Louis Dufort

Louis Dufort is an electroacoustic music composer born July 29, 1970 in Montréal, Canada, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.

Louis Dufort has 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 Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where he received a first prize with distinction. But university studies have not altered his iconoclasm and originality: his passion for electronic music and his love of cinema, painting and contemporary dance lead him to incorporate elements in his composition that are drawn from beyond music.

Object, body, color and sound anecdote give rise to plays of perception that envelope the listener. Sound material is used in this way to draw forth musical outlines in which poetry and the narrative representation of sound serve as markers in the development of the work.

He currently divides his time between composing for the Marie Chouinard contemporary dance company (he composed the music for the choreography of "Le cri du monde", which premiered in Toronto on March 21, 2000), his work with the artistic committee of ACREQ, and the creation of hybrid and unbridled musical experimentation.

His works have been presented in Montréal and in Europe, especially in France. In 1996 he won the First Jury Prize at the fifth Concours international électro-vidéo clip organized by ACREQ for his work entitled "Vulvatron 2000" (1994). In 1997, he received First Prize from the SOCAN Foundation for "Concept 2018957" (1995) and was a finalist at the Concours international Noroit-Léonce Petitot in Arras, France.

Recordings

* "Matériaux Composés" (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 893, 2008)
* "Montreal Sound Matter" (Pogus, 21041-2 CD, 2006)
* "L'orchestre de granulation" with L'Orchestre de granulation (No Type (web), NT 086, 2006)
* "Connexion" (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0051, 2000)

List of Works

* "Accident" (2001), soprano saxophone, and processing
* "L'archange" (2005), oper'installation: 3 voices, 1 actor, and tape
* "Body_Remix" (2005)
* "Cantique #1" (2003), videomusic
* "Cantique #2" (2003), videomusic
* "Les cerisiers" (2003)
* "Chorale" (2003)
* "Concept 2018957" (1995)
* "Consomption" (1999), soprano, and tape
* "Le cri du monde" (2000)
* "Décap" (2000)
* "Déflagration" (2002)
* "Ephem" (2004)
* "La femme des sables" (2002)
* "Grain de sable" (2005)
* "Hi_Res" (2005), surround 8.1
* "Hi_Res.1" (2005), surround 10.1
* " [improvisation] " (2003)
* "Intonarumori" (2002), harbour symphony
* "Lucie" (1998)
* "Manu militari" (2003), saxophone quartet, and processing
* "Matériau III" (2007)
* "Matério_*" (2006)
* "Miniatures" (2006), string quartet, and processing
* "Mouvement" (2005)
* "L'orchestre de granulation"
* "Particules" (2006), amplified piano, processing, and video
* "Pointe-aux-Trembles" (1996)
* "Silo mon amour" (2000)
* "Sound Object" (2003), videomusic
* "Spiel" (2001), flûte et traitement
* "Transit" (1998)
* "Trip à six" (2003)
* "Vulvatron 2000" (1994)
* "Zénith" (1999)

External links

* [http://www.louisdufort.com/ His personal site]

References

* http://www.electrocd.com/bio.e/dufort_lo.html (with permission)