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INA 5015
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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."
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INA 5012
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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."
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INA 5010
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"'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."
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INA 5008
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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."
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INA 1010
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A work for text (by Stig Dagerman, "a declaration of absolute despair") and electroacoustic backing.
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