Arnaud Ivan Sponar started music back in 1991 as a drummer in post-punk, new wave and grunge bands.
A self-taught drummer, pianist, guitarist, bassist and singer.
2020, right a the dawn of the pandemic, Arnaud Ivan moved back to Geneva, Switzerland after 10 years spent living and working in Brooklyn, NY and then Brussels in Belgium.
The multi-instrumentalist is involved in various creative projects, working with songwriters, painters, film-makers, dancers, visual performers, and sound-art installations developers, bringing his own musical identity.
current projects
A film by Pascal Greco
Original Soundtrack by Goodbye Ivan
Ambient / Experimental music project
Da Saz : Modular Synthesizer
POL : Digital and Analog Synthesizers, Sampling
Goodbye Ivan : Guitar, Bass, Piano, Soundbox, Lapsteel, Drums
Audio Visual performance about Dissociative Identity Disorder
By actress Céline Cesa, painter JOD and musician Goodbye Ivan
A group formed by Bernard Trontin, drummer with THE YOUNG GODS,
and Simon Huw Jones, singer and lyricist of AND ALSO THE TREES, now joined by Arnaud Ivan
ATMO
Electroacoustic Ambient Soundscapes
Sonia P : Electronics, Field-Recordings
Goodbye Ivan : Bowed Psaltery, Bass
Sound Art Installations
By Florent Naulin, POL & Goodbye Ivan
AEROFLOT
Trip-Hop
Goodbye Ivan : Beats, Bass, Rhodes, Vocals
POL : Digital and Analog Synthesizers