Francis Dhomont

Francis Dhomont (1926-2023) was a French composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music, born in Paris and active for many years in Quebec. After studying with Charles Koechlin and Nadia Boulanger he experimented with a wire recorder from 1947, and from 1963 he turned to music made from sounds fixed on tape. He is known for long cycles of acousmatic works and for teaching at the Université de Montréal from 1980 to 1996. Dhomont set up his own studio in Provence in 1963 and later settled in Quebec. Sous le regard d'un soleil noir (1979-81), drawn from R.D.