André Stordeur

André Stordeur is a Belgian electronic music composer and educator, notable for teaching sound synthesis as well as his mastery of the Serge modular synthesizer. Stordeur began creating music as a teenager, playing drums and vibraphone in various jazz groups, including the Free Forms Sextet. Inspired by the groundbreaking synthesizer experiments of American composer Morton Subotnick, Stordeur established Studio Synthèse in Brussels in 1973 and began creating electro-acoustic tape music, contributing music to Gordon Matta-Clark's film Office Baroque that year. Later in the decade, he contributed to Joris de Laet's Studio voor Experimentele Muziek, an Antwerp-based ensemble that included such composers as Karel Goeyvaerts, Lucien Goethals, and Serge Verstockt. Stordeur's sole full-length album, 18 Days, was recorded using analog and digital electronic instruments, and was released in 1979 on Belgian label Igloo. During the same year, he composed "Phraseologie" with Paul-Baudouin Michel at Ghent University's Institut voor Psychoacustica en Elektronische Muzie. Later, Stordeur studied with Subotnick and began teaching synthesizer courses. Stordeur issued no new recordings, but continued composing and teaching, and published a book called Art of Analog Modular Synthesis by Voltage Control in 1997. Stordeur contributed "Serge Raga" to the 2004 compilation Serge Modular Music: Now. Stordeur's work was given a long-overdue anthology by Sub Rosa, which issued Complete Analog and Digital Electronic Works 1978-2000 as part of its Early Electronic Series in 2015. The collection included 18 Days plus two discs of previously unreleased analog and digital works and synthesizer studies dating from the early '80s and early 2000s. Analog and Digital Electronic Music, Vol. 2: 1980-2000 followed in 2017.
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