Louis Dufort

Louis Dufort (born July 29, 1970) is a composer of electroacoustic music from Montreal, Canada. His work includes music for fixed media, mixed music with processing, and visual music.

Over his career, he has fulfilled numerous commissions for various ensembles and musical organizations, including the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ), Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), Réseaux/Akousma, Chants libres, Codes d’accès, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+), EMPAC, Quasar saxophone quartet, Bozzini string quartet, Sixtrum percussion ensemble and Centre d’art et de technologie des médias de Karlsruhe.

Particularly notable among his many collaborations is his long-standing partnership with choreographer Marie Chouinard, with whom he has worked since 1996 in composing the music for a great many of her works. In 2023, an entire edition of the journal ''Circuit, musiques contemporaines'' was dedicated to the subject of their collaborative work. The composer has also written music for the original soundtracks of the films ''The Fall of the American Empire'' (French: ''La chute de l’empire américain'') (2018) and Denys Arcand’s ''Testament'' (2023).

Dufort is professor of composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and artistic director of the broadcasting company Akousma, which hosts the annual Festival international des musiques numériques immersives in Montreal. In 2018, he was awarded the Québec Opus prize for artistic director of the year. Provided by Wikipedia