BIO
Grégoire Lorieux is a composer, artistic director and computer music designer teaching at Ircam.
He studied early music and obtained a master's degree in musicology on the work of Kaija Saariaho. He then studied composition with Philippe Leroux and continued his studies at the Conservatoire Supérieur in Paris, while joining Ircam as a professor of music technology.
In 2012, he participated in SPEAP, an experimental programme in art and politics at Sciences-Po Paris with Bruno Latour, which raised his awareness of the links between art, ecology and social issues. Grégoire Lorieux is very active in the field of transmission: in addition to giving lectures on contemporary music, he has launched numerous projects at the frontier of creation and cultural action, particularly in vocational high schools, such as the Ateliers de la Création initiated by Ircam and the Centre Pompidou, Paysages Composés with the Ensemble Ars Nova and the Quatuor Diotima, and the cycle of educational pieces for solo instruments and electronics, Études Électriques.
He was co-director of ensemble Itinéraire from 2013 to 2024 and has been associate professor of electroacoustics at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris.
His musical language, marked by electronics and French spectralism, pays great attention to the construction of sound as well as to the contexts of creation and reception. Taking these into account allows him to alternate between installation forms, semi-improvised performances, educational pieces or pieces for amateurs, and concert pieces.
In 2022, with the support of Itinéraire and Mondes Nouveaux, he created ‘Mondes Sonores’, an open-air festival dedicated to music and ecology.
