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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 [a=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 [a=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 [a=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 [a3112306]]. Since 1985, she has also composed for television, theatre [with [a4055398]], and for dance [with choreographers Hideyuki Yano, Marceline Lartigue and Bernardo Montet].