Electronic / Acousmatic Music

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.

2006 release ** “Unidentified Sound Project” opens with a section entitled “Quantum Dripping” (three tracks), which relays their non-compromising sound research that deals with stylized interferences. Nervous sound structures (which are then modulated in the subsequent “Rebirth” section), elementary sound particles, cacophonies and granular sound frizzles consistently abuse the electronic medium. Perhaps this is a foil to certain less radical audio expressions, considering that Milani used to ma…

Brainnectar is Rudolf Eb.er's most developed program to date, combining psychodynamic audio-environments built from specific nature-sounds and extreme acoustics, often including ecstatic elements on instruments of shamanic origin. Binaural beats as well as isochronic tones stimulate a direct neural reaction to this unique and unheard audio-art. In addition, the grand lady of japanese extreme music - screamvocalist Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan) - participates on several tracks throughout this doub…

First complete recording of Bernard Parmegiani's Stries (1980) for three synthesizers and tape, reconstructed and performed by Colette Broeckaert, Sebastian Berweck and Martin Lorenz from the original score and tapes in the INA/GRM archives.

Big tip! An expedition in sound in 10 sequences: Enfoncement [Deep Sink], Gouffre circulaire [Circular Abyss], Noyau secret [Secret Core], Apesanteur [Weightlessness], Entrailles [Entrails], Four solaire [Solar Furnace], Fissures [Cracks], Mer intérieure [Inner Sea], Éruption [Eruption], Remontée [Ascension]. Labyrinthe ! is not only a very unique piece in Pierre Henry’s masterful repertoire, but also a remarkable demonstration of his compositional skills and musical singularity. Indeed, for thi…

In an allusion to Michel Chion’s ‘Dix études de musique concrète’, this collection of acousmatic moments represents a meditative opportunity for Denis Dufour. Sorting through his repertoire, it aims to seek out and identify characteristics and easily recognizable expressive habits whose clarity brings them close to the art of melody in an approach borne of entomological specimen classification and playful staging at the same time. Neither text nor theatrical contexts. Twelve short pieces; melodi…

Archival release, composed and improvised by Seiji Nagai (Taj Mahal Travellers). Mastered by Taku Unami. For more than two decades, Seiji Nagai has been creating experimental sounds with a computer, and when he improvises, he mixes them in real time. This work was created with sounds that have been organically accumulated within the past 10 years.

Selected works from a +30 year-old career as a Mexican pioneer and creator in electroacustic and experimental electronic music.

“Jeu du monde” is a collection of around twenty musique concrète pieces which spreads over more than six hours of music. Each CD has been designed as an audio film which tells a full story. The box set includes previously released works which have long been unavailable, reworked versions of digital releases, as well as unreleased pieces especially composed for this occasion. With the use of a complex sound palette ( synthesizers, analog and digital manipulation, percussion, low fidelity samplers…

INA grm is pleased to present its new record release, a two CD compilation of 18 electroacoustic works selected amongst the laureates of GRM Banc d’essai composition contest. The composers and their work are presented throughout a 24-page booklet.

** 2022 Repress ** "I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the '80s as, whilst composing 'Micro-climat', I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear fie…

**60 copies** "Despite working often alone, Savvas Metaxas is someone who rather thinks in terms of community and connectivity, who prefers alliances over ego, who is a sound artist as well as a musical activist. Coming from Thessaloniki, Greece, he co-founded Granny Records, puts up local shows, worked with the Goethe Institute, did site-specific sound installations in London, collaborates with other experimentalists like Spyros Emmanouilidis and released brilliant albums on fellow tape travell…

In the 1970s, Robert Cahen turned to the burgeoning field of video art, where he became a pioneering artist. He was originally trained in musique concrète, his creative background, and joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in 1972. The pieces on this record were composed in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974. They testify to a lively inspiration and imagination combined with a precocious formal mastery that already carries the seeds of later developments, which the artist cleverly and inv…

A 16-channel piece inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and some of the uncanny motions of the unconscious mind, where strangeness meets the ordinary.

2022 much-needed repress! One of the true masterpieces of acousmatic electroacoustic composition. Master of subtlety and timing, Parmegiani takes us into a world of delicate and refined clusters of sound, swirling around, popping and crackling like waves breaking onto beaches of lava. Natural and electronic sounds are collected and assembled in the best way possible. The definition and resonant qualities of his tones are unparalleled. Bernard Parmegiani'sDe Natura Sonorum (1975): Premiered at th…

Franco-Argentinian composer Daniel Teruggi follows in the footsteps of the Paris-based GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musicale) and their illustrious founders Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and Francois Bayle, representing the next generation of eletroacoustic explorers. 'The Shining Space' includes works written between 1997 and 1999 and each composition uses a single instrument; piano, electric guitar, voice, etc, as original sound source which is then transformed by the GRM's own processing tools (…

Régis Renouard Larivière was born on 3 December 1959 in Paris. He decided to devote himself to acousmatic composition following the Adac-GRM training course he attended at the end of 1984 with Jacques Lejeune and Philippe Mion. He has been teaching since 1990. He is currently professor of composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons (Arts2) in Belgium. He has written numerous articles on various electroacoustic composers (Parmegiani, Bayle, Schaeffer...), as well as on Schaefferian concepts. H…

Transversales Disques present Electrucs !, a new release of never-released music by Francois Bayle. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the GRM, composer Bayle introduces some of his unpublished archives; pieces include the title composition, "Electrucs !" (1974) composed on a 1970s Synthi AKS synthesizer like an imaginary soundtrack, "Foliphonie" (1974) inspired by La Grande Polyphonie (1978), and "Marpège" (1995), dedicated to Bernard Parmegiani. Also included is "Cinq Dessins En Rosace…

A first monographic compact disc for this composer born in 1951, a pupil of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel, winner of the Villa Médicis Prize "hors les murs" in 1995, who has also contributed to the musical research activities of the IRCAM, in the Atelier de Recherches Instrumentales (1985 and taken part in the development of the Quatron, the real-time synthesis computing system of the IMCA at Auch (1989-1990). On 'Diffluences': "The relationship between tape and piano is not the classical one…

Both a jazz drummer and ethnomusicologist, Jean Schwarz offers a unique vision that expands upon Luc Ferrari’s imagined Presque Rien environments and the tweaked rhythmic workouts of Bernard Parmegiani’s Pop’eclectic series of jazz collages. Throughout, Schwarz incorporates extensive usage of field recording, cyclic minimalist rhythm beds and the slow-moving resonances of electronic tone textures, playing with the sounds of French cafe musette, soulful jazz, and expansive audio vistas of desolat…

Digipack CD featuring two works by Patrick Ascione: "Primitive" (1995); "Espaces Paradoxes" (1987-89). RE: "Espaces-Paradoxes": "The first acousmatic work designed and projected in 16 real tracks, in full stereo. It deals with the question of writing a three dimensional space into the very act of studio composition. A continuum of singular spaces, real and suggested, give rhythm to the overall structure. The alternating of imagined spatial situations that oppose each other, answer each other or …

First complete disc of Frances White's electroacoustic works, five first recordings for electronic sound alone or with viola, double bass, shakuhachi and string quintet, inspired by a bridge over the Delaware River.

Much needed release by one of most underrated French electro-acoustic genius, Philippe Mion assembles here a delicious collection of electronic and acoustic sounds, and interleaves them in ways that might be described as fugal. The texture is rich and complex, and yet spare enough to enable each sound combination to be enjoyed to the fullest. This double set features the legendary L'Image Éconduite composition, that was originally a 70-minute composition on 4-track tape (that was trimmed to 57 m…

Two multi-channel electronic works by Iannis Xenakis from the 1970s, Hibiki Hana Ma and Polytope de Cluny, restored from the original tapes and mixed for 5.1 surround and stereo by Gerard Pape.

Two CDs of electroacoustic works composed on Xenakis's UPIC computer music system at Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX) in Paris, by Xenakis, Estrada, Robindoré, Risset, Roads, Pape and others, mostly first recordings.

Five field-recording based works by Annie Mahtani from 2008 to 2019: the Black Country Living Museum, Amazon nights from the Mamori Sound Project, thousands of ice sculptures by Néle Azevedo, wind in the Cheviot Hills, and a piece for her sister.

In process of stocking **Edition of 100** Recorded and assembled 2015-2020 by William Selman and mastered by Stephan Mathieu. William Selman’s latest release on his label Critique of Everyday Life co-managed by Chris Miller (aka Gunnar Haslam, Emile Zener) is a slow, sparse unfolding in three parts. Forming a kind of enigmatic triptych that evolves, breathes and retreats over the course of 45 minutes, these arrangements are capable of standing on their own, or working together as a brilliant sum…

**Edition of 100** Recorded and assembled 2015-2020 by William Selman and mastered by Stephan Mathieu. There are lines. Lines move, expand, contract, intersect, diverge. Lines have clear trajectories and unexpected turns. As listeners bound by linear time on a spatial plane of lines, our perception and experience as listeners is lines.  William Selman’s inaugural release on his new label Critique of Everyday Life cofounded with Chris Miller (aka Gunnar Haslam) draws on the embodied, environmenta…

In process of stocking **Edition of 100** Recorded and assembled 2015-2020 by William Selman and mastered by Stephan Mathieu. Laguna Cibernetica is a psychogeographical map of the industrial maritime city. It wanders through the streets, stumbling its way through the glass-blowing factories, the office buildings of upper management, the canal-side cafes - all with the inescapable lapping sounds of the lagoon in earshot. It captures the psychic terrain as well as the acoustic - the unease and exp…

In process of stocking **Edition of 100** Recorded and assembled 2015-2020 by William Selman and mastered by Stephan Mathieu. Inspired by Roland Kayn and the Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Quaderno Rosso investigates the dialectical relationship between cybernetics and free improvisation using an “action-reaction system of listening” (per Franco Evangelisti) to shape the entangled networks and redirect signal and information flow towards new ends. Quaderno Rosso is a cybernetic work …

A student of both Pierre Schaeffer and Eliane Radigue, since her emergence during the 1970s, the French composer, Michèle Bokanowski, has carved a fascinating trajectory with the fields of electronic and electroacoustic music. Working primarily for film, television, and dance, over a discography of works that span the decades, she has built a singular world of profound sonic densities, colours, and depth. In the words of GRM’s artist director François Bonnet ( Kassel Jaeger), Bokanowski’s immens…

This bundle collects the two most recent Recollection GRM releases:Michèle Bokanowski "Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires" (LP)Lionel Marchetti "La grande vallee / Micro-climat" (LP)Since the mid-2010s, Recollection GRM - the celebrated vinyl only imprint attached to the archives of the legendary Paris based studio and collective Groupe De Recherches Musicales - has issued some of the most exciting artefacts of experimental electronic music to have graced out ears. Initially focused on the output o…

**500 copies** Remastered digital issue of perhaps Moniek Darge’s defining 1987 LP (originally issued on the storied brussels-based igloo imprint) . Five pieces recorded throughout the early & mid-80’s :: “turkish square” (“soundscapes, voices, violin, n-dimensional oscillator system”) works a slowly morphing / heterodyning electronic pulse (ala Roland Kayn) under street-captures & sound-events in ghent ... “abbey sounds” is a collage-piece weaving location recordings & reflections on st. bavo a…

Five acousmatic works by Manuella Blackburn from 2012 to 2017, built from tiny sounds: cracking ice, camera shutters, clock ticks from a London museum, and sitar and sarod recorded with Indian musicians of Milapfest in Liverpool.

**Edition of 100 copies** From Sierra Leone via Berlin, Lamin Fofana elusive new work. Steeped in afro-futurist aesthetic, this is the first part in the hyper-conceptual trilogy by global drone and noise artist Lamin Fofana. Not getting a digital release and only 100 copies world wide, we're getting a handful direct from Berlin. From Lamin himself: The West is an insane asylum, a conscious and premeditated receptacle of black magic. – Fred Moten Black Metamorphosis is the first installment in a …

**Edition of 200 on 180 g vinyl with a hand-made silkcreened cover** Relict records steps into the game with The Gloaming, the full length debut LP by composer Chris Berkes.  The Gloaming is the consequence of intensive reflection on the expressive potential of sound based structures. The result culminates in potent electro-acoustic compositions that form a complex and visceral narrative of arresting nature. relief draws from the tradition of Musique concrète but translates it into a contemporar…

Om Kult 1-3 – the complete Om Kult 3CD triptych, recorded and processed at Om Kult Osaka between 2016 and 2018.  Evolving from his extended “Brainnectar” studies on psycho-spiritual cleansing rituals derived from various shamanic and yogatantric traditions - and his examinations of aural hallucinations and paranormal perceptions - Rudolf Eb.er focuses now on the occult knowledge and techniques for the transition from life to death, on the ejecting mind as well as on the decomposing human body. F…

In Autumn 2017, eRikm and Anthony Pateras embarked on an acoustic encounter, a direct dialogue through their machines. Each brought their own experiences and know-how together with a shared desire to explore sound landscapes in complete freedom. From this meeting, Albédo was born. Their material was developed sometimes in the studio, sometimes in concert. This dialogue, articulated within the unpolished depths of the sound’s structure, is captured in Albédo with one side recorded live in Ljublja…

The first album by the Lausanne-born, Brussels-based Sophie Delafontaine: six acousmatic works from 2013 to 2018 drawing on Hesiod, Ovid’s Echo, the Jura cliffs of Creux-du-Van and the spiral spring at the heart of a watch.

Nobuo Yamada is a Japanese experimental/noise artist, known to me from his side project Artbreakhotel, and some collaborative works The New Blockader, Toshiji Mikawa etc. Highway / Nightmare is the 2 long compositions that are included to this beautiful cassette. Here, Nobuo managed to create a very interesting soundscape, probably improvising with various materials. A very charming work, of a quite acousmatic work that will got your attention.