Francis Dhomont

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Francis Dhomont (born November 2, 1926 in Paris , France) is a French composer of electroacoustic music . Dhomont is one of the leading exponents of acousmatic music , which is designed to be played over loudspeakers and not by interpreters.

Life

Dhomont studied composition in Paris in the 1940s with Ginette Waldheimer, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger . Dhomont gained his first experience with electronic music as early as 1947 when he experimented with a Webster Magnetophone , an early dictation machine with wire-sound technology , around the same time as the beginnings of Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrete . In 1951 Dhomont left Paris and moved to Provence .

Since 1963 he has devoted himself exclusively to electroacoustic music and founded his own electronic studio. He was co-founder and president of the Musiques Multiples Festival in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence . In 1979 he moved to Montreal , where he initially worked at the university as a research assistant and artist in residence at the studio for electronic music, and later from 1980 to 1996 as professor for electroacoustic music. Since 2004 he has been living and working in France again.

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The core of his understanding of electroacoustic music is playing with sound spectra and the connection of a sound with the images that are evoked in the listener.

His compositions use both natural and synthetic sounds that he creates and processes with analog and digital instruments. Everyday sounds as well as own, older sound material are used.

Compositions (selection)

  • 1981 - Sous le regard d'un soleil noir (51:31 min.)
  • 1982 - Points de fuite (11:21 min.)
  • 1986 - Droles d'oiseaux (14:51 min.)
  • 1996 - Lettre de Sarajevo (14:38 min.)
  • 1998 - Cycle du son (54:10 min.), Consisting of:
    • 1. Objets retrouves - 1996 (5:20)
    • 2. AvatArsSon - 1998 (18:11)
    • 3rd Novars - 1989 (7:06 pm)
    • 4. Phonurgy - 1998 (12:43)
  • 2000 - Foret Profonde (58:03)
  • 2007 - De naturè Parmé sons (3:28 min.)
  • 2010 - Le Flux des sons (5:46 min.)
  • 2011 - Le travail du reve (17:11 min.)

literature

  • Francis Dhomont: Abstraction et figuration dans ma musique / Abstraction and objectivity in my music (French / German). In: Composition and Musicology in Dialogue VI (2004–2006) . Edited by Christoph von Blumröder and Marcus Erbe (= Signals from Cologne: Contributions to the Music of Time , Vol. 12). Saarbrücken 2008. ISBN 978-3-85450-412-2
  • Gayou, Évelyne (Ed.): Francis Dhomont . Paris 2006. ISBN 2-86938-189-1
  • Paland, Ralph: Dhomont, Francis. In: Music in the past and present . Second, completely revised edition. Supplement band. Edited by Ludwig Finscher. Kassel, Stuttgart Sp. 153-154. ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9
  • ders .: In an acousmatic night: Electroacoustic Proust images by French-Canadian composers in the poetological context of Musique acousmatique. In: Marcel Proust and the music: Contributions to the symposium of the Marcel Proust Society in Vienna in November 2009. Edited by Albert Gier . Berlin 2012. pp. 233-284. ISBN 978-3-458-17459-2
  • ders .: Myths of the electroacoustic 'revolution': Current historical constructions of music without a past. In: Vorzeitbelelebung: Past and present reflections in music today . Edited by Jörn Peter Hiekel. Hofheim 2010. pp. 107-139. ISBN 978-3-936000-85-6
  • Andrew Lewis: Francis Dhomont's Novars. In: Journal of new music research. Volume 27, Lisse 1998, pp. 67-83

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. W. Matthew McFarlane: The Development of Acousmatics in Montréal , in: eContact! , No. 6.2, E-Journal of the Canadian Electroacustic Community (accessed October 31, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Dhomont, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer of electroacoustic music
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France