François Bayle (*1932, Madagascar)

lives in Paris and is one of the most important exponents of French electroacoustic “acousmatic” music, both as a composer and as a theorist.
From 1966 to 1997 he headed the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, a department of French radio that operated an experimental studio, developed software and organized concerts. In 1974 he founded his own loudspeaker orchestra for this purpose, the “Acousmonium”, with which countless electronic works are performed to this day.

JEITA (1969, stereo, 40min)
Composition commission for a sound installation in the famous grotto of the same name, a stalactite cave in Lebanon.

TROIS REVES D’OISEAUX (1969/71, stereo, 12 min)
“Three Bird Dreams”
A work in three parts (mocking / sad / zen) culminating in a kind of solo for a Brazilian uirapuru.

TOUPIE DANS LE CIEL (1971, stereo, 23 min)
Developed from the sound of a spinning top this piece is an obvious paraphrase of the famous Beatles song Lucy in the Sky.

source: private material by the composer
special thanks to François Bayle