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The story about a singer tied to railways tracks in the middle of the desert; a myopic monster who marches towards her; a romantic lead who would like to save her; and two military trains rushing towards each other.
The two works on this recording, La porte (The Door) and Plume, belong to a genre that can be called monodrama: one solo vioce tells a story set to music. In both pieces, the vocal style emphasizes the different levels of the text, that is, the general narration and the characters. The musical accompaniment further evokes the characters and the situations.
Internationally-acclaimed Vancouver clarinetist performs the music of Pierre Boulez, Paul Dolden, Giorgio Magnanensi, and John Oliver. Houle has taken the idea of Boulez' "shadow dialogue" as inspiration for a program of works where the sound of his clarinet becomes the core of rich sound textures.
Icicle Blue Avalanche rolls over the listener with extraordinary, sculpted sounds. The collection features both electroacoustic studio works and solo electric/MIDI guitar and live electronics.
A complex sonic tapestry - Without Fear features works for solo instrument and interactive computer electronics, as well as works for "tape" alone. Performances by Miriam Arnold, flute, and Günter Marx, violin, reveal such a close integral relationship between musician and electronics that it truly sounds like extensions of the instruments themselves.
Rich, intricate, rhythmic, layered. A virtuosic performer, Andrew Czink wrings hidden orchestras from his instrument and changes how we hear piano music.
Structural Damage (Andrew Czink, piano & percussion; John Oliver, guitars) perform Live at the Lux Theatre of the Western Front (Vancouver) with special guests Douglas Schmidt, accordion, and Giorgio Magnanensi, DJ/electronics.
Astonishing Sense
of being taken over by something far greater than me
Susan Frykberg is a composer of electroacoustic music who often combines feminist ideas and theatrical processes in her work. She has created a number of "environments" in which stories (often mythological) of women's lives are the "context" for her music
Second Earsay compilation including fresh evocative electroacoustic works by six Earsay artists.
Damián Keller's music is based on "ecological sound models." The music is gesturally intense and spatially sophisticated.
Great label, superb compilation of all new music artists on the label. — Earwaves online magazine
A spectacular, dark, brilliant CD-length piece from this virtuosic German group. Heavy interactive computer and signal processed sound makes for an intense experience.
All sounds for the compositions on this CD were recorded during my travels in India in the 1990s. They form the language with which I "speak" of a relationship, of a love, that I developed for this initially very foreign place. - Hildegard Westerkamp
Spirit Journies, proposes a symbolic and dreamlike journey that envelops the listener with rich and diverse sounds.
Celebrating 40 years of Electroacoustic Music at Simon Fraser University 1965-2005
Inside is a Cd issued in 1996 by Canadian composer Barry Truax.
An electroacoustic opera by Barry Truax.
Twin Souls is a collection of electroacoustic compositions by Barry Truax that incorporate texts which deal with various gender issues.
Soundscape Studies is a field that was born in Vancouver through the World Soundscape Project under the direction of R. Murray Schafer in the early seventies.
The disc is framed by two works (East Wind and Pacific) that refer to the environment and cultures of the Pacific region, but all of the pieces are influenced by a growing awareness of the interplay between Eastern and Western ideas, just as the world increasingly looks to the Pacific Rim as the new centre of economic activity.Go to Top
