Christine Groult

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Christine Groult (born 1950 in Caen , France) is a French composer of electroacoustic music .

Career

Christine Groult became interested in contemporary music from an early age, especially musique concrète , which she got to know through the radio. As a child she was already busy with her own field recordings with the help of a portable tape recorder . After her first singing lessons at the Caen Conservatory, she began her musical training at the beginning of the 1970s in the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) with Pierre Schaeffer , but in 1972 she switched to Michel Decoust at the newly founded, experimentally oriented Conservatoire de Pantin (CRD) . She also studied musicology at the Sorbonne .

From 1976 to 1986 she followed Decoust as an assistant in the pedagogical department of the IRCAM . She then headed the Studio de musique électroacoustique at the Conservatory in Chalon-sur-Saône from 1985 to 1990 . In 1989 she received her teaching license ( Certificat d'aptitude aux fonctions de professeur de musique , CA) and has been teaching electroacoustic composition in Pantin since 1990.

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Christine Groult composes exclusively electroacoustic music. Her independent composing activity began around 1985 when she moved to the Studio de musique électroacoustique in Chalon. She is particularly interested in musique concrète, i.e. working with found sounds.

“I am very attached to this idea of ​​concrete electroacoustic music, in which you cannot see anything, and in which therefore the sonic imagination and everything that is connected to memory play an important role in the sense of a vision. That means creating images in the minds of the listener, that's what interests me! "

- Christine Groult

In her compositions she uses influences from many areas, including areas outside of Europe. In addition to the ideas of Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer, it was also important to deal with Luigi Nono and the influence of singing on their ideas about sound.

Since 2003, Groult has been working increasingly with site-specific sound installations (scénographies musicales) indoors and outdoors , which she calls music in situ . In doing so, she explores the relationships between space and sound on various levels and tries to use electroacoustic music to promote a new sound sensitivity and to open up new audiences. In addition, works for film and theater are created.

Discography

  • 1993: L'Heure Alors S'Incline ... (Metamkine)
  • 1993: Lame De Fond (Body & Soul)
  • 2006: Etincelles (Motus)
  • 2006: La Condition Captive (trAce Label)
  • 2015: Nahash , with Beatriz Ferreyra (trAce Label)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Reinhold Friedl: composer profile Christine Groult. Broadcast manuscript, WDR3 - Studio Electronic Music on May 7, 2014 ( Memento from January 13, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ).
personal data
SURNAME Groult, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer of electroacoustic music
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen