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| Binary Cities Event: Francis Dhomont & Louis Dufort Saturday, December 1st, 2007, 8 pm Location: Recombinant Media Labs 763 Brannan St., San Francisco between 6th and 7th St.  Archival Excerpt (Video & Sound) View video and listen to music from this show  Moirures Ines Wickmann video, Francis Dhomont music
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| "Acousmatic Art was conceived from its beginnings to be heard without the use of visual intervention or performers on stage. It organizes morphologies and sonic spectra, images of sound, coming from a multiplicity of sources, but that the absencce of visual identification makes anonymous, unifies and prompts a more attentive listening ..." – Francis Dhomont French Composer Francis Dhomont is a pioneering composer of electronic music. In Paris in the late 1940s, he intuitively discovered with magnetic wire what Pierre Schaeffer would later call "musique concrète" and began a lifetime of experimentation with the musical possibilities of sound recording. He presented Here and There, Phonurgie, and Moirures – a video realized in collaboration with Inés Wickmann Jaramillo. The young Canadian composer Louis Dufort, former student of Dhomont, shared the evening with two acousmatic works that examine the notion of movement; one of which is an homage to Francis Dhomont and Pierre Schaeffer. Dufort has a fascination with cinema and a history of involvement with contemporary dance that in part explains the extraordinarily visual nature of his work. This performance was made possible in part through grants from the French America Cultural Exchange (FACE)- Funds for Contemporary Music. Artists were hosted by " The Phoenix Hotel - Joie de vivre Hotels".  |
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| Francis Dhomont (b. 1926, France) | ||
| This grand old wizard of the acousmatic genre has received numerous prizes and awards, including The "Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec", the Lynch-Staunton Prize of the Canada Council (1997), the Prix Arts electronica (1992), "Magisterium" Bourges (1988), 1st Prize, Bourges (1981), and was a guest of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin. His works have been selected for the "World Music Days", ICMC, and ISEA. From 1980 to 1996, Dhomont taught Electroacoustic Composition at University of Montreal, working between France and Québec. www.electrocd.com/bio.e/dhomont_fr.html "Francis Dhomont presents his intellectual preoccupations with the air of the experienced artist who is in total control of his sonic material and thus is capable of concentration on his subject." – earlabs.org » Back To Top |
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| Louis Dufort (b. 1970, Canada) | ||
| Louis Dufort has been perforning internationally, receiving distinctions such as the First Jury Prize at the fifth Concours international électro-vidéo clip organized by ACREQ (1996), the first Prize from the SOCAN Foundation for Concept 2018957 (1195), and was a finalist at the Concours international Noroit-Léonce Petitot in Arras, France. Dufort received a bachelor's degree in electroacoustic composition from the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal as well as a master's degree from the Convervatoire de musique de Montréal, where he received a first prize with distinction. He currently divides his time between composing for the Marie Chouinard Contempoarary Dance Company, the artistic committee of ACREQ, and the creation of hybrid and unbridled musical experimentation. www.louisdufort.com
"A marvelous sense of movement and depth is given in the exhilarating shifts from noise to silence and back again that characterizes his music. This is industrial music at its best, demanding total concentration. An education for the ears and a tonic for the mind, a chance to see clear visions with your eyes shut tight." – Stewart Gott, 2001 » Back To Top |
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