Born in 1980, France,
Pierre-Yves Macé discovers music by improvising on machines,
and then learns piano, classical percussion, plays along with jazz-rock
/ prog-rock bands, and accompanies contemporary and modern dance
lessons. Studies in literature and musicology follow.
His
first recording, Faux-Jumeaux, was released on John Zorn's Tzadik label
in 2002. Circulations, released on Sub Rosa in 2005, and Crash_test ii
(tensional integrity) for string quartet released on
Orkhêstra in 2006.
Residencies at
CalArts (Los Angeles), CNMAT (Berkeley) in 2004, GRM (Paris) in 2006
and 2008. He played for the festivals Octobre en Normandie, MIMI,
Villette Sonique, Brocoli, Transnumériques. He opened for
Matmos, Richard Chartier, Andrew Bird, among others.
He
has collaborated with ON (Sylvain Chauveau & Steven Hess) on
the Second Souffle album (2007, Brocoli 003), pop band That Summer,
Louisville, artist Gaëlle Hippolyte, writers Mathieu Larnaudie
& Philippe Vasset.
He is also requested as
a pianist and as a sound engineer for mixing and mastering (Sylvain
Chauveau, Rainier Lericolais, Vincent Epplay &
Sébastien Roux).
He is a member of the
Encyclopédie de la parole (speech encyclopaedia) crew, a
project whose goal is to constitute a compositional plan through which
different forms of recorded speeches may be compared.
Since
2003, he works on a Musicology PhD about phonography and "sound
document" in contemporary music. He lives and works in Paris.
9. 5. 2010: “Encyclopédie de la Parole: 'Indexation'”