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Name
  
Marcelle Deschenes


Role
  
Musical Artist

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Marcelle Deschênes-Harvey née Price (b. 2 March 1939) is a Canadian multi-media artist, music educator and composer.

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Life

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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.

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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.

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)

    • 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

    Marcelle Deschênes Wikipedia
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