François Bayle is a composer of Musique concrète

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

 or acousmatic music

Acousmatic music

Acousmatic music is a form of electroacoustic music that deals specifically with acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The practice has a historical basis in musique concrète. It can be created using non-acoustic technology, exists only in a recorded format , and is composed for reception...

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In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

, Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences —particularly communications and acoustics— and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end...

 and Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

. In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France.-Post World War II:...

, 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

Institut national de l'audiovisuel

The Institut national de l'audiovisuel , is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives. Additionally it provides customers with a free and immediate access to archives of countries such as Afghanistan and Cambodia...

 (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

Acousmonium

The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the Maison de Radio France. It consists of 80 loudspeakers of differing size and shape, and was designed for tape playback...

 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

Jérémie Carboni

Jérémie Carboni is a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He was born on December 28, 1980, in Châtenay-Malabry, France. He is the founder of Zerkalo production in 2008.-Early life:...

 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

External links

• François Bayle's own site. Retrieved 05-05-2007
• [ François Bayle at allmusic.com]. Retrieved 22-04-2007
• BBC Radio 3 article. Retrieved 22-04-2007