biography
pronunciation:
[bel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1932– )
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| biography:
| French composer, born in Antananarivo (formerly Tananarive), Madagascar. He studied music in Bordeaux, then at the Conservatoire de Paris with Messiaen (1959) and in Darmstadt with Stockhausen, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1960–2) with Pierre Schaeffer, of which he later became director (from 1966). He was also founder of Musique Plus (1973–8). His music uses Martenot waves, tape recorders, and sound projection, as in Cristal (1977). In 1973 he invented music for the acousmonium and experimented with an orchestra of loudspeakers in which the listener cannot identify the origin of the sound that is heards. His works include Motion, Motion (1986) and Musique Acousmatique proposition position (1993). |
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