Biography:

After working in diverse institutions in both Beijing and Singapore, he settled down at the Centre for Electro Acoustic Music of China (C.E.M.C.) that is part of the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He is currently teaching Computer Music, and Composition, Digital and interactive Media. When moving down to Beijing, He founded the Timi Modern Music ensemble, Beijing renown amplified new music Band, in 2008. Among the pieces premiered by the Timi were work by emerging composers such as Tony Deritis, John Mallia, Gerry Chenoweth as well as Benoit Granier. The work that the composer did with the performers open new possibilities in music and introduce himself to the notion of music and culture...

He has received comissions from? Demetrius Spaneas, Vicky Chow (from the Bang on Can all Star),The Oster Trio, Yu Yunchun, Aria Voce, Chen Yi, Bruce Gremo, There and everywhere, The Beijing University, Jorge Usan.

His work has featured in Festival such as the Music and Culture diplomacy symposium (Boston), The beijing Modern Music festival, The Beijing Musicaoustica festival, The Gainsville electronic Music Festival, The ICMC, Open Fader, The Santa fe festival of electro-acoustic Music, Sound electric 05.

Upcoming premiere for 2010-2011 include new commission by Bruce Gremo, Dr Richard Boulanger, colaboration with Gerald Chenoweth that will be premiered by the Timi Modern Music ensemble in autumn 2010.

Over the past ten years, Dr Granier has also been active as a composer/visual artist. He has written for a large diversity of medium that ranges from composition for solo instruments to composition for large orchestra. He has also extensively worked for Mixed Media and pure electronics, and recently developed an interest for the creation of composition for mixed ensemble regrouping classical formation and traditional forces.

Reasearch:

Dr Granier research focuses on Technologies, Society and Culture in music. During his Doctoral researches, Dr Granier developped ideas where he uses ideas and knowledges taken from different subject in order to create a complex patchwork of scientific, technologic as well as artistic connections. His orchestral composition IDIC uses principal taken from mathematics, cosmology, Biology, religion, computer programing, acoustic, linguistic...

the possibilities offered by entanglement systems allow complex ramifications to many [non musical] concept and allow to approach music from a perspective that allow the musician to demonstrate scientific thesis through composition. One of the strong point of the composition IDIC was to connect the theory of the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe with the construction of the harmonic series.

He continued his researches when he moved to China. In 2008 he presented an electronic composition following the Riemann hypothesis (The Riemann hypothesis implies results about the distribution of prime numbers that are in some ways as good as possible. Along with suitable generalizations, it is considered by some mathematicians to be the most important unresolved problem in pure mathematics. ).

for more information: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Zeta/EZeta.pdf

the composition"Through Riemann's eyes"was presented in Beijing in 2008 and the technique used was discussed with at the New England Conservatory in 2009.

Following these researches, Dr Granier move toward the importance of music and culture and the opportunity offered to him in china to work with different traditions. He is currently working on compositional solution that can include multiple traditions within one complex modern systems. In order to cary out his research, Dr Granier funded in 2008 the Modern Music ensemble TIMI that is made up with an equal number of classical, modern and traditional instruments.

Contact:

Dr Benoit Granier (PhD, Mphil, Hdip)
Centre for electronic Music of China
Beijing Central conservatory of Music
43 Baojia Street
Beijing
100033
PRC

Email:granierb.personal@gmail.com

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