François NICOLAS

fnicolas [at] ircam.fr

© Guy Vivien

VIDEOS

Interview (Buenos-Aires, avril 2004) : French American Television

·       First part

·       Second part

WRITINGS IN ENGLISH

Français


      "The third listening is the good one (concerning hearing considered as a process of integration)" Musicæ Scientæ (n° 2, 1997)

      "What is a musical logic?" (décembre 1999, Forum Diderot, Ircam)

      "What can we hope for from the musical logics established in the twentieth century?" (march 2000, Ars Musica - Brussell)

      Questions on logic: writing, dialectics and musical strategies (2000)

      Radiation Control on Multi-Loudspeaker Device : La Timée (N. Misdariis, F. Nicolas, O. Warusfel, R. Caussé) - ICMC 2001

      « Defining music ? » (on André Boucourechliev)

      Is Schoenberg Wagner’s future ? (New York, May 1st, 2006)

      How to theorize music today in the light of mathematics? A musician’s point of view – trad. of “Gazette des mathématiciens”, n°119, January 2009

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François Nicolas, who is a former pupil of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and graduate in philosophy, studied the organ with Albert Alain, the piano with Carlos Roque-Alsina, music writing with Michel Philippot.

His musical experience led him to go in for jazz on stage before he turned to contemporary music.

He met Mauricio Kagel and Luciano Bério (Acanthes, 1981 and 1983), he attended to the lectures in Darmstadt (1982 and 1984) and he took the course of computer training, Ircam provides composers with.

He lectured for some time at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and he was also a guest producer of France-Musique.

Hacène Larbi and he founded the ensemble Entretemps and he contributed to the achievement of software Modalys (synthesizing physics models), then of Timée (a multi-loudspeaker source).

His works are published in Jobert editions.

 

François Nicolas combines composition with theory.

Joint-founder of the contemporary music review Entretemps in 1986, he organizes Samedis d'Entretemps (meetings devoted to books about music) and the seminary Entretemps (music and mathematics, music and psychoanalysis,...).

From 1988 to 2003, he was a member of the editorial board of the Revue de musicologie. He is from 2003 associated professor and researcher at École Normale Supérieure (Ulm).