Tape
All records with tape · Solo tape only
Polyphonie-Polychrome
Patrick Ascione's acousmatic triptych of 1984 to 1989, commissioned by the Ina-GRM: three long multi-part pieces built on his idea of tape as a canvas for sound, with a preface by Michel Chion.
Desires / Kybele / X für Verschlüsse / Roses / Spices 3
Five works by Gerhard Stäbler for percussion, soprano and percussion quartet, conception for any number of players, and percussion with tape, performed by Schlagquartett Köln with soprano Annette Robbert.
Toucher
Seven percussion works by Vinko Globokar, including Toucher for a speaking percussionist, ?Corporel for body percussion and Ombre with tape and rhythm machine, played by Matthias Kaul, a coproduction with Deutschlandfunk.
Aérosol
Five acousmatic works by Ned Bouhalassa from 1990 to 1998 tracing his move from cinema for the ear towards techno, from Jets, written for San Francisco’s Sound Traffic Control, to the self-portrait Constamment and the Russolo prizewinner Attraction.
Naturell / Concent / Lack / Infrarot / Sepia / Aceton
Portrait CD of Achim Bornhöft: six works from 1999-2010 for computer, string quartet, flute and clarinet, percussion quartet, quintet and four electric guitars with live electronics, played by Helios Streichquartett, Ensemble Phorminx, Freiburger Schlagzeugensemble and GoGuitars.
Isostasie
Natasha Barrett’s first years in Norway, 1998 to 2001: Arctic weather, red snow, a 24-hour rain forest recording and a valley of machines, with three extracts from Displaced:Replaced, an installation driven by live meteorological sensors.
Musik für übers Sofa
Portrait CD of Hannes Seidl: five works for trombone quartet, mixed ensemble with tape, contrabass clarinet with environmental sound, piano with tape and cello with mixing desk, played by Composers Slide Quartet, ensemble Intégrales, Theo Nabicht, Sebastian Berweck and Andreas Lindenbaum. 2009.
L’Adieu au S.O.S.
Four works by Monique Jean from 1997 to 2001 on destruction, memory and the real, with texts by Hélène Cixous, Alejo Carpentier and Denise Desautels, contrabass improvisations by Joëlle Léandre and, in low memory #2, flutist Claire Marchand.
Offene Landschaft mit obligatem Ton e / kommen und gehen / Dialog imaginär 4 / Streichquartett Nr. 3 / De musica
Georg Katzer: Offene Landschaft mit obligatem Ton e (Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Eötvös), kommen und gehen, Dialog imaginär 4 for bass clarinet and tape (Wolfgang Fuchs), String Quartet No. 3 (Arditti Quartet) and De musica; recordings 1984-1993.
Impulsion
The tape works of Québec composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, made between 1970 and 1981 at the GRM in Paris, in Bourges and at Simon Fraser University, from the vocal vertigo of Arksalalartôq to the eighteen-minute Constellation I.
Préludes à la Vie
Michel Chion’s second empreintes DIGITALes album pairs two musique concrète works eighteen years apart: Le prisonnier du son (1972), his first melodrama, and the Vingt-quatre préludes à la vie (1989-90), which answer it.
Transición II. Phonophonie
First recordings, supervised by the composer, of two early works by Mauricio Kagel: Transición II (1958-59) for piano, percussion and tapes with live electronics, and Phonophonie (1963-64), four melodramas for two voices and other sound sources.
Mondes Inconnus
Eight works by Monty Adkins from 1994 to 2005, 93 minutes at 96 kHz, from a train journey after Turner and a Hubble-inspired piece made of rocks and gas cylinders to drum 'n' bass, William Gibson and a flute piece for Alejandro Escuer. DVD-Audio.
Alchimie
Five short electroacoustic works by Mario Rodrigue from 1985 to 1993, three of them made with analog tape techniques at the Université de Montréal and reworked for this disc, including the CBC Grand Prize winner Tilt.
Petits Big Bangs
A 1976-2002 retrospective of Marcelle Deschênes: music for Georges Dyens' holographic installations, the multimedia show Lux, two pieces from the unfinished cycle Griffes and the Bourges-winning Moll for winds, percussion and toys. DVD-Audio.
Bruit-Graffiti
Six tape works by Marc Tremblay from 1989 to 1998 that find music in everyday noise: cars, telephones, washrooms, the Montréal Stock Exchange and the soundtracks of El Dorado and The Searchers, remixed in Bourges for Cowboy Fiction.
Connexion
Four acousmatic works by Louis Dufort from 1996 to 2000, from night recordings on Mont-Royal and the refineries of east-end Montréal to Décap, partly drawn from his music for Compagnie Marie Chouinard and mentioned at Ars Electronica 2001.
Corazón Road
The French duo Kristoff K.Roll’s 78-minute musical diary of a trip through Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, composed from 1990 to 1993 in Paris from sounds gathered on the road: marimba players in Mérida, Belizean rappers, taco sellers on buses.
Articles Indéfinis
Five stereo acousmatic works by Jonty Harrison from 1978 to 1995, from the analogue Pair / Impair to the GRM commission Hot Air built on party balloons, with the eleven-movement French suite … et ainsi de suite… made from wine glasses.
Évidence Matérielle
Five acousmatic works by Jonty Harrison from 1982 to 1999, built from casserole dishes, packing materials, splintering wood and water, including the Euphonie d’or winner Klang and his first multichannel tape piece, Streams.