An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his compositional output consists of more than 50 works.
His style was particularly influenced by Ivan Wyschnegradsky and Giacinto Scelsi; both of whom he met with in Europe during the 1970s.
He served for many years as the organist and director of sacred music at Saint-Marc Church in Rosemont.
[1] Born in Quebec City, Arseneault studied with Françoise Aubut and Gilles Tremblay at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he graduated with a premier prix in composition in 1973.
Some of the principal performers of his music are, notably, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France (Edgar Cosma), the Orchestre Métropolitain (Walter Boudreau), the Orchestre symphonique de la Radio-Télévision Belge (Simon Streatfeild), the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (Gilles Auger); organists Bernard Foccroulle, Michelle Quintal, André Laberge and Gisèle Guibord, singer Natalie Choquette, pianists Louis-Philippe Pelletier, Suzanne Fournier, Daniel Cholette and Julio Laks, violinist Carmen Fournier, guitarist Michael Laucke, and flautists Lise Daoust, Claire Marchand and Helmut W.