Annette Vande Gorne

Annette Vande Gorne (born January 6, 1946) is a Belgian electroacoustic music composer currently living in Ohain, Belgium. Annette Vande Gorne was born in Charleroi, Belgium. She initially studied music at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels, and privately with Jean Absil. After discovering the acousmatic music developed by Pierre Schaeffer, she became interested in the music of Schaeffer as well as François Bayle and Pierre Henry. She moved to Paris in order to study at the conservatoire with Schaeffer and Reibel. On returning to Belgium she founded the Association de Musiques et Recherches and the Métamorphoses dOrphée studio. She also launched a series of concerts and an acousmatics festival called L’Espace du son in Brussels in 1984. Since 1986 she has taught in Liège, Brussels, Mons (Visscher 2001). Founder and program director of the Musiques & Recherches center and the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio (established in 1982) in Ohain (Belgium). Organizer of the 1st International Acousmatic Festival in Brussels (1984) and numerous concerts since. Publisher of the review Lien and compiler of a documentation center on acousmatic art. Professor of electroacoustic composition at conservatories in Liège, Brussels and Mons. Spatialization of acousmatic music on tape, performing numerous concerts in Belgium and internationally. At sixteen, she discovered the music of words (in the poetry of René Char and Saint-John Perse) and the same efforts to give life color and meaning that she finds in the music of sounds. Several of her works represent different stages of research into the various methods of weaving together text and music offered by electroacoustics today.