{"title":"Michel Redolfi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichel Redolfi (b. Dec 8, 1951) is a French electroacoustic composer and experimental musician from Marseille, best known for his groundbreaking concept of 'underwater music'. In 1969, he co-founded GMEM (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille) with Marcel Frémiot and Georges Boeuf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRedolfi moved to the USA in 1973, where he worked as a guest resident at several major computer music research centers including Bregman Digital Music Studio at Dartmouth College, University of Wisconsin-Madison studios, and California Institute Of The Arts. During his time in the US, he collaborated with prominent composers and musicians such as Terry Riley, Jon Hassell, Daniel R. Harris, Steve Shehan, and John Cage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1977 to 1984, Michel Redolfi conducted pioneering research on liquid environment music broadcasting at UC San Diego's Center For Music Experiment through his Project WET – Water Electronically Tuned. Inspired by American natural landscapes, some of his albums were created during this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter returning to France in the late 1980s, Redolfi served as the director of Centre International De Recherche Musicale (CIRM) in Nice from 1987 to 1998 while also leading the contemporary music festival MANCA (Musiques Actuelles Nice-Côte d'Azur). He\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sonic-waters-underwater-music-1979-1987","title":"Sonic Waters, Underwater Music 1979-1987","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With the Sonic Waters project initiated in 1978, my aim was to situate the field of electronic music within a liberating and futuristic experience, outside the concert halls and in sync with the development of new instruments - in particular the Synclavier digital synthesizer, the first model of which I acquired in 1977. As a concert space, the Pacific Ocean seemed to me to be the ideal experimental medium for both acoustic and cultural reasons. I then developed the aesthetic and technical elements that would contribute to the conception of \u003ci\u003eUnderwater Music\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNumerous performances would follow spanning four decades, in natural sites or in large public pools such as those of Sydney, Paris or Venice during the 2006 Biennale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI've divided this album into two fields: \u003ci\u003eSonic Waters: Music for Fresh Water\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) and \u003ci\u003eSonic Waters: Music for Salt Water\u003c\/i\u003e (1979-1987)\" - Michel\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Rosa","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50512324264267,"sku":"1136086","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9fb8f7b1-0dd5-41f8-a346-2717e46115c2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727900041"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_46c38c0a_thumbnail_4096_ff3f2957-8d7f-46d8-8962-9b15c977d501.jpg?v=1727900022","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/michel-redolfi.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}