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“My artistic evolution,” Thierry Gauthier writes, “has been characterized by the intensity of impulse, immediacy, and the urgency to create; the quest for a paroxysm and the absolute; the same sense of urgency as found in the punk movement.” This is still true, he maintains, after two decades of work.
At first glance, he is the prolific and hot film-music composer who churns out tunes for movies, art videos, television series, documentaries, multimedia, installations, and multidisciplinary events. His curriculum vitae lists seventeen years of production and creation. He has performed in more than 250 concerts around the world, and his music is found on twenty different albums. He’ll be forty sometime next year.
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Richard Simas is a freelance writer with a background in literature and the performing arts, in particular contemporary music. He lives in Montreal and contributes regularly to contemporary arts and literary reviews. A winner of Portugal’s Camoes Institute prize, he is currently working on a dossier on contemporary Portuguese writers. His work has been published in Europe and in North America, including the Journey Prize anthology and a winner of a Fiddlehead Fiction Prize. He is a frequent collaborator with Musicworks.