Frédéric Acquaviva (born 20 January 1967) is a French autodidact experimental composer and

avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

sound artist Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature, or be used in hybrid forms. According to Brandon LaBelle, sound art ...

living between Paris, Berlin and London who works with voices, instruments, electronics, film and body sounds. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Karl Sczuka Prize for his music "ANTIPODES". Acquaviva has been prolific on the underground/experimental music scene since 1990, working with major figures of the historical avant-garde including

Isidore Isou Isidore Isou (; 29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art ...

, Marcel Hanoun,

Pierre Guyotat Pierre Guyotat (9 January 1940 – 7 February 2020) was a French writer. Early life Pierre Guyotat was born on 9 January 1940 in Bourg-Argental, Loire. Literary career 1960s–1970s Guyotat wrote his first novel, '' Sur un cheval'', in 1960. ...

, Bernard Heidsieck,

Maurice Lemaître Maurice Lemaître (aka Moïse Maurice Bismuth) (23 April 1926, Paris - 2 July 2018) was a French Lettrist painter (known for his use of Hypergraphy), filmmaker, writer and poet. Lemaître was Isidore Isou's right-hand man for nearly half a centur ...

and

Henri Chopin Henri Chopin (18 June 1922 – 3 January 2008) was a French avant-garde poet and musician. Life Henri Chopin was born in Paris, 18 June 1922, one of three brothers, and the son of an accountant. Both his siblings died during the war. One was sh ...

. as well as people from a more recent experimental scene like poets-artists Jean-Luc Parant, Joël Hubaut,

lettrist Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture ...

Broutin, poet-film maker ,

choreograph Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who ...

Maria Faustino, Maîtresse Cindy,

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

Anton Lukoszewieze,

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

Chihiro Ono,

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

player Thierry Madiot,

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

Mark Knoop,

harpist The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual string (music), strings running at an angle to its sound board (music), soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various way ...

Helen Sharp,

flutist The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

Carin Levine, Bartosz Glowacki (accordion) and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg. As the creator of "chronopolyphonic" installations, he works on the notion of "oxymoron" and in the intersection of instrumental or voice with computer editing since 1990, sometimes including video-texts or live streams, mixing a conceptual approach with physical body sounds. His music pieces are thought from the compositional phase to the form of the final ''objet'', as people could see at his retrospective sound exhibition "Frédéric Acquaviva, Music & Multiples Multiple Musics" at La Plaque Tournante, Berlin, in 2017 or with the first exhibition of his magazine ''CRU'' curated by Martha Willette Lewis at Institute Library, New Haven or the comprehensive exhibition of his editions at Librarie-Galerie Lecointre et Drouet in Paris in 2018. His work has been performed in concert halls and also galleries like

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

and

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

in Paris,

Moderna Museet Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö i ...

Stockholm,

Weserburg The Weserburg is a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Opened in 1991, it is located on the Teerhof peninsula next to the River Weser in an old factory building which was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War. Originally known ...

Museum in Bremen, The Turbine Hall at the

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

in London, La Fenice in Venice, Fylkingen in Stockholm,

Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Cente ...

Deep Listening Institute and

Phill 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 ...

Experimental Intermedia in New York, Gallery Lara Vincy in Paris, gallery

WhiteBox The discography of Sunn O))), an American drone metal band, consists of nine studio albums, three collaborative albums, six EPs, four demos, one remix album, eight official live albums (plus one hundred and fifteen collected bootleg live record ...

in New York City, Le Lieu, Québec, Spor Festival in Aarhus, Futura Festival in Crest, Licences Festival in Paris, ZKM in Karlsruhe, XP in Beijing, Hamburger Bahnhof and Berghain am Kantine in Berlin, Palazzo Bertalazzone in Torino. He has also created works for radios all around the world:

France Culture France Culture is a French public radio channel and part of Radio France Radio France is the French national public radio broadcaster. Stations Radio France offers seven national networks: * France Inter — Radio France's " generalist" sta ...

, Radio Libertaire, BBC-Radio3,

Resonance FM Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station specialising in the arts run by the London Musicians' Collective (LMC). The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and ...

, WGXC Radio New York,

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, RadioWebMacba,

Radio Canada The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government ...

. The music critic Franck Mallet wrote a three-page essay: "Introducing Frédéric Acquaviva" in art magazine ''Art Press'' no. 393, Paris, October 2012 and in 2018 Yoann Sarrat published a special issue of his magazine "Freeing (Our Bodies) #2" on the music of Frédéric Acquaviva with 39 contributions including

, Dorothy Iannone,

ORLAN orlan is an internationally recognized French artist. She is not tied to any one material, technology, or artistic practice. She uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and ro ...

, Jacques Lizène, Michel Giroud Jean-François Bory, Philip Corner, Jean-Baptiste Favory, Bernard Heidsieck, Tom Johnson, Esther Ferrer... He received a command from the French Ministry of Culture in 1998, from ACR (France Culture) in 1999 and 2018, Motus/Palais de Tokyo in 2009 and has been in composing residency at Emily Harvey Foundation Venice (2009, 2011 and 2016), EMS studios in Stockholm (2015 and 2019) and also won the Beinecke Fellowship Yale University USA (2012 and 2017), as well as have been curating since 2003 more than 40 exhibitions on avant-garde art and poetry (Gil J Wolman and Isidore Isou among others) in museums such as

Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art ( ca, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, , MACBA) is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened to the publ ...

(MACBA), Serralves,

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. In June 2019 Acquaviva was awarded the Price for Best Contemporary Art Book of the Year with his first ever monograph on Isidore Isou's artworks (Editions du Griffon) at FILAF. With voice-artist and mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg, he founded the artist and experimental music space La Plaque Tournante in Berlin in 2014, which is based on Archiv AcquAvivA, consisting of a massive archive of Lettrist and experimental documents or artworks from the mid 20th century to the present day, alongside Acquaviva's own music archive. La Plaque Tournante has received the Berlin Senate Prize in 2017 for one of the best artist spaces, after 12 exhibitions. He also runs the CD-DVD-Web Site-Magazine ''CRU'' (present in the collections of the

, Paris; ''MACBA'', Barcelona; ''Fondazione Bonotto'', Italy). Acquaviva has also published more than 100 publications, and apart his own musical work and multiples (published by Al Dante or Les Presses du Réel),Profile. Frédéric Acquaviva
Discogs many artist books spanning Lettrism, Body and Bio art, Sonic art and composers under the labels ''Casus Belli, Editions AcquAvivA, £@B and B@£''.

Works

*''Oeuvre'' (1990) for piano pedal *''Coma" (1991–1992 / rev. 1995–1996), text Pierre Guyotat, for voice, computer and 16 electric guitars *''Sens Unique(s)'' (1994–1995), hörspiel for voices, 4 violins, 4 electric guitars and sampler *''K. Requiem'' (1993–1999), text , for voices, electronic and ensemble *''Tri'' (2000), chronopolyphonic sound installation *''Oreilles Vides'' (2000), for voice-computer *''Et.. et... et'' (1999/ rev. 2003), for voice, electronic and ensembles *''L'Infra Cantate'' (1998 / rev. 2004), for voice, accordion, violin and electronic *''X, 4, 3'' (2006), for 3 BDSM sound bodies and electronic *''Musique Acataleptique'' (2007), text JL Parant, for voice, house field recordings and electronic *''Exercice Spirituel'' (2007), for any sound *''4 Etudes Animales'' (2008), for toilet seat and dog *''Musique Elastique'' (2009), for elastic and Joël Hubaut *''Ledisque'' (2009), for voice *''Edisquel'' (2009), for harpischord *''Disquele'' (2009), for electronics *''Isqueled'' (2009), for voice and harpsichord *''Squeledi'' (2009), for voice and electronics *''Queledisc'' (2009), for harpsichord and electronics *''Uelediscq'' (2009), for voice, harpsichord and electronics *''Eledisq'' (2009–2010), for voice, harpsichord and electronics *''Le Disque'' (2009–2010), for voice, harpsichord, electronics and screens *' (2010), for ensemble of ensembles in extension and live streaming *''Musiques Convergentes'' (2000–2017), for various media and ensembles *''Musique Pédagogique'' (2011), for and against any audience *''Aatie-Fragment'' (2010–2011), for mezzo-soprano, variable ensemble and video *''Aatie'' (2010–2011), for mezzo-soprano, variable ensemble and video *''Musique Démotique'' (2011), for a mobile transmitter *''Musique Hiératique'' (2011), for a mobile transmitter *''Musique Cabalistique'' (2012), for a fixed receptor *''Loré Ipsum'' (2011–2012), for mezzo-soprano(s) and dead electronics *''Musique Antiparaskevidekatriaphobique et Antitriskaidekaphobique'' (2013), for a specific date *''Musique Athlétique'' (2014), for 2 break (core) dancers and mobile sound sources *''Self-Portrait Music'' (2015), for any instrument *''Musique Algorithmique'' (2015), for advertising demonstrator *''Paradoxical Sleep Music'' (2015), for voice or video *''Kiss Music'' (2015), for 2 voices *''Du Singe au Porc'' (2015), for 258 french sound sources and voice *''Ape to Pig'' (2015–2017), for 258 french sound sources, voice and videotext *''Musique Thérapeutique'' (2016), for curator and ill audience *''The 120 Day of Musica'' (2015–2017), for variable instrumentation *''mess'' (2016), for a voice artist *''MESS'' (2015–2017), for mezzo, mouths, skins, buchla and videotext *''£pØ@n®diØ$n'' (2018), concerto for town and voice *''deadline'' (2019), for voice and Jean-François Bory *''ANTIPODES'' (2019), for the voices of Joël Hubaut (+ texts), Dorothy Iannone, Loré Lixenberg; dead electronics and video *''Seminal'' (2020-2021), for speakerine (ORLAN), vocal quartet (Joal La Barbara, Loré Lixenberg, Wills Morgan, Jacques Lizène), orchestra (124 players) and dead electronics *''Musique Posthume (2021), for a performer and dead electronics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Acquaviva, Frédéric Living people 1967 births Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century classical composers Experimental composers