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Christine Groult

She is a French composer and electroacoustic music teacher.
Born 1950 in Caen, France.

Groult studied at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, then at Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM). She's also studied musicology and linguistic at Sorbonne University in Paris.

Groult taught electroacoustic composition at École nationale de musique of Chalon-sur-Saône from 1985 to 1990, and until then at Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental in Pantin. She's also a founding member of the Music in situ and KM Pantin association.

She composed stage and film music alongside tape music at her own studio since 1997. Her sound installation - Le chant de la Tour Eiffel - is permanently installed on the first floor at the north pillar of the Eiffel Tower.

From my collection is this wonderful 3 inch CD single.


Christine Groult - L'heure alors s'incline

Released in 1993 by Metamkine Records (FraNce)





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There is A Time And Place For This ..

Another Slice of Jazzy's classical Side

Another slice -

Nicholas Sackman - Hawthorne part 2

Hawthorn: — · BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sackman: Hawthorn
℗ 2012 NMC Recordings

David Sawer - Byrnan Wood

Byrnan Wood · BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Sawer: Byrnan Wood
℗ 2012 NMC Recordings


Thomas Adès - Polaris (2010)

I love the way he develops this piece using such scant material, a melody made of a series of intervals, then the inverse. No fireworks when it comes to rhythm either, the success of the piece rests on incremental timbral shifts with sparkling whole-tone accompaniment. Ades himself talks about notes in this piece having their own gravity, relating in a more 'natural' way to each other than traditional harmony. It feels a lot shorter than 14 minutes as well as it draws you into its own pace.

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Monday At The Movies

I know I know ... forgot to do the last couple of Mondays - so three films today -

From the last Stanley Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut -

Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2

Herbie Hancock - Veruschka - Part 2 (Blow Up)

Herbie Hancock - Death Wish (Main Title)

And a bonus for being lax last time -

Gato Barbieri - Last Tango In Paris (full album)

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Just Wondering

What problem or situation did TV/movies make you think would be common, but when you grew up you found out it wasn’t?

What is the silliest recent fashion trend?

What technology from science fiction do you wish existed?

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