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.
Kasi Naigo
2001 release ** "A sound study of Ingmar Bergman’s Tystnaden (The Silence) and the silence of the Other… the object itself is a compression of an impossible space through the trituration of a gesture-the infinite as a question… A singular blast of air interchanged with a hollow, crackly static drone are almost constant through this, disc, and they serve to create an eerie, lonely, wide-open silence…"
Les Lointains
Six works Gilles Gobeil made between 2008 and 2013 in Berlin, Paris, Lisbon, Stockholm and Montréal, remixed in 2015: sounds from Folkmar Hein's apartment, a Hesse-inspired tribute to musique concrète, Virgil's Sibyl, Meyrink's Golem and a homage to Liszt.
Le Dernier Présent
Six acousmatic works by Georges Forget from 2007 to 2014, each prefaced by a text: a city falling asleep, a war piece after Ernst Jünger and Terrence Malick, and a long sea piece under Melville where a little girl sings to the ocean.
Firmament
Three 16-channel works by Hans Tutschku from 2010 to 2014, mixed to stereo in 2015: a sleepless night under the stars, the old pianos in a hallway of the University of Cologne, and Issho ni, a half-hour ritual of folksongs, lullabies and prayers.
Poupées Mathématiques
Six 7.1-channel works by Dominique Bassal from 2012 to 2014, dark acousmatic fables about spy dolls, the Roman frontier, Babylon and Baghdad, and greenhouse gases, in 7.1, 5.1 and stereo mixes at 96 kHz. Blu-ray audio.
Billowy Mass
'Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman began making sound in the mid 1990s in New York City where they were among the first labels to take advantage of affordable cd-r technology to distraibute non-commercial works. They soon became known by their early use of folk and acoustic electronic sounds. Educated in the fine arts, by 2000 they were invited by art institutions to make large scale installations that included sound as an essential element. In 2002 they won an Award of Distinction in Digital …
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 on its own.
Proposte Sonore
Seven electronic compositions from the end of the 60s by the soundscape pioneer Albert Mayr (b. 1943), incredible experimentations from near 40 years ago sounding so “contemporary”, today more than ever.“In the fifties and sixties of the past century electro-acoustic music was a very élitist affair; professional equipment was expensive, not easy to find and could be afforded - in sufficient quantity to build a full-scale studio - only by institutions such as universities or broadcasting corporat…
Dômes
Five works by Robert Normandeau from 2005 to 2014, several conceived for loudspeaker domes, from Karlsruhe trams and church bells in Kuppel to Baobabs, a Little Prince piece for four voices and the percussion group Sixtrum that won at Musica Nova 2013.
L’Envol
Six acousmatic works by Elizabeth Anderson from 1994 to 2014, mostly octophonic, from the voices of eighteen languages recorded for the Nazi fortress of Mimoyecques to sonified solar winds and a tesseract taken from A Wrinkle in Time.
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.
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.
La Marée
Five mixed works by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay from 2008 to 2013 for soloist, live processing and tape, with Sarah Nicolls on piano and Baschet-Malbos piano, Heather Roche, Peyee Chen and Jean-François Laporte on his Babel table.
Allusions Sonores
Five multichannel works by David Berezan from 2008 to 2011, each rooted in a place or a single sound: sea buoys, a Balinese thumb piano, the Alberta Badlands, the Galungan festival in Ubud and the nightingale floors of Nijō Castle.
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.
The Evan Dando of noise?
Five blasts of Licht, from the excoriating to the spiritually uplifting. Mr Licht should need no introduction, this is minimalist mantra music for the end of the millennium.
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.
Antiguos Dolmenes del Paleolitico
“Antiguos Dólmenes del Paleolítico (“Ancient Palaeolithic Dolmens”) is a composition in four parts created exclusively with processed no-input feedback and inspired by these stone monuments. It was created in early 2004 and is the first full-length solo CD from Argentinian composer Alan Courtis, a founding member of the group Reynols. Courtis currently lives in Buenos Aires, and has toured extensively in USA, Europe, Japan & Latin America collaborating with artists such as: Pauline Oliveros, Dam…
