- Marc Battier
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Marc Battier is a composer and musicologist[1]. He teaches at the university of Paris-Sorbonne (1997-present) and has taught at the University of California at San Diego and at UC Irvine. He has been in residence at the Aichi University of Fine Arts and Music in Nagoya (Aichi gedai, Japan), and was invited professor at the University of Montreal (Canada). He will next be DAAD Varese Guestprofessor in Berlin (April-July 2012) and then in residence at Aichi gedai (Japan). As a full professor, he is the head of a research team, MINT (Musicologie, informatique et nouvelles technologies) which spearhead the field of electroacoustic music studies. This new field became formed when Battier and Leigh Landy, professor at De Montfort University, joined forces to found an international conference, first held in 2003 at Pompidou Center in Paris with the support of IRCAM. With Daniel Teruggi, composer and head of INA-GRM, they formed the electroacoustic music studies network, a non-profit association which since then helps organize an annual conference (2005, Montreal, Canada; 2006: Beijing, China; 2007: Leicester, UK; 2008: Paris, France; 2009: Buenos Aires; 2010: Shanghai, China; 2011: New York, USA). Battier is one of the main experts on electroacoustic msuic and computer music history. He has written many articles on that topic and has published several books.
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Musicology
After some short studies of architecture at the Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Battier chose to focus on electroacoustic and contemporary music. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 at the university of Paris 10-Nanterre, in esthetics. Later, he passed the "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" in musicology, a higher education diploma requested to be able to become professor and be adviser of doctoral candidates in France.
He cofounded the Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS) conference with Leigh Landy in 2003 and the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network with Leigh Landy and Daniel Teruggi in 2005.[2]
He founded in 2007 and is the director of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Asia Network (EMSAN).[3]
Career
Battier has been invited to teach in various universities: at university Paris 8 as a lecturer for many years, the university of California, San Diego, from 1984 to 1986, the university of Montreal (2008), the university of California at Irvine (2009), and the university of Fine Arts and Music of Aichi (Japan, 2009).
He was hired by IRCAM in Paris from 1979 to 2002 as teacher, musical assistant and executive. There, he worked with many prominent composers: Steve Reich, Pierre Henry, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen (for Kathinka's Gesang), Joji Yuasa (for Nine Levels by Ze-Ami), Philippe Manoury (for Jupiter).
He has composed electroacoustic music since 1970, and started to use computers for composition (1970), for control of analog VCS-3 synthesizers (1973), and for sound synthesis (Geometrie d'Hiver, 1978). He has written many pieces for electroacoustic sounds, processed voices and electronic sounds often mixed with live instruments.
Affiliations
- Societe Asiatique
- Société des Études Japonaises
- Réseau Asie, CNRS
- College de Pataphysique
He is on the board of:
- Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press)
- Leonardo Music Journal (The MIT Press)
- Computer Music Journal (1980-1996, The MIT Press)
Recent Works
- Double suns, for violin and electronic sounds, written for Mari Kimura, 2011.
- Conversaciones, for guqin, poet, laptop and electronic sounds (Musicacoustica festival, Beijiing, 2010)
- Mist on a Hill, for pipa and and electronic sounds (Musicacoustica festival, Beijiing, 2009)
- Audioscans, on nine paintings by Matta, CD and booklet, forward by Jean-Yves Bosseur, original poems by Zeno Bianu, MAAT 011, 2009.
- Bird of the capital (Miyako dori), for shakuhachi, voice and processed voice (GRM commission, Paris, 2008).
References
External links
Categories:- French composers
- Living people
- Sorbonne
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
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