About author : LEJEUNE Jacques

Born in 1940 in Talence, France, Jacques Lejeune studied music at the Schola Cantorum (Daniel Lesur), at the Conservatoire National Supérieur of Paris (Pierre Schaeffer) and the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (François Bayle). He entered the GRM in 1968 and was in charge of the 'music for images' section. In 1978, he launched the 'Ateliers de musique électroaccoustique' as the result of a partnership between Ina-GRM and ADAC/Town of Paris. He created the curriculum and organised the running of the school.

In 2005, a bilingual double cd-book was published by Licences in the "Sonopsis" collection. In 2006, a second book containing visual and audio documents was released in the INA's "Portraits Polychromes" series, published by Michel de Maule on the GRM's internet site. About thirty of his works have been released as cds. He has won several awards in France and abroad (Musica Nova, Paul Gilson prize, Ars Electronica, 20th anniversary of the CDMC, Grand Prix Lycéen for composers, F.A.U.S.T.)

Jacques Bonnaure speaks of Jacques Lejeune in these terms in La lettre du musicien of December 2000 : "Lejeune occupies a special place in the field of electro-acoustic music. He is perhaps the only one in this musical galaxy to speak, not without humour, the language of stories and dreams, of childhood and love, of gourmandise and erotism". And Philippe Louvreaud adds, in Bibliothèque(s) of March 2006 : "...The music, both rough and moving, crude and tender, made of rustling, feverish agitation, clair-obscur buzzing, spreads out like an "electronic forest" where the material is manifested with no prejudice to its imaging virtualities... an exhaustive and detailed catalogue, English summaries, rich and original illustrations make this precious publication the greatest hommage possible to this still too secret figure of today's music..."