Corwin Chair Lecture Series:
Marc Battier, composer

Thursday, December 5, 2024
2:00 pm | Music Building Conference Room (1318)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marc Battier is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. After twenty years at Ircam, Paris, he became in 2002 full professor of musicology at Sorbonne University in Paris, now professor emeritus. In 2017, he received the award of the 1000 Talents experts plan of China and joined Shenzhen University (China) as distinguished professor. He also taught at the University of California at San Diego (1984-86), NYU and at the university of Music and Arts of Aichi, Japan (2018). He has been assistant to John Cage (in Paris), François Bayle (at GRM), Karlheinz Stockhausen and Joji Yuasa (at IRCAM).

He is a cofounding member of the ICMA and Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS, 2003), founder and director of EMSAN (2007), a network studying the electroacoustic music of East Asia. 

He has written music for several Western and Asian musical instruments. He published many articles in Leonardo, Leonardo music Journal, Computer Music Journal and Organised Sound, and written several books and chapters on the history of electronic music. He is currently on the board of Organised Sound and honorary editor of Leonardo. He wrote articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and The Grove Dictionary of American Music.

His latest book, Esthétique du son artificiel (Aesthetics of Artificial Sound), was published in France this year. Last year, he published in China Computer Music in the 21st Century. History and Practice.

In 2023, he became an ICMA director for Asia/Oceania. His music is published by BabelScores. 
marc.battier@mac.com