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Place of Birth: Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
About Jean Piché
- Jean Piché (born 1951 in Trois-Rivières, Québec) is a Canadian composer and video artist. Piché studied electroacoustic and computer music at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax and at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands.
- He has taught electroacoustic composition in the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal since 1988.
- Since the early 1990s, Piché has focused on the creation of hybrid compositions involving abstract moving images which he calls "videomusic".
- As a software developer, Piché is the author of a Csound frontend called Cecilia, and the Tam Tam suite for the One Laptop Per Child project’s XO computer. Though Piché has worked in multi-channel environments, his focus resides in "expanding" sound boundaries by using video.
- Piché's students are known to explore visual space (visual sound in space) through sound installations.
- These types of performance installations often consist of re-configurable walls, 3D, movable objects, and other structures.
- Frustrated by the "bounds" of the screen, Piché attempted to "multiply" screens to expand the "space" of the image.
- In doing so, Piché attempted to produce individual experiences in each extended screen.
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