DEATH OF AN ELECTROACOUSTIC PIONEER, 97
“The French composer Francis Dhomont, a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, had a lightbulb moment in 1963 and dedicated the rest of his long life to electroacoustic music. Some consider him the true discoverer of musique concrete.
Dhomont, who died on December 28, shuttled for many years between his home in France and the university of Montreal, where he laid the foundations of Canadian electroacoustic music.
He lost an eye as a boy during the German occupation of Paris. ‘I had lost my right eye but I had found a vocation. As long as my health would permit me, I would then undertake serious musical studies and do nothing else. This is how I became a composer,’ he said…”
