Background
Born in 1954 in Paris, Pascale Criton was the daughter of artists Jean Criton and Dominique d"Acher.
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Pascale Criton
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She is particularly known for exploiting very dense microtonal scales such as 1/12 tone or 1/16 and beyond for the particular perception properties they imply. She had a compositional formation with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Gérard Grisey and Jean-Etienne Marie. She took part in the Darmstadt Academy in 1980 and 1988, and had an electroacoustic formation (CIRM,1980-1982).
She also had a computer music training course, IRCAM(1986).Criton became interested into ethnomusicology as well, taking part in the activities of the "Groupe de Recherche sur la Tradition Orale" (Abidjan 1979).
