page_title: René-Louis Baron
section_title: Composer's path
hierarchical_section_title: René-Louis Baron / Early career / Composer's path
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: René-Louis Baron au cours de sa tournée de récitals en Polynésie française (ici à Tahiti Nui)
context_page_description: René-Louis Baron is a French inventor, author and songwriter. He was 14 years old when he played for the first time on stage as a jazz clarinetist. Later, in 1978, he began in Paris a career as solo singer.
  In 1980, he began to use computers to record his music for films, advertising, large companies, theaters, singers and art galleries as well as his song-poems.
  In 1989, he, a self-taught eclectic, began his own research into algorithmic composition and thus, musical artificial intelligence. In 1998, he filed the first patent for automatic musical composition at the National Industrial Property Institute in Paris.
context_section_description: Gabriel Cousin was a French poet and playwright. His abrupt form of writing and his very personal creative metaphorical style greatly influenced Baron.
  Michel Dorigné was a poet, playwright and musicologist. The diversity of topics and flexibility of his writing, in particular "J'agonise": "We've lowered our Gods from heaven ...", its clever allegories that can mix a scathing first degree: "The stripper ate too much...", have greatly inspired the composer. They collaborated closely until the poet's death in 2009.
  In 1980, Iris Clert created the C.A.R.A.T. (Centre for Art Animation  and transcendental Research) in Neuilly-sur-Seine, the final manifestation of her inclination to irony and unconventionality. She then organized an exhibition of paintings by Louise Barbu and diffused continuously Boushaâme, a sonorous fresco (specially composed by RLBaron) which offers a musical view about the painter's work. The composer continues in this vein with the works of the Serbian painter and sculptor Milos Sobaïc about whom Peter Handke wrote an essay which Alain Jouffroy produced in a monograph (book of art of his artistic work).
  René-Louis Baron performed in cabarets, café-theaters, cultural centers and then sang while playing the piano at the Olympia de Paris.
  In 1989 he returned to sing at the Olympia with artists including Michel Legrand, the Chorale Populaire de Paris,  for the gala event to benefit victims of the Armenian earthquake of 1988. He then worked with various French record labels including Carrere Records.
  Israel Baker, "Head of the desks of strings" in major productions of American movies, for example Yentl where he is directed by the music composer of the film: Michel Legrand. After hearing Baron sing in a restaurant near the Champs Elysees, Israel Baker invited him to produce his recital in Hollywood in a private tavern frequented by the greatest actors. He was then hired by James Salmon (later Minister of the French Polynesia Government) and Alain Deviegre, the theater director in OTAC (Office Territorial d'Action Culturelle), to sing in Papeete (Tahiti), French Polynesia.
  As early as 1980, and for over ten years, thanks to the advent of MIDI music synthesizers, Atari and Cubase, he became an independent producer. He has composed over one hundred and fifty film scores including those under the pseudonym of René-Luis Baron: The Man from Nowhere (1989).
  He has also composed for commercials, for large companies (Aerospatiale, Camel (cigarette), Marlboro, Dassault Aviation, Electricite de France, Gaz de France, Michelin, etc..) and other cultural and educational events such as Guernica and Picasso by Bertrand Borie.
caption: 1984-Récitals of René-Louis Baron in Tahiti (Polynésie française).
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