dBâle electronic music festival basel
frau musica electronica
21 - 23 April 2010
Schwarzwaldallee 200
4058 Basel
Christian Clozier
Born in 1945 in Compiègne, France. Director of the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB) founded in 1970. Artistic manager of "Synthèse", Festival International des Musiques et Créations Electroniques de Bourges, Artistic manager of the Concours International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges. Président of the Mnémothèque Internationale des Sciences et Arts en Musique Electroacoustique (MISAME).
Honorary President of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM), which is an International Member Organisation of the International Council of Music (ICM/UNESCO). He founded the Académie Internationale de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Cordoba National University (Argentina) in 2007
Christian Clozier has conceived différent devices, musical instruments and instrumentarium for:
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- pedagogy: the Cybersongosse (since 1972)
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- spatialization-interpretation: the Cybernéphone (since 1973)
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- composition: IMEB studio Charybde (since 1971)
Furthermore he worked on numerous papers and texts on musical aesthetics and history. As composer, his works have been played and broadcasted everywhere in the world, some of which are recorded by Chant du Monde and Mnémosyne Musique Média publishers.