Real name: Bernard Heidsieck

Effective period / Period of releases: 1973 - 1997

Bernard Heidsieck (30/11/1928 - 22/11/2014) was born in Paris.
A graduate of the Instituto Politico, he was the deputy-manager of a large Parisian bank. He has been interested in sound poetry since 1955 and since 1962 in action-poetry. In 1955 the first "Poèmes-Partitions" and after 1959 use of the tape-recorder as a means of composition and retransmission. Between 1966 and 1969 he composed 13 "Biopsies", since 1969 23 "Passepartout."

Husband of Françoise Janicot.