Didier Guigue dguigue@openline.com.br

• Born in France. Graduate in Piano and Bassoon, active as a musicologist, composer and performer.
• Master in Æsthetics, Sciences & Technology of Arts (University of Paris-8, France, 1991).
• Doctor in 20th Century Music & Musicology (IRCAM / Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales , France, 1996).
• Lives in Brazil since 1982, where he teaches Æsthetics of 20th Century Music and Computers applied to Music at the Federal University of Paraíba.

• He composes instrumental and electro-acoustic music, in a variety of styles which range from experimental computer music to progressive pop/rock/jazz. He uses also to compose for video, film, dance and theater projects. Some of these works have received brazilian awards.
• Recently he had its works played at the:
• International Computer Music Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece).
• Jazz Festival Brazil/Argentina, New York (USA).
• XII Bienal de Música Contemporânea Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro.
• Festival Elektrokomplex, Vienna.
• The III CEAIT Festival 2000, California Institute of Arts.
• Jukebox Festival 2.1, France.
• The music Vox Victimæ is included in the 98' CD release of the journal Organized Sound (Cambridge University Press).
• The music Aquele que ficou sozinho is included in the 20th Anniversary Special CD release of the Leonardo Music Journal

 

 
 
 

A selected list of Didier Guigue's compositions
 
 

• A researcher and consultant at the CNPQ (National Brazilian Council for Research) and member of the Ircam Forum, France, heads a Research Group on Computing in 20th Century Music Analysis. Related papers are published in Revue de Musicologie and Journal of New Music Research, among others.You can read some of these papers, and more, at the Publicationssection of the Research Group's site.

 

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