Titakti
Four acousmatic studies by Philippe Le Goff from 1991 to 1995, built on recordings he made between 1988 and 1993 among the Inuit of Nunavik and Baffin Island: conversations, laughter, chants, wind and the shamanic drum.
Soft And Loud
Comes with with 8-page foldout booklet. Originally conceived for eight-channel surround sound playback, Soft and Loud is comprised of field recordings made in Japan between 1999 and 2001.
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
Seven acousmatic works by Pete Stollery from 1993 to 2003, playing on the ambiguity between recognisable sounds and pure sound: a key in a lock, a roulette wheel, bicycle spokes, Aberdeen streets, old industrial machines. Each piece introduced by a f…
Délires de Plaisirs
Paul Dolden's 49-minute Entropic Twilights, layered from hundreds of separately recorded parts for voices, brass, gamelan, drum kits and saucepans, with two Resonance pieces for flute and for ten string parts and tape, made between 1994 and 2004.
Primitive / Espaces Paradoxes
Digipack CD featuring two works by Patrick Ascione: "Primitive" (1995); "Espaces Paradoxes" (1987-89). RE: "Espaces-Paradoxes": "The first acousmatic work designed and projected in 16 real tracks, in full stereo. It deals with the question of writing…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.