Pierre Mariétan and Ray Gallon

Thanks to recent research in this area, we can now offer basic elements for constituting environmental sonic models for examination and reflection by those who are called upon to take part in urban and architectural creation. The object is to raise consciousness of the sonic dimension as a component of the constructed environment.

Biography Pierre Mariétan, born in Monthey (Switzerland), 1935, has lived in Paris since 1964. He studied at the conservatories of Geneva and Venice, the Hochscule für Musik in Cologne, and the Musikakademie of Basel (with P. Boulez and K. Stockhausen) became a Teacher at the Université de Paris (I and VIII), Maître de conférence at the Ecole díArchitecture de Paris la Villette, Director of the LAMU (Laboratoire Acoustique et Musique Urbaine) and was Founder of the GERM (Groupe díEtude et Réalisation Musicales). He has composed over 100 vocal, instrumental, orchestral and electronic works, performed at numerous festivals and other musical organisations. He is the initiator of research in the area of qualification of sound in space, with the creation of concepts about background noise, the sonic situation, and auditory models. He is a producer for the Atelier de Création Radiophonique at France Culture (French state radio). He has had numerous tours as musician and lecturer in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan. He has had temporary and permanent sound installations, and participated in urban and rural architectural projects and realisations, in France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain. He is the winner of many international competitions, including the Ars Acoustica International prize in 1996.

Biography Ray Gallon, born in the New York City area in 1947, pursued studies in communication at Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) and theatre design at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, where he became a citizen, studying Piano and music theory/composition with teachers such as Russell Sherman, Benjamin Oren, and Ronald Clairmont; Oboe with Englebert Brenner, Master classes with Walter Piston, Carlos Chavez, Henry Cowell and Vincent Persichetti. Created over 50 sound and lighting designs for theatre and performance art presentations in Canada and the USA, especially at the Theatre, Second Floor in Toronto where he was resident lighting and sound designer. He has produced over 100 radio works and "compositional documentaries" for CBC radio, National Public Radio (NPR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Radio Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands International, France Culture and other broadcasters. As programme manager of radio station WNYC-FM in New York, the largest public radio station in the USA, he implemented a programme of contemporary music and cultural creation in collaboration with New York artists and international broadcasters. He has taught at the New York University department of Film/Television/Radio, the New School for Social Research, the Ecole d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, the Ecole Nationale de Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the Université de Toulouse le Mirail and the Université de Montpellier III Paul Valéry. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and has been living in France since 1992 where he has been pursuing a double life as a consultant in communication and developer of sound installations and projects for creative expression using new communications technologies.