JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE takes an intuitive approach to creating music, learning through concrete experimentation with sound. By actively listening to each sound, he strives to understand its reality and its underlying structure. His music is the result of working closely with the raw materials of sound. These sounds come from the everyday environment or from both traditional and invented instruments, with no form of hierarchy. Drawing on this diversity of sound sources, Jean-François works in multiple musical languages—from instrumental to electroacoustic—and also ventures at times into the exploration of random and improvised sounds.

Along with his activities as a composer, Jean-François has been developing and making musical instruments that produce unconventional sounds. The composer recently added robotic and computerized controls to some of his invented instruments (the Tu-Yo and the Bowls), giving them new autonomy and increasing their possibilities (the Khôra sound installation/performance presented in September 2002 in Montréal, produced by Fonderie Darling). In addition to works for invented instruments, since 2000, Jean-François has composed a large number of works for conventional instruments: À l'Ombre d'un murmure , premiered by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal on its cross-Canada Generation 2000 tour,le Chant de l'inaudible , commissioned by the Quasar Saxophone quartet for the SMCQ, Êkhéô , commissioned by the Trio Fibonnacci,Prana , a mixed workk performed by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, andle chant des baleines for the guitarist Tim Brady.

Laporte published his anthology of recordings Soundmatters through 23five in 2007. He also performed as part of the Seventh Annual Activating the Medium festival in 2004.

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