Annette Vande Gorne

Annette Vande Gorne is a Belgian composer of acousmatic music, born in Charleroi in 1946. After classical studies at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels and privately with Jean Absil, she studied electroacoustic composition in Paris with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel. Back in Belgium she founded Musiques & Recherches and, in 1982, the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio in Ohain. In 1984 Vande Gorne launched L'Espace du son in Brussels, a concert series and festival of spatialised acousmatic music played on a loudspeaker orchestra.