Bernard Parmegiani
Bernard Parmegiani (1927 to 2013) was a French acousmatic composer. Trained first as a mime, he joined Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1959 and stayed until 1992. His key works include De Natura Sonorum (1975), a treatise on sound in twelve movements, and La Création du Monde (1984), a cosmology in sound; the Roissy airport jingle he wrote in 1971 was heard by millions who never knew his name.
