When I was 5, my mother put me in front of a piano. I was living in a little village in the Loire Valley, France. I then studied the piano for 10 years, and picked up the guitar during my teenage years. Reading music sheets was never my thing, so instead, I developped the skill of playing "by ear", which led me to improvise and create my own melodies in a natural way. It's only recently, at 34, while living in Amsterdam and working as an Engineer that I decided to have a go at producing my own music.Rather than producing songs in a specific genre, I focus on keeping one consistent characteristic across my work: melodies come first. They may come to life in a "modern classical" song (piano & strings), or in an electronic song, using analog synthesizers and drum machines. My influences range from Modern Classical (Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds...) to Jazz (Avishai Cohen), and from Indie Pop (Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie...), to Electronic (Kiasmos, Jon Hopkins...).I hope you will appreciate my work!Best,Simonwww.simon-chauvin.comhttps://soundcloud.com/simon-chauvinwww.instagram.com/simon__