François Bayle (Madagascar, 1932) is a central figure in acousmatic music. A student of Messiaen and Stockhausen, he joined Pierre Schaeffer's GRM in 1960 and became its director in 1966. Theorist and inventor of the Acousmonium, he built a vast body of work in which sound becomes space, image, utopia

François Bayle (Madagascar, 1932) is a central figure in acousmatic music. A student of Messiaen and Stockhausen, he joined Pierre Schaeffer's GRM in 1960 and became its director in 1966. Theorist and inventor of the Acousmonium, he built a vast body of work in which sound becomes space, image, utopia