THE FUTURE OF MODERN MUSIC

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Pierre Barbaud

Pierre Barbaud was another of a long line of strangely reclusive composers in modern music. He

was born in Algiers in 1911, a fact only recently confirmed. He shunned interviews and photographs.

He is slowly gaining attention now as the founder and project leader of INRIA (Institute de Recherche

en Informatique et Automatique). He thus shared with Boulez and Xenakis a deep interest in research

into sound and acoustics. this interest has blossomed into a number of spectacular works. It must be said

about those works, though, that most are automatic: this is, they were composed via computer directly from

serial algorithms. Unlike Xenakis, who honed the output to obtain ordering that was aesthetically acceptable.

Barbaud generally made no such concessions. His best known works are orchestral: Mu Joken (1968);

French Gagaku (Strings - date unknown); and Hortulus coelicus (1975) - his lone exception to blind acceptance

to untempered computer output. He died in 1990

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