★empreintes DIGITALes
Miroirs Obscurs
Andrew Lewis’s four sound portraits of the coast of Anglesey, from the lighthouse bell and plainchant of Penmon Point to the jets over Llanddwyn, plus Danses acousmatiques, a nine-movement suite on space and movement made in 2007. DVD-Audio.
Environs
Jonty Harrison’s eight-channel works from 1999 to 2007, centred on ReCycle, his four-part cycle on the classical elements built from a garden roller, car engines fitted with accelerometers, a parachute fall and running water. DVD-Audio.
Lieu-Temps
Two 5.1 works by John Young from 2005 about his parents meeting in wartime Forlì: the Bourges-winning Ricordiamo Forlì, built from war correspondence archives and his father’s memories, and Arrivederci for the ensemble Stroma and the Duomo bells. DVD…
Horizons du Silence
Québec composer Martin Leclerc’s Horizons du Silence: six works from 2000 to 2005, every one a Hugh Le Caine Award winner, drawing on Enki Bilal, Thoreau and Neruda, with a piece for amplified trumpet played by Pascal Leprohon. DVD-Audio.
Mâts
Eight works from 1996 to 2004 by the Argentine composer Elsa Justel, made in Paris, Bourges, Barcelona, Berlin and Nevers, from an Andean bull’s-horn trumpet in Mâts to a homage built on Pierre Schaeffer’s voice and a piano invaded by a cat goddess.
… et Autres Utopies
Five acousmatic “fantasies” by Francis Dhomont from 1989 to 2005, among them a Lautréamont ocean reworked for Bourges, the three-part Chroniques de la lumière and Voyage-miroir, a reversed and shrunken replica of … mourir un peu.
Forêt Profonde
Francis Dhomont’s acousmatic melodrama Forêt profonde (1994-96), a 58-minute reading of fairy tales after Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment, in thirteen sections that each borrow a colour from Schumann’s Kinderszenen.
Électro Clips
Twenty-five electroacoustic miniatures of three minutes each, commissioned in 1990 for the Montréal musiques actuelles/New Music America festival from composers in Québec, Canada, the USA and Mexico, among them Dhomont, Westerkamp, Oswald, Gobeil and…
Les Méandres du Rêve
Serge Arcuri’s dream cycle in seven pieces from 1982 to 1992, tape works and mixed works for oboe, harp, horn and percussion, played by Lawrence Cherney, Erica Goodman, Francis Ouellet and Trevor Tureski and recorded in Toronto in 1992.
Parr(A)cousmatique
Guitarist Arturo Parra’s project of mixed music: Francis Dhomont, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau, Stéphane Roy and Mauricio Bejarano each wrote an acousmatic piece, and Parra composed a guitar part over it, played on an unprepared guitar.