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Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou
7+ albums
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Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou was born in 1939 in Besançon. He studied pure and applied mathematics, earth sciences, celestial mechanics, data logic and analysis up to doctorate level in Strasbourg, Besançon and Lyon. He also studied music, after which he attended Pierre Schaeffer's electroacoustic music classes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. From 1963 to 1967 he was in charge of music at La Comédie in Besançon. After completing his musical studies, between 1971 and 1977, he was a researcher at the Groupe de Recherche Musicale – ORTF – INA, where, with Francis Regnier, he founded a laboratory for scientific research on computer-assisted composition, working on the synthesis and processing of sound. In 1981, he and James Giroudon founded Grame, an association of composers and researchers in the field of contemporary music which was supported by the Ministry of Culture's music, dance, theatre and performance section (DMDTS), and which became an official Centre National de Création Musicale in 1996. Up to 1985, Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou concentrated on the setting up and supervision of Grame's laboratory for scientific research on computroup's work on representation, modelling and communication in architecture. His musical works cover a broad field: electroacoustic music, the use of electronics, and purely instrumental music. His output is strongly marked by his interest in the relationship between art and science, in particular the contribution of computi
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les tentations de l'anachorète pour contrabasse amplifiée 1998
52For three, pour violoncelle, trombone, percussions et dispositif électronique (2006)
43Du ciel et de la terre, pour sextour à cordes et dispositif élecrtonique (1997) : ll
44Chronorythmie, pour deux ensembles instrumentaux et dispositif électronique (2008)
35Propos, pour soprano, mezzo-soprano et sept musiciens (1998-2001)
36Chronorythmie
37For three
38Propos
39Oceane ? ou Troisieme passage de la Baleine - Final scherzo de la Baleine
310Du ciel et de la terre, pour sextour à cordes et dispositif élecrtonique (1997): l
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