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Biography

Name, Title, & Role(s)
Full Name:
Tristan Murail
Position/Title:
Francis Goelet Professor of Music
Contact Information
Office Address:
TBA
Columbia e-mail:
tm252@columbia.edu

Tristan Murail came to Columbia in 1997, having previously been professor of computer music at the Paris Conservatoire, and professor of composition at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris, where he was also consultant to the computer-assisted composition research team, and worked on the development of the program "Patchwork."

His studies included Economics; Classic and North-African Arabic; Political Sciences; composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire; and computer music at IRCAM. He won the Prix de Rome from the Paris Conservatoire (1971), has several awards from the Académie Française and from SACEM; was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque (1990) and the Grand Prix du Président de la République, Académie Charles Cros (1992).


Degrees, Publications, and Recordings
Selected Publications:

"After-thoughts," Contemporary Music Review 19/3 (2000)

"Ecrire avec le Live-Electronic" in Vingt-cinq ans de creation musicale contemporaine: L'"Itineraire" en temps reel (Paris: Harmattan, 1998)

"Composition et environnements informatiques," Entretien avec Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Cahiers de l'IRCAM 1 (Paris: IRCAM, 1992).

"Scelsi, de-compositore," in Giacinto Scelsi: Viaggio al centro del suono (La Spezia: Luna Editore, 1992)

"Ecrire l'électronique," Revue musicale special issue 421-24 (1990)

"Spectra et lutins," in Algorithmus, Klang, Natur: Abkehr vom Materialdenken? (Mainz: Schott, 1984)

"La révolution des sons complexes," Darmstädter Beiträge (1980)
 
           
Selected Compositions:     

* Mémoire/Erosion; Ethers; C'est un jardin secret...; Les Courants de l'Espace. Ensemble L'Itinéraire, Orchestre National de France/Prin, CD Accord "Una Corda"/MFA 202122

* Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again. Ensemble L'Itinéraire, Orchestre National de France/Prin, Orchestre Beethoven Halle de Bonn/Rickenbacher: CD Salabert-Trajectoires/MFA, SCD 8902

* Territoires de l'Oubli; Vues Aériennes; Allégories. Ensemble FA, Dominique My: CD Accord "Una Corda" 20842

* Couleur de Mer; L'Attente; Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant; Attracteurs étranges; La Barque Mystique. Ensemble Court-Circuit, Antoine Ladrette/Valade: CD Accord "Una Corda" 204672

*Désintégrations; Serendib; L'Esprit des Dunes. Ensemble Intercontemporain/Robertson and computer sounds: CD Adès AD 750

* Territoires de l'Oubli; Cloches d'Adieu: Roger Muraro. CD MFA-Radio-France, MFA 216014

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