Electronics
All records with electronics · Solo electronics only
Connexion
Four acousmatic works by Louis Dufort from 1996 to 2000, from night recordings on Mont-Royal and the refineries of east-end Montréal to Décap, partly drawn from his music for Compagnie Marie Chouinard and mentioned at Ars Electronica 2001.
Corazón Road
The French duo Kristoff K.Roll’s 78-minute musical diary of a trip through Mexico, Belize and Guatemala, composed from 1990 to 1993 in Paris from sounds gathered on the road: marimba players in Mérida, Belizean rappers, taco sellers on buses.
Articles Indéfinis
Five stereo acousmatic works by Jonty Harrison from 1978 to 1995, from the analogue Pair / Impair to the GRM commission Hot Air built on party balloons, with the eleven-movement French suite … et ainsi de suite… made from wine glasses.
Évidence Matérielle
Five acousmatic works by Jonty Harrison from 1982 to 1999, built from casserole dishes, packing materials, splintering wood and water, including the Euphonie d’or winner Klang and his first multichannel tape piece, Streams.
Contes de la Mémoire
Ten tape and electronic pieces by Jon Appleton spanning 1966 to 1996, from Columbia-Princeton and Moog III studies to the airport interviews of Newark Airport Rock and its 1996 sequel, and the Andrews Sisters collage Chef d’œuvre.
La Limite du Bruit
Five acousmatic works by John Young from 1995 to 2001, each grown from one intimate or environmental sound: hands, a single breath, wind across two microphones, a childhood swing and rain falling on leaves, windows and puddles.
Aparanthesi
Two versions of John Oswald's one-note composition from 2000-03, built entirely on the pitch A in its ten audible octaves, with a tuned prairie thunderstorm, tuned birds, a Disklavier piano and the cello of Joan Jeanrenaud. CD-R.
Atlas Eclipticalis With Winter Music
Two live 1983 performances of John Cage conducting Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music at Seattle's Cornish Institute, first issued on LP in 1986, with a bonus disc of the 86-part Atlas Eclipticalis and Winter Music for 20 pianos.
One11 And 103
First commercial release of John Cage's only major film, One11 (1992), directed by Henning Lohner, with the orchestral work 103 as soundtrack in two performances (WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Spoleto Festival Orchestra), plus a documentary and an interview.
Bells For The South Side
Double album by Roscoe Mitchell with his four trios (Craig Taborn, Tyshawn Sorey, Hugh Ragin, William Winant and others), recorded live in September 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago during the AACM's 50th anniversary.
Magnetic Works 1993-2001
Two-CD anthology compiled by Jon Balke from the Magnetic North Orchestra albums Further (1993), Solarized (1998) and Kyanos (2001), with Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive, Per Jørgensen, Arve Henriksen, Morten Halle and string players including the Cikada String Quartet.
Alibi
Six fixed-medium works by Jacques Tremblay from 1990 to 1995, built from concrete sounds and quotations: Gregorian chant turning to distortion, a night of love in six movements, a jazz tribute and a sound reading of Proust’s Combray.
Theory Of Becoming
Ten electroacoustic pieces by Paris-based composer Evgueni Galperine, built from transformed recordings of real and virtual instruments, with Sergei Nakariakov, Sébastien Hurtaud and Maria Vasyukova. Recorded 2020-21 at Studio EGP, Paris; produced by Manfred Eicher.
La légende d’Eer
Iannis Xenakis's La légende d'Eer (1977-78) for 7-channel tape, written for the Diatope at the Centre Pompidou, in a new stereo mix by Gerard Pape from the analogue master tape. The DVD adds surround sound, a film and an interview.
Transformations
Five soundscape compositions by Hildegard Westerkamp from 1979 to 1992, among them Kits Beach Soundwalk and Beneath the Forest Floor, recorded on Vancouver streets, a Mexican desert and old-growth forest on Vancouver Island, with hornist Brian G’froerer.
Saltarello
Garth Knox (viola d'amore, viola, fiddle) with cellist Agnès Vesterman and percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre in music from Hildegard von Bingen to Kaija Saariaho, recorded in December 2009 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano.
Kurtágonals
Electronic album on themes by György Kurtág jr., arranged by László Hortobágyi, with Kurtág jr. and Hortobágyi on synthesizers and computers and Miklós Lengyelfi on bass and effects. Recorded August 2008 at the Guo Manor, Budapest.
Being Dufay
Tenor John Potter sings fragments of songs and sacred works by Guillaume Dufay inside seven electronic pieces by Ambrose Field. Voice recorded in 2007 at Bishopthorpe, North Yorkshire; mixed in 2008 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Moment
Hans Tutschku’s first empreintes DIGITALes portrait: five works from 1991 to 1998 built on voice and speech, from poems by Georg Trakl, Karl Lubomirski and Antonio Bueno Tubía to recordings from a 1997 Asian tour in extrémités lointaines.
Saariaho, Cage, Maderna
String quartets by Kaija Saariaho (Nymphéa, with live electronics), John Cage and Bruno Maderna played by the Cikada String Quartet, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Church, Oslo, and released by ECM New Series in 2005.