artistic path of people with special needs and the evolving nature of artistic productions inside mental institutions.
In Paris BrutPop was involved in La Station - Gare des Mines, a third place dedicated to live music, where it ran a hackerspace : the ArtLab. In 2019 the ArtLab helped to elaborate a program and to prototype the permanent sound installations for a new museum for the Philharmonie de Paris.

Since 2020 he has been experimenting as a visual and sound artist on immersive sound installations, mostly exploring the impact of white noise found in nature. These installations are also pretext and context for curation of concerts and talks.
In the most recent years, confronted with the dramatic geopolitical situation of the Middle East he initiated a new line of works consisting of interventions on building facades, combined with public speeches.

In 2023-24 he teached in the School for Visual Theater in Jerusalem.

Since 2023 he runs the Studio Saint Rémi, a recording studio and artist residency, in Maillères, in the south of France.

As a musician he played at PS1-Moma (New-York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris),
Villa Medicis (Roma), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), South By South West (Austin, Texas), The
Echo (Los Angeles), Yu gong yi shan (Beijing, China), Visa for Music (Rabbat, Morrocco),
Roskilde festival (Denmark), Centre Dramatique National Nanterre Amandiers (Paris), ...
As a member of BrutPop, or individually as a sound artist : Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), Hôpital Psychiatrique St Jean de Dieu (Lyon), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), Mima Museum (Bruxelles), Musée des beaux arts (Belfort), Institut Français (Guinea Conakry, Morocco, Congo Kinshasa), The artists' Residence (Herzliya), The Noise Agency / Felicja Blumental Music Center (Tel Aviv), Hazira (Jerusalem), Center for Digital Art (Holon), A C_AC (Arad), Barbur Gallery (Jerusalem)