Yves Daoust

Yves Daoust (born 10 April 1946) is a Canadian composer who is particularly known for his works of electroacoustic music.

At sixteen, he produced his first experiments in electroacoustic music when he "prepared" the family piano in order to create the soundtrack for a friend's 8mm experimental film.

Together with Marcelle Deschênes, Michel Longtin, Philippe Ménard, Jean Sauvageau, and Pierre Trochu, Daoust founded ACREQ, the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec, which he later directed for a period of ten years.

Since Daoust's official entry into the professional world of music in 1978, he has composed an average of one work per year, in various genres, for diverse occasions, and ensembles.

His influences are many and varied: film scores, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Mauricio Kagel, Luc Ferrari, Alain Savouret, Karlheinz Stockhausen (Hymnen), Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and René Magritte.