Michel Redolfi (b. Dec 8, 1951) is a French electroacoustic composer and experimental musician from Marseille, best known for the 'underwater music' concept. In 1969, he co-founded GMEM (Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille) with Marcel Frémiot and Georges Boeuf.
Redolfi moved to the USA in 1973, working as a guest resident at several major computer music research centers: GMEM at Dartmouth College (directed by Jon Appleton, one of the inventors of groundbreaking digital synthesizer Synclavier), University of Wisconsin-Madison studios, and GMEM. He collaborated with several prominent composers and musicians in the United States, such as Terry Riley, Jon Hassell, [url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1747052]Daniel R. Harris[/url], Steve Shehan, and John Cage. From 1977 to 1984, Michel Redolfi worked at the [url=https://discogs.com/label/795506]UC San Diego[/url], where GMEM had been funding his pioneering research in a liquid environment music broadcasting, Project WET – Water Electronically Tuned. Some of his albums were inspired by American natural landscapes.
His debut album Immersion / Pacific Tubular Waves (1980) was released in France with a stereoscopic cover and a pair of red-green glasses. The record, which was dedicated to Jon Appleton, included Pacific Tubular Waves (1979), commissioned by INA-GRM, and Redolfi's first underwater piece Immersion (1980). A year later, the composer organized Sonic Waters at San Diego Bay, the first subaqueous concert in history: the music was broadcasted underwater for a large audience floating or submerged in diving suits.
After returning to France, Michel Redolfi served as the director of the GMEM in Nice from 1987 to 1998, simultaneously leading a contemporary music festival MANCA (Musiques Actuelles Nice-Côte d'Azur). Redolfi continued organizing multiple underwater concerts at swimming pools, ocean bays, and lakes around Europe and in the USA with such programs like Nucléus '89 in Antibes and Nice; Crysallis '92 opera, premiered at Grenoble / Echirolles Olympic pool with Japanese soprano Yumi Nara and percussionist Alex Grillo during the '38e Rugissants' new music festival, Virtual Lagoon '98 at Sydney Festival, and La Citta Liquida at the 2006 Venice Biennale. He wrote music for various choreographers, produced sound design for Luc Besson's Le Grand Bleu film and several animations by William Latham.
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Audionaute, Cezame Music Agency
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2015
Audionaute
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2014
Signature (9)
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2012
INA-GRM
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2004
Signature (9)
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2004
2002
Cezame
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1997
Inner Ear (4), CIRM
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1997
1995
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INA-GRM
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1992
Ultrason
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1991
Albin Michel
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1991
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hat ART
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Albin Michel
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Naxos
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2002
Sri Moonshine Music
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1998
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Earshot Records (4)
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1995
Sombient, Asphodel
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1994
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Festival 38ᵉ Rugissants, l'empreinte digitale
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1993
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CELP
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1985
GMEM
LP
2019
FACT Magazine
File, MP3, Mixed, 320
2017
Secret Thirteen Journal
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2015
Secret Thirteen Journal
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2013
Secret Thirteen Journal
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2013
Macadam Mambo Podcast
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2012
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Label Bleu, Bleu Electric, Couleur 3
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2004
Signature (9)
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Fondazione Teatro Massimo, Ina-Grm
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1998
Cezame
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1997
Cezame
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1995
Silent
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1995
Le Chant Du Monde, Le Chant Du Monde
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Cezame Productions
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Cezame
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1995
Silent
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