Tape
All records with tape · Solo tape only
Contes de la Mémoire
Ten tape and electronic pieces by Jon Appleton spanning 1966 to 1996, from Columbia-Princeton and Moog III studies to the airport interviews of Newark Airport Rock and its 1996 sequel, and the Andrews Sisters collage Chef d’œuvre.
La Limite du Bruit
Five acousmatic works by John Young from 1995 to 2001, each grown from one intimate or environmental sound: hands, a single breath, wind across two microphones, a childhood swing and rain falling on leaves, windows and puddles.
Aparanthesi
Two versions of John Oswald's one-note composition from 2000-03, built entirely on the pitch A in its ten audible octaves, with a tuned prairie thunderstorm, tuned birds, a Disklavier piano and the cello of Joan Jeanrenaud. CD-R.
In/Out
Dine Doneff's 'soundscape theater for double bass and tapes': a live solo against pre-recorded music and field recordings from Lisbon, Istanbul, Timisoara and Zurich. Recorded 1 July 2016 at the Domagk Ateliers, Munich; neRED/2.
Alibi
Six fixed-medium works by Jacques Tremblay from 1990 to 1995, built from concrete sounds and quotations: Gregorian chant turning to distortion, a night of love in six movements, a jazz tribute and a sound reading of Proust’s Combray.
Eine Olive des Nichts - Zagajewski, Tranströmer, Jaccottet
Poetry and sound collage by radio author Burkhard Reinartz: texts by Adam Zagajewski, Tomas Tranströmer and Philippe Jaccottet read in German by Reinartz, Anja Lais and Bruno Winzen, woven with ECM recordings. Recorded August 2013, Rheinklang Tonstud…
La légende d’Eer
Iannis Xenakis's La légende d'Eer (1977-78) for 7-channel tape, written for the Diatope at the Centre Pompidou, in a new stereo mix by Gerard Pape from the analogue master tape. The DVD adds surround sound, a film and an interview.
Transformations
Five soundscape compositions by Hildegard Westerkamp from 1979 to 1992, among them Kits Beach Soundwalk and Beneath the Forest Floor, recorded on Vancouver streets, a Mexican desert and old-growth forest on Vancouver Island, with hornist Brian G’froe…
Neharót - Betty Olivero / Tigran Mansurian / Eitan Steinberg
Kim Kashkashian plays works by Betty Olivero, Tigran Mansurian and Eitan Steinberg, with the Münchener Kammerorchester, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Kuss Quartett, Robyn Schulkowsky and Mansurian, recorded 2006-2008 in Munich, Poznań and Boston.
Heinz Holliger, Clara Schumann, Christoph Richter, Dénes Várjon, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Heinz Holliger / Clara Schumann: RomancendresClara Schumann's Drei Romanzen Op. 22 and Heinz Holliger's Romancendres, played by Christoph Richter (cello) and Dénes Várjon (piano) in Lugano in 2008, with Holliger's Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, recorded in Sindelfingen in 2007…
Euridice
Chamber music by Alfred Zimmerlin: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (Aria Quartett, Carmina Quartett) and Euridice singt for soprano, oboe, cello, piano and tape (Æquatuor); recorded in Zürich in August 2006 and Aarau in October 2007.
Moment
Hans Tutschku’s first empreintes DIGITALes portrait: five works from 1991 to 1998 built on voice and speech, from poems by Georg Trakl, Karl Lubomirski and Antonio Bueno Tubía to recordings from a 1997 Asian tour in extrémités lointaines.
Ceremony
Maya Homburger (baroque violin) and Barry Guy (double bass) play Biber's Annunciation prelude and five pieces by Guy, one for violin and seven-track tape, recorded in April and July 1997 at Propstei St. Gerold and Rainbow Studio, Oslo.
Le Contrat
A 66-minute electroacoustic work after Goethe's Faust, composed over seven years (1996-2003) by old friends Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier, with Lussier's guitars and daxophone set into Gobeil's studio transformations across 17 scenes.
La Mécanique des Ruptures
Eight works by Gilles Gobeil from 1985 to 1994, among them Le vertige inconnu made at the GMEB in Bourges and two pieces for ondist Suzanne Binet-Audet, plus Associations libres with guitarist René Lussier.
Trilogie d’Ondes
Gilles Gobeil’s three works for ondes Martenot and fixed medium, written between 1988 and 2002 and recorded in 2004-05 with Suzanne Binet-Audet, who commissioned the first; winner of the Prix Opus disc of the year 2004-05. DVD-Audio.
… dans le Silence de la Nuit…
Four acousmatic works by Gilles Gobeil from 1995 to 2001, cinema for the ear drawn from literature and travel: Proust’s Swann’s Way read by Marc Béland, H.G. Wells’s time machine, Jules Verne’s underworld and sounds from a trip to Italy.
Sous le Regard d’un Soleil Noir
Francis Dhomont’s 51-minute acousmatic descent into schizophrenia, built on the writings of RD Laing and on the single note B natural, winner at Bourges in 1981 and first issued by the Ina-GRM in 1982.
Les Dérives du Signe
Four acousmatic works by Francis Dhomont from 1986 to 1991, the second part of his Mouvances~Métaphores cycle, including the Bourges Magisterium winner Chiaroscuro and Signé Dionysos, a lakeshore opera in which every role is sung by frogs.
Cycle de l’Errance
Francis Dhomont's acousmatic triptych on wandering, composed in Montréal and Marseille between 1981 and 1989: Points de fuite, the nine-movement … mourir un peu, which quotes Schaeffer and Henry, and the spatial Espace / Escape.