Francis Dhomont (November 2nd 1926, Paris, France) is a type-setter of Musique electroacoustic resident with Avignon, France.

Formation and career

Francis Dhomont was the pupil of Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger. Towards end of the year 40, in Paris (France), he discovers intuitively, thanks to the magnetic wire, which Pierre Schaeffer will name the “concrete music” and tries out as a recluse the musical possibilities of sound recording. Later, giving up the instrumental writing, it will be devoted exclusively to the electroacoustic composition.

Burning exégète of the acousmatic method, its work is, since 1963, exclusively made up of parts on support which testify to an constant interest for a morphological writing and ambiguities between the sound and the image that it can cause.

The Council of arts and the letters of Quebec allotted to him one of its prestigious purses of career. In 1999, it obtained the first five prices for four of its works in international contests (Brazil, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Czech Republic). In 1997, member elect of the Lynch-Staunton Price of the Council of arts of Canada, he was also the guest of DAAD in Berlin (Germany). Five times crowned by the international Contest of music electroacoustic of Bourges (France) - in particular Price of Magisterium in 1988 - and 2nd price at the Price Ars Electronica 1992 (Linz, Austria), it received for its works of many distinctions.

It ensured the direction of special issues the editions Musiques & Recherches (Belgium) and of “Quebec Electroacoustic: rise” - for the review Circuit (Montreal). Musical Coresponsable of the Dictionary of media arts (published by UQAM), he is also lecturer and carried out several emissions for Radio-Canada and Radio-France.

From 1978 to 2005, it shares its activities between France and Quebec where it taught at the University of Montreal of 1980 to 1996. It resides since at Avignon (France) and frequently interprets its works in France and abroad. Large traveller, it sits on many jurys.

Approved type-setter of the Center of Canadian music (CMC, 1989), it is one of the founding members (1986) of the Community Canadian electroacoustic (CÉC) of which he became honorary member in 1989.

He devotes himself today to the composition and the theoretical reflection.

Discography

• … and other Utopias (Digital fingerprints, IMED 0682,2006)

• Stakes (Digital fingerprints, IMED 0365,2003)
• Cycle of the sound (Digital fingerprints, IMED 0158,2001)
• Frankenstein Symphony (Asphodel, ASP 0978,1997)
• deep Forest (Digital fingerprints, IMED 9634,1996)
• Under the glance of a black sun (Digital fingerprints, IMED 9633,1996)
• drifts of the sign (Digital fingerprints, IMED 9608,1996)
• Cycle of the wandering (Digital fingerprints, IMED 9607,1996)
• Mouvances~Métaphores (Digital fingerprints, IMED 9107/08, 1991)

List works

• With lost cords (1977), double bass and band

• air of broad the (1997-98)
• In connection with K (2006)
• Asia (1975), audio-visual (images of Giovanni Biaggini)
• Assemblies (1972)
• AvatArsSon (1998)
• Brief year den Vater (2005)
• Cathedral of images (1977), audio-visual giant
• Chiaroscuro (1987)
• Chronic of the light (1989, 2005)
• Quoted of the inside (1972)
• Convulsive! (1995)
• Body and heart (2001-02)
• CPH Pendler Music (1997)
• Funny of birds (1985-86, 2001)
• the electro (1990)
• In cuerdas (1998)
• Space/Escape (1989)
• sound Spaces for texts of Jean Tortel (1976), radiophonic work
• Figures of the night/Faces off the Night (1991-92)
• deep Forest (1994-96)
• Frankenstein Symphony (1997)
• Glank-50 (2002)
• Here and There (2003)
• I greet you, old ocean! (1998, 2000-04)
• Letter of Sarajevo (1995-96)
• freedom or death (1976), incidental music
• But will we let die Arianna? (1979)
• Métonymie or the impossible body (1976)
• Moirures (2006), videomusic
• moirures of time (1999-2000)
• to die a little (1984-87)
• Night in Combray (1995-96)
• Novars (1989)
• found Objects (1996)
• Phonurgie (1998)
• Poe-Debussy, Around the house Usher (1988), Incidental music for a musical theater of Marthe Forget
• Break points (1982)
• First traces of the Jackdaw (2006)
• Previews (1994)
• Puzzle (1975)
• Which is there? (1990)
• Reflections LR (2003-06), videomusic
• Ricercare (1998)
• Signed Dionysos (1986-91)
• Shows: a self-portrait (1991)
• Sol sank there the space of the spectra (1998, 2000), guitar and band
• Under the glance of a black sun (1979-81)
• Studio of night (1992)
• Syntagmes (1975)
• Umber (2006), videomusic
• the traces of the dream (1986), film music, the traces of the dream of Jean-Daniel Lafond, ONF
• Transits elementary (1983)
• Another Spring (2000)
• Another Spring '' (2000)
• Flight of Swallows (1999, 2002)
• Voyage in the voyage (1991), radiophonic work
• Voyage-mirror (2004)
• Zones and rhizomes (1978)

References

• http://www.electrocd.com/bio.f/dhomont_fr.html (with permission)

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