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French composer Isabelle Sabrié is the author of rhythm-space harmony, a biomimetic harmony that develops multipolar spatiotemporal balances.
Initially soloist soprano, she was a laureate of the Placido Domingo Opera World Competition, and several international competitions. Opera First Prize of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, graduated in musicology from the Sorbonne-Paris IV, she was internationally invited to sing operas, oratorios or recitals. She interpreted soprano leading roles as Queen of the Night (Lyon) or Zerbinetta (Nice), until Médée, Marguerite of Faust (2018) in the Festival Amazonas de Ópera. In memoriam Lili Boulanger, that she recorded with Emile Naoumoff and Olivier Charlier is still played by international classic radios.
Her audiovisual composition Zon i Houé on the theme of slavery, animated the painting of the Beninese Julien Sinzogan, by her singing voice in live (with the support of DICREAM-CNC, LAM-CNRS, PUCEMUSE studios) in 2005. In Memoriam 26 décembre 2004, oratorio dedicated to the victims of the tsunami in Indonesia was presented in Paris in 2007, conducted by Xavier Ricour.
Fascinated by the sounds of the Amazonian forest, she moved to Manaus-Amazonas-Brazil in 2007, where she lives now. She listens to the forest with passion before creating her first spatialized compositions : her opera of mixed music, A Fada e o Girassol inspired an animated film for its premiere in Belém´s Opera (Teatro da Paz, 2012), before her ballet Floresta Multi Espacial (7 performances in Manaus in 2015) or Insetoïda (Brasília, 2020). In 2019 she began a work on spatialized rhythms for popular musics.
Three of her orchestral compositions were premiered with the Amazonas Filarmônica conducted by Marcelo de Jesus, spatialized in the Opera of Manaus : Vento na Árvore, for strings orchestra, in 2015, Viajar, a song for soprano and orchestra, in 2016, Jungle, the 3rd movement of her symphony-ballet Cenas da Amazõnia, for Afro-Brazilian percussions and orchestra, in 2024. In 2021, a first choreography of rhythm-space harmony by Valdo Malaq was filmed on her short composition Vegetal Dance, Amazonian Carnaval. The orchestral and choral scores of Flor da Selva (33 min), a rhythm-space harmony opera for human performers, are available for professionals.
French philosopher Edgar Morin, intellectual godfather of Rhythm-Space Harmony, cited her in Knowledge, ignorance, mystery for her researches about animal languages. Biomimesis and rhythm-space harmony, academic article, was published in Brazil and Spain. She is also the author of the anticipation novel L´arme d´amour (ed. Nicolas Philippe 2002) about neurosciences of non-violence, neuro-force and democracy. She was a singing Teacher at the Amazonas State University until 2013, Special Artistic Advisor for the Agência Amazonense de Desenvolvimento Cultural until 2020. She also is an artist-expert of the UN group Harmony with Nature.
She now dedicates herself to composition, multidisciplinary creations such as Multipolart, lectures, and writing articles. A book to be published in 2026, is dedicated to her 18 years of research, creations, and reflections on biophony and human world in the 21st century, including a musical theory of rhythmic-spatial harmony, its multipolar spatio-temporal balances, and their spatial expressiveness.