Christian Zanesi
Christian Zanési (1952, Lourdes, France) is a French composer and radio producer. Zanési studied music at Université de Pau with Marie-Francoise Lacaze and Guy Maneveau, then in Paris at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique under Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel. Since 1977, he is a member of Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) especially in charge of the production of radio programmes for France Musique and France Culture. Christian Zanési is also a founding member of Ars Sonora, an association for the promotion of electroacoustic music.
Grand Bruit/Stop ! l'horizon
Christian Zanési on Grand Bruit (1991): "The great mobile sound bodies have an ordinary yet amazing ability to place the listener-traveler within, as if he or she was inside a giant double bass, in this case a train stroked by a double bow: the rails and the air. In 1991, I explored this phenomenon during my daily commute from the studio to my home. I used only a 21 minutes recording and treated it as a single sound object. I then processed and enhanced it as a photographer would have don…
Paysage Electronique Avec Train
“My current artistic propensity has been drawn to electronic sound. Far from being soft and appeasing, it is a rather tense sound; almost acidic: the sound of an alert. I reached it thanks to a very old synthesiser; build at the GRM in the sixties by the engineer Francis Coupigny. A modular synthesiser with its own audio matrix – it might have been the first of its kind – discarded (forgotten) in a basement, but still fully operational. I have shaped this ‘today’ sound by combining it wit…