Jean-Baptiste Barrier

Jean-Baptiste Barrière is a Compositeur and multi-media artist born with Paris on January 2nd, 1958.

It made studies of music, philosophy, history of art, and mathematical logic (Doctorate of philosophy of the University of Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne).
Parallèlement to the composition, it led a career to the Ircam where he initially was researcher starting from 1981, within the framework of the projects Chant (synthesis of the voice sung by computer) and Formes (control of the synthesis and composition with computer), then of 1984 with 1987, he directed the Music research, and starting from 1989, Pedagogy, and of 1993 1997, Creation. Since the summer 1998, it left Ircam to be devoted entirely to creation.
Sa part Chréode gained the Price of the Digital music of the International Contest of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges in 1983, and is published at Wergo. It composed the music of several spectacles multi-media, whose Collisions (with Kaija Saariaho) put in scene by Pierre Friloux and Francoise Gedanken, creates in 1984 within the framework of the Festival Ars Electronica with Linz.

It composed the music of 100 Objects to Represent the World , a spectacle of Peter Greenaway creates with the festival of Salzburg in August 1997, and which continues to turn in the whole world since then.

It also carried out the music of many interactive installations and virtual reality of which Venus Hybrid , a sculpture/fountain with synthesized images of Pierre Friloux, for the International festival of New York, exposed during all of summer 1988 inside the bridge of Brooklyn, then with the Festival of Montreal the following year. In 1995, it carried out the sound and musical part of the installation of virtual reality the messenger of Catherine Ikam and Louis Fléri , introduced within the framework of the exposure City-Movies 2, then in 1996, that of Alex , introduced within the framework of the Festival of Ircam. From September 1996, it starts a collaboration with Maurice Benayoun for which it composed the music of several installations of virtual reality such as: World Skin, created with the festival Ars Electronica in September 1997 and Price Ars Electronica of Art Interactive 1998, like the Tunnel Paris-New Delhi , part of televirtuality enters the City of Sciences to Paris and India, created in January 1998 at the time of the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the Indian Republic; Crossing Talks orders Inter Communication Center of NTT in Tokyo created in October 1999; Art Impact orders of oraos.com created in the Center Georges Pompidou in June 2000; Labylogist orders Mission 2000 for the exposure in network You speak, French in all his states, in collaboration with the writer Jean-Pierre Balpe in Brussels, Dakar, and Lyon; and Planet off Visions, a house designed by François Schuiten for the World Fair of Hanover (June in October 2000), the interactive membrane of the exposure the man transformed of the City of Sciences and Industry to Paris into 2001, designed by Joel de Rosnay; SoSoSo, ordering of the ZKM of Karlsruhe for the Future exposure Cinema in November 2002, presented in French creation to Lyric Gaîté in March 2003; Cosmopolis, within the framework of the France-China Year, in Shanghai then in round during several months in China in 2005; Emotion Vending Machine for Transmediale of Berlin in February - March 2006. It was responsible musical multi-media Course for the Abbey of Fontevraud inaugurated with the autumn 2001 for the ceremonies of the 900e birthday, including/understanding various musical interventions, in particular an installation in the cloister of the Abbey.
Il conceived and directed the realization of the CD-ROM Prisma , the musical universe of Kaija Saariaho, which gained the Multi-media Grand Prix Charles Cros 2000. Cellitude , for violoncello and image processing and sound, is available in the form of enhanced-Cd on www.petals.org.
Time Dusts, ordering of GRM of INA, for percussions and image processings and sound was created by Thierry Miroglio with the Large auditorium of Radio France in April 2001.
Poursuite of the wind, the well with vanities, a visual and musical installation ordered by the Abbey of Maubuisson within the framework of the exposure Simulation, was presented there from June 3rd to December 1st, 2002.
Il realized, with the choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta, the Phantoms of time , a multi-media spectacle for 11 dancers, 1 percussionnist, treatment of the sound and of the image, creates on November 29th, 2002 in Grenoble; and Violance, spectacle multi-media for violin, voice of child, treatment of the sound and the image, according to the Massacre of the innocent of Maurice Maeterlinck, creates on May 16th, 2003 with Criée of Marseilles and Government order for the festival the Musics of the GMEM. It has just created the visual part, orders of Berliner Festspiele, the opera '' the Love by far '' of Kaija Saariaho, presented to Berlin Festspiele Haus then with the Theater of Châtelet in March 2006, and currently prepares Two Dreams of Maeterlinck according to Bruegel , a new spectacle starting from texts of Maeterlinck, inspired of the fabrics of Bruegel, which will be creates in Marseilles in May 2007.

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