Makis Solomos was born in 1962 in Athens. He is living in Paris since 1980. After studying composition with Yoshihisa Taira and Sergio Ortega, he studied musicology in Université Paris 4. He is now maitre de conférences habilite at Universite Montpellier 3 and membre junior at Institut Universitaire de France. His research domains are:

1. Xenakis’ music: PhD on the notion of “sonority” (Pour une approche historique de l’emergence du phenomene du son, Universite Paris 4, 1993, 675 p.), many articles that deal with new questions, a book (Iannis Xenakis, Mercues, PO Editions, 1996; updated in 2004), many conferences in various countries. He also published a detailed commented bibliography of writings of/on Xenakis and the first Greek edition of Xenakis’ writings (Keimena peri moussikis kai architektonikis, Athens, Psychogios, 2001), and he organized (with the Cdmc and Radio France, Paris) in 1998 the first international symposium on Xenakis (proceedings: Présences de / Presences of Iannis Xenakis, Paris, Cdmc, 2001). Now, in collaboration with Beno”t Gibson and Sharon Kanach, he is preparing a critical edition of Xenakis’ writings (in nine volumes) and is co-organising the second international symposium on Xenakis (Athens, May 2005).

2. Researches on recent music, with aesthetical questions from Adorno to globalization and through technologies, from Wagner to John Zorn and through Webern, Varese, Boulez, spectral music, electronic popular music, etc.: he published many articles and the book Formel / Informel (with Antonia Soulez and Horacio Soulez: Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003); he edited Musique contemporaine. Positions actuelles en Espagne et en France / Música contemporánea. Posiciones actuales en Espa–a y Francia (with Jorge Fernández Guerra: Doce Notas Preliminares n°1, Madrid, 1997), L’espace : musique-philosophie (with Jean-Marc Chouvel: Paris, l’Harmattan, 1998), Le « Savant » et le « Populaire » (Musurgia vol. IX n°1, 2002), La métaphore lumineuse. Xenakis-Grisey (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003), Musiques, arts, technologies. Pour une approche critique / Music, arts and technologies. Towards a critical approach / Musicas, artes y tecnologías. Por una aproximacion critica (with Roberto Barbanti et Carmen Pardo: Paris, l’Harmattan, 2004). He collaborates with Ensemble Aleph for the International Forum for Young Composers. He is preparing a book on the emergence of sound, De la musique au son. Notes pour une histoire multiple de la musique du 20e siecle, and is editing a book on the music of Horacio Vaggione.