Électroprésence

Martin Bédard

Martin Bédard’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, UK and USA…

Martin Bédard has received awards at the following contests:

  • Ars Electronica Forum Wallis, Leuk (Switzerland): 2015
  • CEMVA International Electroacoustic Music Contest, Varginha (Brazil): 2008
  • Computer Space, Sofia (Bulgaria): 2010
  • Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Città di Udine, Udine (Italy): 2014, 2023
  • Concours biennal de composition acousmatique Métamorphoses, Ohain (Belgium): 2004, 2014
  • Concurso de Composición Electroacústica Destellos, Mar del Plata (Argentina): 2016
  • Iannis Xenakis International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, Greece: 2017
  • Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP), Canada: 2003, 2005
  • Musica Nova International Competition of Electroacoustic Music, Prague (Czech Republic): 2008, 2023
  • Musicacoustica-Beijing Competition of Electronic Music Composition, Beijing (China): 2012
  • Prix Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria): 2010
  • Prix collégien de musique contemporaine, Québec: 2015
  • Prix Ton Bruynèl, Netherlands: 2010
  • Sound and Space, Boston (Massachusetts, USA): 2011

My current work focuses mainly on deepening and exploring the discursive possibilities of digital audio music. In a time where sound creation is marked by a fascination with new media, research on the notions of discourse seems to me essential. My “sound architectures” question the grammar of sonic organization and the elements constituting the possible discourse of the audible. They seek to further explore new rhetoric through conceptual media interdisciplinarities between audiovisuals (cinema), literature (Nouveau roman, Oulipo, rhetorics), art (visual arts, architecture), and science (morphogenesis, natural models, theories of self-organization, systemics, human and communication sciences, cognitive sciences and perception, artificial intelligence). To this end, in 2012 I submitted a doctoral thesis — Du langage cinématographique à la musique acousmatique: écritures et structures (From cinematic language to acousmatic music: writing and structures) — on the possible relationships between cinematic grammar and digital audio music.

Over the years, I have been the winner or finalist of 12 international competitions, and my works have been presented at more than 75 international events.

I also teach electroacoustic composition, and sound typology and morphology at Université de Montréal and auditory perception, composition, and analysis of electroacoustic music at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal.

[English translation: François Couture, iii-22]

Martin Bédard

Quebec City (Québec), 1970

Residence: Longueuil (Québec)

  • Composer

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Martin Bédard [Montréal (Québec), 2018]
Martin Bédard [Montréal (Québec), 2018]

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