Lucian Piane

Lucian Piane (born October 4, 1980), also known by the Internet nickname RevoLucian, is an American composer and music producer. He has composed music for several films, television shows, theater productions and singers, and received a RIAA Platinum Album Award for his production work on Hairspray: Soundtrack to the Motion Picture. Piane has also achieved Internet fame under the name RevoLucian for his satirical techno remixes, most notably "Bale Out", which featured profanity-laced tirades from actor Christian Bale made on the set of Terminator Salvation.

Career Piane graduated from New York University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Music in musical composition. and the 76th Academy Awards. Piane scored the music for the 2006 musical In Your Dreams, which was written by Zeke Farrow.

Piane has composed scores for the HBO documentary An Omar Broadway Film and the film Pretty Ugly People. He wrote the song "Year End Rap" which blogger Perez Hilton performed on his VH1 special, What Perez Sez. Piane also wrote the song "Stunning" for Calpernia Addams for her reality television show, Transamerican Love Story. Piane lives in Los Angeles, California, and in 2009 worked on the album Champion by RuPaul. His third album with RuPaul, Born Naked, was released in 2014.

Music Remixes Published under his online name RevoLucian, Piane has released remixes featuring Barbra Streisand, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, political commentator Bill O'Reilly, Piane has described his remixes as "just a hobby." His remix of Streisand's 2006 outburst was described as a "dance-tastic song" by Maxine Shen and Raakhee Mirchandani of the New York Post who highlighted it on their hot list of "What We're Obsessed With This Week". Louis Bayard of Salon highlighted Piane's remix of the O'Reilly outburst made public in 2008, in their "Critics' Picks" column.

Piane attracted particularly strong attention for "Bale Out" a three-minute-long techno remix featuring audio clips from a profanity-laced tirade actor Christian Bale delivered to cinematographer Shane Hurlbut on the set of Terminator Salvation. The song was posted on the websites MySpace and YouTube on February 2, 2009, and received over 200,000 views within one day. After receiving a remix of his outburst from a friend, Bale said, "They did a bloody good job! I've gotta say, what a great impulse, you know? To take something ugly like that and make it into a dance? That's a wonderful thing." McG, the director of Terminator Salvation, has also praised "Bale Out" and has a copy of the song on his iPod.

Personal life

In September 2021 Piane was arrested for drunken intoxication and felony vandalism of a bank respectively.

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