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Elsa Biston
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Elsa Biston is a french composer. She is the winner
of the Elektramusic listeners' prize 2008 for her
work "Muance".
Muance
duration : 10:42
Muance (in French; 12th century) for : alteration,
variation.
1) early music : in solmization, name for the substitution
for an exachord by another one.
2) alteration when the voice breaks.
Two different sound universes in this work. Each
with its own material, logic and sound organization.
Sounds change and move to one world to another.
Music changes with timbre alteration but always
progresses.
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Elsa Biston studied
clarinet at the Conservatoire National de Région
in Lyon (France). She also attended a post-secondary preparatory
school / classes preparing for entrance examinations to
the French Grandes Ecoles in Sciences. Elsa Biston also
received a "Sound Director Diploma" at the Primus
Center in Strasbourg (France).
She works as a sound engineer and musical assistant in
contemporary music (IRCAM, GRAME, la Kitchen, l'Instant
Donné, Zellig, Sphota, B. Carat...). She is "musicien
metteur en onde" (musician and sound engineer) at
the French National Broadcasting corporation (Radio-France).
She studied electroacoustic music with Gino Favotti and
Philippe Leroux. She received a Diploma in Musical Studies
(Electroacoustic composition) at the Ecole Nationale de
Musique in Blanc-Mesnil in 2006.
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