Paul E. Beaudoin

Paul E. Beaudoin (born 10 April 1960) is an American composer, visual and interdisciplinary artist, and writer. His work engages sound, image, and text across composition, installation, video, and photography. A Fulbright Fellow to Estonia, his projects have been presented at festivals and galleries internationally. Early life and education Beaudoin was born in Hialeah, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami in 1983, a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory in 1987, and a Ph.D. in music theory and composition from Brandeis University in 2002. His early compositions include dance re:pnmr, premiered by pianist Guy Livingston; he was commissioned by Boston Symphony Orchestra flutist Fenwick Smith for windows of mythology, and his string quartet ein brief was performed by the Lydian String Quartet and the June in Buffalo Quartet. Shift to interdisciplinary practice Beaudoin’s 2015 Fulbright Fellowship to Estonia coincided with an expansion of his practice into visual and spatial domains. Drawing on post-Cagean ideas of indeterminacy and silence, he began to approach sound, image, and text as parallel forms of notation, each framing percept