Biographies

A French composer born in 1952 in Tulle.

Philippe Manoury studied at the École Normale and at the Paris Conservatory. A pupil notably of Max Deutsch, Michel Philippot, Ivo Malec, Yves-Marie Pasquet and Claude Ballif, he also studied computer-assisted composition with Pierre Barbaud. A revelation to the public at the age of 22 with Cryptophonos for piano, his earliest references were the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez and Iannis Xenakis. A researcher at Ircam, he worked in collaboration with Miller Puckette on instrument/machine interactivity and became a pioneer in the research into and the development of real-time electronic music.