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Composer and improviser, Xavier Garcia is passionate about apparent contradictions, such as those that link the creation of music in a studio and the use of music on stage; the personal signature on a piece of work and collective creativity; attaching a work to a medium (eg, acousmatic, cinema, disc) and short-lived improvisation (live concert); written work and improvised work; free tempo music (eg, improvised, acousmatic) and music that functions using a 'pulsation'. Xavier Garcia has realised some thirty electro-acoustic musical pieces at the National Audiovisual Institute's Group for Musical Research, at the Lyon Live Music Group and in his own studio. A member of the ARFI musical collective since 1987, he has played the sampler and sound processing in several of their groups, including
La Marmite Infernale (concert repertoire and show Les hommes maintenant…);
L'Effet Vapeur (screenings with live music
Actuel Remix, the duo with Guy Villerd (#01 Metropolis, #02 Heiner Goebbels Remix, #03 Ensemble Modern Remix and #04 Steamboat Bill Junior);
Arfolia Libra (a meeting with the Consort Aperto Libro );
PSO (trio created by Eric Brochard);
Dark Poe (immersive concert in the dark, created by Guillaume Grenard). At the same time, he has implemented projects such as Virtuel Meeting,
Réel Meeting and
Radiorama (3 CDs, Radio France/Signature). He has also contributed to Grame's Smartfaust project, composing
4 pieces for mobile phones, instruments and audience. In addition, he forms a duo with Lionel Marchetti (CD Radio France Signature, to be released in 2017) and plays solo in Lifelines 1, 2 and 3, a series of audio/video pieces; Lifelines 3 is available to order from Grame/Lyon.
