Michel Titin-Schnaider

To compose is to imagine and to build with sounds

Electronic engineer and self-taught musician, I compose with my home studio a primitive music, without melody nor rythmic, based on the basic pleasure of "sound immersion".

I'm influenced by contemporary music: without academicism, due to its original, and often revolutionary, approaches (electro-acoustic, spectral music, micro-tonality, repetitive, random), and also by electronic progressive music.

My favourite composers: Pierre Henry, Morton Feldmann, György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Cage, Kaija Saariaho, Karlheinz Stockausen, and also Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd...

Born in Paris in 1960
Kid , there was in my home a very old piano: I was fascinated by this "sound object"
I discover the electronic: it is a passion, I build several analog synthesizers and try to compose influenced by Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream... but material is very very expensive...
Big curiosity for non conventional musics, perhaps to not do like my friends: I discover Pierre Henry, Philip Glass and american repetitive composers, La Monte Young (I remember this record I had: 45' with only one sinusoïdal frequency at 202.5 Hz !)
I read the "bible", the "Traité des objets musicaux" from Pierre Schaeffer.
Follow my parents advices and do electronic engineer studies but I think these studies will be also helpfull for music.
80's : I follow regularly the radio programme "cycle acousmatique".
Then, a big hole... work, travels, sport... no creations but a lot of interest to discover all tendances of contemporary music: serial music, micro-tonality, spectral music, opened musics, random musics.
2004: Thanks to a MAO review, I discover that it is now possible to do music with a simple PC. I start.
2007: I self produce my first album "Recordare": some fundamental works and a very bleak electro-acoustic piece on the subject of the big cathedrals.
2008: I self produce my second album "Objets sonores": 5 electro-acoustic works for piano and cello.

For the course of events...see the page events