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The spectral music is a movement which was born at the beginning of the Seventies with the research of Gerard Grisey and Tristan Murail. It is an aesthetic school from which, following work of their elders, several composers of the next intermediate generation draw their inspiration: Philippe Hurel, Philippe Leroux, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Jean-Luc Herve, Thierry Went, Fabien Lévy or Thierry Blondeau in France; Kaija Saariaho or Magnus Lindberg in Finland; George Benjamin or Julian Anderson in the United Kingdom, to quote only some of them.

But what is this technique of composition? The spectral music is based on the discovery of the nature of the musical tone and on the composition of the spectrum - entity integrating at the same time the harmony and the tone - of a sound. It is a music which works on the transformation of sound material, thanks to continuous... Read more...