Author Bio: 

DAVID BONTEMPS is a Montreal-based pianist and composer. He studied music in Port-au-Prince with Serge Villedrouin and successfully participated in Caribbean piano competitions. In 2011, he obtained Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and Canada Council for the Arts grants to produce the album Vibrations, which was followed by Gede Nibo in 2017.

 

Trase Pa: Choreographing the Soundworld of David Bontemps’s Traces In most cultures there has always been a synergetic interplay between music and dance—one informing and amplifying the other. Music exemplifies the physicality and rhythmicity that exists in a dancing body. The synergy of dance and music is a repertoire of invitations to the spaces in[...] Read more

Sound Notes Kevin A. Ormsby Issue 138