Life and career

Michel Fano was born on 9 December 1929.[1] He developed the concept of continuum sonore to describe the potential for a film’s soundtrack to interact with its visual content.[2][3] During the early 1950s, he was part of a generation of composers associated with the Darmstadt School, and was a lifelong friend of Pierre Boulez. From 1962 until 1975, he regularly collaborated with Alain Robbe-Grillet on cinematic projects, creating partitions sonores (or “sound-scores”) for five of Robbe-Grillet’s films.[4][5][6]

Fano died in August 2026, at the age of 96.[7]