Pierre-Alain Jaffrennou was born in 1939 in Besançon. He studied pure and applied mathematics, earth sciences, celestial mechanics, data logic and analysis up to doctorate level in Strasbourg, Besançon and Lyon. He also studied music, after which he attended Pierre Schaeffer's electroacoustic music classes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. From 1963 to 1967 he was in charge of music at La Comédie in Besançon. After completing his musical studies, between 1971 and 1977, he was a researcher at the Groupe de Recherche Musicale – ORTF – INA, where, with F…
read more