François Bayle (born 27 April 1932 in Toamasina, Madagascar) is a composer of Electronic Music, Musique concrète.
[1] In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
In 1975, the GRM was integrated with the new Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) with Bayle as its head, which post he held until 1997.
During these years he organized concerts, radio broadcasts, seminars and events celebrating individual composers, supported technological developments (Syter, GRM Tools, Midi Formers, Acousmographe) and was behind innovations such as the Acousmonium and the INA-GRM recordings label.
In 2012, François Bayle took part in the French documentary Musique(s) électronique(s) directed by Jérémie Carboni.