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1. 1. Lovely Artist: Jacques Bekaert

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   Published on: 1/8/2008   Last Visited: 1/8/2008

   Jacques Bekaert Lovely Artist: Jacques Bekaert
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   JACQUES BEKAERT
   
   Jacques is a Belgian-born composer, journalist and photographer who lives in Bankok, writing about Southeast Asian and Indochinese affairs. He composes for small ensemble and electronic media.

2. 2. Jacques Bekaert

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   Published on: 12/8/2007   Last Visited: 12/8/2007

   JACQUES BEKAERT
   
   Composer, journalist, photographer, Jacques Bekaert was born in 1940 in Bruges, Belgium. In the early 1960s he attended the analysis and composition classes of Henri Pousseur at the Basel Conservatory. He also worked at the Apelac Studio for Electronic Music in Brussels, where he composed A Summer Day at Stony Point, which was premiered at the Harrogate Festival (UK) in 1969.
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   Bekaert also worked at the Studio for Electronic Music at Brandeis University and at Mills College, where many of his compositions were performed.
   
   In 1972 Bekaert co-founded, with Takehisa Kosugi, the musical group, Transition, which performed in Europe, notably at the ICES Festival in London.
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   Composing mostly for small ensemble and electronic media, Bekaert's works include, Aranyaprathet, for tape and instruments, created at Arch Street (Berkeley); a solo for piano, The Ghost of Madison, premiered by Rae Imamura, at the Kitchen (New York); and a collection of his works with the overall title, Summer Music 1970, composed while living in John Cage's house in Stony Point, New York.
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   Bekaert has also composed music for two experimental movies by Japanese writer/filmmaker Akiko Iimura (Mon Petit Album and A Late Lunch, later published on record in Europe).
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   As a journalist, Bekaert covered American politics for fifteen years. He also traveled to the Middle East, Portugal and Greece. In 1979 he moved to Bangkok and specialized in Indochinese affairs, traveling often to Vietnam, Cambodia, writing for Le Monde, The Bangkok Post and the Far Eastern Service of the BBC. He has also written several studies on Cambodia for research centers in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. Two volumes of his Cambodian Diary, Tales of A Divided Nation and A Long Road to Peace, were published in 1997 and 1998 (White Lotus, Bangkok.) The books cover events from 1979 until 1998.
   
   Bekaert's photographs have been shown in Berkeley, Hanoi and Brussels.
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   Jacques Bekaert is a member of CounterIntelligence, a New York-based art group.
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   Bekaert is presently a diplomat, the Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of the Order of Malta in Cambodia. The Order works on the eradication of lebrosy, and runs a specialized hospital in Phnom Penh. the Embassy also provides bi-monthly supplementary feeking and medical care for pregnant women and children detained or living in various Cambodian jails.
   
   When asked in 1979 about his double life as a musician and a journalist, Bekaert replied, "I suppose they're both unsafe, unstable, questioning jobs,composing and reporting.

3. 3. Roulette: Fall 2007 November

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   Published on: 10/1/2007   Last Visited: 1/27/2008

   Jacques Bekaert
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   Born in Belgium in May 1940, Jacques Bekaert is well known as both a composer and a journalist. As a journalist he covered American politics, before moving to Southeast Asia in 1979. He worked for the BBC, le Monde, and wrote a weekly column for The Bangkok Post (1983-1993). Some of these columns have been published in two volumes under the title "Cambodian Diary". Since 1993 he has worked as a diplomat, posted in Cambodia. As a composer, Bekaert studied with Henri Pousseur and worked or performed with the Sonic Arts Union, John Cage, the Merce Cunningham Dance Co, George Lewis, Rae Imamura, Transition (with Takehisa Kosugi) and Tom Buckner.