Bernard Fort
Bernard Fort is an electroacoustic music composer born June 8, 1954 in Lyon, France, and currently living in Lyon, France. Studies musicology (licence, master's degree, post-graduate diploma). Co-founder and in charge of the Groupe musiques vivantes de Lyon (GMVL, France) since 1976. From 1980 to 1990 he teaches electroacoustic music at the Faculté de musicologie of the Université Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and, since 1982, acousmatic composition at the École nationale de musique (Villeurbanne, France).
Fractals / Brain Fever
2022 Repress "Fractals" (1981): Composed at the GMVL from December 1979 to September 1981, this work was commissioned by Fnac. Fractals are mathematical oddities that, when crossing our path, turn the smallest island into an immensity to be explored…
Lumière dans la Nuit
Three GRM commissions by the Lyon composer and ornithologist Bernard Fort, from 1992 to 2002: a meditation on time and loss, a sunrise on a lake in the Danube Delta full of herons and geese, and a long walk on crunching mountain snow.