Francois Bayle
François Bayle is a pioneering composer of computer and electro-acoustic music. As Director of the Groupe de Recherches
Musicales (GRM) in Paris, he extended the musique concrète tradition to new digital technologies, including the much-used GRM
Tools sound processing software. He also invented the Acousmonium, an 80-loudspeaker orchestra.
Bayle’s honors and awards include Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, Officier dans l’Ordre National du MÈrite - Chevalier de la
LÈgion d’Honneur, Grand Prix National du Disque, Prix Ars Eletronica 1989, Grand Prix de la Musique de la Ville de ...read more
François Bayle is a pioneering composer of computer and electro-acoustic music. As Director of the Groupe de Recherches
Musicales (GRM) in Paris, he extended the musique concrète tradition to new digital technologies, including the much-used GRM
Tools sound processing software. He also invented the Acousmonium, an 80-loudspeaker orchestra.
Bayle’s honors and awards include Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, Officier dans l’Ordre National du MÈrite - Chevalier de la
LÈgion d’Honneur, Grand Prix National du Disque, Prix Ars Eletronica 1989, Grand Prix de la Musique de la Ville de Paris . … His
music is performed throughout Europe and the world.
François Bayle currently lives in Paris, composes actively, and travels widely.
“Musique concrète … was a music that uses all the resources that are available to us, a music that uses all the sounds of life as
we live it in the everyday world… « hide |
