Marc Battier: Guest Lecture
Place: Tokyo University of the Arts, Senju Campus, The 2nd Lecture Room
Time: November 17 (Monday), 2025, at 16:20
Overview
How do you write about electroacoustic and computer music?
After over 70 years of development, there are now so many different practices, styles, genres and technology that it may be overwhelming.
The two books I am presenting today revolve around those questions.
The first one, published in China in 2023 and written in English and Chinese, is more like a textbook on electronic and computer music.
The second, published in France in 2024, asks the question: how dis musicians, artists, poets and filmakers became attracted to sound outside of the musical instruments? How did they turn noises, spoken voice, recorded material and electronic sounds in artistic material?
Profile
マーク・バティエ／Marc Battier
Marc Battier is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music. After twenty years at IRCAM, he joined Sorbonne University as full professor of musicology, now professor emeritus. In 2017, he received the award of the 1000 Talents experts plan of China and joined Shenzhen University (China) as distinguished professor. He also taught at the University of California at San Diego (1984-86), NYU and at the university of Music and Arts of Aichi, Japan (2018).
He has been assistant to John Cage (in Paris), François Bayle (at GRM), Karlheinz Stockhausen and Joji Yuasa (at IRCAM). He is a cofounding member of ICMA and Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS, 2003), founder and director of EMSAN (2007), a network studying the electroacoustic music of East Asia.
He has written music for several Western and Asian musical instruments. He published many articles in Leonardo, Leonardo music Journal, Computer Music Journal and Organised Sound and written several books and chapters on the history of electronic music. He is currently on the board of Organised Sound and honorary editor of Leonardo. He wrote articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and The Grove Dictionary of American Music. In 2023, he published in China Computer Music in the 21st Century. History and Practice.
His latest book, Esthétique du son artificiel (Aesthetics of Artificial Sound), was published in France this year. He is currently ICMA director for Asia/Oceania. His music is published by BabelScores.