Christian Calon

Christian Calon is a Canadian composer and sound artist, born in Marseille in 1950. His work moves between acousmatic concert pieces, radio art, audiovisual installations and live electroacoustic improvisation. Calon's Minuit won a first prize at the Bourges competition in 1989. He was a guest of the DAAD artists' programme in Berlin, where he composed The Standing Man, a work for 24 loudspeaker channels based on a ballade by François Villon. He is a member of the improvising quartet Theresa Transistor, with Christian Bouchard, Mario Gauthier and Monique Jean.