Jean-François Laporte: biography
Jean-François Laporte (Québec, 1968)
• residence: Montréal, Québec
• composer
Creator of multidisciplinary music, Jean-François Laporte follows a singular path: Central Africa, Civil Engineering studies and two years of laboratory research before beginning his studies in mixed composition at the Université de Montréal, where he’s currently preparing a master degree with Marcelle Deschênes.
In parallel to his composing activities, Jean-François Laporte devotes time to the invention and crafting of primitive music instruments, designs and builds sonic installations, explores the possibilities offered by random, experimental and improvised musics. He’s the founder of Totem Contemporain, an ensemble that experiments with invented instruments and unconventional sonorities, and has completed with them the recording of a live CD toward the beginning of 1997.
He’s currently working on Tribal, a work for 60 instrumentists that will require the crafting of nearly a hundred instruments. The 45-minutes work will be created in November 2000 during the Festival Bruxelles 2000.
Since 1998, Jean-François Laporte is president of the Cercle des étudiants compositeurs (CECO) at Université de Montréal. He’s also a member of the Artistic commitee of concert producer Code d’Accès. Recently, he was received as Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC).
Being more of an intuitive than intellectual creator, Jean-François Laporte learns music through concrete experimentation and feels the need to use multiple languages to express himself. His music is distinctive for the original composition of his ensembles, for his pronounced exploration of timbral music as well as for the singularity of his works.
Jean-François Laporte
