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Michel Redolfi (b. Dec 8, 1951) is a French electroacoustic composer and experimental musician from Marseille, best known for the 'underwater music' concept. In 1969, he co-founded [l=GMEM] (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille) with [a=Marcel Frémiot] and [a=Georges Boeuf]. Redolfi moved to the USA in 1973, working as a guest resident at several major computer music research centers: [l=Bregman Digital Music Studio] at Dartmouth College (directed by [a=Jon Appleton], one of the inventors of groundbreaking digital synthesizer Synclavier), University of Wisconsin-Madison studios, and [l=California Institute Of The Arts]. He collaborated with several prominent composers and musicians in the United States, such as [a=Terry Riley], [a=Jon Hassell], [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1747052]Daniel R. Harris[/url], [a=Steve Shehan], and [a=John Cage]. From 1977 to 1984, Michel Redolfi worked at the [url=https://discogs.com/label/795506]UC San Diego[/url], where [l=Center For Music Experiment] had been funding his pioneering research in a liquid environment music broadcasting, [i]Project WET – Water Electronically Tuned[/i]. Some of his albums were inspired by American natural landscapes. His debut album [Link] (1980) was released in France with a stereoscopic cover and a pair of red-green glasses. The record, which was dedicated to Jon Appleton, included [i]Pacific Tubular Waves[/i] (1979), commissioned by INA-GRM, and Redolfi's first underwater piece [i]Immersion[/i] (1980). A year later, the composer organized [i]Sonic Waters[/i] at San Diego Bay, the first subaqueous concert in history: the music was broadcasted underwater for a large audience floating or submerged in diving suits. After returning to France, Michel Redolfi served as the director of the [l=Centre International De Recherche Musicale (CIRM)] in Nice from 1987 to 1998, simultaneously leading a contemporary music festival [i]MANCA[/i] (Musiques Actuelles Nice-Côte d'Azur). Redolfi continued organizing multiple underwater concerts at swimming pools, ocean bays, and lakes around Europe and in the USA with such programs like [i]Nucléus[/i] '89 in Antibes and Nice; [i]Crysallis[/i] '92 opera, premiered at Grenoble / Echirolles Olympic pool with Japanese soprano [a=Yumi Nara] and percussionist [a=Alex Grillo] during the '38e Rugissants' new music festival, [i]Virtual Lagoon[/i] '98 at Sydney Festival, and [i]La Citta Liquida[/i] at the 2006 Venice Biennale. He wrote music for various choreographers, produced sound design for [a=Luc Besson]'s [i]Le Grand Bleu[/i] film and several animations by [a=William Latham].
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