Landscape
Milvus
Swedish fiddler Mats Edén on drone-fiddle, violin and viola, with flutist Jonas Simonson and, in his String Quartet No. 1, the Cikada String Quartet. Recorded September 1997 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Música de Sobrevivência
Album by the Egberto Gismonti Group: Gismonti (piano, guitar, flute), Nando Carneiro (synthesizers, guitar, caxixi), Zeca Assumpção (bass) and Jaques Morelenbaum (cello), recorded April 1993 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1509, released 1993.
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Album by Pat Metheny (guitars, bass) and Lyle Mays (piano, synthesizer, organ, autoharp) with Naná Vasconcelos (berimbau, percussion, drums, voice), recorded in autumn 1980 at Talent Studio, Oslo, and released by ECM in 1981. 2022 CD reissue.
Dis
Jan Garbarek (tenor and soprano saxophones, wood flute) in duo with Ralph Towner (12-string and classical guitars), with a windharp on three tracks and Den Norske Messingsekstett on one. Recorded in December 1976 at Talent Studios, Oslo, released by ECM in 1977. CD edition.
Trajectoires
Nine acousmatic works by the Belgian composer and cinema foley artist Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans from 1991 to 2021, all made at Métamorphoses d’Orphée, including a trilogy held up as a mirror to the pandemic and homages to Francis Ponge and Francis Dhomont.
Vues Spectrales
Four works by Denis Smalley from 1981 to 2011, three six-channel pieces heard in stereo Ambisonic versions by Jonty Harrison and the Bourges prizewinner Vortex, from Danish church bells at dusk to the winds of Golden Bay in New Zealand.
Haïkus
Annette Vande Gorne's 57-minute Haïkus (2016-20), five Japanese seasons in 17 short tableaux for 16 channels, where studio landscapes meet traces of Debussy, Vivaldi, Honegger, Messiaen and Jean-Michel Jarre, with tributes to Pierre Henry and Bernard Parmegiani.
Assemblance(s)
Eight acousmatic works by James Andean from 2010 to 2018, mostly made in Helsinki: sounds from Luc Ferrari's archives, Maria Callas as Medea, a refrigerator in a Greek monastery, the inside of a piano and a garbled recording of John Cage.
Broken Ground
Christian Bouchard’s 58-minute soundtrack for Derek Besant’s touring exhibition on cities torn up by redevelopment, twelve sections named after material-science terms, mixing soundscape, glitch and acousmatic writing; made in 2011-13 and remixed in 2016.
Au-Delà
Six acousmatic works by Andrew Lewis from 1987 to 2013, from Lexicon, built on a 12-year-old’s poem about dyslexia, and Dark Glass, made from breaking panes, to the Bourges prizewinners Ascent and Time and Fire and the Welsh portrait Cân.
Lieux Imaginaires
Six acousmatic works by Steven Naylor from 2000 to 2006 built around imagined places: Walkman recordings from Chiang Mai and urban Japan, mechanical toys, Kunekune pigs and a 27-minute radiophonic piece on homelessness in Halifax. DVD-Audio.
À l’Ombre des Ondes
Three pieces from 2011 by the French duo Kristoff K.Roll, made for headphones and an afternoon nap: “audio-talking naps” in which real dream narratives told by friends float through concrete sounds, field recordings and improvisation.
Intérieurs Harmoniques
Six works by the New York composer Elizabeth Hoffman from 2001 to 2011, obsessed with harmonic design and unnatural resonance, built from percussion recorded by TimeTable Percussion, close-miked water, birdcalls, two violins and insects heard just after 9/11.
Scènes
Six works by Pete Stollery from 2004 to 2007: radio sports commentaries, a homage to Delia Derbyshire, three pieces mapping the sounds of rural Aberdeenshire, and a sound walk along the route of Claude Lelouch’s film C’était un rendez-vous.
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.
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.
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.
Lieu-Temps
Two 5.1 works by John Young from 2005 about his parents meeting in wartime Forlì: the Bourges-winning Ricordiamo Forlì, built from war correspondence archives and his father’s memories, and Arrivederci for the ensemble Stroma and the Duomo bells. DVD-Audio.