Christian Bouchard
IV
Christian Bouchard’s fourth album, five works from 2013 to 2022 that alternate abstract pieces with Montréal soundscapes: eight-track recordings from his car with police radio, a collective 15-minute recording, Canadian bird songs and a bank of oscillators.
Fractures
Four acousmatic works by Christian Bouchard from 1997 to 2003: crowds, parades and a friend caught in a blind spot in Angle mort, three soundscape miniatures, and the two Parcelles, sounds of the world recorded and asked to pose.
Broken Ground
Christian Bouchard’s 58-minute soundtrack for Derek Besant’s touring exhibition on cities torn up by redevelopment, twelve sections named after material-science terms, mixing soundscape, glitch and acousmatic writing; made in 2011-13 and remixed in 2016.
Automacité
Christian Bouchard’s works from 2006 to 2010 between acousmatics, glitch and soundscape: the Impasto triptych after the frenzied painting of Pollock, Riopelle and Shiraga, the MIDI-driven Parcelles 21 and a requiem for Montréal’s mechanical parking meters. DVD-Audio.