Thierre De Mey is a musician

Musician

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 and filmmaker from Belgium

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Biography

After studying film at the IAD

IAD

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, he continued to studying music composition and contemporary dance

Contemporary dance

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 after meeting Fernand Schirren, for whose works he has written original incidental music. He works primarily with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

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, Wim Vandekeybus

Wim Vandekeybus

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 and Michèle Anne De Mey, his youngest sister.

He is the founder of the contemporary music ensemble Maximalist!, and he has participated in other important projects such as New Music

New music

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 and Ictus Ensemble

Ictus Ensemble

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, for which he has composed several works. In 1993 he joined a class at IRCAM

IRCAM

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, where he developed his interest in electronic music

Electronic music

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. He was composer in residence at the Conservatory of Strasbourg and the Musica Festival in 2001 and 2002.

Since 2005 he has been one of four new directors of Charleroi / Danses, coordinating the multidisciplinary activities of the center choreography.

Main compositions

• 1983 : Rosas danst Rosas, ballet music for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas Company
• 1987 : Musique de tables, for three percussionists (for Wim Vandekeybus' Ultima Vez group)
• 1990 : Undo, monody for piano
  Piano
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• 1991 : Chaîne, for 2 pianos
• 1991 : Ice, duet for violin
  Violin
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   and violoncello (for Ultima Vez)
• 1991 : Movement No.3 for string quartet
  String quartet
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• 1991 : String Quartet No.1
• 1993 : Kinok (for Rosas Company)
• 1993 : Passacaglia and variations for violin
• 1994 : Amor constante más allá de la muerte (for Rosas Company)
• 1995 : Concerto for violin and ensemble
• 1995 : Unknowness, for percussionists and sampled sounds
  Sampling
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• 1996 : Tippeke (for Rosas Company)
• 2002 : Palindrome, hoket in 8
• 2002 : Water, for 6 percussionists, violoncello, electronic and sampled sounds
• 2003 : Élastique, electronic composition
• 2004 : Landscape 1, electronic composition

Main films

• 1984 : Floréal (documentary
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• 1993 : Love Sonnets, with Michèle Anne De Mey
• 1996 : Rosas danst Rosas, with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas Company
• 1996 : Tippeke, with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
• 1998 : 21 études à danser, with Michèle Anne De Mey
• 1998 : Musique de tables, with Wim Vandekeybus' group
• 1999 : Barbes Bleues
• 2000 : Dom Svobode, with Iztok Kovac
• 2001 : Ma mère l'Oye, with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Michèle Anne De Mey, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and others.
• 2002 : Fase, with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Michèle Anne De Mey
• 2004 : Counter Phrases, group of ten filmed choreographies, with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas Company.

External links

• Interview with Thierry De Mey (2001)