Lieux Imaginaires
Six acousmatic works by Steven Naylor from 2000 to 2006 built around imagined places: Walkman recordings from Chiang Mai and urban Japan, mechanical toys, Kunekune pigs and a 27-minute radiophonic piece on homelessness in Halifax. DVD-Audio.
Antiguos Dolmenes del Paleolitico
“Antiguos Dólmenes del Paleolítico (“Ancient Palaeolithic Dolmens”) is a composition in four parts created exclusively with processed no-input feedback and inspired by these stone monuments. It was created in early 2004 and is the first full-length s…
Volt
Alain Thibault's 1985-1990 music for soloists against computer-controlled tape, drawing on studio pop, rock and jazz: a MIDI piano concerto for Jacques Drouin, a piece for soprano Pauline Vaillancourt, excerpts from his video opera OUT and ELVIS for …
s/t
'1er cahier d'enluminures' (1987). 'La trans-solitaire' (1984). 'Au loin, l'artifice' (1978). 'Le lait - le sang' (1996). '3ème cahier d'enluminures' (1990) (extract). 'Born in 1942 in Le Mans. He ended in the middle of the 60s a classic training …
L’Annecy de pierre
A new work from the French composer Alain Savouret made around the city of Annecy. Field recordings and little parts of music with percussion and prepared piano.
Greffes
A ten-year retrospective of Monique Jean, 2000 to 2011: two acousmatic works framing three mixed pieces where tenor saxophone (André Leroux), electric guitar (Tim Brady) and bass clarinet (Lori Freedman) are grafted onto processing and fixed sounds. …
À l’Ombre des Ondes
Three pieces from 2011 by the French duo Kristoff K.Roll, made for headphones and an afternoon nap: “audio-talking naps” in which real dream narratives told by friends float through concrete sounds, field recordings and improvisation.
Formes Audibles
Six acousmatic works from 2007 to 2011 by the English composer Manuella Blackburn, built from kitchen utensils, switches and an old TV, a cajón, electric guitar, Japanese instruments recorded in Tokyo and sounds from Denis Smalley’s Wind Chimes.
Palimpsestes
Five acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 2005 to 2011, from the onomatopoeia piece Palimpseste to the 38-channel Anadliad for Welsh pibgorn and bagpipe and the reversible Palindrome, recorded with the organ and bells of Bourges cathedral.
Intérieurs Harmoniques
Six works by the New York composer Elizabeth Hoffman from 2001 to 2011, obsessed with harmonic design and unnatural resonance, built from percussion recorded by TimeTable Percussion, close-miked water, birdcalls, two violins and insects heard just af…
Petites musiques de bruits
Utilisant l'art de la boucle et de la récupération, Alain de Filippis crée un orchestre de bruits qu'il dirige avec virtuosité. Série II.
Ab irato
Perhaps best known for his work alongside Philippe Blanchard (aka Lieutenant Caramel) in Denier Du Culte, Basso reveals himself here to be an exceptional exponent of uneasy listening. Tidal pools of atonal harmonics slowly whirl you into bins of …
BWANA, Rex xhu ping
If, Bwana alias Al Margolis figure de la scène expérimentale new-yorkaise et boss de Pogus. Compositions pour bandes, voix, électronique... Franc, déterminé et tenu. Avec Al Margolis (bandes, clarinette etc), Laura Biagi (voix), Dan Andreana (voix, b…
Voix
Yves Daoust’s Chorals ornés, a rereading of the 14 chorales of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein for organ and fixed medium with Régis Rousseau on a 1961 Beckerath organ and Québec poems, plus three works from 2002-05 on time, voice and found objects. DVD-Audio.
Impulsioni
Ákos Rózmann was born in Budapest, in 1939, where he studied organ and composition at the Liszt Academy. From 1979 to 1974 he studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Since 1978 he has been organist at the catholic cathedral in…
Til odslig horisont
Til odslig horisont evolves slowly and quietly over forty-five minutes and rewards the listener's attention with a great listening experience, manifold soundscapes and atmospheres melting into one another. As often, describing this work will not do i…
Contrechamps
Seven acousmatic works by Adrian Moore from 2006 to 2010, most composed in surround from the outset, including Fields of Darkness and Light for violinist Darragh Morgan, first prize at Musica Nova 2010, and 3Pieces from horn, violin and piano. DVD-Au…
Scènes
Six works by Pete Stollery from 2004 to 2007: radio sports commentaries, a homage to Delia Derbyshire, three pieces mapping the sounds of rural Aberdeenshire, and a sound walk along the route of Claude Lelouch’s film C’était un rendez-vous.
Entre Espaces
Seven fixed-medium works by the American composer Elainie Lillios from 1998 to 2007, made in Birmingham, Bowling Green, Toronto and Baton Rouge, from an interview with a Texan tarot reader to an ambisonic study shaped by Deep Listening.