Tape
All records with tape · Solo tape only
Kaleidos
Four works by Stéphane Roy from 1987 to 1994 that move from expressive early tape pieces to Mimetismo, where Arturo Parra's guitar blends into the tape, and Crystal Music, composed largely at CCRMA in Stanford.
Broken Spectre
Double LP by Ben Frost for Richard Mosse's installation Broken Spectre (180 Studios, London, 2022), built from Amazon field and ultrasonic recordings and electronic composition.
Rhizomes
Seven acousmatic works by Belgian composer Stephan Dunkelman from 1991 to 2000, many born from dance and from his work with Michèle Noiret, including the Stockholm prize-winner Metharcana and Rituellipses, honoured at Ars Electronica in 1995.
Délirantes
Nine works by the Havana-born composer Sergio Barroso from 1982 to 1995, most for microtonal Yamaha FM synthesizers he plays himself, with oboe, violin, viola and bassoon soloists and echoes of charanga, flamenco and Cuban street music.
Amore
Roxanne Turcotte’s 35-minute electroacoustic tale of love in a cinema, made in 1986-88 and 1992, with ringing telephones, French folk songs, a nod to Wes Montgomery and texts by Élise Turcotte; 2nd prize at the International New Music Composer’s Competition.
Figures
Reissue of Robert Normandeau’s album of four acousmatic and mixed works from 1995 to 1999, including the Golden Nica winner Le renard et la rose, built from voices of a Little Prince radio play, and Figures de rhétorique with pianist Jacques Drouin.
Tangram
Five multitrack works by Robert Normandeau from 1990 to 1993, his “cinema for the ear” period, built from a child's voice, four teenagers, Mozart's chamber music and the elements, each recorded as a live diffusion over eight loudspeakers at The Banff Centre.
Lieux Inouïs
Robert Normandeau's early acousmatic works from 1984 to 1989, his “cinema for the ear”: the many meanings of the word jeu, a requiem made only of requiem fragments, and music first written for Georges Dyens' holosculptures.
Puzzles
Five 16-channel works by Robert Normandeau from 2001 to 2003, concert pieces reworked from his theatre music for Brigitte Haentjens, including StrinGDberg for hurdy-gurdy and cello and the Fribourg prizewinner Chorus. 2017 reissue of the 2005 album.
Clair de Terre
Three acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 1999 to 2001: Malina, made only from Claire Marchand’s shakuhachi, Erinyes, frozen onomatopoeias of actors from a staging of Electra, and the 36-minute Clair de terre, which translates the grammar of cinema into sound.
Sondes
Six works by the Toronto composer Randall Smith from 1995 to 1999, three for tape alone and three mixed pieces for cello, accordion, double bass and alto flute, remastered by Ernest Cholakis.
L’Oreille Voit
The first album by the Toronto composer Randall Smith: five tape works from 1988 to 1994, from water music made without any water to The Black Museum, his tribute to the GRM, first prize at the Luigi Russolo competition in 1993.
Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder / O Daddy
Rolf Riehm's Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder (Piia Komsi, Ensemble Modern, Hermann Bäumer, Frankfurt 2003) and O Daddy for orchestra and recorded sounds (SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Kazimierz Kord, Donaueschingen 1984), both live premiere recordings.
Alter Ego
Debut album of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, five acousmatic works from 1997 to 2004 made between Montréal, Birmingham and Huddersfield, from a remix built around rapper Dice B to a Baudelaire piece on three Montréal church bells. DVD-Audio.
Léone
Philippe Mion’s acousmatic opera Léone (1993), on a libretto by Philippe Minyana drawn from a true news story: six singers conducted by Laurent Cuniot, with the whole orchestra replaced by tape composed at the Ina-GRM and Grame.
Improvisation Ajoutée
Mauricio Kagel's organ works, from Improvisation ajoutée (1962) to Rrrrrrr... (1980/81), plus Dominik Susteck's own K-A-G-E-L improvisations. Recorded by Susteck at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 7-9 April 2014, for Deutschlandfunk.
Titakti
Four acousmatic studies by Philippe Le Goff from 1991 to 1995, built on recordings he made between 1988 and 1993 among the Inuit of Nunavik and Baffin Island: conversations, laughter, chants, wind and the shamanic drum.
Les Paysages Fleurissants
Seven electroacoustic works by Georg Katzer (1976-2010), from Bevor Ariadne kommt and Preußisch Blau to Mein 1989 and Steinelied 2, released with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, for his 80th birthday.
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
Seven acousmatic works by Pete Stollery from 1993 to 2003, playing on the ambiguity between recognisable sounds and pure sound: a key in a lock, a roulette wheel, bicycle spokes, Aberdeen streets, old industrial machines. Each piece introduced by a fellow composer. DVD-Audio.
Délires de Plaisirs
Paul Dolden's 49-minute Entropic Twilights, layered from hundreds of separately recorded parts for voices, brass, gamelan, drum kits and saucepans, with two Resonance pieces for flute and for ten string parts and tape, made between 1994 and 2004.