Jean-Baptiste
Barrière (b. 1958) recieved training in music, philosophy
and mathematical logic. Along with his career in composition, he
was at IRCAM/Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris from 1981-1998, first
as a researcher, then as the director of Musical Research (1984-1987),
Education (1989-1998), and Production (1993-1998). In September
1998, he left IRCAM to concentrate on composition.
His
electroacoustic cycle Pandemonium (1975-1976) was presented on two
records on the Atem label in 1978 and 1979. His piece Chréode,
won the Prix de la Musique Numérique of the Concours International
de Musique Electro-acoustique of Bourges in 1983, and is published
on a Wergo CD.
He
has composed the music of several multimedia shows, including Collisions
(with Kaija Saariaho), directed by Pierre Friloux and Françoise
Gedanken, premiered in 1984 at the Festival Ars Electronica in Linz.
He
has realized the music of an installation with image synthesis of
Pierre Friloux, for the International Festival of New York, exhibited
during the summer of 1988 inside a pillar of the Brooklyn Bridge,
and then later at the Festival de Montréal.
In
1995, he realized the music of the virtual reality piece Le Messager
of Catherine Ikam and Louis Fléri, presented in the exhibition
Cité-Ciné 2, at La Colline de La Défense; and
in 1996, the one of Alex, presented at IRCAM.
In
September 1996, he also realized the sound portion of the virtual
reality piece Le diable est-il courbe? of Maurice Benayoun,
presented in the Etats généraux de lÕécriture
interactive, at the Vidéothèque de Paris.
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In
1997, he directed the realization of the soundtrack for the exhibition
Flying over water by Peter Greenaway, presented in the Miro Foundation
in Barcelona. He then composed the music of 100 Objects to Represent
the World, a show by Peter Greenaway premiered at the Salzburg Festival
in August 1997, of which a CD was released by IRCAM.
He
has composed the music of several virtual reality pieces by Maurice
Benayoun, Worldskin, premiered at the Ars Electronica Festival in
September 1997 (which also won the Prix Ars Electronica 1998 for
Interactive Art), as well as the Tunnel Paris-New Delhi, a televirtuality
piece between the Cité des Sciences in Paris and india, from
January 10th to February 1998 for the celebrations of the fifty
years of the Indian Republic, and Crossingtalks, premiered October
1999 in the ICC museum in Tokyo.
He
has also conceived and directed the realization of the CD-ROM Prisma,
discovering contemporary music through the works of Kaija Saariaho,
published by WSOY in 1999.
He
is currently developing Reality Checks, a cycle of installations
and performance pieces involving solo instrumentalists and the live
transformation of sound and image. He has also realized Autoportrait
in motion, a sound and image interactive installation, commissioned
by the Contemporary Museum of Zurich, premiered in January 1998
and also party of the Reality Checks cycle. The first performance
piece in this cycle, Cellitude, for cello, was published as an enhanced-CD
on the Petals label in 1999.
He
is currently also working on various installation projects with
Peter Greenaway and Maurice Benayoun.
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