 In the 1950s he studied with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen.In 1960 he joined the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and in 1966 was put in charge of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM).In 1975, the GRM was integrated with the new Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) with Bayle as its head, which post he held until 1997.