WANU

Improvised sound and visual performances

Sébastien Pittet was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1983. He is a bassist, double bassist, guitarist, teacher, composer and active in several cultural associations as a member and organizer where he’s living in Romainmôtier. He started bass guitar in a friends’ band in 1998, while completing an apprenticeship as a horticulturist. He then began his musical training at the Ecole de Jazz et de Musique Actuelle de Lausanne, and went on to obtain a diploma in jazz performance from the Haute Ecole Musique de Lausanne in 2008. Shortly afterwards, he moved to Montreal for a year, playing and recording with bands and studied music pedagogy at the Université du Québec. He was a student from several bass players like Alain Caron, Björn Meyer, Jean-Pierre Schaller, Bänz Oester and Pierangelo Crescenzio. His musical encounters and experiences have led him to collaborate with many regional and international artists in no less than a thousand concerts on tours, festivals and clubs in some twenty different countries. He has also taken part in the recording of some twenty discographic productions. In 2020, he began to concentrate on his own compositions, from which the WANU project emerged in 2021 with the release of his first album Nachalo (Altrisuoni, CH), produced entirely with his bass and a few electroacoustic effects. Since then, he has produced and co-produced several multi-disciplinary creations linked to his compositions and his sound universe, which he constantly develops according to his inspirations and artistic encounters.