Bernard Parmegiani (born 27 October1927 in Paris, France) is an electronic or acousmaticcomposer. October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Look up Acousmatic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term acousmatic dates back to Pythagoras, who would lecture to students from behind a screen so that visual information would not distract them from his speech. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...
Trained under Pierre Schaeffer 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
External links
http://www.parmegiani.fr Bernard Parmegiani- official website.
http://www.ina.fr/grm/ Musical Research Group (GRM), in french language.
Parmegiani is one the electroacoustic superstars of the INA GRM universe, and along with various Bayle titles this is a great place to start with the label.
However, all of this (deafening volubility) is finally calmed by a short coda: where a movement to reduce and rarefy particles splits this mass in extremis into an ethereal shower of sparks, having the effect of a prolonged pause." -- Jean-Christophe Thomas.
At the very outset, on the one hand, everything is given in a single act, the music is already moving forward; and on the other, the ghostly realm into which it takes us is already amply filled out.
Parmegiani refined his experiments with 1977's Dedans-Dehors, concentrating almost obsessively on indeterminacy of reference with regards to sound, and the consequent processes of metamorphosis between sounds.
Parmegiani nearly implies it in the title, which could just as easily have read La Creation du Monde Sonore.' Perhaps Parmegiani felt that deifying himself might be a little arrogant, even for the French avant-garde, but regardless, the piece itself generates and maintains this metaphor of sound as life' throughout.
So Parmegiani and his contemporaries are stuck with that intrusion, and saddled with an Academy that dismisses their music because it cannot find a satisfying method of analyzing it.
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