Armando Balice is a Franco-Italian electroacoustic composer and improviser. He is the director and co-founder of the electroacoustic group Alcôme, as well as a professor of electroacoustic composition at the Grand Chalon Conservatory in Burgundy.
He draws inspiration from the abstract idea of Black and explores the poetic and cultural references associated with it, including painting, poetry, and various cultural elements. Armando Balice seeks to develop an intense and deep musicality, almost orchestral in nature, drawing influences from contemporary music with a more noise-oriented character, as well as from the extensive repertoire of acousmatic and classical music.
In 2023, he was awarded the Francis and Mica Salabert Prize as part of the SACEM Symphonic Awards. He has received commissions from various institutions including Radio France, the Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, the INA-GRM, La Muse en Circuit as part of SACEM's Fabriques à Musique, the Cairn Ensemble, creation centers Le Logellou and Ici L'Onde, Esox Lucius, the Motus music company, and various festivals. His music has been regularly performed abroad, including at the Silence festival in Italy, the conservatory of Wuhan and Beijing in China, Japan, the Acousmonium festival in Russia and Austria, Romania, Spain, among others.
Armando Balice studied electroacoustic composition under Jean-Marc Weber and then at the Pôle Supérieur d’enseignement artistique of Paris Boulogne-Billancourt with Denis Dufour and Jonathan Prager before pursuing a Master's degree in electroacoustic music and sound arts at INA-GRM. In 2013, he designed the Alcôme’s acousmonium (loudspeaker orchestra dedicated to spatialized sound), with which he regularly organizes concerts and conducts educational activities focused on electroacoustic music.