François Bayle

 
One of the major contributors to acousmatic music, François Bayle (born 1932 in Tamatave, Madagascar) strives to promote the GRM and its values, as well as pursuing the development of the acousmonium, a multi-speaker apparatus designed for the performative projection of sounds. As far as his music is concerned, he is known for his vast compositional cycles whose style unites articulation and fluidity, color, and energetic creation.
François Bayle studied with Stockhausen and Messiaen. He joined the ORTF Groupe de Musique Concrète in 1960. He later led the group when it became the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1966. Most of his compositions are electronic, and his first important work, "Espaces inhabitables" (1967) is suggestive of an imaginary world in which nature is distorted in a dream-like fashion. He later utilized natural and synthetic sounds in his compositions, such as the recorded sounds made in a Lebanese cave. He has stated that his purpose as a composer is to enable the listener to feel the motion and vibration of energy in the universe.

(external link : www.francoisbayle.fr)
 
François Bayle - Diabolus in Musica - 2008-2024
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).
François Bayle - 50 ans d\'acousmatique (15 CD + booklet box set)
2024
INA-GRM
currently out of stock
François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.
François Bayle - Le Projet Ouïr (CD)
2023
INA-GRM
currently out of stock
A 62' minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak.
François Bayle - Electrucs ! (vinyl LP)
2018
Transversales Disques
currently out of stock
Never released before: on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the GRM, the composer François Bayle introduces us to some of his unpublished archives.
François Bayle - Les couleurs de la nuit (CD)
2013
Sub Rosa
sold out
The complete version, as premiered in 1982, of one of the François Bayle's masterpieces.
François Bayle - Les couleurs de la nuit (vinyl LP)
2013
Sub Rosa
sold out
The complete version, as premiered in 1982, of one of the François Bayle's masterpieces.


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