Yves Daoust

The Art of Sound
Electroacoustic Composer  ·  Inventor  ·  Educator  ·  Québec

Music Electroacoustic  |  Mixed  |  Instrumental

Spanning five decades, Yves Daoust’s catalogue embraces electroacoustic, mixed, and instrumental composition — each work treating listening itself as a dramatic act. His music has been performed and broadcast internationally, and is distributed on the empreintes DIGITALes label.

Principal Works

1979
Quatuor
Musique concrète — His first fully “concrète” work, revisiting musical heritage through cultural sound sources.
1981
Valse
Mixed — Ensemble and tape. The founding work of his parallel-discourse method: nature and culture coexisting as autonomous layers, neither subordinate to the other.
1984
Petite musique sentimentale
Mixed — Piano and tape.
1986
Adagio
Mixed — Flute and tape.
1991
L’Entrevue
Mixed — Accordion and tape. An accordionist’s spoken reflections on Bach cross an instrumental writing drawn from the English Suites.
1991
Water Music
Electroacoustic — Stereo support.
1995
Impromptu [mixte]
Mixed — Piano, synthesizer / sampler, and tape.
1997–2001
Bruits
Electroacoustic — A trilogy exploring urban sound fragmentation: Children’s Corner, Nuit, and Fête.
2003
Lili
Electroacoustic — A portrait of a courtesan; fragmented voice woven against memory and solitude.
2007–2008
Chorals ornés
Mixed — Organ and stereo fixed medium. Returns to the parallel-discourse approach of Valse, now applied to the organ’s liturgical heritage.

Discography

1991
Anecdotes
empreintes DIGITALes — IMED 9106
1996
Filmusique — Film opéra (with Maurice Blackburn)
Analekta — AN 7005/06
1998
Musiques naïves
empreintes DIGITALes — IMED 9843
2001
Bruits
empreintes DIGITALes — IMED 0156
2024
Docu-fictions
empreintes DIGITALes — Available at electrocd.com

Complete Works Catalogue

Year Title Medium
1976 Paris, les Grands-Magasins Electroacoustic
1979 Quatuor Musique concrète
1981 La gamme Electroacoustic
1981 / 2000 Valse Mixed — ensemble & tape
1982–1995 Maurice Blackburn, ou portrait d’un méconnu Electroacoustic
1984 Petite musique sentimentale Mixed — piano & tape
1986 Adagio Mixed — flute & tape
1986 Fantaisie Electroacoustic
1986 Il était une fois… (conte sans paroles) Electroacoustic
1988 Variations sur un air d’accordéon Mixed — comedian-accordionist & tape
1989 Ouverture Electroacoustic
1989 Suite baroque Electroacoustic
1990 Mi bémol Electroacoustic
1991 L’Entrevue Mixed — accordion & tape
1991 Water Music Electroacoustic — stereo support
1992 Joie Electroacoustic
1992 Résonances Electroacoustic
1994 Impromptu Electroacoustic
1995 Les agréments Mixed — flute & tape
1995 Impromptu [mixte] Mixed — piano, synth/sampler & tape
1997–2001 Bruits Electroacoustic
2002 Objets trouvés Electroacoustic
2003 Lili Electroacoustic
2003 Solo Electroacoustic
2004 Le temps fixé Electroacoustic
2005 About Time Electroacoustic
2007–2008 Chorals ornés Mixed — organ & stereo fixed medium

Contact

General & Management

Inquiries about the composer, interviews, or collaborations.

yvdt@videotron.ca

Scores & Commissions

For score requests or new commissions.

yvdt@videotron.ca

Recordings & Distribution

Albums available through empreintes DIGITALes.

electrocd.com

Fonofone

Pedagogical instrument, workshops, and educational projects.

fonofone.ca