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AVTR 022
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"Avatar invited eight composers to select at will from OHM editions' audio production from 1993 to 1998. They remixed excerpts, full pieces, entire CDs or even the whole catalog. These different approaches result in a varied listening and also mark a visit to Avatar in its foundational form: Christof Migone, Jocelyn Robert, Pierre-André Arcand, the first collective projects and the precursors in Quebec City, Bruit TTV." Remixers are Christian Calon, David Kristian, Diane Labrosse, John Oswald, Alexandre St-Onge, Martin Tétreault, Terre Thaemlitz, Ralf Wehowsky.
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AVTR 020
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"Thirteen acoustic guitar improvisations devoid of all editing, superimposition, equalization, and reverberation. Eight microphones were used for the recording, and the mixing of these eight sources highlights the improvisational structures and the different points of view or of hearing."
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AVTR 011
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"This cycle of audio short stories was created during a long stay in Europe. Otherwise, I would never have had the idea of dealing with the subject of migration. It is necessary to be in the middle of things, to feel them in order to really become aware of them. Here is how I learned the significance of the word 'foreigner' and what it conceals: absence of cultural reference, awareness of one's own identity and the ambivalent feeling of strength and precariousness associated with movement." Chantal Dumas: texte et musique, Silvia Ocougne: guitares, Joelle Leandre: contrebasse, Shelley Hirsch: voix.
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AVTR 014
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"Canned Gods" began with this observation: sound effects librairies on compact discs, the ones used in the movie industry or for radio plays, are in fact cultural dictionaries. Each sound library presents the most important sounds for the culture that chose them. An example : one of the american sound library offers a huge number of car sounds, while the BBC s has maybe a dozen of them, but has a number of field recordings from foreign colonies which do not appear on the american sound effects cds...even the form of presentation of these sounds (their length, order, etc...) is different. When considering these collections globally, one gets the feeling that they are some sort of an audio picture box or an audio picture book that presents a culture or a country. Thus, my idea has been to take one of these audio librairies and to use these sounds to trace a portrait of the culture from its own material. Canned Gods: a typical afternoon in the backyard in Phoenix, Arizona is the result of a first attempt with this approach applied to the United States."
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