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Vande Gorne, Annette

(b Charleroi, 6 Jan 1946). Belgian composer. After studying


classical music at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels and
with Absil, she encountered the acousmatic music developed by
Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Fascinated
by the work of such composers as François Bayle and Pierre
Henry, she attended the Paris Conservatoire to study with
Schaeffer and Reibel. On returning to Belgium she founded the
Musiques et Recherches association and the Métamorphoses
d'Orphée studio, soon to be among the leading centres of musical
teaching and creativity specializing in acousmatic and electro-
acoustic music. Since 1986 she has taught in the main Belgian
conservatories, at Liège, Brussels and finally at Mons, where she is
building up a class in electro-acoustic composition. Her works are
played at the leading festivals of electronic music. Faithful to her
commitment to acousmatic art, she uses technological aids as a
method of composition, the studio as her processing tool and the
loudspeaker as a means of sound diffusion. She also collaborates
with writers and poets, including Werner Lambersy, to attain a
close fusion of text and sound.

WORKS

(selective list)

Exil, chant II, loudspeakers, 1983; Tao (cycle), 1983–91, tape: 1, Métal, 1983, rev.
1984 with amp zheng, 2, Eau, 1984, rev. 1986 with amp zheng, 3, Feu, 1986, 4,
Bois, 1986, 5, Terre, 1991; Architecture, Nuit, tape, 1989; Vox alia: 1, Lamento, pf,
sampler, 1992, 2, Giocoso, tape, 1995, 3, Amoroso, tape, 1998, 4, Innocentement,
tape, 1998, 5, Furioso, tape, 1998; Le ginkgo, tape, 1994

Principal recording company: Diffusion iMedia

WRITINGS

‘Espace et structure: propositions pour une écriture de l'espace’,


Lien (1991), 125–6
‘Une histoire de la musique électroacoustique’, Esthétique des arts
médiatiques, i (1995), 292–317
Les genres électroacoustiques: essai de classement (Paris, 1996)
‘Naissance et évolution d'une nouvelle dimension du son: l'espace’,
Lien (1998), 8–15

ERIC DE VISSCHER

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