Aziz Art October 2018

Guy Laramée
BIBLIOGRAPHY
In the course of his 30 years of
practice, interdisciplinary artist
Guy Laramée has created in such
varied and numerous disciplines as
theater writing and directing,
contemporary music composition,
musical instrument design and
building, singing, video,
scenography, sculpture,
installation, painting,
and literature. He has received
more than 30 arts grants and was
awarded the Canada Council’s
Joseph S. Stauffer award for
musical composition. His work has
been presented in United States,
Belgium, France, Germany,
Switzerland, Japan, and Latin
America.
From 1984 to 1988 he composed
music for contemporary dance:
Daniel Soulière and Danse Cité,
Carol Ip, Suzanne Lavoie, Andrew
Harwood). After 1988 he composed
and designed sound scenography
for theater: (Larry Tremblay, 1987-
88; Robert Lepage, 1992-93; Jean-
Frédérique Messier, 1993-95;
Volker Hesse, Switzerland, 1993);
Lou Simard, Germany, 1994; Claire
Gignac and La Nef, 1995-2004;
Rachel Rosenthal, USA, 1999-2000.
His research in non-tempered
tunings and multiple layer
polyrhythms led him to found TUYO
in 1987, an ensemble performing
microtonal and gestural music on
invented instruments. He directed
this ensemble until 1991.
Since 1986, he has authored
several interdisciplinary works: Les
Éléphants sont venus mourir ici,
1986; Théorie du Désert 1991;
Marche de Nuit 1994-96, BIBLIOS
2005-6 and co-authored several
multidisciplinary works (URNOS,
2004 ; Ici et là, 2004). He has
written the scripts and directed the
following short films: Marche de
Nuit, with Henri-Louis Chalem,
1996; CrystalKey Bee, 1997). He
was the artistic director of
PluraMuses, a company devoted to
producing multi-disciplinary works
and was also involved in the
Meduse cooperative in Quebec
City. He initiated and coordinated «
L’espace traversé », a pan-Canadian
conference on interdisciplinary art
practices (See the bilingual book
published by Le Sabord: L’Espace
traversé). 6