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Christian Bouchard moves fluidly between lush spacious environments and agitated, rough, edgy punctuations. By doing so, he makes an alliance with soundscape composition, glitch, and acousmatic art. - Darren Copeland, WholenoteThis disc is more than a collection of short pieces; it presents a synthesis of new electroaccoustic creation as it is practised in all its forms. - Jean-François Denis & Claude SchryerForêt profonde (Deep Forest) is an acousmatic melodrama by Francis Dhomont, based on Bruno Bettelheim's essay "The Uses of Enchantment".Dan Lander is mischievous with his tools; you can hear him grin at several points throughout these recordings. His writing has a sense of play and naturalness that one rarely hears. These are works 'sans woosh', bare, sometimes painful and always passionate, as in works with intelligence, precision and guts.Darren Copeland's first solo album as a composer.Ned Bouhalassa is a studio composer specializing in acousmatic works. His teachers included Kevin Austin and Francis Dhomont. Attracted by cinema, contemporary visual art and science fiction, he tries in his work to balance form and content, while leaving room for emotion and poetry.Miniatures Concrètes' second collection of three-minute works.Daniel Scheidt presents five electro-acoustic pieces created between 1986 and 1990 where the computer takes care of the electronic part and a real instrumentalist the acoustic one.Mario Rodrigue's piece Tilt won the 1st Prize in the electroacoustic category and the Grand Prize in 7th CBC Young Composer's Competition (1986), and Cristaux liquides was awarded a Mention at the 19th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1991).A guitarist and composer devoted to contemporary music, Arturo Parra presents here five mixed works created in collaboration with five notorious practitioners of acousmatics.
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