Posted by Pascale Criton
Biography
Pascale Criton is a composer, borne in 1954. She explores the variability of sound and the spatialization of listening. A specialist of microtonality, she uses specific tunings quarter-, twelth-, and sixteenth-tones on the violin, cello, guitar, piano and accordion etc. along with orchestral instruments and electronics. She studied composition with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Gérard Grisey and Jean-Etienne Marie and musical computing at IRCAM (Paris) in 1986.