Pascale Criton
composer

Pascale Criton was born in Paris in 1954. She studied composition with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Gérard Grisey and Jean-Etienne Marie. She took part in the Darmstadter Ferienkürse in 1980/1988, followed electroacoustic training at CIRM from 1980 to 1982, and a course in computer music for composers at Ircam in 1986. She also developed an interest in ethnomusicology, taking part in the activities of the Groupe de Recherche sur la Tradition Orale in Abidjan in 1979. She directs various creative workshops: Université Paris VIII 1979-1981, Festival d'Avignon 1977-1978, Conservatoire de Pantin 1981-1982. From another perspective, in 1975-1980, Pascale Criton was a member of the Compagnie de Théâtre Musical des Ulis, with Michel Puig, Michaël Lonsdale, Catherine Dasté and Edith Scob, and continued her experience with the stage in Transcenic productions: dance, theater, music, audio-visual, notably with "Ecrans Noirs " created in 1982.
In the field of musical research, Pascale Criton has been exploring micro-intervals and their organization in 1/8th, 1/12th and 1/16th tones since 1980. Her writing uses scordatura (the specific chords of string instruments, guitars and the piano) combined with orchestral instruments and digital synthesis.
Fascinated by work on the sound continuum, Pascale met Gilles Deleuze, 1978-1987, and pursued a university course in musicological research: "Chromatismes ", master's degree with Daniel Charles, Université Paris VIII (1987), "Aspects théoriques et réalisations de la notion du continuum dans la musique du XXe siècle ", DEA under the direction of Hugues Dufourt, doctoral course Musique et Musicologie du XXe siècle, Ircam (1993) "Total chromatique et continuum sonore, une problématique de la pensée musicale du XXe siècle ", state doctorate.
His research has been the subject of state commissions and conferences on musical aesthetics (Introduction to Ivan Wyschnegradsky's La loi de la Pansonorité, Geneva, Contrechamps, 1996), synthesis and new lutheries. Consultant composer at Ircam (Département de la Recherche Musicale, 1989/1991), she collaborates with the Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris. In 1999, Ensemble 2e2m dedicated a portrait concert to her, and a publication devoted to her work appeared in the collection à la ligne (Ensemble 2e2m): "Pascale Criton, les univers microtempérés " .
Her works are published by Jobert and performed in France and abroad: Centre Georges Pompidou, IRCAM, MANCA, Midem, Intermusica, Ars Electronica, Darmstadt, Institut Ijsbreker, Festival Archipel, Huddersfield Spring, III° Pianoforum (Heilbronn), American Festival of Microtonal Music in New York, Radio-France.