Michèle Bokanowski

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Female

Birthday 1943-08-09 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Cannes, France

Michèle Bokanowski

Biography

Michèle Bokanowski (August 9, 1943, Cannes, France) is a French Paris-based electroacoustic music composer. After a classical education in harmony, she met Michel Puig, a student of René Leibowitz, who taught her composition and analysis according to Schönbergian principles. In September 1970, she began a two year course at the "Service de la recherche de l’ORTF" (ORTF Research Department) under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer. At the same time, she participated in a sound synthesis research group, studied computer music at the Faculté de Vincennes as well as electronic music with Eliane Radigue. Between 1972 and 1984, she composed essentially for the concert ["Korè" for one pianist, "Trois chambres d’inquiétude", "Tabou"], and for film [mostly for Patrick Bokanowski]. Since 1985, she has also composed for television, theatre [with Catherine Dasté], and for dance [with choreographers Hideyuki Yano, Marceline Lartigue and Bernardo Montet].

Known For

Sound

2021
Hum Drum

as Original Music Composer

2019
2018
L'indomptable

as Original Music Composer

2018
Soar

as Music

2016
A Solar Dream

as Original Music Composer

2014
Un rêve

as Original Music Composer

2008
Solar Beats

as Music

1998
Flammes

as Music

1994
By the Lake

as Music

1992
The Beach

as Music

1982
The Angel

as Music

1974
Breakfast

as Music

Director

2004
Fenêtres

as Director