Armando Balice is a French-Italian electroacoustic composer and improviser. He is the cofounding director of Alcôme, a sound and music company.

His main inspiration is the abstract idea of the dark; in his compositions, he explores the poetics and references attached to it. He is striving to develop a form of deep, intense, quasi orchestral musicality that draws as much from modern music of the noisy or metal persuasion than from acousmatic music or classical music.

Balice was awarded the Francis et Mica Salabert Award as part of Sacem’s 2023 Prix Symphoniques. He has received commissions from various institutions and bodies, among them Radio France, Maison de la musique contemporaine, Ina-GRM, La Muse en Circuit, Studio Éole, Ici l’Onde, Ensemble Cairn, Le Logellou, Motus, Esox Lucius, and several festivals. His music is performed abroad on a regular basis, notably in China and Japan, at the Acousmonium festivals in Russia and Austria, and in Italy and Spain.

Armando Balice studied under Jean-Marc Weber, Denis Dufour, and Jonathan Prager, then enrolled in a master’s degree in electroacoustic music and sound arts at Ina-GRM. Today he teaches electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional du Grand Chalon (Burgundy, France).

In 2013, he designed the Alcôme acousmonium (a loudspeaker orchestra for performing spacialized sound works), which he uses to organize concerts of electroacoustic and experimental music.

[English translation: François Couture, vi-25]