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Diane Labrosse, 2007 Composer, improviser and performer Diane Labrosse is a regular face on the creative, improvised and avant-garde music scenes, both in Canada and abroad, where she gets invited to several major festivals. A founding member of the groups Justine and Wondeur Brass, together with Joane Hétu and Danielle Palardy Roger, she is currently involved in several projects, including Les Poules (a trio with Hétu and Roger), Parasites (a duo with Martin Tétreault), Petit Bestiaire (a quintet working with texts by Guy Marchamps), and OVNI (Orchestre des valeureux nouveaux improvisateurs), an ad hoc orchestra she leads every summer at music camp in Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean. Over the last year, she was very active in Vancouver, where she performed with the NOW Orchestra and the group Talking Pictures. There, she also performed at the Vancouver New Music Festival and at the Time Flies improvisation festival, where she recently presented Each… and Every Inch, a multimedia installation by the Theatre Cryptic Company (Scotland) premiered in Glasgow in 2002 and presented in Montréal by Productions SuperMusique in October 2002. Diane Labrosse has been engaged in numerous collaborations over the past few years: on the dance front, she wrote music for Crystal Pite and Richard Siegal’s Double Story, Marc Boivin’s R.A.F.T., Andrew Harwood’s Sens cible and Deborah Dunn’s Blackmail, and co-wrote for Louise Bédard’s Ce qu’il en reste and Harold Rhéaume’s Les Cousins. She has also worked with stage director Robert Lepage for La Géométrie des miracles and Zulu Time. She has created sound installations in unusual places with the Tura-ya-moya company (Denmark). As a composer, she has written works for Ensemble SuperMusique and Espaces sonores illimités (Montréal), Arraymusic and The Burdocks (Toronto), plus an adaptation for the NOW Orchestra (Vancouver). She also wrote a piece for boats, locomotives, percussion and compressed air canisters for the Symphonies portuaires> event and a piece for an ensemble of 9 toy pianos presented at the Vancouver Jazz Festival. In 2007, she took part to L’Oreille dans l’œil (Montréal, curated by Sébastien Cliche), for which she wrote a piece from a graphic score by photographer Gwenaël Bélanger. Her discography is comprised of about 30 albums, including Dix situations précaires (with Darling, Dionne, Freedman), Lunch in Nishinomiya (Haco, Martin Tétreault), Prairie orange (Les Poules), Parasites (Tétreault), Île bizarre (Mori, Tétreault), Télépathie (a_dontigny), Petit traité de Sagesse pratique, Face cachée des choses (solo), Duo déconstructiviste (Michel F Côté), and appearances on records by Jean Derome, Joane Hétu, Danielle Palardy Roger, Michel F Côté and Geneviève Letarte. Diane Labrosse is also a co-artistic director of Productions SuperMusique (production of creative music concerts) since 1979. Her activism within the creative music community and with its artists has pushed her to work more and more toward bringing this kind of music to an international audience. She is also a member of Ambiances Magnétiques, a collective of independent musicians / producers. [v-07] |
