Kasper Toeplitz
Kasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of Polish origin, born in 1960. He lives in Paris. Biography He has worked with academic research organizations, such as GMEM, GRM, IRCAM, and Radio-France, as well as with experimental musicians, such as Éliane Radigue, Zbigniew Karkowski, Dror Feiler, Tetsuo Furudate, Phill Niblock and Art Zoyd . Citing Giacinto Scelsi and Iannis Xenakis as influences, his early work was mostly written for traditional instruments. He received several prizes and distinctions for these works: 1st prize in composition for orchestra at the festival of Besançon, 1st prize in the ''Opéra Autrement/Acanthes'' competition, Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs in New York, prize Léonard de Vinci in San Francisco, Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, and DAAD in Berlin. He has also written for his electric guitar orchestra, Sleaze Art. He then integrated computers into his work, via the programming language MAX. His experimentation with computers continued, in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Groupe De Recherches Musicales
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Eliane Radigue , a Brazilian singer
* Eliane, a severe European windstorm which struck Scotland on January 8, 2008
* 1329 Eliane, a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on March 23, 1933
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Eliane can refer to: Éliane * Éliane a French feminine given name ** Éliane, the name for Hill A1 in the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu taken by Colonel General Nguyễn Hữu An * Pierre Éliane (1955), French singer and Carmelite friar Eliane In other languages written without the accent: * Eliane (footballer) (born 1971), Brazilian footballer * Eliane Elias Eliane Elias BrowseBiography.com, 20 November 2011; retrieved 10 September 2014. is a Brazilian jazz pianist, sin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
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1960 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thierry Zaboitzeff
Thierry Zaboitzeff () is a French multi-instrumentalist and composer. Biography Zaboitzeff was born near Maubeuge, northern France in 1953. He was co-artistic director with of the band Art Zoyd from 1975 to 1997. In 1997, he left Art Zoyd in order to realize his own projects and began performing solo. In 1999, he established the band Zaboitzeff & Crew. After its breakup, he went on to lead the band Aria Primitva beginning in 2018. Several of Zaboitzeff's compositions from 1984 were incorporated by Mavros Sedeño into the 2014 French art game NaissanceE. See also * Kasper T. Toeplitz Kasper T. Toeplitz is a French composer and musician of Polish origin, born in 1960. He lives in Paris. Biography He has worked with academic research organizations, such as GMEM, GRM, IRCAM, and Radio-France, as well as with experimental ... References 1953 births Living people French musicians {{France-musician-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gérard Hourbette
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Wilfried Wendling
Wilfried is a masculine German given name derived from Germanic roots meaning "will" and "peace" (''Wille'' and ''Frieden'' in German). The English spelling is Wilfrid. Wilfred and Wifred (also Wifredo) are closely related to Wilfried with the same roots (Old English ''wil'' and ''frið''). People using the name Wilfried as a given name: * Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931–2020), German diplomat * Wilfried Behre (born 1956), German artist * Wilfried Benjamin Balima (born 1985), Burkinabé footballer * Wilfried Bingangoye (born 1985), Gabonese sprinter * Wilfried Bock (21st century), German biathlete * Wilfried Böse (1949–1976), German terrorist * Wilfried Brauer (1937–2014), German computer scientist * Wilfried Brookhuis (born 1961), Dutch footballer * Wilfried Cretskens (born 1976), Belgian cyclist * Wilfried Daim (1923–2016), Austrian psychologist * Wilfried Dalmat (born 1982), French footballer * Wilfried David (1946–2015), Belgian cyclist * Wilfried Dietrich (1933–1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eryck Abecassis
Eryck Abecassis (born 1956) is a composer, musician and an electric guitar player. He composes and plays a wide range of music including orchestral to chamber music, electronic, theater, street theater, and cinema. He moved to Paris in 1976 to study cinema and also worked as a photographer. In 1979 he decided to concentrate on music. He started doing workshops on instrumental research at the IRCAM (Institute for music/acoustic research and coordination) in Paris (where he also did a computer music course). He has been commissioned to compose music for Radio-France, Gmem, Ina-Grm, Grame, French government. His music has been played in international music festivals of "Présences", "Les Musiques-Marseille", "Musiques en scène-Lyon","Amplitude Festival Denmark","Computer Art Festival Padova" and some others. As an electronic musician he travels in many countries including Spain, Brazil, Germany, Austria, England, Sweden, South Korea, and Italy. His style ranges between contemporary ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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François Bon
François Bon, born on 22 May 1953 in Luçon, is a French writer and translator. Work François Bon published his first novel in 1982, ''Sortie d'usine.'' He then earned a creative residency at the Villa Médicis in 1984, and has since worked in literature, as a writer, translator, performer or publisher. François Bon has written essays, novels, radio programs, poetry as well as theatre or children's literature. In 2010, he began a series of translations of novels and essays by the American author H.P Lovecraft, for which he created a website, The Lovecraft Monument. He also works with underprivileged young people in writing workshops. Since 2013, he teaches creative writing at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts of Cergy-Pontoise (France). Contribution to web literature In 1997, Bon created one of the first French websites entirely about literature : ''remue.net'', that evolved into ''tierslivre.net'' and became his primary creative platform. His interest for litera ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 isputed– November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, French critical theory, mysticism, and pornography, as well as classic literature. Biography Early life The only child of Donald and Claire (nee Weill) Lehman, Acker was born Karen Lehman in New York City in 1947, although the Library of Congress gives her birth year as 1948, while the editors of ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' gave her birth year as April 18, 1948, New York, New York, U.S. and died November 30, 1997, Tijuana, Mexico. Most obituaries, including ''The New York Times'', cited her birth year as 1944. Her family was from a wealthy, assimilated, German-Jewish background that ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, ''The Colossus and Other Poems'' (1960) and ''Ariel'' (1965), as well as ''The Bell Jar'', a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death in 1963. ''The Collected Poems'' was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honour posthumously. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hand ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Phil Niblock
Phill Niblock (born October 2, 1933 in Anderson, Indiana) is an American composer, filmmaker, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia,Alan Licht, ''Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020'', Blank Forms Edition, ''Interview with Phill Niblock'', pp.453-478 a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York with a parallel branch in Ghent, Belgium. Early life and education After an early period studying economics (BA, Indiana University, 1956) Niblock came to New York in 1958. Initially he worked as a photographer and filmmaker. Much of this activity centered around photographing and filming jazz musicians and modern dancers. An epiphany occurred while riding a motorcycle in the Carolina mountains. Niblock was climbing a grade behind a slow-moving diesel truck when the revolutions of both vehicles' engines nearly synchronized. "The strong physical presence of the beats resulting from the two engines running at slightly different freque ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |