Christian Calon

Born in Marseille, he immigrated to Canada in 1966 and settled in Montréal. Calon is a largely self-taught musician who became interested in electroacoustic music through his friend and mentor, Francis Dhomont. He received his only formal training at McGill University where he pursued graduate studies in computer music for one year. Calon began his composing career in Montréal. In 1986 he co-founded the Canadian Electroacoustic Community with some 100 other musicians, serving as the organization's vice-president in 1989–90. In 1985 his work Portrait d'un Visiteur won first prize at the 1985 Luigi Russolo International Competition. He moved to Europe in 1990, and in 1991 was appointed music director of the studios of the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille. In 1995–96, with the support of the DAAD (Germany), he was one of the foreign artists in residence in Berlin. He is currently based in Montreal.

• Aiguiser l'ouïe (2001) • Atlas (2005–08) • Constellations (1992–94) • Les corps éblouis (1994) • La disparition (1988) • Documents de surface (2002), radio roadmovie in collaboration with Chantal Dumas • Dunkelblau (2008), film opera in collaboration with Uli Aumüller • En vol (1994) • Infamie: Fragmente einer Kartographie (2005) • [improvisation] (2005) • Lettre à M. (1995), radio work • men women train (1995) • Minuit (1989) • Le petit homme dans l'oreille (2000), radio roadmovie in collaboration with Chantal Dumas • Portrait d'un visiteur (1985) • Prochaine station (1990), in collaboration with Claude Schryer • Le projet Ulysse (1997–2000), • Sémaphore-Nord (1997) • Souffles primitifs (2001), bass flute, and tape • The Standing Man (1994–96), installation-performance for three-dimensional sound spaces (projected from 24 channels), on a poem by François Villon • The Ulysses project (1997–1998), radio work, for DeutschlandRadio Berlin • Temps incertains (1990) • Time Well (2000) • Vers les oiseaux (2002) • Die Windrose (2008) • Die Zimmer der Erinnerung [Les chambres de la mémoire] (1997), a fictional essay for radio after Marcel Proust (DeutschlandRadio Berlin) • z | s (un essai sur le Temps) (1999–2002), (DeutschlandRadio Berlin)