- Bernard Fort
Bernard Fort is an
electroacoustic music composer bornJune 8 ,1954 inLyon ,France , and currently living inLyon ,France .Studies musicology (licence, master's degree, post-graduate diploma). Co-founder and in charge of the Groupe musiques vivantes de Lyon (GMVL, France) since 1976. From 1980 to 1990 he teaches electroacoustic music at the Faculté de musicologie of the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and, since 1982, acousmatic composition at the École nationale de musique (Villeurbanne, France). He has been devoting time to ornithology and the study of natural soundscapes for many years. His music falls mostly in the acousmatic genre. The limits between abstraction and figuration, natural and cultural have always been at the heart of his work, along with a particular interest for the forms the performance of electroacoustic music can take through steady research on the technology available and how it can be applied.
Recordings
* "Les Concerts de la nuit" (
Sittelle , SI S001, 2003)
* "Lumière dans la nuit" (empreintes DIGITALes , IMED 0371, 2003)
* "Le Matin des oiseaux" (Sittelle , SI 30042, 2000)
* "Nocturnes du monde" (Sittelle , SI 30031, 1998)
* "Danube sauvage" (Sittelle , SI 30030, 1997)
* "Paysages canadiens" (Sittelle , SI 30012, 1997)
* "Compositions ornitologiques" (38e Rugissants , 38R 002, 1997)
* "Fractals" (Cinéma pour l'oreille , MKCD 018, 1996)
* "Bec poilu" (GMVL , GMVL CD16, 1993)
* "12 haïku; L'impatience des limites" (GMVL , GMVL CD10, 1993)
* "Alice ou la boîte à images" (GMVL , GMVL CD08, 1989)
* "Alliages" withJacques Mayoud (GMVL , GMVL CD07, 1989)
* "Le tombeau William Byrd; Jour de lenteur" (GMVL , GMVL D01, 1982)List of Works
* "12 haiku pour la paix céleste" (1989, 92)
* "Fractals" (1980-95)
* "L'impatience des limites" (1992-93)
* "La paix de l'entendre" (1998)
* "Silence radieux" (2000-02)
* "Les voix de l'essentiel" (2004), sound installationExternal links
* [http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/fort_be.html His biography on electrocd.com]
References
* http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/fort_be.html (with permission)
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