Christian Calon

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Christian Calon is an electroacoustic music composer born September 5, 1950 in Marseille, France, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.

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The architectural dimension of sound and a reflection on the narrative processes are the main focus of my present work centered around the ideas of Time, presence and transformation. Through various forms including spatial sound installations, acousmatic or radio pieces, my recent pieces explore the modality of the audible and of the listening experience. Space, at the heart of my reflection, has become today an essential way through to the central question of Time. Working in Europe since 1990, I was in 1991 appointed to the musical direction of the studios of the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM, France). In 1995-96, with the support of the DAAD (Germany), I was one of the foreign artists in residence in Berlin. Living since then in this city as a freelance artist, I produced the following works: The Standing Man (1996), installation-performance for three-dimensional sound spaces (projected from 24 channels), on a poem by François Villon; Die Zimmer der Erinnerung [Les chambres de la mémoire] (The Rooms of Memory) (1997), fictional essay for the radio (hörspiel) after Marcel Proust (DeutschlandRadio) and The Ulysses Project (1997-in progress), for voices and multitrack sound projection. On regular occasions my works were awarded in international competitions (Italy, USA, France, Austria, Germany) and my recent work was honoured with the Lynch-Staunton Prize (Canada).

The CD Ligne de vie: récits électriques (Life Line: Electric Tales) (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9001) is dedicated to my music which is also available on various compilations: Électro clips (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9004, IMED 9604), Anthology of Canadian Music: Electroacoustic music (Radio Canada International, AMC 37), DISContact! II (CEC, 95CD1-2), Cultures électroniques 4 (Le chant du monde, LDC 278049/50), and Cultures électroniques 8 (Mnémosyne musique média, LDC 278058/59).