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Gérard Grisey (born 1946; died November 11, 1998) was a French composer of contemporary music.

He studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire of Paris, where he obtained the Prix de Rome. In 1972 he attended Darmstadt summer courses taught by Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis. His music is often considered to belong to the genre of music, although he later disowned the label in interviews and writings. Nonetheless, he spent much of his career exploring the spectrum of tone colour between harmonic overtones and noise. In addition, he was fascinated by musical processes which unfold slowly, and he made musical time a major element of many of his pieces. Major works include Vortex Temporum, Derives, Talea, Les Espaces Acoustiques (a cycle of six pieces for various ensembles of which Modulations and Partiels are the most famous) and Quatre Chants Pour Franchir Le Seuil.
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  • ut0

    v lel

    12 hours ago Reply

  • progtrance7

    Not that big fan of Grisey or spectral or even French music in general. Too perfumed and sensual for my impenetrably esoteric taste. Still, there are a couple of good pieces. Now gimme some Diotima or Reigen!

    26 Apr 6:31am Reply

  • GiaNXGX

    spectral ghosts haunting your atonal sleep

    25 Apr 2:18am Reply

  • Mampato

    Just can't get over how visceral, energising, stimulating and vibrant this music is. I've only scrobled him 6 times, though that amounts to about 140 minutes of music...

    5 Feb 12:51am Reply

  • Aravos

    Grisey=Webern & Webern=Grisey

    19 Jan 10:16pm Reply

  • exymus

    I love it.. Fresh elementary sounds to auscultate to

    9 Aug 2012 Reply

  • ut0

    My favorite composer who looks like a fish.

    7 Oct 2011 Reply

  • SabineWe

    Le Temps et l'Écume = ☆☆☆

    22 Sep 2011 Reply

  • mattimeus

    Spectralism > you [2]

    11 Apr 2011 Reply

  • blackless

    Fiendlishly complex music.

    7 Apr 2011 Reply

  • chrisleinhart

    Only artist out of about 1000 of mine that absolutely won't scrobble : /

    2 Jan 2011 Reply

  • progtrance7

    Cool stuff here

    20 Sep 2010 Reply

  • insomniacme

    27 Jul 2010 Reply

  • gEEEERa

    vortex temporum ftw

    4 Jan 2010 Reply

  • PMSingGremlin

    more like greasey

    28 Sep 2009 Reply

  • syater

    There are at least three different pages for Gérard Grisey. Last.fm has a new system for cleaning this up but it doesn't seem to be working for Grisey. Actually he has around 700 listeners with close to 22,000 listens.

    11 Feb 2009 Reply

  • handmeups

    I'm in love with Les Espaces Acoustiques. Time to get some more of his works.

    14 Dec 2008 Reply

  • nadirauxpommes

    Spectralism > you.

    15 Jul 2008 Reply

  • Bram_F.

    Transitoires is nice.

    18 Feb 2008 Reply

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