{"id":212040,"date":"2022-04-08T17:17:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/authors\/pascale-criton\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:30:45","slug":"pascale-criton","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/authors\/pascale-criton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pascale Criton"},"featured_media":209153,"template":"","acf":{"author_type":"Musician and Philosopher","description":"<p align=\"justify\"><span class=\"lettrine\">P<\/span>ascale Criton was born in Paris in 1954. She studied composition with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, G\u00e9rard Grisey and Jean-Etienne Marie. She participated in the Darmst\u00e4dter Ferienkurse in 1980\/88, took electro-acoustic training at CIRM (International Centre for Musical Research, Nice) from 1980 to 1982, as well as a musical computing course for composers at IRCAM (Paris) in 1986. Moreover, she is interested in ethnomusicology and took part in activities of the Research Group on Oral Tradition in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) in 1979. She has directed various creative workshops at the University of Paris (1979-81), the Avignon Festival (1977-78) and the Pantin Conservatory (1981-82). In a different capacity, Pascale Criton was a member of the Musical Theatre Company of Les Ulis, with Michel Puig, Micha\u00ebl Lonsdale, Catherine Dast\u00e9 and Edith Scob, from 1975 to 1980, and would pursue her stage experience in the framework of productions with Transcenic: dance, theatre, music and audiovisual, with, in particular, <em>Ecrans noirs<\/em>, first performed in 1982. In the field of musical research, since 1980, Pascale Criton has explored micro-intervals and their organisation, whether it be quarter-, eighth-, twelfth- or sixteenth-tones. Her writing uses <em>scordatura<\/em> (specific tuning of stringed instruments, guitars and piano), combined with orchestral instruments and digital synthesis. Fascinated by work on the <em>sound continuum<\/em>, Pascale met Gilles Deleuze, 1978-87, and took a university degree course in musicological research: <em>Chromatismes,<\/em> a masters with Daniel Charles, University of Paris VIII (1987), <em>Aspects th\u00e9oriques et r\u00e9alisations de la notion du continuum dans la musique du XXe si\u00e8cle,<\/em> a post-graduate degree under the direction of Hugues Dufourt, doctoral training in Music and Musicology of the 20th Century, IRCAM (1993),<em> Total chromatique et continuums sonores, une probl\u00e9matique de la pens\u00e9e musicale du XXe si\u00e8cle,<\/em> doctorate. Her research has resulted in State commissions and lectures on musical aesthetics (\u2018Introduction to <em>La loi de la Pansonorit\u00e9<\/em> by Ivan Wyschnegradsky\u2019, Geneva, 1996), as well as synthesis and new instruments. A consulting composer at IRCAM (Department of Musical Research, 1989-91), she has collaborated with the Waves and Acoustics Laboratory at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris since 1993. In 1999, the Ensemble 2e2m devoted a portrait concert to her, as well as a publication devoted to her work, which was brought out in the <em>\u2018\u00e0 la ligne\u2019<\/em> collection (Ensemble 2e2m): <em>Pascale Criton, les univers microtemp\u00e9r\u00e9s<\/em>. Her works are published by Jobert and have been played in France as well as abroad: Georges Pompidou Centre, IRCAM, MANCA Festival (Nice), Midem (Cannes), Intermusica, Ars Electronica, Darmstadt, Ijsbreker Institute (Amsterdam), Archipel Festival, 3rd Pianoforum (Heilbronn), the American Festival of Microtonal Music in New York and Radio-France.<\/p>","featured_image":209153,"image_gallery":"","links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pascale.criton"}],"in_evidenza":false,"role_description":"","short_bio":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/212040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}