Electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
Tao
Annette Vande Gorne's five-part acousmatic cycle from 1983 to 1991, one piece for each of the Taoist elements, moving from the raw water recordings of Eau to Terre, an 8-channel GRM commission dedicated to François Bayle. CD-R.
Quatre Poèmes
Four fixed-medium works by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay from 2014 to 2020, conceived as poems rather than chapters: a 28-channel ode to post-industrial northern England, a cycle on defining words, an attempt at mindfulness and a saturated Newsfeed.
Trajectoires
Nine acousmatic works by the Belgian composer and cinema foley artist Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans from 1991 to 2021, all made at Métamorphoses d’Orphée, including a trilogy held up as a mirror to the pandemic and homages to Francis Ponge and Francis Dhomon…
Into the Forest
A four-part acousmatic cycle by Louis Dufort on the forest, drawn from many treks in the Canadian Rockies and Québec’s boreal forest, developed from 2016 and finalised in 2020-21, moving from a pastoral opening to an abstract ode to nature.
Mélancolie
Five works Robert Normandeau composed between 2013 and 2021 for a dome of loudspeakers, heard here as stereo “postcards”: a bandoneon-only Melancholia, a commission for the Montréal metro's 50th anniversary with the OSM's new octobass, and material f…
Réverbères
Five multichannel works by Roxanne Turcotte from 2014 to 2021, centred on Les oiseaux de Nias, a half-hour piece for five wind soloists, a choir of 25 bird calls and fixed medium about songbird trafficking in Indonesia.
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.
Figures de Son
Five acousmatic works by Patrick Ascione from 1998 to 2012, commissioned by the IMEB in Bourges and Ina-GRM, from the 8-channel spatial polyphony of Danse de l’aube to the last of his Ascioneries, issued seven years after his death.
Éclats
Pierre-Luc Lecours's Éclats (2014-20), four pieces each tied to a colour, where recordings of piano, cello, flute and percussion meet modular synthesis and noise, plus Impacts discrets, built partly from snow and ice on the roofs of Old Québec.
Espaces Éphémères
Six acousmatic works by Ambrose Seddon from 2005 to 2017, from games played with his young son at the EMS in Stockholm to Norfolk and Devon coastal recordings, including the Klang ! first prize winner Pellere.
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.
Images Nomades
Francis Dhomont in two halves: three abstract works from 2012 to 2020, including the twin rain pieces Phoenix XXI and Perpetuum mobile, then Ami-versaires, nine short birthday tributes to Parmegiani, Bayle, Ferreyra, Vande Gorne, Harrison and other f…
Ever Present
Five works by Alvin Lucier for solos and trios on beating tones and microtones: Piper for bagpipe, Fan for four kotos, 947 for flute, Silver Streetcar for triangle and Ever Present for flute, piano and alto saxophone.
Axet Remperimos Te
A single 70-minute work in seven rooms by Dominique Bassal, composed for 7.1 channels between 2014 and 2017: sound atmospheres from the ruined castle of an imaginary empire born when history skipped Antiquity altogether. Blu-ray audio.
Illusion
Three works by Annette Vande Gorne: Au-delà du réel, built from Arsène Souffriau’s collection of sound bodies, the 28-minute Déluges et autres péripéties on a Werner Lambersy poem with inhaled singing, and Faisceaux in both its fixed and piano versio…
Haïkus
Annette Vande Gorne's 57-minute Haïkus (2016-20), five Japanese seasons in 17 short tableaux for 16 channels, where studio landscapes meet traces of Debussy, Vivaldi, Honegger, Messiaen and Jean-Michel Jarre, with tributes to Pierre Henry and Bernard…
Assemblance(s)
Eight acousmatic works by James Andean from 2010 to 2018, mostly made in Helsinki: sounds from Luc Ferrari's archives, Maria Callas as Medea, a refrigerator in a Greek monastery, the inside of a piano and a garbled recording of John Cage.
Nano-Cosmos
Ana Dall’Ara-Majek’s acousmatic cycle on insects, mites and bacteria, five pieces from 2012 to 2017 mostly made for 16 channels: a house cricket’s blues, mites on vine leaves, polyphony as bacterial colony, and a carpenter bee among twenty doors in B…
Flux
Two multi-part Ina-GRM commissions by Benjamin Thigpen made in Visby, Stockholm and Paris: still (2007-09), built from untransformed recordings of common objects, and pulse (2010-15), made entirely on a Buchla 200 modular synthesizer.
Broken Ground
Christian Bouchard’s 58-minute soundtrack for Derek Besant’s touring exhibition on cities torn up by redevelopment, twelve sections named after material-science terms, mixing soundscape, glitch and acousmatic writing; made in 2011-13 and remixed in 2…