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François Bayle, born on April 27, 1932, in Tamatave, Madagascar, is a notable French composer. He studied in Bordeaux from 1946 to 1954 and continued his education at the Paris Conservatoire from 1958 to 1959, as well as at the Darmstadt summer courses from 1960 to 1962. In 1960, he joined the "Service de la recherche de l'Office de la radio-télévision française (ORTF)," which had been recently established by Pierre Schaeffer. In 1966, Schaeffer appointed Bayle as the head of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). Throughout his career, Bayle has been active as a composer, administrator, and music theorist. He organized concerts, radio broadcasts, seminars, and events dedicated to individual composers, while also supporting technological advancements such as Syter, GRM Tools, and Midi Formers. He was instrumental in major innovations like the Acousmonium, an orchestra of loudspeakers, and the INA-GRM label. In 1992, he founded the Acousmathèque, which houses the GRM library containing over 2,000 works composed since 1948. After leaving GRM in 1997, Bayle established his own audio-numerical and multiphonic studio, where he focuses on research, writing, and composition. This studio also serves as a label for publishing his

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