Paul Clouvel is the founder and artistic director of Elektramusic. He takes part of Eketramusic CD volume 01 with two works : Canranc duration 11'47 - 2002 (revised version) Elektramusic Electroacoustic Music Volume 01 CD - track 06 “Canranc” an evocation of “Canfranc”, a boarder train station between France and Spain. In 1853 Juan Bruil, himself executive director of a bank, from Zaragoza already had the idea to install a train connection through the central Pyrenees, the shortest link between Madrid and Paris. Over 15 years experts watched the weather before they agreed on the valley of Aragón and Canfranc as the future site of the boarder train station as well as the southern end of the tunnel. Technical obstacles and diplomatic difficulties marked the development of the construction project; the construction work were repeatedly stopped and caused delays. In 1915 the tunnel, which was 7875 meters long, was finished. Canfranc became important,... Speech duration 07'20 - 2005 Elektramusic Electroacoustic Music Volume 01 CD - track 07 “Speech” is an electroacoustic music study in wich spoken sentences from a text by contemporary artist and painter Joël Frémiot interact with fake musical sequences a la John Cage and electroacoustic sounds.

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Paul Clouvel is a French electroacoustic and contemporary music composer. He was born in 1971 in France. His compositional output consists of works for instruments and live electronics, sound installations, dance, theater, and animation projects, but all activity is rooted in his work with acousmatic tape composition, which features most strongly amongst his creations.

Paul Clouvel studied orchestra conducting at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, then composition and harmony at the International Music Conservatory in Paris, receiving a "with merit diploma" in 1992. He also studied musicology at Paris-Sorbonne university . He attended IRCAM summer academy in 1996 at the Institut de Recherche/Coordination Acoustique/Musique in Paris. He also completed the Sound Arts course, a complete course of study in acoustics and sound engineering at the national Music Conservatory in Bourges (France).
Paul Clouvel completed the electroacoustic music course at the National Music Conservatory in Bourges, France, with teacher Roger Cochini, where he was awarded a 1st prize (Diploma in Musical Studies) in composition for instruments and tape, and 1st prize (Diploma in Musical Studies) in studio electroacoustic music composition.

In 1997-1999 Paul Clouvel studied computer music and electroacoustic music composition with composer Marco Stoppa at CNSM/Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, France. Paul Clouvel also studied sound design, computer music and music management (Adatec Orléans - France, Willems Lyon France, and others) and received a Certificate of completion at Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA).

Clouvel's works have been performed in many festivals in France and abroad, including le Bruit de la Neige in Annecy (France), the City of Music in Paris, the planetarium in Lille (France), Fimu Belfort (France), and in several concerts in Amsterdam (Netherlands), La Havana (Cuba), New-York (USA), and on radio broadcasts in the Netherlands, Canada, Hungary, and French France Musique national radio. His works appear on a solo CD “Paul Clouvel 2003”, on the “DisContact III” CD produced by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, and on the “Astonishing Journeys” CD produced by the Studio Forum in Annecy, France. He was selected on the 60x60 project (New-York) and was performormed at the California Los Angeles Harbor College (USA), at Goldsmiths College in London (UK), at the Art School of Hartford University (USA), at the Albany State University in New-York (USA), at Roosevelt University Chicago (USA), at collectif "Unconscious" New-York (USA), at the Essl Collection Klosterneuburg (Austria), at Mills College Oakland in California (USA), at Kulturkiosken in Gavle (Sweden), at the Bijou Theater in Valencia California (USA), at the "All Ears Contemporary Music Festival" in London (UK), and at the Sydney Conservatory of Music (Australia). He was a featured composer in a France 3 television news story about electroacoustic music. His work has received many awards, including a French Authors Rights Society SACEM prize for young composers, a Performing Rights Society PRS bursary award in the United-Kingdom, a prize at the Russolo-Pratella International Composition Competition in Varese (Italy), and two French Authors Rights Society SACEM bursary awards for contemporary music in 2003 and 2004.

Paul Clouvel also works as editor in chief at macmusic.org, the first worldwide web ressource for computer music on Macintosh. He writes in several magazines, including Keyboards & Recording magazine. Paul Clouvel is the founder and artistic director of Elektramusic.