Michel Fano is a musician, type-setter of serial music, writer, scenario writer, inventor of the concept of “Sound Partition” to the cinema. With carried out the soundtrack of almost all films of Alain Robbe-Grillet and several animalist films of which the Territory of the others .

Biography

Born the December 9th 1929 in Paris XVIe, Michel Fano continues traditional musical studies with the Academy where he is the pupil of Olivier Messiaen and the friend of Pierre Boulez, and becomes a time the pianist of Henri Salvador.
It is made known as type-setter and theorist and written inter alia a Sonate for two pianos (1952) and a Etude for 15 instruments , two serial parts of a rare complexity. With beginning of the year 50, the musical avant-garde, which is expressed in particular in the Parisian concerts of the Musical Field organized by Pierre Boulez, meets a disorientated public, even hostile; and Michel Fano is those which fight for new forms of listening, matter which it personally develops in texts like Aspects of the music contemporary .
In 1953, it will succeed in making of sound Wozzeck or the New Opera , written with the poet Pierre Jean Jouve, a book of reference, emblematic of one time, but also " art poétique" of its future inventions in the field of the sound to the cinema.
At the end of the Fifties, Fano binds with the novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet and by-product Hiroshima my love (1959), last Year with Marienbad (1961), both carried out by Alain Resnais, then Immortal the (1963), first realization of Robbe-Grillet itself. This meeting marks the beginning of a long collaboration between the type-setter and the writer headlight of the Nouveau Novel. Michel Fano will write, indeed, the sound partition of the majority of his films of which Trans-Europ-Express train (1966), the Man who lies (1968), Eden and after (1970), progressive Glissements of the pleasure (1974),…
Its collaboration with Alain Robbe-Grillet, allows him, inventing a new trade, to develop and to apply its design of the music to the cinema, which it calls " the Sonore" Partition; : a new concept where, unlike the film musics, the music, the voice, the real or made up noise form nothing any more but one sound unit indissociable.
It is in its animalist films, the Territory of the others (1971) which it Co-carries out with Gerard Vienna and François Bel and the Claw and the tooth (1976), of Vienna and Bel, conceived apart from any anthropomorphic temptation, which this concept of “sound partition” is succeeded the most.

While being based on his know-how of musician, Michel Fano carries out a career of engineer and assembler his cinema and creates his own studio, Will have Films, where it can try out sound novel methods. He is thus the first to use the portable tape recorder Nagra on the turning of a film of feature-length film, and one of the first to use a system of assembly his virtual (the system Dy-Axis) for the sound assembly in the People Monkey (1989) of Gerard Vienna. He also works with realizers like Pierre Kast in the Beautiful age (1959), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze in Water with the mouth (1960), Jean-Pierre Mocky in a couple, or Jean Rouch in the Human pyramid and Chronique of a summer (1961).
Michel Fano also carries out several films having the music for object and in particular a series for television: " Introduction to the Contemporaine" Music; (seven hours of emissions for Antenna 2). One still owes him the soundtrack of the series animated in synthesized images 3D Quarxs (1993) conceived and realized by Maurice Benayoun. Teacher, it will exempt during nearly one half-century to the courses and conferences on sound esthetics with the students of cinema. At the request of Gajos Jack, founder of the Fémis, it creates and directs during seven years the department Its of this famous Parisian school of cinema. A teaching which it also exempts in Latin America: with the Escuela Internacional de Cine there Televisión of Cuba, but also in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Brasilia.
More recently, Michel Fano works on two projects. The first uses the possibilities offered by the multi-media one (DVD, Romanian CD) as regards creation of audio-visual works from the point of view of Co-creation with the user. In the second, it turns over towards the modern music of its beginnings, by writing a new musical work of nine parts for Soprano, together instrumental and electronic “Fab” whose parts “Fab V” and “Fab IV” were already played in public in Cannes and Grenoble.

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