Bernard Fort

Bernard Fort (born 1954 in Lyon) is a French composer of electroacoustic music. Cofounder and manager of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes de Lyon (GMVL) until 2018, he also taught electroacoustic composition at ENM Villeurbanne for many years. A composer, audio-naturalist and ornithologist, his musical work is mainly related to the acousmatic genre, for indoor or outdoor concerts, dance, theatre, film, sound poetry and young audiences. He also composes many works for museums and exhibitions, sound installations, educational materials and radiophonic productions. He frequently collaborates with INA GRM (National Audiovisual Institute and Music Research Group). He has been widely published, including thirty or so albums and a dozen books. His work takes him around Europe, as well as the Americas and Asia (where he collaborates closely with Mongolian musicians). He regularly runs training courses on nature field recording and studio composition techniques. As a recordist and audio producer, he is involved in many albums and recordings released by various publishers. In terms of composition, he has always been interested in the limits between abstraction and figuration, as well as nature and culture.