Book Carvings Projects By Guy Laramée

Guy Laramée is an interdisciplinary artist who, in the course of his 30 years of practice, found his way through such varied and numerous disciplines as : stage writing, stage directing, contemporary music writing, musical instrument design and building, singing, video, scenography, sculpture, installation, painting and literature. He received more than 30 grants and was awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts the Joseph S. Stauffer award for musical composition. His work has been seen and heard in Canada, United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and Latin America.
From 84 to 88, he worked as a composer for contemporary dance (Daniel Soulière and Danse Cité, Carol Ip, Suzanne Lavoie, Andrew Harwood). Since 88 he worked as a composer and sound scenography designer for theater (Larry Tremblay, 87-88; Robert Lepage, 92-93; Jean-Frédérique Messier, 93-95; Volker Hesse, Switzerland, 93); Lou Simard, Germany, 94; Claire Gignac and La Nef , 95-2004; Rachel Rosenthal, USA, 99-000. His research on non-tempered tunings and multiple layer polyrhythms had him founding TUYO in 87, an ensemble palying microtonal and gestural musicon invented instruments ; he directed this ensemble until 91.