François Bayle
French composer of acousmatic music and originator of the acousmonium.
François Bayle (b. 1932, Toamasina, Madagascar) studied in the 1950s with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, and Karlheinz Stockhausen before joining French state broadcasting (ORTF) in 1960. He led the GRM from 1966, and when it was absorbed into the newly formed Institut national de l’audiovisuel in 1975 became its director, a position he held until 1997. Across that tenure he coined the term “acousmatic music” and developed the Acousmonium, a large multi-speaker system for diffusing tape music in performance. In 1991 he established his own Studio Magison for composition and research, continuing to work there after leaving the GRM’s directorship.
Works in the Library
François Bayle COMPOSITION 1980
François Bayle's cyclical 1980 acousmatic composition, tracing an arc from urban tumult toward expansive soundscape.
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François Bayle ALBUM 1972
François Bayle's large-scale cycle of acousmatic works composed between 1969 and 1972.
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François Bayle ALBUM 1978
François Bayle's acousmatic works from 1978 and 1979, reissued by Recollection GRM.
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