Le Projet Ulysse
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.
Jeu d’Ombres
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.
Désordres
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.
La Rage
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.
Trans_canada
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.
Gratte-Cité
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.
Époque de l’Eau
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.
Matériaux Composés
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…
Exils
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.
Miroirs Obscurs
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.
Lieu-Temps
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…
Horizons du Silence
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.
… et Autres Utopies
Five acousmatic “fantasies” by Francis Dhomont from 1989 to 2005, among them a Lautréamont ocean reworked for Bourges, the three-part Chroniques de la lumière and Voyage-miroir, a reversed and shrunken replica of … mourir un peu.
Électro Clips
Twenty-five electroacoustic miniatures of three minutes each, commissioned in 1990 for the Montréal musiques actuelles/New Music America festival from composers in Québec, Canada, the USA and Mexico, among them Dhomont, Westerkamp, Oswald, Gobeil and…
Parr(A)cousmatique
Guitarist Arturo Parra’s project of mixed music: Francis Dhomont, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau, Stéphane Roy and Mauricio Bejarano each wrote an acousmatic piece, and Parra composed a guitar part over it, played on an unprepared guitar.