biography

Born Paris, 1947. Studied composition at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne (Germany) with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Henri Pousseur, Doctorate in Philosophy of Art at University of Paris I. Director of Research at C.N.R.S. Professor of musical Composition at the CNR of Bordeaux, Award winner Fondation Royaumont (France), Gaudeamus Foundation (Netherlands).
Golden Diapason 1998 for Messe.

Main works

Un arraché de partout (67), Le temps de le prendre (68/..), score-book, Anna Livia's awake (75), Alto molto (75), Labyrinthes (77), Portrait de Jiri Kolar (78/83), Quelques pages du Livre des Questions (79/80), text by Edmond Jabès, Satie's Dream (80/81), poem by Kenneth White, Portrait d'Albert Ayme (81), poem by Michel Butor, Seul (81), Alliages de cuivre (81), Empreintes nocturnes (81), The Sun-Moon Sequence (82), poem by K.White, Les tarots-musiciens (83), text by M.Butor, Allégories (83), poem by Claude Melin, Byrdy (86/87), Trois personnages (87/88), Transit (84/89), Stream (89), Hong-Kong Variations (90), Mémoires d'oubli (91), text by Bernard Noël, Portrait de Geneviève Asse (91), Faïences (90/92), poem by Paul Louis Rossi, Aubade (93), Concert (95), text by Michel Butor, Messe (95), Morty's (96), Memorandum (98), Patchwork (98/99), O.D. (99), Finnegans Tune (00), Paroles de labyrinthes (00), Abangan (01/02), Donnant donnant (01/02), musical theatre (text by Enzo Cormann), L’Émission de Bordeaux (03), Soldanelles (04), poems by Paul Louis Rossi...

Musics for film (Viva la muerte d'Arrabal),
television , theatre (plays by Arrabal, Ionesco, Beckett, Shakespeare, Achternbusch, Ritsos, Jean-Clarence Lambert...),
dance (choreographies by J.Pomarès, S.Buirge, A.Gebhardt...),
radio (for Atelier de Création Radiophonique de France-Culture).

CDs : Mémoires d'oubli, Satie's Dream., Portrait de Geneviève Asse, Empreintes nocturnes, Stream (Mandala/Harmonia Mundi), La Plume (Mandala/Harmonia Mundi), Works for guitars and voice (Mandala/Harmonia Mundi), Hong-Kong Variations (Agon, Auvidis), Messe (Mandala/Harmonia Mundi), Concert (Saphir), Code (with Jean-Clarence Lambert), son@art 027, Camino (text by Olga Jirouskova), Mandala.

Books :

Révolutions musicales, with Dominique Bosseur (Minerve), Le paradigme musical d'Albert Ayme (Traversière), Musique, passion d'artistes (Skira), Vocabulaire de la musique contemporaine (Minerve), Le sonore et le visuel (Dis-Voir), John Cage (Minerve), La Plume with Pierre Alechinsky (Actes Sud), Le temps de le prendre (Kimé), Musique et arts plastiques - interactions au XXe siècle (Ed. Minerve), Claude Melin, Chansons de gestes (Alternatives), Morton Feldman (L'Harmattan), Vocabulaire des arts plastiques du XXe siècle (Minerve), Musique et beaux-arts (Minerve), Du son au signe (Alternatives).