Electronic / Acousmatic Music

Eight works by Roxanne Turcotte from 2009 to 2014, fixed media alone or with melodicas, narrator, guitars, shakuhachi and piano, from a bird and animal bestiary to field recordings of the 2012 Maple Spring protests in Montréal.

Six acousmatic works by Andrew Lewis from 1987 to 2013, from Lexicon, built on a 12-year-old’s poem about dyslexia, and Dark Glass, made from breaking panes, to the Bourges prizewinners Ascent and Time and Fire and the Welsh portrait Cân.

Five mixed works by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay from 2008 to 2013 for soloist, live processing and tape, with Sarah Nicolls on piano and Baschet-Malbos piano, Heather Roche, Peyee Chen and Jean-François Laporte on his Babel table.

Five multichannel works by David Berezan from 2008 to 2011, each rooted in a place or a single sound: sea buoys, a Balinese thumb piano, the Alberta Badlands, the Galungan festival in Ubud and the nightingale floors of Nijō Castle.

Five acousmatic works by Martin Bédard from 2004 to 2012 rooted in places, from the cells of Québec City’s old jail and the city’s archaeological digs to trains, a night watchman’s rounds and the 1907 collapse of the Québec Bridge.

Six acousmatic works by Steven Naylor from 2000 to 2006 built around imagined places: Walkman recordings from Chiang Mai and urban Japan, mechanical toys, Kunekune pigs and a 27-minute radiophonic piece on homelessness in Halifax. DVD-Audio.

Alain Thibault's 1985-1990 music for soloists against computer-controlled tape, drawing on studio pop, rock and jazz: a MIDI piano concerto for Jacques Drouin, a piece for soprano Pauline Vaillancourt, excerpts from his video opera OUT and ELVIS for …

A ten-year retrospective of Monique Jean, 2000 to 2011: two acousmatic works framing three mixed pieces where tenor saxophone (André Leroux), electric guitar (Tim Brady) and bass clarinet (Lori Freedman) are grafted onto processing and fixed sounds. …

Three pieces from 2011 by the French duo Kristoff K.Roll, made for headphones and an afternoon nap: “audio-talking naps” in which real dream narratives told by friends float through concrete sounds, field recordings and improvisation.

Six acousmatic works from 2007 to 2011 by the English composer Manuella Blackburn, built from kitchen utensils, switches and an old TV, a cajón, electric guitar, Japanese instruments recorded in Tokyo and sounds from Denis Smalley’s Wind Chimes.

Five acousmatic works by Robert Normandeau from 2005 to 2011, from the onomatopoeia piece Palimpseste to the 38-channel Anadliad for Welsh pibgorn and bagpipe and the reversible Palindrome, recorded with the organ and bells of Bourges cathedral.

Six works by the New York composer Elizabeth Hoffman from 2001 to 2011, obsessed with harmonic design and unnatural resonance, built from percussion recorded by TimeTable Percussion, close-miked water, birdcalls, two violins and insects heard just af…

Yves Daoust’s Chorals ornés, a rereading of the 14 chorales of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein for organ and fixed medium with Régis Rousseau on a 1961 Beckerath organ and Québec poems, plus three works from 2002-05 on time, voice and found objects. DVD-Audio.

Seven acousmatic works by Adrian Moore from 2006 to 2010, most composed in surround from the outset, including Fields of Darkness and Light for violinist Darragh Morgan, first prize at Musica Nova 2010, and 3Pieces from horn, violin and piano. DVD-Au…

Six works by Pete Stollery from 2004 to 2007: radio sports commentaries, a homage to Delia Derbyshire, three pieces mapping the sounds of rural Aberdeenshire, and a sound walk along the route of Claude Lelouch’s film C’était un rendez-vous.

Seven fixed-medium works by the American composer Elainie Lillios from 1998 to 2007, made in Birmingham, Bowling Green, Toronto and Baton Rouge, from an interview with a Texan tarot reader to an ambisonic study shaped by Deep Listening.

Four 5.1 works Pierre Alexandre Tremblay composed in 2009-10 during a sabbatical year of residencies at Ina-GRM, Miso Music in Lisbon, TU Berlin and Musiques & Recherches, plus the videomusic Walk That Way. Tuesday, Turn. Disque de l’année, Prix Opus…

Christian Bouchard’s works from 2006 to 2010 between acousmatics, glitch and soundscape: the Impasto triptych after the frenzied painting of Pollock, Riopelle and Shiraga, the MIDI-driven Parcelles 21 and a requiem for Montréal’s mechanical parking m…

Christian Calon’s 54-minute radio work from 1996-2001 that moves the myth of Ulysses into the present through Homer and Joyce, with the voice of Shelley Hirsch as Penelope and guitar by René Lussier; Grand Prix Marulic 1999. DVD-Video.

Six works by Åke Parmerud from 1986 to 1999, including Strings & Shadows for harpist Sofia Asunción Claro, Retur on a Charlie Parker solo for the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, and the Bourges-winning Repulse.

Nearly two hours of music by Roxanne Turcotte from 2003 to 2008, from the sound-and-light installation pieces Attractions and Musée sonore to Espace vital for two pianos and tape and the 16-channel Delirium, written for her father. DVD-Audio.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay's 49-minute La rage (2004-05), a reading of Louis Hamelin's 1989 novel for free jazz drummer, live and interactive processing and 8-channel tape, performed by Stefan Schneider and recorded in 2005. DVD-Audio.

Three self-standing studies by Francis Dhomont from 2005-06 for Le cri du Choucas, his long work on Franz Kafka, including Brief an den Vater with actor Martin Engler and the transformed voice of Hans Tutschku. Disque de l’année at the Prix Opus 2009…

Four dark allegories by Dominique Bassal, empreintes DIGITALes’ mastering engineer, composed from 2001 and revised up to 2009: thinking birds after Olaf Stapledon, a body drowning in a star, the Egyptian sky goddess Nut and a satire of cults. DVD-Aud…

Eight Canadian composers, from Francis Dhomont and Hildegard Westerkamp to Nicolas Bernier, with works made for or around the trans_canada festival at the ZKM in Karlsruhe in 2005: two and a half hours of acousmatic and soundscape music. DVD-Audio.

Three works on otherness by Jacques Tremblay from 1997 to 2004, among them the 47-minute Empathies entropiques, eight portraits built from voices in Russian, Italian, Creole, Arabic and other languages, dedicated to Yves Daoust.

Five acousmatic works by David Berezan from 2002 to 2007 that open up everyday sources: his daily bicycle ride in Birmingham, Chinese Baoding balls and opera, a 19th-century textile mill, the ice of Banff and a chain on a Tinguely sculpture. DVD-Audi…

Five works from 1999 to 2005 in which Ned Bouhalassa “plays” the city like a record, mixing street recordings from Montréal, Las Vegas and Berlin with breakbeats, including Urban Cuts for cello, drums and fixed medium. DVD-Audio.

Four works by the Sheffield composer Adrian Moore from 2001 to 2004: an Ina-GRM commission on an Emily Dickinson poem, a piece built from lawn mowers and a steel factory, a work for pianist Peter Hill and the six-part Sea of Singularity.

Five works by Adrian Moore from 1994 to 1997, from the ambient Junky to Study in Ink, made entirely from a drying marker pen on a whiteboard, and Sieve, realized at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Six acousmatic works by Greek composer Theodoros Lotis from 1996 to 2002, built around light, water, wind and sand: a comment on Beethoven’s Op. 110, granular desert winds, a sibyl’s voice and a sea made from bees and a string quartet.

Seven multichannel works by Louis Dufort from 2004 to 2007: the Matério cycle made for Francisco López's Montréal Sound Matter project, a piece on drowning prompted by the 2004 tsunami, and a homage to Francis Dhomont reusing a sound from Novars. DVD…

Three 5.1-channel works Gilles Gobeil composed at the ZKM in Karlsruhe between 2005 and 2007, each on a literary argument: the Desert Fathers, Dante's Paradise and an unshot Tarkovsky script on E T A Hoffmann, with René Lussier's daxophone throughout…

Six works by Laurie Radford from 2001 to 2006, reworked for 5.1 surround: wintry street recordings set against an invented wall instrument, Slovenian bells and trumpet, and his own instrumental music melted down like wax in a bronze casting. DVD-Audi…

Six works by Annette Vande Gorne from 1983 to 2006 on six kinds of exile, from a Debussy threnody and the vocal suite Vox Alia to texts by Kamal Ben Hameda and Saint-John Perse and music for a play on Van Gogh. DVD-Audio.

Andrew Lewis’s four sound portraits of the coast of Anglesey, from the lighthouse bell and plainchant of Penmon Point to the jets over Llanddwyn, plus Danses acousmatiques, a nine-movement suite on space and movement made in 2007. DVD-Audio.

Jonty Harrison’s eight-channel works from 1999 to 2007, centred on ReCycle, his four-part cycle on the classical elements built from a garden roller, car engines fitted with accelerometers, a parachute fall and running water. DVD-Audio.

Two 5.1 works by John Young from 2005 about his parents meeting in wartime Forlì: the Bourges-winning Ricordiamo Forlì, built from war correspondence archives and his father’s memories, and Arrivederci for the ensemble Stroma and the Duomo bells. DVD…

Québec composer Martin Leclerc’s Horizons du Silence: six works from 2000 to 2005, every one a Hugh Le Caine Award winner, drawing on Enki Bilal, Thoreau and Neruda, with a piece for amplified trumpet played by Pascal Leprohon. DVD-Audio.

Eight works from 1996 to 2004 by the Argentine composer Elsa Justel, made in Paris, Bourges, Barcelona, Berlin and Nevers, from an Andean bull’s-horn trumpet in Mâts to a homage built on Pierre Schaeffer’s voice and a piano invaded by a cat goddess.