Electronic / Tape Music

Two versions of John Oswald's one-note composition from 2000-03, built entirely on the pitch A in its ten audible octaves, with a tuned prairie thunderstorm, tuned birds, a Disklavier piano and the cello of Joan Jeanrenaud. CD-R.

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.

Gilles Gobeil’s three works for ondes Martenot and fixed medium, written between 1988 and 2002 and recorded in 2004-05 with Suzanne Binet-Audet, who commissioned the first; winner of the Prix Opus disc of the year 2004-05. DVD-Audio.

Four acousmatic works by Francis Dhomont from 1986 to 1991, the second part of his Mouvances~Métaphores cycle, including the Bourges Magisterium winner Chiaroscuro and Signé Dionysos, a lakeshore opera in which every role is sung by frogs.

Francis Dhomont's acousmatic triptych on wandering, composed in Montréal and Marseille between 1981 and 1989: Points de fuite, the nine-movement … mourir un peu, which quotes Schaeffer and Henry, and the spatial Espace / Escape.

Eight acousmatic works by Francis Dhomont spanning fifteen years, from his only purely electronic piece of 1985-86 to Lettre de Sarajevo and the swallows of Vol d’Arondes, several of them prizewinners. Disque de l’année at the Prix Opus 2002-03.

Five works by Denis Smalley from 1976 to 1992, including Wind Chimes, Valley Flow and the Golden Nica-winning Clarinet Threads with Roger Heaton, plus Piano Nets with Philip Mead, all remastered by the composer for this 2004 edition.

Daniel Leduc's electroacoustic music drama on Wilhelm Müller's 24 Winterreise poems, spoken by actor Erwin Potitt and closed by a Cocteau-inspired coda, framed by three shorter works from 1994 to 1997.

Four radio works by Dan Lander from 1988 to 1992, three cut with a razor blade on 1/4" tape: a dismantling of radio conventions with Gregory Whitehead, a portrait of his back injury through friends' memories, and a Toronto zoo heard as machine.

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 friends.

Four long surround works by Adrian Moore from 2012 to 2014: the paired The Battle and Counterattack, Nebula Sequence, begun on a strike day and with ball bearings after Bayle, and Strings and Tropes, on zheng samples by Sun Zhuo.

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 saxophone quartet.

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.

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-Audio.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Serge Arcuri’s dream cycle in seven pieces from 1982 to 1992, tape works and mixed works for oboe, harp, horn and percussion, played by Lawrence Cherney, Erica Goodman, Francis Ouellet and Trevor Tureski and recorded in Toronto in 1992.

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.