Horatiu Radulescu

Born in 1942 in Bucharest, he first studied the violin with Nina Alexandrescu, herself a student of George Enescu and Jacques Thibaud. He then studied composition and music analysis at the High School of Music in Bucharest. He took part in new music courses given by Luc Ferrari in Cologne (1970, 1972), and in the Summer Courses in Darmstadt, where he attended lectured by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti. In 1979­81 he participated in the ircam courses in computer music and psychoacoustics. He has been living in Paris since 1969 (becoming a French citizen in 1974). In 1983 he founded in Paris the soloists1 ensemble OEuropean Lucero1 with the Arditti String Quartet, Pierre-Yves Artaud and other internationally renowned performers. Foreign tours have taken them to Bonn, Turin, New York and Lisbon. In 1988 he held a grant from the daad and worked as composer-in-residence in Berlin. In 1991 he launched in Paris the OLucero Festival1 and the OInternational Lucero Master Classes1 for new music. His output comprises almost 100 works, most of which have been performed all over the world.
In the late 1960s Horatiu Radulescu developed the Ospectral technique of composition1. This comprises variable distribution of the spectral energy, synthesis of the global sound sources, micro- and macro-form as sound-process, four simultaneous layers of perception and of speed, and spectral scordaturae, i.e. rows of unequal intervals corresponding to harmonic scales.

Selected works: Incandescent Serene for double-bass and band (1982), infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite Op. 33 for string quartet (1976­87), Byzantine prayer for Giacinto, hommage
a Scelsi for 24 flutes (1988), Practicing Eternity for string quartet (1993).

Khufu1s serpent IV for ensemble and digital sources (2001, new version 2003)
96 macro-formal eruptions comprise 672 micro-spectral processes. It is a kind of an Oemanation of immanence1. Khufu is the Egyptian name of the pharaoh Cheops.