Boudewijn Buckinx

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Boudewijn Buckinx (b.Lommel, Belgium, 28 March 1945) was dedicated to music from an early age. Since 1963, he introduced a lot of new music to Flanders with his group WHAM [dutch acronym for Working Group for Contemporary and Topical Music], including music by Christian Wolff, Cornelius Cardew and John Cage. Cage was also the subject of his licenciate's thesis [musicology] in 1972. As a composer, he is a typical exponent of Postmodernism [1001 Sonates for violin and piano, 9 Unfinished Symphonies]. The series of 1001 Sonates in their totality were performed in Darmstadt [Germany] (1988), Brussels (1989), Ghent (1994) and Kiel [Germany] (1998). Special Buckinx concerts have been held in Ghent, Brussels and Kiel, and his music has also been performed at important festivals such as the Contemporary Music Week in Ghent [Belgium], the "Ferienkurse" in Darmstadt [Germany], the Tampere Biennale [Finland] and the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo [USA], Bucarest and Arad [Rumania]. In 1993 a 9-day Buckinx Festival was held in De Rode Pomp in Ghent. Buckinx composed four operas: a chamber opera "Karoena [The Mermaid]" in Russian (premiered in De Rode Pomp, Ghent, in 1995), his opera on the life and philosophy of "Socrates" (premiered in Ghent in 1997), "Le Valchirie" (performed by the Opera Class of the Music Conservatory in Antwerp in 1997), and the opera "Van Alle Tijden", based on the mythological character of Reinaert (commissioned by Stichting Aa in Gronin

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Institute for Psychoacoustics & Electronic Music: 50 Years of Electronic & Electroacoustic Music at the Ghent University

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Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music-50 Years of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music at the Ghent University [Disc 1]

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Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnaval des Animaux

Nine Unfinished Symphonies

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IPEM - 50 Years of Electronic Music at the Ghent University [CD 1]

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IPEM: 50 Years of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music at the Ghent University

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IPEM (Institute For Psychoacoustics And Electronic Music) - 50 Years Of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music At The Ghent University

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IPEM - 50 Years of Electronic Music at the Ghent University

Institute For Psychoacoustics And Electronic Music (IPEM) - 50 Years Of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music At The Ghent University

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IPEM - 50 Years of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music at the Ghent University

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50 Years Of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music At The Ghent University

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Musica A Quattro Mani

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