Monique Jean

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Monique Jean is an electroacoustic music composer born April 17, 1960 in Caraquet, NB, Canada, and currently living in Montréal, Canada.

1 Recordings
2 List of Works
3 External Links
4 References

Monique Jean lives and works in Montréal. She studied electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Francis Dhomont.

In addition to her acousmatic compositions, her work is also regularly associated with video and experimental films, with dance and with installations. Her harbour symphony L'Appel des machines soufflantes (“The Call of Blowing Machines”), a commission of Radio-Canada, was premiered in March 1998 at the Port of Montréal and in 1999 she was an invited composer during the Rien à voir (5) concert series produced by Réseaux (Montréal).

Finalist in the Ciber@rt (Valencia, Spain, 1999), Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic, 2001) and Bourges (France, 2002) competitions, her works are regularly performed and broadcast during numerous national and international concerts and festivals.

[edit] Recordings

L'adieu au s.o.s. (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 0366, 2003)

[edit] List of Works

13'13 pour voix défigurées (1997)
L'Appel des machines soufflantes (1998), harbour symphony for boat horns, train, and church bells
Danse de l'enfant esseulée (1999)
Embrace (1994)
Figures du temps (1998-99)
Fils de chien (1996)
IF (1995)
[improvisation] (2005)
Lacrimous (1996)
low memory #1 (2000)
low memory #2 (2001), bass flute, piccolo, and 4-track tape
low memory #3 (2005), bass, and E-flat clarinets, processing, and fixed sounds
Point d'attaches ou les infidélités rotatives (2003), sound installation
Ricochets (2000), tenor saxophone, and processing
Stabile (2003), saxophone quartet, processing, and tape