Electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
Délirantes
Nine works by the Havana-born composer Sergio Barroso from 1982 to 1995, most for microtonal Yamaha FM synthesizers he plays himself, with oboe, violin, viola and bassoon soloists and echoes of charanga, flamenco and Cuban street music.
Amore
Roxanne Turcotte’s 35-minute electroacoustic tale of love in a cinema, made in 1986-88 and 1992, with ringing telephones, French folk songs, a nod to Wes Montgomery and texts by Élise Turcotte; 2nd prize at the International New Music Composer’s Comp…
Figures
Reissue of Robert Normandeau’s album of four acousmatic and mixed works from 1995 to 1999, including the Golden Nica winner Le renard et la rose, built from voices of a Little Prince radio play, and Figures de rhétorique with pianist Jacques Drouin.
Tangram
Five multitrack works by Robert Normandeau from 1990 to 1993, his “cinema for the ear” period, built from a child's voice, four teenagers, Mozart's chamber music and the elements, each recorded as a live diffusion over eight loudspeakers at The Banff…
Lieux Inouïs
Robert Normandeau's early acousmatic works from 1984 to 1989, his “cinema for the ear”: the many meanings of the word jeu, a requiem made only of requiem fragments, and music first written for Georges Dyens' holosculptures.
Puzzles
Five 16-channel works by Robert Normandeau from 2001 to 2003, concert pieces reworked from his theatre music for Brigitte Haentjens, including StrinGDberg for hurdy-gurdy and cello and the Fribourg prizewinner Chorus. 2017 reissue of the 2005 album.
Clair de Terre
Three acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 1999 to 2001: Malina, made only from Claire Marchand’s shakuhachi, Erinyes, frozen onomatopoeias of actors from a staging of Electra, and the 36-minute Clair de terre, which translates the grammar of c…
Sondes
Six works by the Toronto composer Randall Smith from 1995 to 1999, three for tape alone and three mixed pieces for cello, accordion, double bass and alto flute, remastered by Ernest Cholakis.
L’Oreille Voit
The first album by the Toronto composer Randall Smith: five tape works from 1988 to 1994, from water music made without any water to The Black Museum, his tribute to the GRM, first prize at the Luigi Russolo competition in 1993.
Tonband
First recordings of Enno Poppe's Feld, the jointly composed Tonband by Poppe and Wolfgang Heiniger, and Heiniger's Neumond, played by Yarn/Wire (Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg, Laura Barger, Ning Yu) with Sam Torres on live electronics.
Lab.Oratorium
First recording of Philippe Manoury's Lab.Oratorium (2019) for actors, soprano, mezzo-soprano, choirs, live electronics and orchestra, on the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean, with the Gürzenich Orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth, dir…
Im Bau
First recording of Michel Roth's Im Bau, fifteen sound spaces after Kafka for mezzo-soprano, ensemble and live electronics, in its radiophonic version, with Anne-May Krüger and ensemble æquatuor, recorded in Basel in 2017.
Leonardo-Zyklus
Andreas H. H. Suberg's Leonardo-Zyklus, ten music scenarios after Leonardo da Vinci's prophecies, for countertenor (Daniel Gloger), trumpet and alphorn (Paul Hübner), percussion (Olaf Tzschoppe) and electronics (Suberg). Recorded September 2017.
Hij
Mark Andre's hij 1 for orchestra (WDR Sinfonieorchester, Mariano Chiacchiarini, 2015) and hij 2 for 24 voices and live electronics (SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed, SWR Experimentalstudio, live 2013). First recordings.
Big Data
Decoder Ensemble plays first recordings of works on remix, sampling and copy-paste by Brigitta Muntendorf, Ole Hübner, Stefan Prins, Matthias Kranebitter and Leopold Hurt, most commissioned for its 2017 Big Data Weekend. Coproduced with Deutschlandfu…
Amplified Imagination
Five works (2013-2015) by Sarah Nemtsov for amplified instruments, effect pedals, loop station, kaoss pad and Electribe SX, played by Ensemble Adapter, Sonar Quartett, members of ensemble mosaik and the composer. First recordings, coproduced with Deu…
Canons
Brice Pauset's complete cycle of 24 canons for piano (1989-2010) and Perspectivæ Sintagma I for piano and live electronics (1997), first recordings by Nicolas Hodges with IRCAM electronics. Produced by WDR Köln in 2016.
Alter Ego
Debut album of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, five acousmatic works from 1997 to 2004 made between Montréal, Birmingham and Huddersfield, from a remix built around rapper Dice B to a Baudelaire piece on three Montréal church bells. DVD-Audio.
Funambules
Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein) plays four works written for them in 2014-15 by Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Johannes Schöllhorn and Stefan Prins. First recordings, SWR productions.
Shifting / Archipel Remix
Rolf Riehm's violin concerto Shifting (Guy Braunstein, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Dennis Russell Davies) and Archipel Remix for orchestra and electronics (Peter Rundel), WDR productions issued as first recordings in 2016.