Alexandre Dai Castaing was born and raised in Paris with a French father and Vietnamese mother. He began classical piano at the age of 6 years old, studied classical piano in Paris, contemporary music and jazz drums in Geneva, and traditional Vietnamese drums. He signed his solo album “Tear is dancing” on Bruno LETORT’s contemporary music label Musicube and the album “SôkiET” a group project named Saya concept, signed on English label Bit Phalanx, bringing together traditional Okinawan instrument and Electronic music. He won the 2003 Siggraph with the Bidougenn Migration from the Gobelins School. That’s how he composes, with big organisations and in various fields, such as Cinema (Studio 37/ Marvel), advertising (Publicis/TBWA), video game (Ubisoft/NINTENDO), circus (circus new Swiss Rigolo), animation (ANKAMA/les Gobelins), TV groups (tf1/m6, france tv, canal+).

He made orchestral music for the campaign of Francois Hollande, later created the music for the National France Campaign on Autism and for preventing Harrassment in Schools, and more than a hundred TV ads (Coca, Nestle, Citroen, Peugeot, Eurofoot, etc.). In November 2022, he co-composed with Szymon Brzoska “Ukiyo-e” of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and has also worked with David Drouard, Yue Yin, Kader Atou. HUNG dance Taiwan, Sebastien Lefrancois following these compositions for his brother Choreographer/visual artist Eric Minh Cuong Casting.