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Guillaume Coutu Dumont is an electronic musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, who is based in Berlin, Germany. He is noted for his various collaborations with musicians such as Julien Roy, David Fafard and Vincent Lemieux as part of his association with MUTEK and is one of the premiered performers at the MUTEK Festival in Montreal.

Coutu Dumont comes from an artistic family with an actress mother, Angèle Coutu, and a twin brother, Gabriel Coutu Dumont, who is a visual artist. He began learning Latin and classical percussion when he was seventeen, although he was told he was too old to begin that kind of training. He originally went to college to study anthropology, but began to play in a funk band and discovered electroacoustic music. His college happened to be the only one in Quebec that offered electroacoustic composition courses. He applied to change majors to study music and was accepted. However, instead of finishing school, he began working with Julien Roy on the Egg project. This same Julien Roy introduced Coutu Dumont to electronic music by inviting him to a techno party. The experience, he says, made him get over his prejudice against machine generated music.