Composers Paul Dolden and Stéphane Roy each won an Opus prize in their respective categories. Dolden won in the “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle and Electroacoustics” category for his recent album Seuil de silences (an expanded and entirely remixed and remastered reissue of The Threshold of Deafening Silence). Roy won in the “Book of the Year” category for his L’analyse des musiques électroacoustiques (“Models and propositions for electroacoustic music analysis”).
L’analyse des musiques électroacoustiques by Stéphane Roy is nominated for the Conseil québécois de la musique’s 8th prix Opus in the category “Book of the Year.” The author, who is a composer, also sees his most recent album, Migrations, nominated in the category “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle and Electroacoustics” and his article L’utopie, contrée fertile de l’aventure électroacoustique, published in Circuit, nominated for “Article of the Year.”
Foreword by Jean-Jacques Nattiez • In French