CRITON Pascale (1954)

A French composer born in 1954 in Paris.
A composition pupil of Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Jean-Étienne Marie and Gérard Grisey, Pascale Criton was twice in residence in Darmstadt (1980 and 1988), undertook electro-acoustic training at the Cirm (1980-1982) and followed a course in computer music at Ircam (1986). Passionately fond of the sound continuum, she met Gilles Deleuze and obtained a doctorate in musicology. She gives lectures on musical æsthetics and new techniques of instrument making and directs a workshop for creation (Paris X, Pantin Conservatory). Pascale Criton regularly collaborates with research laboratories (Ircam, Lam, Gmem). She also organises transdisciplinary events, Les Objets Parallèles (Forum des images, 2003 and 2004), Musique de l’Architecture (CCR, Couvent de La Tourette, 2008). Her compositions mostly feature chamber groupings and explore the variability of sound as regards playing techniques, scordatura, digital synthesis and spatialisation. Her works include Écrans noirs (1982), L'étendue inclinée (1985), Thymes (1988, premiered at the Manca festival), Clines (1989), La ritournelle et le galop (1996), Le passage des heures (1998), Maanakut (2000), Artefact (2001, State commission), Gaïa (2002), Scordatura (2003).