Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail ( born March 11, 1947 in Le Havre ) is a French composer.
Life
Tristan Murail studied Arabic and Economics, from 1967 composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire ( CNSM ) and received a 1971 first prize for composition. In the same year he was awarded the Prix de Rome. He spent then at the Villa Medici, where he met with Giacinto Scelsi two years. Important composers were for him during his formative years Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi and especially György Ligeti.
On his return from Rome in 1973, he founded with Gérard Grisey, Michaël Levinas, Hugues Philippe Hurel Dufourt and the Ensemble l' Itinéraire, which became a workshop of live electronics and computer-assisted composition. In the same year he wrote La dérive des Continents and Les Nuages de Magellan, who founded his first own, consisting of a continuous sonic magma style. Sables (1974) and Mémoire / Erosion ( 1975-1976 ) followed by a marked reduction of means.
In 1980, the Itinéraire composers attended a course IRCAM. Murail began to explore in more detail with the aid of the computer acoustic phenomena. He wrote disintegration (1982-1983), in which he instrumental sounds and synthetic sounds used for the first time simultaneously. With Serendib (1992) and other pieces this time, his music reached an extreme Durchartikuliertheit and formal unpredictability. From 1991 to 1997 he taught composition at IRCAM and was involved in the development of compositional utility patchwork. He also taught at the Darmstadt Summer Courses in Royaumont and the Centre Acanthes.
Tristan Murail lives in the United States and taught from 1997 to 2011 as a professor of composition at Columbia University, New York. Gérard Grisey side and Georg Friedrich Haas Murail is one of the main representatives of spectral music in contemporary music.
Works
Orchestral composition
- 2013 Reflections / Reflets, for orchestra