Memory / Archive
In cerca di cibo
Duo album by Gianluigi Trovesi (piccolo, alto and bass clarinets) and Gianni Coscia (accordion): music by Fiorenzo Carpi, John Lewis, Luis Bacalov, a tango and originals, recorded February 1999 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich. Liner essay by Umberto Eco.…
Arrows Into Infinity
Documentary on saxophonist Charles Lloyd, directed by Dorothy Darr and Jeffery Morse, with archive footage, concerts and interviews with Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Jack DeJohnette and others. 113 minutes, premiered 2013, ECM 2014.
El Encuentro - A film for bandoneon and violoncello by Norbert Wiedmer and Enrique Ros
Documentary by Norbert Wiedmer and Enrique Ros about bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner, with interviews, rehearsals and concert footage from Argentina, Armenia and Amsterdam, where they play with the Metropole Orchestra. DVD released…
Four Short Films
Four short video works by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville made between 1993 and 2002: Je vous salue, Sarajevo, De l'origine du XXIe siècle, The Old Place and Liberté et patrie. ECM's first DVD (2006), with a trilingual book.
Holozän
Feature film directed in 1992 by Heinz Bütler and Manfred Eicher after Max Frisch's story Man in the Holocene, with Erland Josephson, Sophie Duez and Elvezia Barzan, shot in Ticino and Iceland in 1991. DVD published in 2009 by filmedition suhrkamp wi…
Ulysses' Gaze - Film by Theo Angelopoulos
Eleni Karaindrou's score for Theo Angelopoulos's film Ulysses' Gaze, with Kim Kashkashian (viola) and a string orchestra conducted by Lefteris Chalkiadakis, recorded in December 1994 at Sound Studio, Athens, and released on ECM New Series in 1995. Ca…
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.
Portail
Two recent eight-channel works by Denis Smalley, Fabrezan Preludes, built on chords from Debussy’s La Cathédrale engloutie, and Sommeil de Rameau, plus The Pulses of Time from 1978 for clavichord sounds and EMS Synthi 100.
Voyages
Two large multichannel works by Jonty Harrison from 2014 and 2015, built on 25 years of field recordings from train stations, glaciers, rainforests and markets, here in stereo Ambisonic UHJ encodings made by Joseph Anderson in Seattle.
Morphogenèse
Five works by Swedish composer Erik Nyström from 2008 to 2012, four of them first conceived for eight channels: dense, evolving textures of particles, clouds and drones drawn from his research with Denis Smalley on spatial texture and form that grows…
Fenêtres Intérieures
Eight works by Roxanne Turcotte from 2009 to 2014, fixed media alone or with melodicas, narrator, guitars, shakuhachi and piano, from a bird and animal bestiary to field recordings of the 2012 Maple Spring protests in Montréal.
Topographies
Five acousmatic works by Martin Bédard from 2004 to 2012 rooted in places, from the cells of Québec City’s old jail and the city’s archaeological digs to trains, a night watchman’s rounds and the 1907 collapse of the Québec Bridge.
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.
Greffes
A ten-year retrospective of Monique Jean, 2000 to 2011: two acousmatic works framing three mixed pieces where tenor saxophone (André Leroux), electric guitar (Tim Brady) and bass clarinet (Lori Freedman) are grafted onto processing and fixed sounds. …
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.
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.
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.
Le Projet Ulysse
Christian Calon’s 54-minute radio work from 1996-2001 that moves the myth of Ulysses into the present through Homer and Joyce, with the voice of Shelley Hirsch as Penelope and guitar by René Lussier; Grand Prix Marulic 1999. DVD-Video.
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.
Chroniques d’une Séduction
Three works on otherness by Jacques Tremblay from 1997 to 2004, among them the 47-minute Empathies entropiques, eight portraits built from voices in Russian, Italian, Creole, Arabic and other languages, dedicated to Yves Daoust.