Pierre-Luc Lecours

Pierre-Luc Lecours’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Birmingham, Brussels, Chicoutimi, Crest, Gatineau, Gothenburg, Montréal, Outremont, Strasbourg, Thetford Mines and Venice…

Pierre-Luc Lecours is a composer and multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal. His artistic practice covers many different mediums and aesthetics, ranging from music to video and performance. His work is characterized by a search for expressiveness in projects exploring an artistic process aimed at drawing relationships between form, format, and content. His influences come as much from the currents of instrumental and electroacoustic contemporary music as from electronic and experimental music. His performances feature everyday objects combined with traditional instrumentation and written-down scoring.

After a bachelor’s degree in digital music, Lecours completed a Master’s in composition at the Music Faculty of the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Pierre Michaud. As a researcher, he is interested in the interpretation of electronic music, the decompartmentalization of contemporary musical practices, the dialogue between various (electroacoustic and instrumental) music cultures and heritages, and the exploration of new forms of audiovisual expression. Lecours received a graduate scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Arsène David Scholarship and the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique (OICRM) Master’s Scholarship.

The quality of his work has been acknowledged by Exhibitronic (2017), the Destellos Electroacoustic Composition Competition (2014), the Young Composers Competition of the SOCAN Foundation (2014) and the CEC’s Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) (2014, ’17). His work has been featured in several international events, including Akousma (Québec), BIAN (Québec), Biennale Némo (France), Currents New Media (USA), Digital Weekender (UK), Elektra (Québec), L’Espace du son (Belgium), La folle journée de Nantes (France), Futura (France), Muslab (Mexico), MUTEK (Québec), Next (Slovakia), Résonances électriques (France), Seeing Sound (UK), and Vision of Future (USA). His album Paysages imaginaires was released in March 2019 on the Mikroclimat label.

[English translation: François Couture, v-20]

Pierre-Luc Lecours

Quebec City (Québec), 1983

Residence: Montréal (Québec)

  • Composer
  • Performer (electronics)

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On the web

Pierre-Luc Lecours [Photo: Mie Kim, Montréal (Québec), August 7, 2020]
Pierre-Luc Lecours [Photo: Mie Kim, Montréal (Québec), August 7, 2020]

Calendar

Broadcasts

Date Work Program
June 15, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 The Langham Research Centre Show / Resonance 104.4 FM (UK)
March 19, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
March 18, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 Radio FMR 89.1 Toulouse (France)
March 18, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 Indie Drome / Campus Grenoble 90.8 (France)
March 18, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 Indie_drome / Éko des Garrigues 88.5 (France)
March 17, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 Radio Dijon Campus 92.2 (France)
March 16, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Impacts discrets (2014), 9:12 Indiedrome / Radio Panik 105.4 (Belgium)
March 5, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Éclats | Rouge (2014), 11:07 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
March 5, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Éclats | Noir (2018), 15:20 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
March 4, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Éclats | Rouge (2014), 11:07 Indie Drome / Campus Grenoble 90.8 (France)
March 4, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Éclats | Rouge (2014), 11:07 Indie_drome / Éko des Garrigues 88.5 (France)
March 4, 2021 Pierre-Luc Lecours, Éclats | Rouge (2014), 11:07 Radio FMR 89.1 Toulouse (France)