Jean-François Laporte

Experimental Sound Artist

Creator of multidisciplinary music, Jean-François Laporte follows a singular path: Central Africa, Civil Engineering studies and two years of laboratory research before beginning his studies in mixed composition at the Université de Montréal, where he’s currently preparing a master degree with Marcelle Deschênes. In parallel to his composing activities, Jean-François Laporte devotes time to the invention and crafting of primitive music instruments, designs and builds sonic installations, explores the possibilities offered by random, experimental and improvised musics. He’s the founder of Totem Contemporain, an ensemble that experiments with invented instruments and unconventional sonorities, and has completed with them the recording of a live CD toward the beginning of 1997. Since 1998, Jean-François Laporte is president of the Cercle des étudiants compositeurs (CECO) at Université de Montréal. He’s also a member of the Artistic commitee of concert producer Code d’Accès. Recently, he was received as Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC).