Hinterland
Carlos Roque Alsina is an Argentinean-born composer who tends to mix acoustic and taped sounds together in a manner that evokes natural sounds to some degree, something of a more programmatically inclined Iannis Xenakis. The title piece combines pian…
Images Nomades
Francis Dhomont in two halves: three abstract works from 2012 to 2020, including the twin rain pieces Phoenix XXI and Perpetuum mobile, then Ami-versaires, nine short birthday tributes to Parmegiani, Bayle, Ferreyra, Vande Gorne, Harrison and other f…
Séquences et Tropes
Four long surround works by Adrian Moore from 2012 to 2014: the paired The Battle and Counterattack, Nebula Sequence, begun on a strike day and with ball bearings after Bayle, and Strings and Tropes, on zheng samples by Sun Zhuo.
Volt
Alain Thibault's 1985-1990 music for soloists against computer-controlled tape, drawing on studio pop, rock and jazz: a MIDI piano concerto for Jacques Drouin, a piece for soprano Pauline Vaillancourt, excerpts from his video opera OUT and ELVIS for …
Palimpsestes
Five acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 2005 to 2011, from the onomatopoeia piece Palimpseste to the 38-channel Anadliad for Welsh pibgorn and bagpipe and the reversible Palindrome, recorded with the organ and bells of Bourges cathedral.
Voix
Yves Daoust’s Chorals ornés, a rereading of the 14 chorales of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein for organ and fixed medium with Régis Rousseau on a 1961 Beckerath organ and Québec poems, plus three works from 2002-05 on time, voice and found objects. DVD-Audio.
Contrechamps
Seven acousmatic works by Adrian Moore from 2006 to 2010, most composed in surround from the outset, including Fields of Darkness and Light for violinist Darragh Morgan, first prize at Musica Nova 2010, and 3Pieces from horn, violin and piano. DVD-Au…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.