Thomas Faucheur
To the sound of church bells in the background, SHP+ catches up with French music producer Thomas Faucheur in his new home in the Italian Riviera. Faucheur is still getting used to the idyllic scenario around him. It’s a major change from Shanghai, where he lived for over six years working as general manager for Green United Music, or Singapore, where he had moved to open a new office for Fin Design+Effects. As it happened to many people, Covid-19 disrupted his long-term plans and sent him on a path to reinvent himself. Faucheur is now launching his latest project, Open Arts, a creative platform to connect artists and brands for exciting and mutually beneficial collaborations in China.
伴随着教堂的钟声，SHP+在法国音乐制作人Thomas Faucheur位于意大利里维埃拉的新家采访了他。目前Faucheur仍然在学着适应他周围田园牧歌般的生活场景。与上海相比，这绝对是个巨大的变化。Faucheur曾在上海生活了六年多，担任G.U.M的总经理，他还在新加坡工作生活过，并在那里建立了Fin Design+Effects的新办公室。和许多人一样，新冠疫情搅乱了Faucheur的长期计划，使他走上了重塑自我的道路。Faucheur目前正在中国推出他的最新项目 Open Arts，这是一个将艺术家与品牌联系在一起的创意平台，旨在帮助双方在中国实现激动人心，互利互惠的合作。
Away from Asia but eager to continue his Chinese adventure, it took Faucheur a few months of self-reflection and a few more of ideation—Open Arts was officially born in April 2021. “We work as a bridge between artists and brands: music, fine arts, immersive art and tech., whatever you like. The name itself says it all—we have an open-minded way of work. People like to put everything in a box, but we really are an open box,” he says. With Open Arts, Faucheur wants to shape creative projects with his clients and artists and take them into exciting new places.
Faucheur虽然暂别了亚洲，但他仍渴望继续他在的中国冒险，在花了数月的时间进行自我反思，构思规划后，Open Arts于2021年4月正式诞生。“我们是艺术家和品牌之间的桥梁: 音乐，美术，沉浸式艺术和科技，任何你喜欢的领域都可以。这个名字本身就说明了我们的工作方式很开放。人们喜欢把所有的东西都放在一个盒子里，但我们其实是一只开放的盒子，”Faucheur同我们分享到。通过Open Arts，Faucheur希望与他的客户和艺术家朋友们一起打造创意项目，并带领他们探索激动人心的新发现。
Naturally, its central pillar is music. O Music is one branch of the platform and the center of Faucheur’s attention right now. “O Music is the summary of what I have been doing for the past twenty-five years and is shaped the way I wanted: a music house to help companies and agencies with all aspects of a soundtrack,” he explains, “but with a little something that makes the difference!”
当然，Open Arts的核心领域是音乐。而O Music是它的一个分支，也是Faucheur现在关注的重点。“O Music是我在过去25年里所有经历的结晶，它的形式也是我想要的: 一个帮助公司和代理在音轨等各个方面提供帮助的音乐工作室，”他解释道，“但也有一些能让项目与众不同的东西！”
O Music has four divisions: Original Music & Sound Design, Music Library, Music Licensing, and Orchestra.
O Music有四个部门: 原创音乐与声音设计，音乐库，音乐授权和管弦乐团。
Original Music & Sound Design
原创音乐与声音设计
Unlike the standard practice in the industry that favors freelancers, Faucheur actually signed five music composers and one sound designer to work on an exclusive collaboration in the Greater China and Singapore markets.
不同于行业中偏爱自由职业者的常态，Faucheur签下了五名音乐作曲家和一名声音设计师，以便在大中华区和新加坡市场进行独家合作。
“In this business, composers are like ghosts. No one ever mentions their names. No one knows who they are and what their profile is; I never liked this model. With O Music, the composers will get credited,” Faucheur says.
Faucheur直言道：“在这个行业，作曲家就像幽灵一样。没有人提到他们的名字。没有人知道他们是谁，他们的背景是什么等等; 我一直不喜欢这种风气。有了O Music，作曲家们将得到肯定与赞誉。”
He thinks his model makes all the difference in building a trustful relationship with the composers while getting them to take part closely in the brainstorming process with the agency and himself. His talent pool is versatile, with considerable experience working on films. Each composer has an area of expertise: pop-rock, electro-pop, orchestral music, and edgy electro-experimental.
他认为自己的模式重点在于与作曲家建立信任的关系，同时让他们积极参与到自己或是代理公司的头脑风暴过程中去。而Faucheur的人才库涵盖各个领域，特别是在电影方面有着丰富的经验。每个作曲家都有自己的专业领域比如流行摇滚、电子流行、管弦乐甚至是前卫的电子实验回响乐。
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As far as sound design goes, Félix Davin, a young award nominee and promising sound design artist, now composes the O Music team.
至于声音设计，Félix Davin，一位年轻的奖项提名，前途无限的声音设计艺术家，现在也加入了O Music团队。
Music Library
音乐库
Online music libraries are powerful resources in commercial film production. They come in very handy when you have no time or budget to develop an original track. It’s an increasing trend that attracts more talented composers by the day, spanning hundreds of styles and creating thousands of tracks.
网络音乐库是广告制片的重要资源。当你没有时间或预算去创作原创的音轨时，它们常常能解燃眉之急。同时，这也是一个日益增长的趋势，每天都吸引许多横跨数百种风格的，才华横溢的作曲家创作成千上万的歌曲。
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Through O Music, Faucheur will promote the French music library BAM Music in Greater China and Singapore. BAM Music which is already established in London, Los Angeles and Montréal is proud to bring its edgy and sharp music approach to these new territories. With a team based in China, Thomas has been working on a series of localisation efforts, such as translating a significant part of the platform to the Chinese language and adopting payment methods compatible with the region, notably WeChat Pay and Alipay. The BAM Music China website will go online in September. Meanwhile, its international version is already online and requires no VPN for access.
Faucheur 还将通过O Music在大中华区和新加坡推广在音乐方面非常前卫先锋的法国音乐图书馆BAM Music。BAM Music 已经在伦敦、洛杉矶和蒙特利尔已确立。通过与中国团队一起攻克一系列的本土化工作，比如将该平台的大部分内容翻译成中文，采用与该地区兼容的支付方式，特别是微信支付和支付宝等等，BAM的中国网站已经落成并将在9月份上线。而它的国际版本已经上线，可以直接访问。
“Even though clients will search directly on the platform, download and pay for tracks online, our O Music team will assist them in what they need. For instance, we can help them in music searches for specific usage for no extra cost!” Faucheur adds.
“尽管客户会直接在平台上搜索、在线下载和付费，但我们的O Music团队将帮助满足他们真正的需求。例如，我们可以帮助他们搜索特定用途的音乐，且不需要支付额外的费用!”Faucheur补充道。
Music Licensing
音乐授权
Over the years, Faucheur had his fair share of music licensing, clearing tracks in China for several commercial films for clients such as Samsung, Cartier, Adidas, Fanta, and Ford. He understands the complexity of the business, which involves contractual negotiations and legal procedures. Above all, he knows it requires a significant level of trust because of the extraordinary sums of money involved.
多年来，Faucheur在音乐授权方面已经积累了丰富的经验，他曾为三星、卡地亚、阿迪达斯、芬达和福特等客户在中国的几部广告大片解决授权问题。他了解业务的复杂性，包括合同谈判和法律程序。最重要的是，他清楚由于涉及巨额资金，这需要客户极大的信任。
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Orchestra
管弦乐团
The apple of Faucheur‘s eye is the Orchestra subdivision of O Music. He has recently signed an exclusive representation contract for Greater China and Singapore with The Fame’s Macedonian Symphonic Orchestra, an acclaimed and award-winning orchestra with much experience collaborating with studios from Europe and Hollywood in films and commercials.
不过对Faucheur来说，他的掌上明珠是O Music的管弦乐团分部。最近，他与马其顿交响乐团签署了大中华区和新加坡的独家代理合同。马其顿交响乐团是一支备受赞誉、屡获殊荣的交响乐团，他们与欧洲和好莱坞的电影以及广告工作室均有着丰富的合作经验。
While working in Europe, he had many opportunities to work with orchestra music, recording in many places, from London to Sofia. Still, he says things work differently in China. Chinese orchestras rarely have the experience of working on commercial projects or films. And when they do, their price tag is remarkably prohibitive. That’s where his differential lies.
在欧洲工作期间，他也曾多次与交响乐团合作，从伦敦到索菲亚，Faucheur体验过许多地方的录音室。不过，他还是认为中国的情况与众不同。中国的交响乐团很少有参与商业项目或电影的经历。而在他们有空参与时，报价又常常令人望而却步。而这就是他的竞争优势。
“We can offer orchestra production at a highly competitive price. Much, much less than the average in China and Western Europe,” he says. Because we have fully integrated remote working into our lives, Faucheur hopes that agencies and clients will consider using the orchestra to orchestral soundtracks.
“我们可以以极具竞争力的价格提供管弦乐团。远远低于中国和西欧的平均水平，” Faucheur告诉我们。目前我们已经将远程工作的模式完全融入到了生活中，Faucheur希望代理公司和客户能够考虑使用管弦乐团来制作管弦乐的相关音轨。
Besides O Music, Faucheur has other “Os” to develop in the long run, and many more exciting projects are sure to arise from them. For instance, for O Immersive, he’s devising an immersive theatre experience in Shanghai related to the iconic French feature film Amélie Poulain. On top of that, there’s also an immersive wellness experience in Shanghai on the horizon.
除了O Music之外，Faucheur还有其他不少的“O”正在酝酿之中，我们相信一定会有更多令人兴奋的项目从这些“O”中诞生。例如，O Immersive就是他正在为上海设计的一种身临其境的剧院体验，与法国的经典故事片《天使爱美丽》有关。除此之外，上海还即将迎来沉浸式的健康领域的体验。
Open Arts, for now, focuses on China, Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. In the future, Faucheur also hopes to develop projects in Europe. At the height of his career, the world is his oyster.
Open Arts目前的重心主要集中在中国、澳门、香港、台湾和新加坡。未来，Faucheur也希望在欧洲开发项目。他的事业正在蒸蒸日上，而一切尽在他的掌握之中。
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