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En to pan

François Buffet was born in 1980, live and works in Rouen and Paris (France). He studied musicology at the University of Rouen with Pierre Albert Castanet and Olivier Meston, and at the University of Paris-Sorbonne where he completed a degree in electroacoustic music under Marc Battier between 2000 and 2006. He also attended composition classes with Jacques Petit at the Conservatory of Rouen.

He has given workshops in computer music at the University of Rouen and Le Havre Art school. After a course at the GRM   (Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Paris) he took part in the development of the "Acousmographe" software, and carried out projects for the education ministry. He co-authored a book with François Bayle.

He works regularly with video artists in France and abroad. His work focuses essentially on acousmatic composition, with an emphasis on frequential harmony and global soundsacpes. His work has been played and broadcast in various festivals, shows and radios, including Electromania, Electrain de nuit (France Musique), Akousma (GRM, Paris), Banc d'essai (GRM, Paris), Multimédia exhibition (Modena, Italia), Festival Futura (Crest, France), Festival Tourneson (Le Havre, France), Störk Galerie (Rouen, France) and 106 expérience (Rouen, France). In 2013, he was laureate of the international acousmatic composing competition "Banc d'essai" organised by the GRM in Paris. In 2014 he was commissioned by the GRM to create En to pan.

François Buffet

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