Jean-Baptiste Favory Explained

Jean-Baptiste Favory (born 1967) is a French sound artist and composer of musique concrète, electronic[1] and instrumental music.

Biography

Born in Paris in 1967, he began composing in 1989 and his first works were broadcast on the national French radio France Culture in 1994.

In 1995, he composed the first sound design for an Internet provider, Infogrames. The same year, he started working for theatre, composing sounds & musics for Victor Haïm.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked in Luc Ferrari's studios , and was assistant to Composers such as Gavin Bryars, Luc Ferrari and Brunhild Ferrari.

In 1997, he obtained a two month residency in Monterrey, Mexico, to compose Leyendas Urbanas, a composition with a 180° video projection by Pierre Jacob premiered the planetarium of the city. Two years later, once again in Monterrey, he met the Mexican Free-rock group Los Lichis.[2] Their collaboration led to Several concerts and recordings, In Mexico, France, and the USA.

From 1998 to 1999, he participated in masterclasses at the Iannis Xenakis musical center in Paris (CCMIX), where he studied from Jean-Claude Risset, Curtis Roads, Trevor Wishart, Gerard Pape and Julio Estrada. Thereafter, he obtained a 6-month residency in the CCMIX studios and became a sound engineer for Paul Méfano and Eliane Radigue.

From 1999 to this day, Jean-Baptiste Favory hosts the radio program Epsilona, dedicated to experimental music from the entire world. Some of his well known guests include: Eliane Radigue, Julio Estrada, Jean-Claude Risset, Gérard Pape, Denis Dufour, Jean-Claude Eloy, Michel Chion, Paul Méfano, Haino Keiji, Allain Gaussin, Bérangère Maximin.

Since 2000 he has contributed music and sound to various theater productions with directors Marcel Bluwal, Jean Gillibert and Gérard Maro.

In 2007, he joined the CLSI : "Circle for Liberation of Sounds and Images". This is a composers/performers' band created in 2007 for the interpretation of graphical scores with electronic devices in real time. The circle was directed by Paul Méfano and in 2008 and 2012 they performed concerts at the prestigious Stockhausen festival in Kürten. They recorded with saxophonist Yoshk'o Seffer, a former member of Magma.

At the end of 2022 and in 2023, the electronic piece "Des spheres" was broadcast during several shows at the planetarium of La Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, accompanied by a 360° video representing a journey through our galaxy over 51 minutes.

Favory's works are played in Europe and USA, and most of his works has been released on cd, lp and tapes in France, USA, Mexico, Russia and Great Britain.

"The imagination is effortlessly pushed to the limit: Favory's essential quality is to render the obvious without having to prove it."[3]

Works

Discography

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Notes and references

  1. Book: Solomos, Makis. De la musique au son : L'émergence du son dans la musique des XXe-XXIe siècles. Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2013. 978-2753526389. France.
  2. Book: Cortes, David. El otro Rock Mexicano. Grupo editorial Tomo. 2017. 978-607-415-820-5. Mexico. 408.
  3. Paul Méfano 2019 .
  4. Web site: ACEL EN LIGNE. www.acel-enligne.fr. 2017-11-04.
  5. Web site: Things Under: Organic Compositions for Guitars and Electronics. feedingtuberecords.com. en-US. 2017-11-04.
  6. Web site: Персональный сайт – obs 055. abser1.narod.ru. 2017-11-07.
  7. Web site: Jean-Baptiste Favory (E89) : Entr'acte. entracte.co.uk. 2016-05-26.
  8. Web site: Los Lichis /The Wire – Jean-Baptiste Favory. eljibi.free.fr. 2016-05-26.
  9. Web site: banned production. bannedproduction.blogspot.fr. 2016-05-26.
  10. Web site: SPIRIT OF THE MATTER : Zuble Land. www.musearecords.com. 2016-05-26.
  11. Web site: MONO020 :: Lionel Marchetti / JEAN-BAPTISTE FAVORY: 100 000 ANNÉES MonotypeRec.. monotyperecords.com. 2016-05-26. 2016-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20160820163926/http://monotyperecords.com/mono020-lionel-marchetti-jean-baptiste-favory-100-000-annees/. dead.
  12. Web site: Home . laplaquetournante.org.
  13. Web site: EDITIONS. www.studioforum.net. 2016-05-27. 2016-06-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20160616170553/http://www.studioforum.net/editions.html. dead.
  14. Web site: Various – Lieu – Non Lieu. Discogs. November 2000 . 2016-05-26.

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