Paul Dolden is a freelance composer who specializes in electroacoustic composition. His works are performed and broadcasted throughout North America and Europe, and he has toured across Canada and Europe performing on cello, violin, and electric guitar.

The music on these two discs represents two different but related compositional strategies. The first compositional strategy is represented by the creation of the four solo tape works and the second strategy is the creation of the five works for soloist and tape. The contrast between the anonymous mass effect of the tape and the singular effect of the soloist also works as a metaphor for the relationship between the individual (the soloist) and society (the mass effect of the tape).

The work L’ivresse de la vitesse is the winner of the 1994 Noroit-Léonce Petitot International Competition (France, 1994).

1. L’ivresse de la vitesse

2. Physics of Seduction. Invocation #3

3. Revenge of the Repressed. Resonance #2

4. Dancing on the Walls of Jericho

5. Physics of Seduction. Invocation #2