Browse by Label: INA GRM (FRANCE)

Artist:	LEJEUNE, JACQUES
Title:	Le Cantique des Cantiques
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 1011

Mid-90s release, repressed. One long piece ("The Song of Songs"), combines Egyptian erotic ditties, Hebrew, Lebanese and Transjordanian love songs and Syrian wedding chants that treat the couple as king and queen for the duration of the wedding fest," with the idea of transforming text into sounds. "His approach essentially reflects a preoccupation with analogies and image ambiguities, which he interprets in an essentially terratological polyfiguration closely associating the living with the abstract." Another intensely mind liberating vocal/electronic hybrid.

Artist:	PARMEGIANI, BERNARD
Title:	Violostries
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$36.00
Catalog #:	INA 1012/13

Finally reissued, with new artwork; this has been the most in-demand electroacoustic CD for the past few years. Parmegiani is one the electroacoustic superstars of the INA GRM universe, and along with various Bayle titles this is a great place to start with the label. This amazing double CD is broken up into 2 parts: the first disc consists of old-style tape-splicing electroacoustic material, dating from 1963 to 1976 ("Violostries," "Pour en Finir avec le Pourvoir d'Orphee" & "Dedans-Dehors"). The 2nd disc represents post-computer acousmatic music, with works from 1986 to 1991 ("Rouge-Mort:" "Thanatos," "Exercisme 3" & "Le Present Compose"). All are thoroughly soaked with the intuitive power of brain-scanning sonic properties, tones fade and explode with stunning neuronic intensity. "Exercisme 3" features "a sort of interface enabling natural sounds or analogical synthetic sounds to release digitally synthesized sounds. Such and such a series of impulsions releases virtually aleatoric, and sometimes very varied, repetitions of digital sounds. These repetitions are often very 'dense' and take us to the limits of continual sound phenomena, thus making these 'factory sounds' lose their instrumental 'soul.' Thus, we suddenly swing from one domain to another, from the instrumental to the electroacoustic, from a language we understand, to an 'unknown language.'"

Artist:	AMY, GILBERT
Title:	Une Saison En Enfer
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 2004

An electroacoustic work based on Rimbaud's A Season in Hell ("one of the richest texts in French poetry.... all that pertains to the human and divine is contained in this visionary text yet constructed disorder by a real master of language"). Amy and Daniel Teruggi play electroacoustic piano's; there is various percussion, and soprano vocalist Fusako Kondo. Although good parts of this are strictly musical, the French language texts are a strong part of it.

Artist:	REDOLFI, MICHEL
Title:	Appel d'Air
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 2005

Mid-90s release, repressed. Three electroacoustic works on the theme of music & painting. "Appel D'Air" consists of only flute sounds, but the processing is so extreme you'd never know it. "Jazz, D'apres Matisse" was made up only using a few laboratory oscillators in order to obtain a palette of pure and contrasting waves," and is real nice and flitting."Portrait of Jean-Paul Celea with Double Bass," consists of solo bass recordings and their processed partner.

Artist:	RACOT, GILLES
Title:	Subgestuel/Diffluences/Phonophonie
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 2013

"Collection of three contemporary electro-acoustic pieces ('Subgestuel', for six percussionists and tape (1991), 'Diffluences', for piano and tape (1994), and 'Phonophonie' for tape (1998)) from this GRM member, student of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel's who has also "contributed to the musical research activities of the IRCAM, in the Atelier de Recherches Instrumentales (1985 and taken part in the development of the QUATRON, the real-time synthesis computing system of the IMCA at Auch (1989-1990)". -- Hrvatski. On 'Diffluences': "The relationship between tape and piano is not the classical one between two instruments in concert, but rather a blending, a block of pianos! The title 'Diffluences' alludes to these two aspects of the composer's work, the writing and the treatment of sound from beginning to end; the most important thing being to establish a balance between these two approaches to composition, so that each may play a mutually dynamic role. Energy? -- Albert Jacquards' idea of a torrent goes well with these ideas coursing along. And the joy of the torrent? It's up to you to listen..."

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:	PARMEGIANI, BERNARD
Title:	La Mémoire Des Sons
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 2019

AKA The Memory of Sounds. Features 3 works: "Capture Éphémère" (1967); "Sons-jeu" (1987); "La Mémoire des Sons" (2001). "Excepting some rare mixed pieces, Paremegiani's works as a whole take the form of music for 'fixedsounds', coming within the scope of the immense repertoire of electro-acoustic music. From his training in the art of mime and his experience as a sound engineer, Parmegiani has retained a taste for a hand-to-hand approach (sound/embodiment, as we could be tempted to say) with various sound mate-rials which he has developed throughout markedly diverse works." RE: "Capture Éphémère": "The beating of terror-stricken wings, gliding ascents, rockets, dull explosions: the fission of the fine powder of the sound is then recovered, in layers of 'captured', beating time: impossible stases of reso-nance ('fleeting' by their very nature ...) which however persist, beating out their miraculous cohesion: a magical effect even today: proof that it is not due to technique. Or: a sequence of utter loss, waste: an accumulation as Schaeffer would have said ('reiteration abounding in brief elements'; 'like a shower of stones dispersing'...), having the fluidity of a waterfall, with one hundred thousand elements interwoven in discontinuity, 'eccentric', generous, suffocating... Or: this furious vibration, which in its steep ascent, is imbued with a triumphant appearance of tireless virtuosity... And so many intimately interwoven composite sequences, as they advance, hurtling through space (and the Russian mountains ...) with seemingly inexhaustible energy; and marked several times, just before a silence, by the same small elegant asterisk. However, all of this (deafening volubility) is finally calmed by a short coda: where a movement to reduce and rarefy particles splits this mass in extremis into an ethereal shower of sparks, having the effect of a prolonged pause." -- Jean-Christophe Thomas.

Artist:	PARMEGIANI, BERNARD
Title:	L'eil ecoute
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 2026

New 2004 Parmegiani release, featuring: "L'oeil Ecoute" (1970), "La Roue Ferris" (1971), "Especes d'espace" (2002-2003). "Excepting some mixed pieces, his work as a whole takes the form of music for 'fixed sound', coming within the scope of the immense repertoire of electro-acoustic music. In 1971, he made a video film based on the music in 'L'Oeil ecoute', featuring visual imagery processed through a synthesizer. We only need listen to the opening of 'L'Oeil ecoute', a sustained swirl and flurry, emerging as a wave about to break, which we only just manage to glimpse at its approach, just like this train which we take a full speed, surging forward headlong at the opening of the piece. At the very outset, on the one hand, everything is given in a single act, the music is already moving forward; and on the other, the ghostly realm into which it takes us is already amply filled out. We note that the large arbitrary breaks in tone Parmegiani achieves in 'L'Oeil ecoute' and indeed throughout all his musical compositions, arise as searching encounters. As such, they are gestures deriving from the sculptor himself. The blocks used are very imposing and the matter extremely dense..."

Artist:	PARMEGIANI, BERNARD
Title:	Plain-Temps
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 2027

2006 release, presenting 3 versions of "Plain-Temps". Classic new work from the most important INA GRM composer. The first part of the suite, "Le Present Compose" is from 1991, recorded here in 2006. "The second part is "Entre-Temps" from 1992. "The gradual slowing down of the tick-tock sound of a penduluum with which the this piece opens provides us with not only the most symbolic but also the most illusory image of the passing of time. This is followed by by a constantly changing continuum, apparently homogenous and harmonious yet ultimately fragile. In the ever wider intervals that open up between these carefully-timed happenings, soundscapes appear. These resemble certain image-memories of everyday events, some close, some distant." -- Parmegiani. Part three is "Plain Temps", from 1993, recorded in 2006.

Artist:	DONATO, FRANCOIS
Title:	Annam
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 5003

"Basically, this work consists of sounds picked up by the microphone and produced by very simple objects: stones of different sizes and densities, pieces of wood of various dimensions. That is as far as the material goes. The morphologies I obtained were then modified by multiple manipulations in the studio, in order to make this raw material reflect my subjectivity...progressively moving from a simple line of sound to a complex musical structure."

Artist:	LARIVIERE, REGIS RENOUARD
Title:	Futaie/Tchernoziom
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 5008

Debut INA GRM CD by this young French composer, featuring 2 works: "Futaie" (1996) & "Tchernoziom" (1998). 33 minutes of music, released as part of INA's cheaper short-length CD series. "'Futaie' unfolds in time like a long, slow sentence in which only the punctuation remains. 'Futaie' is composed of immobile masses and lightning flashes that oppose one another making the piece a fleeting moment that has been hollowed out, widened and extended. A succession of temporal occurrences convey the feeling of dual time, of a 'common presence' of events the duration of which is both individual and joint, similar to the way in which trees form a forest. 'Tchernoziom' is the continuation and amplification of work on the tremor of sound sketched out in the central section of 'Futaie'. It is a study on effusive sound material that is both undeveloped and renewed. The grain of which constantly suggests possible interruption. The result is one of fleeting ideas and precarious stability of the overall structure. 'Tchernoziom means 'black soil' and refers to the lands in the Ukraine that are renowned for being extremely fertile."

Artist:	ELOY, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Musica Mundana/L?estran
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 5010

"'Musica Mundana': Mixed, fusion and root music, work on 'harmonisation' of various music and vocals. A genuine alchemy! 'L?estran': What a beautiful metaphor is this piece of coastline. It conveys an impression of in-between, uncertainty, contraries. After studying music in the French National Music School, a decisive encounter with Ivo Malec, Guy Reibel, Jacques Lejeune and Jean Schwarz at the GRM will introduce him to electroacoustic music which he will afterwards focus on. He has composed around fifty instrumental, vocal and electro acoustic works. Teacher in the Bordeaux Conservatoire and in the Paris Adac-GRM workshops, he is deeply involved in teaching and transmission of knowledge within Scrime and Octandre associations."

Artist:	ASCIONE, PATRICK
Title:	Primitive
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 5012

33-minute EP, featuring two works: "Primitive" (1995); "Espaces Paradoxes" (1987-89). RE: "Espaces-Paradoxes": "The first acousmatic work designed and projected in 16 real tracks, in full stereo. It deals with the question of writing a three dimensional space into the very act of studio composition. A continuum of singular spaces, real and suggested, give rhythm to the overall structure. The alternating of imagined spatial situations that oppose each other, answer each other or superimpose on each other, and wherein the sound effects are seemingly but a pretext for these figures in space. In return, and paradoxically, these give a sense and a life to the sound forms themselves. Thus, a specific form of discourse is borne of the simultaneous and successive perception of all these planes, trajectories and centres transmitting distinct sounds into the air."

Artist:	ALVAREZ, JAVIER
Title:	Cactus Geometries - Offrande
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 5015

First full CD issue by Alvarez, featuring 2 long works from 2000/2002. "Mexican composer interested in the rhythmic and acousmatic interaction between instrumental and electroacoustic sound. This disc reunites two works that prompt the listener to cast an aural gaze at the interior of sound itself. In the first, we are presented with a gamut of imaginary landscapes, symmetries and spaces inspired by the unexpected geometry of cacti. The second work brings us to the extraordinary sound of the steel pans, intricately intertwined within a shimmering path of fugitive trajectories and metallic resonances."

Artist:	LEJEUNE, JACQUES
Title:	Fragments Gourmands
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	INA 5201

"Lejeune's first foray into INA-GRM's EP series, after a bunch of stellar LP's and CD's (L'Invitation au Depart, Le Cantique des Cantiques, and of course Messe aux Oiseaux ('Mass with Birds')). Here he's paired with saxophone virtuoso Daniel Kientzy (previous CD on INA-GRM, 'ax Computer, rocks...), who provides an endless stream of squeaks & blat to the otherwise synthesized/plundered univers of Herr. Lejeune. Quotes abound: 'Gruel is a healthy food which calms the pangs of hunger, is easily digested not very restorative.' Conversely, 'Animal tongues do not exceed the scope of their intelligence; but the human tongue texture, enrobed in its various membranes, heralds the sublime purpose for which it is destined.' Sexy, sexy stuff indeed..." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	SCHWARZ, JEAN
Title:	Erda/Symphonie/Surroundings
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA CL2022/23CD

Sharp double CD set containing four of Schwarz's attractive 70s tape works. 'Erda' (1971) is a 27 minute piece in eight sections ranging thematically from 'Grillons' ('evocation of world of the insects'), '54 Oiseaux' ('songs of stereotyped birds such that give them the generators of studio 54' (HELLO!!!)), and 'Klook'/'In Memoriam' (both tributes to jazz greats; Kenny Clarke and John Coltrane respectively). 'Symphonie' (1974) is a filmic 24 minute work using orchestral and flute timbres along with subtle tape effects and re-iterative motions. 'Surroundings' (1978) is an extended 53 minute piece that invokes 9 discrete locations (Broadway in Manhattan, Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a cable car in San Francisco, etc...). It features Charles Austin on saxophones and flute and Joe Gallivan (of Love Cry Want fame) on percussion and Moog synthesizer. Lastly (and certainly not leastly), 'Sonances' (1971), which is based around the figures and materials of the Baschet brothers sculptures adorning public and private grounds around the GRM center. "The sheets of the Baschet instruments which haunted the studios of Research centre always fascinated me. I constituted a basic material to start from these sheets. The part proposes a voyage in this worrying world which goes from pointing out that of heart, with the fine metal rattling evoking the noise of the sea against the rocks". Schwarz is perhaps the least visible/most mysterious (alternatingly the most prolific in the CD age) INA composer, alas we've finally been given an insight to his early output. Absolutely necessary." -- Hrvatski. 2CDs for the price of one.

Artist:	SCHWARZ & BENAT ACHIARY, JEAN
Title:	Goni'ko Zalduna/Itzala
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	INA CL9820/1CD

Features two relatively recent works: "Goñi'ko Zalduna" (1994) and "Itzala" (1997). Both are long, CD-length epics, 74 & 70 minutes respectively. "Goñi'ko Zalduna" is an opera about "the Legend of the Knight of the Goni". Incidental sounds and ethereal coral effects have their merit, but in limited fashion. "Itzala" is also operatic, but to a much more insane degree -- I'd hate to kill the potential of ever selling a copy of this, but if you could imagine a more musically trained version of Costes -- well, there are moments on this CD that replicate that sort of disdain for convention. Plus a classicist feel for surreal imagery and in general: very flipped atmosphere.

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Artist:	DUFOUR, DENIS
Title:	Notre Besoin de Consolation est Impossible
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 1010

Artist:	HENRY, PIERRE
Title:	Labyrinthe
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	INA 2022

Artist:	TERUGGI, DANIEL
Title:	Instants d'hiver -- Summer Band
Label:	INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INA 5002