Marc Battier started to use computers in composition in 1970. His music often deals with the voice and with poetry and with painting. Battier has worked in computer music at Groupe de Recherches Musicales (France) as assistant to Francois Bayle, as well as at IRCAM (France. He is now involved in researching the history of Twentieth Century music technology. He is co-founder of Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS-Network) and founder of Electroacoustic Music Studies Asian Network. He is currently professor of musicology and electroacoustic music at the University of Paris Sorbonne and head of the MINT research group.
