Hugue dufour biography

Hugues DUFOURT

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Hugues Dufourt favours continuity and the slow transformations of a musical discourse that is rarely interrupted.

Hugue dufour biography

He designs forms based on the evolution of masses and works on notions of thresholds, oscillations, interference and oriented processes. A pioneer of the spectral movement, he nevertheless gave it a broader definition, seeking to highlight the instability that timbre introduces into orchestration.

His music is based on a wealth of sonic and harmonic constellations and draws on a dialectic of timbre and time. He draws part of his inspiration from pictorial art, from which he essentially retains the role of colour, materials and light (Dawn flight, a string quartet premiered in at Musica, Le Cyprès blanc and L'Origine du monde, premiered at Musica ).

Influenced by the French avant-garde of the s, Hugues Dufourt took part in the activities of L'Itinéraire () and in founded t