Electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
Volume 2: Electronics Works
Two classic analog electronic works by Morton Subotnick, Sidewinder and Until Spring, in multi-channel surround sound, previously available only on LP, in the second volume of his electronic works.
Ain’t Nuthin’ but Fairy Dust
Portrait CD of Matthias Krüger: le vide à perdre, Wie ein Stück Fett (Redux) and Bellygoat Boom (substrate), played by Ensemble Ascolta under Nicholas Kok, Ensemble BRuCH and the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Elena Schwarz.
Me du Ça / Narcissus & Echo / Messenger / Calling Sirens / Your Smartest Choice
Portrait CD of the Chinese composer Huihui Cheng: five works from 2016-2019 for voices, prepared piano, piano trio with dancer and ensembles with electronics, performed by Youmi Kim, Claudia Chan, Ensemble uBu, ensemble mosaik and Ensemble Experiment…
Ins Offene
Portrait CD of Lula Romero: three works for instruments or voices and live electronics (2013-2017), performed by Zafraan Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora and the singers Aki Hashimoto, Silke Evers and Noa Frenkel, with Deutschlandfunk and the SWR Experimenta…
L’Adieu au S.O.S.
Four works by Monique Jean from 1997 to 2001 on destruction, memory and the real, with texts by Hélène Cixous, Alejo Carpentier and Denise Desautels, contrabass improvisations by Joëlle Léandre and, in low memory #2, flutist Claire Marchand.
Pietà
Portrait of the Swedish composer Lisa Streich with five works from 2012-2017, from Pietà for motorised cello and ensemble to Stabat for four choirs, with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, hand werk, ensemble recherche and two choirs.
The Death of the Star-Knower
First portrait CD of the Serbian composer Milica Djordjević, seven works from 2008-2015 played by the Arditti Quartet, Teodoro Anzellotti, Ensemble Musikfabrik under Johannes Schöllhorn and soloists, recorded at Deutschlandfunk Cologne in 2016.
Neolithic Brass
CD and DVD portrait of the Stuttgart-born composer Steffen Krebber, twelve works from 2008-2015 including the Konfusionen series, played by Ensemble Garage, Sonar Quartett, Ensemble Praesenz, LUX:NM and soloists.
Impulsion
The tape works of Québec composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, made between 1970 and 1981 at the GRM in Paris, in Bourges and at Simon Fraser University, from the vocal vertigo of Arksalalartôq to the eighteen-minute Constellation I.
Préludes à la Vie
Michel Chion’s second empreintes DIGITALes album pairs two musique concrète works eighteen years apart: Le prisonnier du son (1972), his first melodrama, and the Vingt-quatre préludes à la vie (1989-90), which answer it.
Stoicheia
James Wood's Stoicheia (1987-88) for two percussion soloists, two percussion ensembles, keyboards and electronics, played by Steven Schick, Wood, the Darmstadt and Cornwall Percussion Ensembles, recorded at All Saints', Petersham, London.
Crystal World
Michael Obst's quadraphonic electronic trilogy Crystal World (1983-86) with its Intermède, made in Cologne, at EMS Stockholm and at IRCAM; produced by Obst in the audiorent studio, Recklinghausen.
Mondes Inconnus
Eight works by Monty Adkins from 1994 to 2005, 93 minutes at 96 kHz, from a train journey after Turner and a Hubble-inspired piece made of rocks and gas cylinders to drum 'n' bass, William Gibson and a flute piece for Alejandro Escuer. DVD-Audio.
Metal Drops
Three electronic works by Michael Obst, Inside (Infinite Chambers), Metal Drop Music and Ye-Na-Je, realised in 1983 at the Studio for Electronic Music of the Cologne Musikhochschule and, for Ye-Na-Je, with IPEM Ghent.
Sai-ji-ku
Six electroacoustic works by Wilfried Jentzsch and Hiromi Ishii with links to China, Indonesia and Japan, projected in a 47-speaker Klangdom with Zirkonium and recorded with dummy head technology. Released 2017.
Terrains Vagues
Portrait of Portuguese composer Luís Antunes Pena: works for double bass and drummers, organ, cello, thirty cymbals and electronics (2000-2012), with Edicson Ruiz, Drumming Grupo de Percussão, Dominik Susteck and Francesco Dillon. Released 2013.
Alchimie
Five short electroacoustic works by Mario Rodrigue from 1985 to 1993, three of them made with analog tape techniques at the Université de Montréal and reworked for this disc, including the CBC Grand Prize winner Tilt.
Petits Big Bangs
A 1976-2002 retrospective of Marcelle Deschênes: music for Georges Dyens' holographic installations, the multimedia show Lux, two pieces from the unfinished cycle Griffes and the Bourges-winning Moll for winds, percussion and toys. DVD-Audio.
Bruit-Graffiti
Six tape works by Marc Tremblay from 1989 to 1998 that find music in everyday noise: cars, telephones, washrooms, the Montréal Stock Exchange and the soundtracks of El Dorado and The Searchers, remixed in Bourges for Cowboy Fiction.
Visions
Four electroacoustic works by German composer Wilfried Jentzsch (1994-2003): Lumière cendrée, Apokalyptische Vision 2000 for choir, narrator and electronics recorded at its 2000 Dresden premiere, Kyoto Bells and Trance oder Lamento di Bali on gamelan…