fnicolas
[at] ircam.fr
© Guy Vivien
VIDEOS
Interview (Buenos-Aires, avril 2004) : French
American Television
WRITINGS IN ENGLISH
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"The third listening is the good one (concerning hearing
considered as a process of integration)" Musicæ Scientæ (n° 2, 1997)
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"What is a
musical logic?" (décembre 1999, Forum Diderot, Ircam)
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"What can we hope for from the musical logics established in
the twentieth century?"
(march 2000, Ars Musica - Brussell)
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Questions on logic:
writing, dialectics and musical strategies (2000)
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Radiation Control
on Multi-Loudspeaker Device : La Timée (N. Misdariis, F. Nicolas, O. Warusfel, R. Caussé) -
ICMC 2001
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« Defining music ? » (on André Boucourechliev)
— Is Schoenberg Wagner’s future ?
(New York, May 1st, 2006)
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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).