Marc Battier

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Marc Battier (born 21 December 1947 in Brive, France) is a composer and musicologist.[1]

He is known as a cofounder with Leigh Landy and Daniel Teruggi of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, which established a new field in musicology specifically for the musicological study of electroacoustic music. He is also known for developing the study of electroacoustic music in East Asia.[2] His electroacoustic are widely performed and have been commissioned in several countries.

He teaches at the university of Paris-Sorbonne (1997–present) and has taught at the University of California, San Diego and at UC Irvine. He has been in residence at the Aichi University of Fine Arts and Music in Nagoya (Aichi gedai, Japan), and was invited professor at the Université de Montréal (Canada). He was DAAD Varese Guestprofessor in Berlin (April–July 2012) and then in residence at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (July 2012, Japan). As a full professor, he is the head of a research team, MINT (Musicologie, informatique et nouvelles technologies) which spearhead the field of electroacoustic music studies. This new field became formed when Battier and Leigh Landy, professor at De Montfort University, joined forces to found an international conference, first held in 2003 at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris with the support of IRCAM. With Daniel Teruggi, composer and head of Groupe de recherches musicales, INA-GRM, they formed the electroacoustic music studies network, a non-profit association which since then helps organize an annual conference (2005, Montreal, Canada; 2006: Beijing, China; 2007: Leicester, UK; 2008: Paris, France; 2009: Buenos Aires; 2010: Shanghai, China; 2011: New York, USA). Battier is one of the main experts on electroacoustic music and computer music history. He has written many articles on that topic and has published several books. He is the co-founder, with professor Leigh Landy (De Montfort University) and later Daniel Teruggi (INA-GRM) of the Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS) movement (founded, 2003), which led to the creation of the annual EMS conference. He is also a leader of the musicology of electroacoustic music in East Asia (EMSAN project), which led to the creation of databases of electroacoustic music in East Asia. In 2013, became a member of Beijing DeTao Masters Academy (China) as DTMA Master in electroacoustic music.

Musicology

After some short studies of architecture at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Battier chose to focus on electroacoustic and contemporary music. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 at the university of Paris 10-Nanterre, in esthetics. Later, he passed the Habilitation à diriger des recherches in Musicology, a higher education diploma requested to be able to become professor and be adviser of doctoral candidates in France.

He cofounded the Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS) conference with Leigh Landy in 2003 and the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network with Leigh Landy and Daniel Teruggi in 2005.[3]

He founded in 2007 and is the current president of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network association (EMSAN).[4]

Career

Battier has been invited to teach in various universities: at Paris 8 University as a lecturer for many years, the university of California, San Diego, from 1984 to 1986, the Université de Montréal (2008), the University of California, Irvine (2009), and the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan, 2009).

He was hired by IRCAM from 1979 to 2002 as teacher, musical assistant and executive. There, he worked with many prominent composers: Steve Reich, Pierre Henry, Pierre Boulez, (Karlheinz Stockhausen (for Kathinka's Gesang), Joji Yuasa (for Nine Levels by Ze-Ami), Philippe Manoury (for Jupiter).

He has composed electroacoustic music since 1970, and started to use computers for composition (1970), for control of analog EMS VCS3 synthesizers (1973), and for sound synthesis (Geométrie d'Hiver, 1978). He has written many pieces for electroacoustic sounds, processed voices and electronic sounds often mixed with live instruments.

Prizes and Commissions

  • 1984-1985, winner, "Villa Medicis hors les murs", ministry of Foreign Affairs, one-year stay in California.
  • Commissions from French National Centre for Scientific Research, 1978, Japan (1981, 1993, 2012), Bourges Fetival of experimental music (1983), IRCAM (1984), Massachusetts Arts Council (USA) (1985), China (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011), Groupe de recherches musicales, INA-GRM (2008, 2012), DAAD for Technische Universität Berlin, Northeastern University (2012).

Affiliations

  • Société asiatique
  • Société des Études Japonaises
  • Réseau Asie, CNRS
  • Collège de ’Pataphysique

He is on the board of:

Some Publications

  • Pierre Barbaud. Correspondance, Battier, M., L. Claass et N. Viel (dir.), Paris, Delatour, 2011.
  • Entries for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, New York, Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • "Messiaen and his collaborative musique concrète rhythmic study"', in Olivier Messiaen : the Centenary Papers, sous la dir. de Judith Crispin, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, p. 1-27
  • Timbre - Durées d’Olivier Messiaen : une oeuvre entre conception abstraite et matériaux concret, Paris, Groupe de recherches musicales et Institut national de l’audiovisuel, 2008.
  • "Phonography and Invention of Sound", in Philosophical Reflections on Recorded Music, Mine Dogatan-Dack, ed., London, Middlesex University Press, 2008, p. 99-115
  • Musique et informatique, une bibliographie indexée, Paris, Elmeratto, CNRS, 1978. Review at Bibliothèque nationale de France: http://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1979-06-0321-012.

Recent works

  • 7 metamorphoses, percussion, poet and electroacoustic sounds on 8 channels, 26 minutes, INA-GRM commission, Paris, Maison de radio France, May 11, 2013. Poet: Zeno Bianu. Percussions: Thierry Miroglio.
  • Constellations for guzheng, guzheng and electroacoustic sounds, Liu Jing, guzheng, CCOM Concert Hall, Beijing, October 2012.
  • Constellations for koto", koto and electroacoustic sounds, Naoko Kikuchi, koto, St. Elisabeth-Kirche; "Nacht Klang" concert, Berlin, August 2012.
  • Constellation Sketches, for koto (13 strings) and electroacoustic sounds, Yoko Nomura, koto, Kaze no Hall, Nagakute, Japan, July 2012.
  • Dans l'Atelier du Peintre, 8-channel tape, commission of DAAD for Technische Universität Berlin, January 2012, Berlin.
  • Double suns, for violin and electronic sounds, written for Mari Kimura, Beijing, 2011.
  • Conversaciones, for guqin, poet, laptop and electronic sounds (Musicacoustica festival, Beijiing, 2010)
  • Mist on a Hill, for pipa and electronic sounds (Musicacoustica festival, Beijiing, 2009)
  • Audioscans, on nine paintings by Roberto Matta, CD and booklet, forward by Jean-Yves Bosseur, original poems by Zéno Bianu, MAAT 011, 2009.
  • Bird of the capital (Miyako dori), for shakuhachi, voice and processed voice, (INA-GRM commission, Paris, 2008).

References

  1. ↑ "Nos enseignants chercheurs - Site officiel de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne". Paris-sorbonne.fr. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 
  2. ↑ "EMSAN". MINT, omf.paris-sorbonne.fr. Retrieved 2012-08-16. 
  3. ↑ "Electroacoustic Music Studies Network". Ems-network.org. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 
  4. ↑ "MINT/OMF - Sorbonne". Omf.paris-sorbonne.fr. 2010-10-28. Retrieved 2012-07-05. 

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