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Bernard Parmegiani (1927) is a French composer of who trained (1959) under Pierre Schaeffer.

Raised amidst two pianos, Bernard Parmegiani grew up under the Sign of Sound, listening to the everyday scales practised by his mother, a teacher, and to the virtuoso repertoire of his step-father.

He was taken on as a sound man first on the radio and later on TV, which is where he conducted his first experiments with “bit twiddling” on tape. During this time he was also studying mime with Marcel Decroux and later at Jacques Lecoq’s theatre school, which gave him an awareness of the plasticity of space, a lesson that he would draw on in his later compositions and in the architecture of his sound universe.

Then he met Pierre Schaeffer, who encouraged him to attend a training course in electro-acoustic music (1959) and shortly after he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1960), of which he was to remain a full member right up until 1992.

Schaeffer put Bernard Parmegiani in charge of the Music/Image unit of the ORTF’s Research Departement, where he went on the compose the music for both full-length and short films made by the likes of Robert Lapoujade, Peter Foldés, Piotr Kamler, Valerian Borowczyck, Pierre Kast, Jacques Baratier and Peter Kassovitz, amongst others. This proved to be a first class training ground for learning how to deal with the problems of musical form as these relate to time, and how to overcome the constraints imposed by the medium of the cinema.

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  • utensilattack

    Care to elaborate, 'IAmDillin'? La Création du Monde is quickly becoming my favourite electroacoustic (or whatever you're prepared to call this, who even cares) album - tons of wit and drama. Every single track is really well paced.

    15 May 4:24pm Reply
  • IAmDillin

    Awful. There's no continuity whatsoever in this garbage.

    7 May 7:43am Reply
  • Aeroaviones

    one of the best beards?

    30 Apr 3:59pm Reply
  • goodmorningcptn

    one of the best

    20 Jan 2:38am Reply
  • wendell3

    A very man's beard.

    1 Dec 2012 Reply
  • poeq

    a mans beard?

    24 Oct 2012 Reply
  • InfinitePasta

    What kind of beard is that called?

    14 Aug 2012 Reply
  • TristanLR

    Just ordered the vinyl re-issue of Dedans/De Hors & L'oeil Ecoute - very exciting! http://boomkat.com/vinyl/553038-bernard-parmegiani-l-oeil-ecoute-dedans-dehors

    13 Aug 2012 Reply
  • TeatroAssente

    ya müthiş bir müzisyen bu adam. müziği anlam veren, duyguları sahneye koyan ve müziğin matematiksel yanını bu anlamı ayakta tutan iskelet veya temel olarak gören bakıştan kopup onu bir enerji yönetimi gibi algılamış, matematiği bu yönetimin ifadesi gibi görmüş ve xenakis dahi hala bir hikaye anlatıcısı, öznenin yansımalarının sözcüsü modunda takılırken o duyguların gerçeklikten daha derinde olan ilişkilerine kadar inebilen müzik yapmış. hikaye anlatıcısı albümleri de var, le creation du monde gibi zaten o fiyasko bir albüm. de natura sonorum gibi bir şaheserinin yanında question du temps gibi iki albümü var ki bu albümler zamanının çok ötesinde albümler hala müziğe ve duygulara yaklaşımı olarak 2010larda daha yeni yeni parmegiani duyarlılığında müzik yapılabiliyor.

    25 Jul 2012 Reply
  • TristanLR

    Enfer scares the shite out of me.

    17 Jan 2012 Reply
  • pitchorneirda

    Il conjugue le timbre à merveille. J'aimerais entendre sa musique dans un film de Patrick Bokanowski.

    23 Nov 2011 Reply
  • prorubono

    содомит, хуле, воистину

    6 Oct 2011 Reply
  • progtrance7

    This is one deep ass dude

    18 Aug 2011 Reply
  • Prince-Marolo

    ♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡♥♡

    2 May 2011 Reply
  • luaan_rodriguex

    Uma loucura dentro de uma percepção adptada para viajem cerébral!

    16 Mar 2011 Reply
  • jeemobon

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    28 Jan 2010 Reply
  • TristanLR

    "Dedans-dehors" is magnificent.

    22 Oct 2009 Reply
  • novakar

    Yes, is from the electro acustic but specifically concrete music.

    27 Sep 2009 Reply
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    Here group --------->http://www.last.fm/group/Oblique+Satellites

    6 Aug 2009 Reply
  • serv2r

    what he said

    3 Aug 2009 Reply
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