Other Minds Festivals ➔ Francis Dhomont, half length portrait, seated behind mixer, facing forward, San Francisco, CA (2004)

Still image

Identifier

IM.OM.FP.0010.009

Dates

2004 | created

Work Type

Photographic print

Image Class

Composer & Performer Portraits

Image Series

OM10: Fago B&W Prints

Description

Francis Dhomont seated behind an audio mixer at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco, taken during a rehearsal for the 10th Other Minds Music Festival in March of 2004. Francis Dhomont was born in Paris in 1926. He studied composition under Ginette Waldmeier, Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger. In the late 1940s he intuitively discovered with magnetic wire what Pierre Schaeffer would later call musique concrète, consequently conducting solitary experiments with the musical possibilities of sound recording. In 1963 he decided to leave instrumental writing behind, dedicating himself exclusively to electroacoustic composition, becoming an ardent proponent of the then-new genre of "acousmatics". His work consists exclusively of tape pieces using natural, or "found" sounds, exploring morphological interplay and the ambiguities between sound and the images it may create. Performances in public of his music are done using the French "diffusion" technique over multiple loudspeakers.

Genres & Subjects

Portrait photographs--2000-2010
Men
Composers
Auditoriums

Image Ownership

John Fago / Other Minds

Photo Credits

John Fago

Related Event

Other Minds Festival 10

Related place

San Francisco (Calif.) (depicts)

Related Entities

Fago, John
Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
Other Minds Festival