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The old rose reader

Description: Recording of Frances White's The old rose reader. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and flute performance. This recording includes two tracks, one for tape only and one with tape and flute.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-

Jeu de carte

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Jeu de carte. This work was created for the open work project as part of the Synthèse Festival. This work is meant to celebrate the bicentenary for George Sand by using a computer playing traditional instruments. Sound material that has been used in this piece includes: music box sounds, barrel organ, and sound card for the computer.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne

Evolu-Son

Description: Recording of Hervé Déjardin's Evolu-Son. This work was created as part of the Festival Synthèse under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". The composer used recordings of the mechanical work of an artisan-weaver with more traditional music of village festivals mixed in.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Déjardin, Hervé

Temps Fixé

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Temps Fixé. This work was commissioned by Media Arts Networks with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts. This work was inspired by a visit the composer made to a singer friend who now, as an elderly individual, lives in an assisted living facility. The composer was struck by the vision of "a worn man, deteriorated by time". The work represents not death but the idea of time and the unstoppable nature of it through the lens of a singer frozen in time at the heig… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves

La Wal-Manichette

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La Wal-Manichette. This work was premiered during a Synthèse Festival in Bourges under the appearance of a parody of a cultural radio program. The concept behind this work is "creation" and acts as a theatricalization of sound which is strictly in the domain of electroacoustics.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-

Inside a visit

Description: Recording of Olivier Labbe's Inside a visit. This work was created as part of an open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composition is a digital multi-track montage based on recordings made in an artist's studio within an industrial wasteland. These are random recordings of a demo of drum exercises, radio waves, radio broadcasts, and repetitive vocal cycles.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Labbe, Olivier

L'arracheuse de poussière

Description: Recording of Julien Belet's L'arracheuse de poussière. This is a work for electronics that the composer describes as a "voluntarily unfinished piece of poetic character" with children's voices whispering.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Belet, Julien

Chansons françaises n°2

Description: Recording of Miklos Sugar's Chansons françaises n°2. This is a work for electronics that includes the instrumentation of flute, violin, cello, and soprano voice. This piece was inspired by the poetic world of Samuel Beckett and the composer attempts to recreate his themes with short musical movements and motifs.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Sugár, Miklós 1952-

Un grand ensemble

Description: Recording of Sébastien Roux's Un grand ensemble. This is a work for electronics that includes English and French spoken word.
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Date: 2004/2005
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Roux, Sébastien

Cordes Invisibles

Description: Recording of Roderik De Man's Cordes Invisibles. This work was created by request of Doris Hochscheid and Frans van Ruth, it was also commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music. The text spoken in the work was written by the composer and refers to the ideas expressed by the German philosopher and psychologist, Carl Stumpf. His ideas explained that while listening to music we may not always be able to follow the structure of a piece, however, our subconscious understanding compensates th… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de 1941-

Nuit Electronique opus 33

Description: Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Nuit Electronique opus 33. The composer states that this work was inspired by intimate memories from the last night of the Bourges festival 2003. He describes this piece as a "kind of cosmic electroacoustic jukebox quiz".
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Date: 2004
Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-
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