musique concrete

Valerio Tricoli was born in 1977 in Palermo, Italy. Even if he can play with acoustic instruments, he's best known as a performer using analogue electronic devices.

After playing drums for ten years in punk and metal bands, Stuart Bowditch got fed up of getting spat on and lugging flight cases around and invested in a laptop and some software to make some electronic music. Always interested in the sounds around him he'd go out and record environments, places, foundsounds and household objects with a mic and a mini disc recorder. These sounds found their way into his music and with his keen sense of rhythm, they build up intricate layers of sounds that you might recognise, but cannot place.

Composer Pauline Oliveros is a maverick in the field of electronic music. Oliveros' first instrument was the accordion; as a teenager in Texas she played in a 100-piece accordion group that appeared at the rodeo. In 1949 she entered the University of Houston, but in 1952 transferred to San Francisco State College. Oliveros studied music privately with Robert Erickson and began to associate with a loose confederation of like-minded composers; Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Morton Subotnick among them.

Robert Normandeau (born March 11, 1955 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian electroacoustic music composer. Normandeau studied at the Université Laval in Quebec City, and at the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Marcelle Deschênes and Francis Dhomont. He currently is living in Montreal, Quebec, where he was appointed Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition in 1999.