L’Annecy de pierre
A new work from the French composer Alain Savouret made around the city of Annecy. Field recordings and little parts of music with percussion and prepared piano.
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. 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.
Formes Audibles
Six acousmatic works from 2007 to 2011 by the English composer Manuella Blackburn, built from kitchen utensils, switches and an old TV, a cajón, electric guitar, Japanese instruments recorded in Tokyo and sounds from Denis Smalley’s Wind Chimes.
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.
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.
Petites musiques de bruits
Utilisant l'art de la boucle et de la récupération, Alain de Filippis crée un orchestre de bruits qu'il dirige avec virtuosité. Série II.
Ab irato
Perhaps best known for his work alongside Philippe Blanchard (aka Lieutenant Caramel) in Denier Du Culte, Basso reveals himself here to be an exceptional exponent of uneasy listening. Tidal pools of atonal harmonics slowly whirl you into bins of crushed metal that fall away to reveal overlapping tides of low-lying thrumming whirr which in turn bleed away to reveal stochastic stormclouds of blips and plinks. Richly involving work that thrums with insectile density.
BWANA, Rex xhu ping
If, Bwana alias Al Margolis figure de la scène expérimentale new-yorkaise et boss de Pogus. Compositions pour bandes, voix, électronique... Franc, déterminé et tenu. Avec Al Margolis (bandes, clarinette etc), Laura Biagi (voix), Dan Andreana (voix, bandes), Detta Andreana (bandes, cymbales), Orchestre D'Fou...
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.
Impulsioni
Ákos Rózmann was born in Budapest, in 1939, where he studied organ and composition at the Liszt Academy. From 1979 to 1974 he studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Since 1978 he has been organist at the catholic cathedral in Stockholm. Epithets which come to mind after listening to Rózmann´s music are "powerful", "raw", "monumental", "impassioned". He is a master of large forms. Exerpts from the booklet text (by Hans Gunnar Peterson): Impulsioni I, II, III (1973-74) ("I…
Til odslig horisont
Til odslig horisont evolves slowly and quietly over forty-five minutes and rewards the listener's attention with a great listening experience, manifold soundscapes and atmospheres melting into one another. As often, describing this work will not do it justice, and so I propose that you make yourself comfortable, close your eyes and simply listen. You will enjoy it without an eloquent description.'B. Günter
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-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.
Quelques Reflets
Four 5.1 works Pierre Alexandre Tremblay composed in 2009-10 during a sabbatical year of residencies at Ina-GRM, Miso Music in Lisbon, TU Berlin and Musiques & Recherches, plus the videomusic Walk That Way. Tuesday, Turn. Disque de l’année, Prix Opus 2010-11. DVD-Audio.
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.
Time drops
This mini-CD follows on from Akemi Ishijima's previous electroacoustic composition on Variations 2 -- A London Compilation. It includes one new piece and a reissue of "Ab Ovo," previously released on 5 Composers Second Coming on Fylkingen. The two pieces explore a broad range of traditional electronic techniques, both subtle and powerful. "Time Drops" (2000) -- a single stroke of a bell, in its decay, sometimes evokes a sense of infinity in our mind. "Time Drops" is an attempt to express such id…
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.
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.