Amoeba Music

French legend François Bayle (b. 1932, Tamatave, Madagascar) is a titan in the realm of electro-acoustic music, and a pioneer in the field of experimental sound; for decades he sat in the throne at the power nexus of the aural imagination. As a composer, Bayle extended and added to the legacy of theoretician, acoustician, and musique-concrète progenitor, Pierre Schaeffer, with whom Bayle studied in the 1950s; he was also a protégée to Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1958—1959) and Karlheinz Stockhausen during the latter’s famed residency at Darmstadt (1960-1962). It was Schaeffer himself who, in 1966, placed Bayle in control of the wildly influential recording studio and theoretical collective, Groupe de... Read More

City Of Origin:

Tamatave, Madagascar

Genre:

Classical, 20/21

Birthdate:

04/27/1932