Marcelle Deschênes
Marcelle Deschênes-Harvey née Price (b. 2 March 1939) is a Canadian multi-media artist, music educator and composer.
Life
Marcelle Deschênes was born near Rimouski, Quebec. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Montreal, studying from 1963 to 1967 with Jean Papineau-Couture and Serge Garant. She continued her education in France with François Bayle, Henri Chiarucci, and Guy Reibel of the Groupe de Recherches musicales de Paris. She also studied audio-visual techniques at the Pierre Schaeffer's Conservatoire and analysis at the École César-Franck with Olivier Alain. At the University of Paris, she studied with Daniel Charles, Claude Laloum and Jean-Étienne Marie.[1]
After completing her studies, Deschênes returned to Canada in 1971 and took a teaching and research position at the electronic music studio of Laval University, where she helped organize a sound library. in 1979 she founded the electroacoustic studio Bruit Blanc, and in 1980 she took a position as professor at the University of Montreal.[2]
Honors and awards
- First prize for mixed-media music at the sixth Concours international de musique électroacoustique in Bourges in 1978
- Gold medal at the Multi-Images international competition in Munich (1989)[3]
Works
Deschênes composes multimedia works and film soundtracks. Selected works include:
- Amertube film soundtrack (1973)
- Le Phasé mou film soundtrack (1973)
- Le Port de Montréal film soundtrack (1975)
- 1 1⁄2 (1966)
- Voz (cantate mitrailleuse) (1968)
- 7+7+7+7 ou aussi progressions sur la circonférence du jaune au rouge par l'orange ou du rouge au bleu par le violet, ou même embrassant le pourtour total (1968)
- Talilalilalilalarequiem (1970)
- Moll, Opéra-Lilliput pour six roches molles (1976)
- OPÉRAaaaAH! (1983)
- L'Écran humain, (1983)
- deUSirae (1985)
- Lux (1985) in collaboration with Renée Bourassa
- Big Bang (1987)
- Noël réinventé (1988)
- Ludi (1990), opera-theatre work with Renée Bourassa
Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Big Bang II (1990)
- Halogènes (1991)
References
- ↑ Proctor, George Alfred (1980). Canadian music of the twentieth century.
- ↑ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
- ↑ Daunais, Paule; Plouffe, Hélène. "Deschênes, Marcelle". Retrieved 6 December 2010.