Various Artists

Featuring: Paul Dolden, Robert Normandeau, Alistair Macdonald, Evelyn Ficarra, Stéphane Roy, Aquiles Pantaleão

condition (disc/cover): NM / NM

The Centre Noroît in Arras ran an international prize for acousmatic composition, and this disc gathers the works selected in 1993. Two Québécois names stand out: Robert Normandeau with Spleen, a piece of vocal material shaped with the precision that made Montreal one of the capitals of tape music, and Paul Dolden with L'ivresse de la vitesse, a wall of hundreds of overdubbed instrumental tracks that hits like a stampede.

Around them are Stéphane Roy's Crystal Music, Alistair MacDonald's Kilim, Evelyn Ficarra's Source of Uncertainty and Aquiles Pantaleão's Sólidos. A good snapshot of acousmatic music in the early nineties, between the French tradition and its Canadian offshoots.