Sylvain Chauveau has made solo records on labels such as Type, FatCat, Nature Bliss, Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier : minimal, quiet compositions for piano, strings, wind instruments, electronics, vocals.

He has performed worldwide (Europe, America, Asia) and has made remixes for several musicians or bands.

He runs the label Onement, whose aim is to release one-off, one-copy vinyl records.

He is composing an extremely long piece whose duration is seven years (You Will Leave No Mark On The Winter Snow), with very long silences inside (sometimes several months).

He has made soundtracks for feature films and for dance shows.

Sylvain Chauveau also plays with Arca (with Joan Cambon, avant-rock band), 0 (with Stéphane Garin and Joël Merah) and On (with Steven Hess, minimal improvised music).

He was born in 1971 in Bayonne, France. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.