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Artist:	REIBEL, GUY
Title:	Choeurs Imaginaires
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 2014

"CD issue compiling three of Reibel's voice-themed works over the years: 'On eût dit des coups d'ailes' (an homage to Pierre Schaeffer from 1996 incorporating digital processing into a post-Penderecki/Ligeti landscape), 'Suite pour Edgar Poe' (a super-bleepy setting of three poems from the Beaudelaire translations of Poe ('Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires') to concrete sound from 1973), and a section of 'Langages imaginaires' (also a grouping of poetry, in this case Rimbaud and Butor, and word-sound from 1981). Reibel's up there in my book with Parmegiani and Bayle as one of the chief architects of the digital-age INA sound and this serves as a fine introduction to his 'monde de bruit'. For those who don't mind a little human breath in their computer world." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	REIBEL, GUY
Title:	Granulations-Sillages/Franges Du Signe
Label:	RECOLLECTION GRM (AUSTRIA)
Format:	LP
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	REGRM 002LP

Franges Du Signe, the third part of an electroacoustic triptych completed in 1973-1974, is the first major "purely acousmatic" work composed by Guy Reibel. Franges Du Signe explores the mathematical idea of the limit by translating it musically, searching for unstable states of equilibrium. Thus, several conflicting tendencies or logics act upon the sounds. They overlap and fight, each one seeking to assert its trace on the phenomenon in progress, generating de facto an ambiguity that is unique to all phenomena that obey the "logic of the living." Granulations-Sillages (1976) develops an idea glimpsed at in Franges Du Signe: the existence of extreme times at the edge of our faculties of perception, which only the electroacoustic music tools allow us to realize. Two natures of phenomena, opposed in all respects (the "Granulations-Trails" and the "Tutti"), alternate through seven movements that constitute the piece. The work is designed for six channels diffused in concert on a main stereo system facing the public and two auxiliary stereos (group of crossing speakers: front-back and left-right in the room). Featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts, with translation by Valérie Vivancos. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen O'Malley. Executive Production: Peter Rehberg.

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