Michèle Bokanowski

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-suche-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 Fakultät von Vincennes, as well as electronic music with Eliane Radigue. Zwischen 1972 und 1984, she composed essentially for the concert ["Korè" for one pianist, "Drei-zimmer-angst", "Tabu"], and for film [mostly for Patrick Bokanowski]. Since 1985, she has also composed for television, theatre [with Catherine Daste], and for dance [with choreographers Hideyuki Yano, Marceline Lartigue and Bernardo Montet].