Dubedout, D :: Fractions du Silence **CLEARANCE**

Fractions du Silence **CLEARANCE**

Dubedout, D

A French composer born May 8, 1958 in Bayonne, Bertrand Dubedout studied the piano at Bayonne, continued his musical training at the University of Pau, then entered the Paris Conservatory, notably in the classes for electro-acoustic composition and music research of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel. In parallel, he studied the musicology course at the University of Paris VIII and completed training in choral direction at the Centre d’études polyphoniques in Paris with Philippe Caillard. In 1988, with Pascal Gaigne, he founded and then directed the Pythagore Ensemble in Toulouse, where he is a teacher of electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatory. In 1999 he was in residence at the Villa Kujoyama, where he nurtured his fascination for the Asiatic world. The music of Bertrand Dubedout explores the instrumental and vocal repertories, together with those of acousmatics and mixed music, both in their specificities and their possible interactions. His style is based on ultra-chromaticism in quarter tones, with pitch scales of variable density. His works include Iniji (1982), Les nombres (1986), Entre les braises rouges (1990), Sapha (1991) and the eight books of Fractions du silence, a vast fresco inspired by poetry of André du Bouchet.