★empreintes DIGITALes

Six acousmatic works by Julien Guillamat from 2010 to 2026, from Birmingham pieces built on the dismantling of the BEAST loudspeaker system to recent soundscapes of the Aure Valley in the Hautes-Pyrénées, recorded in its ski resorts and mountain vill…

Sophie Delafontaine’s second album, a triptych from 2020 to 2026 on matrescence: waiting to conceive, childbirth rendered through Jean-François Laporte’s air-driven Babel Table, and the split self of the months after birth. CD-R.

Roxanne Turcotte’s “sonic archeology”: electroacoustic works mixing everyday objects, field recordings from Tokyo, the Seychelles and New Zealand, and sounds of Jean-François Laporte’s invented instruments, dedicated to her late colleagues and mentor…

Four works by Monique Jean from 2015 to 2024, three built on MissTake, her no-input four-track tape recorder with effects pedals, including Volt_#1 and Volt_#3, plus Tumultes, inspired by novels by Adania Shibli and Antoine Wauters. CD-R.

Debut solo album by Montréal sound artist Diego Bermudez Chamberland: a 44-minute acousmatic work in three movements (2020-23, revised 2025) freely inspired by the Norse cosmos of Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, moving from the scale of Yggdrasil to the mic…

Armando Balice’s triptych of inner gardens from 2018 to 2021, three acousmatic pieces in eight movements each built from ravens, forest recordings, analogue synthesizers and the cello of Lola Malique, starting with an Ina-GRM commission inspired by J…

Three multichannel works by Stéphane Roy from 2022 to 2024: a war piece after poems by Paul-Marie Lapointe, a sound bestiary for Jean-François Laporte’s Babel table, and nine acousmatic miniatures on experiential time. CD-R.

Seven multichannel works by Åke Parmerud from 2019 to 2025 that push guitar, piano, percussion and string quartet into music no player could perform, from the alien metal band of Heavy Metal to a Latin groove for Javier Álvarez.

Annette Vande Gorne’s complete Vox Alia cycle (1992-2024), five multichannel works on the voice without words, from Maria Callas and Pierre Schaeffer in Affetti to sacred chant, a Werner Lambersy poem, crowds and animal calls. CD-R.

Adrian Moore’s works from 2019 to 2024: five wt_ pieces each built from one source (a ceramic pot, a bird whistle, a wine glass, metal sheets, voices) with the same Pure Data toolkit, plus two Sheffield-area site pieces on industrial noise and change…

Five stereo acousmatic works by Manuella Blackburn from 2018 to 2023, made from household sounds, plastic waste and microplastics, a rotary landline and the factory samples and fan noise of a Fairlight CMI. CD-R.

Eleven fixed-media works by Elsa Justel from 1995 to 2021, several of them homages built from the sounds of Ferrari, Parmegiani, Bayle, Dhomont, Ferreyra and Vande Gorne, alongside a COVID divertimento and a dialogue with pianist Ana Foutel. CD-R.

Seven works by Gilles Gobeil from 1990 to 2020 on the theme of the stroll, from Chris Marker's La Jetée and Kubrick's 2001 with Yves Charuest's saxophone to Folkmar Hein's Berlin forest walks and the trio Déviation(s). CD-R.

Six 7.1-channel acousmatic pieces made by Dominique Bassal between 2018 and 2021, each tied to a historical episode of persecution, from Saint Bartholomew's Day to Deir Yassin, and built with production techniques borrowed from commercial music. CD-R…

An eight-part cycle by Ana Dall’Ara-Majek built entirely from Buchla 200 improvisations recorded at EMS Stockholm in 2022, each piece giving a sound colour to one species of plankton, from radiolarian skeletons to diatom blooms seen from space. CD-R.

Emma Margetson's Contemplations: nine acousmatic works from 2014 to 2022 on the passing of time, from a ticking metronome and a suspended cymbal to a bicycle in Hamburg’s Elbe tunnel and chalk on paper after a Wyndham Lewis sketch. CD-R.

Four acousmatic works by the Belgian composer Ingrid Drese from 2013 to 2020, after Henri Michaux, Rilke and Jung, including Treize virgule huit, a history of the universe made with the astrophysicist Marc Moniez for Ina-GRM. CD-R.

Two documentary works by John Young built on soldiers' voices: a First World War veteran recalling the angel at Mons at 101, and the composer's father, a New Zealand gunner, on his war in Italy, where he met Young's mother. CD-R.

Six works by John Young from 2017 to 2023, from New York subway preachers and Oberlin crickets to Mahler’s composing hut and a setting of Simon Perril’s poem after Lévi-Strauss, including the Klang ! and Akousmatique prize winners. CD-R.

Christian Bouchard’s fourth album, five works from 2013 to 2022 that alternate abstract pieces with Montréal soundscapes: eight-track recordings from his car with police radio, a collective 15-minute recording, Canadian bird songs and a bank of oscil…

Five works by Léa Boudreau from 2017 to 2022: a sonic portrait of Alzheimer's, a bestiary of species adapted to life after the Anthropocene, and four machines to save the world imagined by Montréal schoolchildren.

Six acousmatic works by Adam Stanović from 2017 to 2022, from the Ohio wind whistling through a studio window to midnight recordings in Hong Kong for the GRM commission Goodnight, Tin Hau, and a homage to Dale Jonathan Perkins.

Yves Daoust's documentary fictions from 1995 to 2021: Lily, built on a courtesan's confidences, in acousmatic and violin-accordion versions, a Chopin-based Impromptu 2, and Calme chaos, recorded at its 2012 premiere by the Nouvel ensemble moderne.

Hans Tutschku’s hour-long five-part cycle from 2016-22, built from recordings of daily life, ceremonies, nature and improvisations gathered during three months in Japan in 2014, composed for 16 channels and heard here in stereo.

Three works by Åke Parmerud from 2013 to 2021: Louder Than Life, a five-movement memorial to composer Anders Blomqvist, Raw, made only from the unprocessed output of one unruly software synth, and Dark Matter, built from the electromagnetic fields of…

Six works by the Montréal composer Vanessa Massera from 2015 to 2018, made in Sheffield, Estonia and Sweden: English bonfire nights, an abandoned factory with accordionist Tuulikki Bartosik, the Stockholms Saxofonkvartett, and her grandmother’s memor…

Four works from 2012 to 2021 by Martin Bédard, two of them co-written with the flutist Marie-Hélène Breault, from the honey metaphor of Honey to a recomposed flute warm-up and Replica, built from her old recordings.

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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…