★empreintes DIGITALes
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.
Quelques Reflets
Four 5.1 works Pierre Alexandre Tremblay composed in 2009-10 during a sabbatical year of residencies at Ina-GRM, Miso Music in Lisbon, TU Berlin and Musiques & Recherches, plus the videomusic Walk That Way. Tuesday, Turn. Disque de l’année, Prix Opus 2010-11. DVD-Audio.
Automacité
Christian Bouchard’s works from 2006 to 2010 between acousmatics, glitch and soundscape: the Impasto triptych after the frenzied painting of Pollock, Riopelle and Shiraga, the MIDI-driven Parcelles 21 and a requiem for Montréal’s mechanical parking meters. DVD-Audio.
Le Projet Ulysse
Christian Calon’s 54-minute radio work from 1996-2001 that moves the myth of Ulysses into the present through Homer and Joyce, with the voice of Shelley Hirsch as Penelope and guitar by René Lussier; Grand Prix Marulic 1999. DVD-Video.
Jeu d’Ombres
Six works by Åke Parmerud from 1986 to 1999, including Strings & Shadows for harpist Sofia Asunción Claro, Retur on a Charlie Parker solo for the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, and the Bourges-winning Repulse.
Désordres
Nearly two hours of music by Roxanne Turcotte from 2003 to 2008, from the sound-and-light installation pieces Attractions and Musée sonore to Espace vital for two pianos and tape and the 16-channel Delirium, written for her father. DVD-Audio.
La Rage
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay's 49-minute La rage (2004-05), a reading of Louis Hamelin's 1989 novel for free jazz drummer, live and interactive processing and 8-channel tape, performed by Stefan Schneider and recorded in 2005. DVD-Audio.
Études pour Kafka
Three self-standing studies by Francis Dhomont from 2005-06 for Le cri du Choucas, his long work on Franz Kafka, including Brief an den Vater with actor Martin Engler and the transformed voice of Hans Tutschku. Disque de l’année at the Prix Opus 2009-10.
Ubiquité
Four dark allegories by Dominique Bassal, empreintes DIGITALes’ mastering engineer, composed from 2001 and revised up to 2009: thinking birds after Olaf Stapledon, a body drowning in a star, the Egyptian sky goddess Nut and a satire of cults. DVD-Audio.
Trans_canada
Eight Canadian composers, from Francis Dhomont and Hildegard Westerkamp to Nicolas Bernier, with works made for or around the trans_canada festival at the ZKM in Karlsruhe in 2005: two and a half hours of acousmatic and soundscape music. DVD-Audio.
Chroniques d’une Séduction
Three works on otherness by Jacques Tremblay from 1997 to 2004, among them the 47-minute Empathies entropiques, eight portraits built from voices in Russian, Italian, Creole, Arabic and other languages, dedicated to Yves Daoust.
La Face Cachée
Five acousmatic works by David Berezan from 2002 to 2007 that open up everyday sources: his daily bicycle ride in Birmingham, Chinese Baoding balls and opera, a 19th-century textile mill, the ice of Banff and a chain on a Tinguely sculpture. DVD-Audio.
Gratte-Cité
Five works from 1999 to 2005 in which Ned Bouhalassa “plays” the city like a record, mixing street recordings from Montréal, Las Vegas and Berlin with breakbeats, including Urban Cuts for cello, drums and fixed medium. DVD-Audio.
Rêve de l’Aube
Four works by the Sheffield composer Adrian Moore from 2001 to 2004: an Ina-GRM commission on an Emily Dickinson poem, a piece built from lawn mowers and a steel factory, a work for pianist Peter Hill and the six-part Sea of Singularity.
Traces
Five works by Adrian Moore from 1994 to 1997, from the ambient Junky to Study in Ink, made entirely from a drying marker pen on a whiteboard, and Sieve, realized at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Époque de l’Eau
Six acousmatic works by Greek composer Theodoros Lotis from 1996 to 2002, built around light, water, wind and sand: a comment on Beethoven’s Op. 110, granular desert winds, a sibyl’s voice and a sea made from bees and a string quartet.
Matériaux Composés
Seven multichannel works by Louis Dufort from 2004 to 2007: the Matério cycle made for Francisco López's Montréal Sound Matter project, a piece on drowning prompted by the 2004 tsunami, and a homage to Francis Dhomont reusing a sound from Novars. DVD-Audio.
Trois Songes
Three 5.1-channel works Gilles Gobeil composed at the ZKM in Karlsruhe between 2005 and 2007, each on a literary argument: the Desert Fathers, Dante's Paradise and an unshot Tarkovsky script on E T A Hoffmann, with René Lussier's daxophone throughout. DVD-Audio.
Les Ponts de l’Espace
Six works by Laurie Radford from 2001 to 2006, reworked for 5.1 surround: wintry street recordings set against an invented wall instrument, Slovenian bells and trumpet, and his own instrumental music melted down like wax in a bronze casting. DVD-Audio.
Exils
Six works by Annette Vande Gorne from 1983 to 2006 on six kinds of exile, from a Debussy threnody and the vocal suite Vox Alia to texts by Kamal Ben Hameda and Saint-John Perse and music for a play on Van Gogh. DVD-Audio.