Anecdotes
Yves Daoust's 1991 disc of works built on fragments of the classical repertoire: pieces for piano, flute and accordion with tape on the theme of the performer's solitude, a baroque suite for a harpsichordist-actress, and the Bourges-winning Quatuor.
Bruits
Yves Daoust's portrait of Montréal through its noise, the three-part Bruits (1997-2001), with Impromptu 2 on Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu, the 1981 analog-synthesis piece La gamme and Ouverture, a GMEB commission on Québec history.
Humeur de Facteur
Humeur de facteur, a six-movement acousmatic cycle by harpsichord builder Yves Beaupré, conceived as an ordre after François Couperin and built from six hours of recordings made in his workshop: tools, saws, strings, tacks and the resonating case.
Claire-Voie
Four works by the Toronto composer Wende Bartley from 1985 to 1993, built on voice and on the collective story of women: lunar mythology with mezzo-soprano Fides Krucker, Balkan songs stretched by granular synthesis, a Javanese gamelan turned to breaking ice.
Miniatures Concrètes
Twenty-four clips of exactly three minutes by 25 composers, from Åke Parmerud and Natasha Barrett to Roger Doyle and Katharine Norman, most built from the same three given sounds, released in 1998 for the 50th anniversary of musique concrète.
Migrations
Three acousmatic triptychs by Stéphane Roy from 1998 to 2003, marking five years in St Louis and the return home: Montréal street recordings with du Bellay and Baudelaire, a homage to Pierre Schaeffer for musique concrète’s 50th, and a circus piece.
Kaleidos
Four works by Stéphane Roy from 1987 to 1994 that move from expressive early tape pieces to Mimetismo, where Arturo Parra's guitar blends into the tape, and Crystal Music, composed largely at CCRMA in Stanford.
Rhizomes
Seven acousmatic works by Belgian composer Stephan Dunkelman from 1991 to 2000, many born from dance and from his work with Michèle Noiret, including the Stockholm prize-winner Metharcana and Rituellipses, honoured at Ars Electronica in 1995.
Délirantes
Nine works by the Havana-born composer Sergio Barroso from 1982 to 1995, most for microtonal Yamaha FM synthesizers he plays himself, with oboe, violin, viola and bassoon soloists and echoes of charanga, flamenco and Cuban street music.
Amore
Roxanne Turcotte’s 35-minute electroacoustic tale of love in a cinema, made in 1986-88 and 1992, with ringing telephones, French folk songs, a nod to Wes Montgomery and texts by Élise Turcotte; 2nd prize at the International New Music Composer’s Competition.
Figures
Reissue of Robert Normandeau’s album of four acousmatic and mixed works from 1995 to 1999, including the Golden Nica winner Le renard et la rose, built from voices of a Little Prince radio play, and Figures de rhétorique with pianist Jacques Drouin.
Tangram
Five multitrack works by Robert Normandeau from 1990 to 1993, his “cinema for the ear” period, built from a child's voice, four teenagers, Mozart's chamber music and the elements, each recorded as a live diffusion over eight loudspeakers at The Banff Centre.
Lieux Inouïs
Robert Normandeau's early acousmatic works from 1984 to 1989, his “cinema for the ear”: the many meanings of the word jeu, a requiem made only of requiem fragments, and music first written for Georges Dyens' holosculptures.
Puzzles
Five 16-channel works by Robert Normandeau from 2001 to 2003, concert pieces reworked from his theatre music for Brigitte Haentjens, including StrinGDberg for hurdy-gurdy and cello and the Fribourg prizewinner Chorus. 2017 reissue of the 2005 album.
Clair de Terre
Three acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 1999 to 2001: Malina, made only from Claire Marchand’s shakuhachi, Erinyes, frozen onomatopoeias of actors from a staging of Electra, and the 36-minute Clair de terre, which translates the grammar of cinema into sound.
Sondes
Six works by the Toronto composer Randall Smith from 1995 to 1999, three for tape alone and three mixed pieces for cello, accordion, double bass and alto flute, remastered by Ernest Cholakis.
L’Oreille Voit
The first album by the Toronto composer Randall Smith: five tape works from 1988 to 1994, from water music made without any water to The Black Museum, his tribute to the GRM, first prize at the Luigi Russolo competition in 1993.
Alter Ego
Debut album of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, five acousmatic works from 1997 to 2004 made between Montréal, Birmingham and Huddersfield, from a remix built around rapper Dice B to a Baudelaire piece on three Montréal church bells. DVD-Audio.
Léone
Philippe Mion’s acousmatic opera Léone (1993), on a libretto by Philippe Minyana drawn from a true news story: six singers conducted by Laurent Cuniot, with the whole orchestra replaced by tape composed at the Ina-GRM and Grame.