François Bayle
François Bayle (born 27 April 1932, Toamasina, Madagascar) is a composer of Musique concrète or acousmatic music.
In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). In 1975, the GRM was integrated with the new Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) with Bayle as its head, which post he held until 1997. During these years he organized concerts, radio broadcasts, seminars and events celebrating individual composers, supported technological developments (Syter, GRM Tools, Midi Formers, Acousmographe) and was behind innovations such as the Acousmonium and the INA-GRM recordings label.
After leaving GRM in 1997, he founded his own electronic music studio, the Studio Magison, where he has devoted himself to research, writing and composition.
In the world of electronic art music, Bayle is regarded is one of the most distinguished composers; his influence is widespread (particularly in France, Europe and French-speaking Canada) and his music has earned some of the most prestigious musical prizes (SACEM Grand Prize for Composers, 1978; National Record Grand Prize, 1981; Ars Electronica Prize, Linz, 1989; City of Paris Grand Prize for Music, 1996; Homage by the CIME of São Paulo, 1997; Charles Cros Presidential Grand Prize, 1999). 18 CDs entirely of his music have been released, an exceptionally large number for one composer in the annals of electronic art music. French director Jérémie Carboni is working on a documentary with the composer.
Works
Among Bayle's 100 or so compositions are:
- 1960 Points critiques (instrumental)
- 1962 Trois portraits d’un Oiseau-Qui-N’existe-Pas
- 1962 L'objet captif (instrumental)
- 1963 L'Archipel (quatuor à cordes)
- 1963 Pluriel, pour 19 instruments et haut-parleurs (in Concert Collectif du Grm)
- 1966 Lignes et points
- 1967 Espaces inhabitables
- 1969 Jeïta ou Murmure des eaux
- 1971 Trois Rêves d'oiseau
- 1969–72 L'Expérience Acoustique [suite comprenant: 1-L"Aventure du Cri/2-le langage des fleurs/3-La preuve par le sens/4-L'épreuve par le son/5-La philosophie du non]
- 1972 Purgatoire, d'après La Divine Comédie, de Dante
- 1973 Vibrations composées
- 1974 Grande polyphonie
- 1976 Camera oscura
- 1978 Tremblement de terre très doux
- 1979–80 Erosphère [suite comprenant: 1-La fin du bruit/2-Tremblement de terre très doux/3-Toupie dans le ciel]
- 1982 Les Couleurs de la nuit
- 1980–83 Son Vitesse-Lumière [suite comprenant: 1-Grandeur nature/2-Paysage, personnage, nuage/3-Voyage au centre de la tête/4-Le sommeil d'Euclide/5-Lumière ralentie]
- 1984 Aéroformes
- 1985 Motion-Emotion
- 1987–88 Théâtre d'Ombres
- 1989 Mimaméta
- 1991 Fabulae [suite comprenant: 1-Fabula/2-Onoma/3-Nota/4-Sonora]
- 1994–95 La main vide [suite comprenant: 1-Bâton de pluie/2-La fleur future/3-Inventions]
- 1996 Morceaux de ciels
- 1999 Jeîta-retour
- 1999 Arc (pour Gérard Grisey)
- 2000–01 La forme du temps est un cercle [suite comprenant: 1-Concrescence/2-Si loin, si proche/3-Tempi/4-Allures/5-Cercles]
- 2002–04 La forme de l'esprit est un papillon [suite comprenant: 1-Ombrages et trouées/2-Couleurs inventées]
- 2005 Univers nerveux
- 2008–09 L'Oreille étonnée
- 2010 Rien n'est réel [suite comprenant: 1-Sensations/2-Perceptions]
- 2011 Deviner-devenir
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