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Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville

Index Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville

The Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville is an annual international music festival held in Victoriaville, Quebec that showcases contemporary music. [1]

23 relations: Art Bears, Cecil Taylor, Chris Cutler, Contemporary classical music, Electronic music, Experimental music, Fred Frith, Free jazz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Jean Derome, Jim O'Rourke (musician), John Zorn, Lee Ranaldo, List of experimental music festivals, List of festivals in Quebec, Musical improvisation, Peter Brötzmann, Quebec, René Lussier, Sonic Youth, The Ex (band), Thurston Moore, Victoriaville.

Art Bears

Art Bears were an English avant-rock group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members, Chris Cutler (percussion, texts), Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards) and Dagmar Krause (vocals; previously of Slapp Happy).

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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

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Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist.

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Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s to early 1990s, which includes modernist, postmodern, neoromantic, and pluralist music.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian experimental music collective which originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994.

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Jean Derome

Jean Derome (born June 29, 1955) is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist, and composer.

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Jim O'Rourke (musician)

Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and record producer.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist, and multi-instrumentalist with hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, and producer across a variety of genres, including jazz, rock, hardcore, classical, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and improvised music.

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Lee Ranaldo

Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth.

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List of experimental music festivals

The following is an incomplete list of experimental music festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on experimental music.

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List of festivals in Quebec

This is a list of festivals held within the Canadian province of Quebec, Canada.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German artist, free jazz saxophonist, and clarinetist.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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René Lussier

René Lussier (born April 15, 1957) is a musician based in Quebec, Canada.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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The Ex (band)

The Ex are an underground band from the Netherlands that formed in 1979 at the height of the original punk explosion.

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Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth.

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Victoriaville

Victoriaville is a city in central Quebec, Canada, on the Nicolet River.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_International_de_Musique_Actuelle_de_Victoriaville

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