condition (discs/cover): NM / NM. Alain Saverot exists entirely outside the institutional circuits that define most of this catalog. Not a GRM composer, not a conservatory graduate, not a member of any recognized school: Saverot is a polymath who came to music through visual art, admitted to the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts at seventeen, subsequently working as painter, photographer, poet, archivist, and videomaker. Hiéroscopie Exotérique on AMCS represents one facet of a practice that refuses disciplinary boundaries.

AMCS appears to be Saverot's own imprint, vehicle for a catalog that includes Le Soleil Intérieur (1994), Germes du Chant Cosmique (1996), La Fête Chromatique (1999), and the retrospective Alain Saverot Story (1975-1996). The titles announce a sensibility more mystical than technical, more concerned with cosmic resonance than acoustic research. "Hieroscopy" was divination through sacrificial entrails; "exoteric" means knowledge made public. Sacred seeing brought to light.