Michèle Bokanowski

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Michèle Bokanowski is an electroacoustic music composer born August 9, 1943 in Cannes, France, and currently living in Paris, France.

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Coming from a family of musicians (professionals on her mother's side, amateurs on her father's side), she read, at the age of 22, À la recherche d'une musique concrète (In Search of a Concrete Music) by Pierre Schaeffer and decided to study composition. After a classical education in harmony, she met Michel Puig, a student of René Leibowitz, who taught her composition and analysis according to Schönbergian Principles. In September 1970, she began a two-year course at the Research Department of the ORTF under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. At the same time, she participated in a sound synthesis research group, studied computer music at the Faculté de Vincennes as well as electronic music with Éliane Radigue. Between 1972 and 1984, she composed essentially for the concert - Korè, Pour un pianiste, Trois chambres d'inquiétude, Tabou - and for film - music for the short films by Patrick Bokanowski as well as his feature film L'Ange. Since 1985, she has composed for television, for theatre - with Catherine Dasté - and for dance, with choreographers Hideyuki Yano, Marceline Lartigue and Bernardo Montet.

[edit] Recordings

  • Pour un pianiste (Trace, TRACE 021, 2005)
  • L'Ange (Trace, TRACE 017, 2003)
  • L'étoile absinthe (Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 031, 2002)
  • Trois chambres d'inquiétude (Elevator Bath, EEAOA 07, 2001)
  • Cirque (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 9525, 1995)
  • Tabou (Cinéma pour l'oreille, MKCD 003, 1992)

[edit] List of Works

  • Ascension (1976-79)
  • L'Atelier de Léonard (1976-79)
  • L'attaque du Château de l'Œuf (1976-79)
  • La bibliothèque (1976-79)
  • Chant d'ombre (2004)
  • Cirque (1994)
  • L'étoile absinthe (1999-2000)
  • La Femme à la cruche (1976-79)
  • L'Homme au bain (1976-79)
  • L'Homme au sabre (1976-79)
  • Personnages dans les escaliers (1976-79)
  • Phone variations (1988)
  • Pour un pianiste (1973-74), piano, prepared piano, and tape
  • Le Réveil du Bibliothécaire (1976-79)
  • La Ruche (1976-79)
  • Tabou (1984)
  • Trois chambres d'inquiétude (1976)

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