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Five works by Adrian Moore from 1994 to 1997, from the ambient Junky to Study in Ink, made entirely from a drying marker pen on a whiteboard, and Sieve, realized at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Six acousmatic works by Greek composer Theodoros Lotis from 1996 to 2002, built around light, water, wind and sand: a comment on Beethoven’s Op. 110, granular desert winds, a sibyl’s voice and a sea made from bees and a string quartet.

for Jean-Christophe only ;-)

Seven multichannel works by Louis Dufort from 2004 to 2007: the Matério cycle made for Francisco López's Montréal Sound Matter project, a piece on drowning prompted by the 2004 tsunami, and a homage to Francis Dhomont reusing a sound from Novars. DVD-Audio.

Three 5.1-channel works Gilles Gobeil composed at the ZKM in Karlsruhe between 2005 and 2007, each on a literary argument: the Desert Fathers, Dante's Paradise and an unshot Tarkovsky script on E T A Hoffmann, with René Lussier's daxophone throughout. DVD-Audio.

Six works by Laurie Radford from 2001 to 2006, reworked for 5.1 surround: wintry street recordings set against an invented wall instrument, Slovenian bells and trumpet, and his own instrumental music melted down like wax in a bronze casting. DVD-Audio.

Six works by Annette Vande Gorne from 1983 to 2006 on six kinds of exile, from a Debussy threnody and the vocal suite Vox Alia to texts by Kamal Ben Hameda and Saint-John Perse and music for a play on Van Gogh. DVD-Audio.

Andrew Lewis’s four sound portraits of the coast of Anglesey, from the lighthouse bell and plainchant of Penmon Point to the jets over Llanddwyn, plus Danses acousmatiques, a nine-movement suite on space and movement made in 2007. DVD-Audio.

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.

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.

Québec composer Martin Leclerc’s Horizons du Silence: six works from 2000 to 2005, every one a Hugh Le Caine Award winner, drawing on Enki Bilal, Thoreau and Neruda, with a piece for amplified trumpet played by Pascal Leprohon. DVD-Audio.

Eight works from 1996 to 2004 by the Argentine composer Elsa Justel, made in Paris, Bourges, Barcelona, Berlin and Nevers, from an Andean bull’s-horn trumpet in Mâts to a homage built on Pierre Schaeffer’s voice and a piano invaded by a cat goddess.

Five acousmatic “fantasies” by Francis Dhomont from 1989 to 2005, among them a Lautréamont ocean reworked for Bourges, the three-part Chroniques de la lumière and Voyage-miroir, a reversed and shrunken replica of … mourir un peu.

Francis Dhomont’s acousmatic melodrama Forêt profonde (1994-96), a 58-minute reading of fairy tales after Bruno Bettelheim’s The Uses of Enchantment, in thirteen sections that each borrow a colour from Schumann’s Kinderszenen.

Twenty-five electroacoustic miniatures of three minutes each, commissioned in 1990 for the Montréal musiques actuelles/New Music America festival from composers in Québec, Canada, the USA and Mexico, among them Dhomont, Westerkamp, Oswald, Gobeil and Álvarez. 1996 reissue.

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.

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.

** VERY LAST COPIES** As is the case with La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music, David Hyke's Harmonic Choir and Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening Band, Roberto Laneri has had a life long penchant for the droning mysteriosa of the Sound Current and with the Prima Materia ensemble he has expressed it in a disciplined, expansive and singular way (Terry Riley). In 1977 an obscure Italian private label issued a record that sounded like it came from outer space. A long and dense trance-inducing d…

Angelo Petronella is an avowed devotee of acousmatics, a musique concrete practice that encourages as much disassociation as possible between the sound on record and the source it was taken from. And though many of Sintesi da un diario's sounds are culled from such well-worn locales as children's playgrounds, country landscapes, and factory floors, repeated exposure reveals a composer intent on draining any familiarity in the pursuit of a total removal of all convention. Birdsong is pulled taut,…

A DVD-flashback of early 80s Berlin subculture featuring output by virtuosos of the city’s underground movie scene who rediscovered Super 8 as an adequate outlet for their creative endeavours. Accompanied by a compilation of music, covering a huge range of styles and currents - from punk to ingenious dilettantes, this lavish package recalls the walled in city’s unique feel and lifestyle. By no means a nostalgic review of times long gone, but rather an appraisal (with no claim to completeness) …

Four CD box set with 96-page book and enhanced CD-ROM featuring interviews, performance footage and video scores. Includes the massive "Four Violins" (1964) -- one of the world's most important and space-inhaling pieces of music ever, which was only briefly available on LP. Mainline it as loud as you possibly can. Plus: "Early Minimalism: April, 1965" (for solo violin and string quartet) ; "Early Minimalism: May 1965" [performed here by Conrad, Alexandria Gelencser (cello) and Jim O'Rour…