Pascale Criton

Pascale Criton (born 1954) is a French composer of contemporary music, and musicologist. 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.

Life Born in 1954 in Paris, Pascale Criton was the daughter of artists Jean Criton and Dominique d'Acher. She had a compositional formation with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Gérard Grisey and Jean-Etienne Marie. but it affects the perception of timbre, rhythm, the feeling of time. Criton takes advantage of this property to create subtle shifting of notes, giving rise to progressive but imperceptible change of musical texture.

Works Mémoires for 1/16 tone piano (1982) Thymes, for 1/4 tone Piano and digital synthesis (1988) Clines, for bass flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and tape (1990) Biffurcations for cello and 1/16 tone piano (1994) Territoires imperceptibles, for bass flute, 1/16 tone tuned guitar and cello(1997) La Ritournelle et le galop, 1/16 tone tuned guitar with 1/4 tone frets (1995) Le passage des heures, For voice, cello, violin and flute (1998) Artefacts for flute, clarinet, horn, timbales, three guitars (amplified, in 1/12 tone), violin, viola, cello, doublebasse(2001) OUT for waves (2015) Bothsways solos and duos for violin and cello tuned in 1/16th of a tone, 5 movements (2015) I double for two guitars tuned in 1/12th of a tone (2015) Wander steps for two microtonal accordions (2018)