Musical Portrait: A Fiftieth Anniversary Project

haunting avant-garde/future primitive electronic single from Parent, a stand-out title in the series. Incredible music on display w/ beautiful and informative packaging, ultimate recommendation!

Parent, Nil. Composer, teacher, b Quebec City 6 Oct 1945; premier prix musicology (CMQ) 1968. He took courses at the Institut de technologie de Québec in 1964 while pursuing his musical studies at the CMQ 1963-8. Attracted to contemporary music, he took special summer programs in 1965 at Columbia U, New York, with Vladimir Ussachevsky, in 1966 at the University of Toronto's electronic music studio with Gustav Ciamaga and Hugh Le Caine, and, on a Canada Council scholarship, in 1967 at the Brussels electronic music studio with Henri Pousseur. On grants from the Canada Council and the government of the Netherlands in 1968-9 he did research at the Sonology Institute in Utrecht with Michael Gottfried Koenig and visited studios in Amsterdam, Cologne, Ghent, Geneva, Milan, and Paris. He composed at this time Des-accords, a work for nine brass instruments; a great part of it is devoted to the note E, which, owing to the distribution of instruments around the hall, produces variations of locale, origin, timbre, volume, and duration.
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