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| 3 CD Box Set: L'Oeuvre
Musicale The complete works of Pierre Schaeffer,
re-digitised and re-issued with newly discovered tracks. |
| Book and 3 x CDs: Solfege de l'Objet Sonore This book, accompanied by 285 tracks on 3 CDs of examples is a unique and indispensable resource work for all those interested in electroacoustic music. Examples by Parmegiani, Henry, Bayle, Xenakis, Luc Ferrari etc. illustrate Pierre Schaeffer's text. |
| Book: Audible
Design by Trevor Wishart |
| 5 CD Box Set: GRM
Archive 5 CD Boxed Set containing music spanning
half a century of GRM inspired compositions |
| 12 CD Box Set: Parmegiani: l'Oeuvre
Musicale The complete works of Bernard Parmegiani
on 12 CDs |
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Trevor Wishart - Globalalia/Imago
 A
re-issue of Globalalia which explores human speech and the syllables
common to all, and Imago, which is constructed entirely out of
the sound of 2 whiskey glasses being clinked together. Classic
Wishart at his best!
Wishart writes: "In Globalalia,
I wanted to use human speech, but focus on what we hold in common
as human beings. Although the world’s languages contain many
millions of words, these are constructed from a much smaller set
of sounds, the syllables. I wrote to several friends asking them
to collect voices from their local radio stations, and also recorded
voices from TV stations via satellite dish, assembling sounds from
134 voices in 26 different languages. I then edited these into
their syllables, ending with more than 8300 sources." |
Francis Dhomont - Etudes Pour Kafka
 A
new release from Francis Dhomont, who in the opinion of many
is the greatest living composer of electroacoustic music.
This CD contains 3 studies which were the seeds from which many
of his other works grew. Behind major works of the scope of … mourir
un peu, Sous le regard d’un soleil noir, and Forêt
profonde, in these studies Dhomont experiments with the
themes, tries out sound materials, and unveils glimpses of the
final work. Dhomont at his best! |
Denis Smalley - Sources - Scénes
 One of our most popular titles is back in stock. Denis Smalley is one of the UK's best known composers of electroacoustic music, and this CD is a personal favourite of ours - definitely a desert island disc. The music is simply stunningly beautiful, the production and sound quality are as good as it gets. If you don't already have this CD, don't put it off any longer. |
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 We are fans of Bernard
Parmegiani and so we now have all of his CDs in stock, including
the newly released l'Oeuvre Musicale. If you don't know his
music, we recommend that you make an acqaintence with it by
listening to some clips and reading the comprehensive notes
which we have on the site. Click here for
links to his biography and all his CDs. |
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 We now stock a selection of the best electroacoustic
CDs from the GRM Catalog,
both historic and new - Electroacoustic Classics from Pierre
Schaeffer, Pierre
Henry, Luc
Ferrari and Jean-Claude
Risset are just some of the new offerings.
One of our most popular GRM titles is Pierre Henry's Labyrinthe - Pierre Henry says of Labyrinthe - "For
the first time during my journey and ventures into the world
of creation, I dreamt of a breath of fresh air deriving from
the electronic realm."
This CD is a real retrospective of this pioneer of electronic
music. |
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New from Digital Music Archives - Download a
continually expanding catalogue of electroacoustic
music tracks!
You can now download a selection of single tracks of music from
our website. All the tracks are encoded as top quality MP3s at
320k. All you have to do is go to our tracks
page, add the ones you want to your shopping cart, and you
will be presented with a webpage with links to the tracks as soon
as your credit card payment has been authorised. You will also
be sent an email with the links and a seven day period to download
the tracks. |
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Our UK
Event Listings service is
now online....
We now have a listings page for concerts,
festivals, conferences and workshops of electroacoustic
music in the UK. We hope it will soon be the place
to check up on whats happening and where. Its already up and
running - click
here! to check it out. |
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Looking for a course
in electroacoustic composition? - Try our links
page for some of the best places in the UK. You'll also
find links to organisations and institutes all over the world.
Think we've missed out on something? Email us at links@digital-music-archives.com and
let us know. |
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| l'oeil écoute |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| We are great fans of Parmegiani - his music, while excellently crafted and produced, manages to take you on a musical journey that is totally involving from start to finish. If you are not familiar with his music, here's your chance! |
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Duration:
51:47 |
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| Violostries |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| Parmegiani says of the works on the first of this double CD set: "They are from the sewing age - a period during which scissors helped us to calibrate sounds and silences" The second CD is representative of a new era where the mouse replaced the scissors. |
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62:55 - 64 |
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18.00 |
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| La Création du Monde |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| Parmegiani's musical description of the creation takes us from "white noises" in Black Light, through timbred and accentuated vibrated sounds in "Metamorphosis of the Void" to a more concrete and organised world in "Sign of Life". Parmegiani at his best! |
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72:58 |
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| Sonare |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| This CD contains one work - Sonare - a commission from CIRM in five movements. Parmegiani writes: "For each of the 5 movements, I have chosen a pseudo-instrumental or synthesis sound which I sense will allow me to bring out its very essence. |
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25:32 |
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| De Natura Sonorum |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| Parmegiani writes: With De Natura Sonorum I have begun a new period. After experimenting with the relation between the sound material and the form of its development, I have become interested in the writing of sounds… |
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Duration:
53:02 |
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11.50 |
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| La Mémoire des Sons |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| 3 works by Parmegiani on this CD - Capture éphémère (Fleeting Capture) (1967), Sons/jeu (Sounds/play) (1987) and La mémoire des Sons (Memory of Sounds) (2001). |
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Duration:
57:50 |
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| plain-temps |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| This CD contains Parmegianies latest work from 2006. Plain-Temps is a suite of 3 compositions - Le Présent Composé (2006), Entre-temps (1992) and Plain-Temps (1993) He says: "…my sounds are now linked to the times of my life - present, past and future" |
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70:48 |
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| l'Oeuvre musicale |
Bernard Parmegiani |
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| This 12 CD contains Parmegiani's complete oeuvre of Electronic Works. Comes with 92 page booklet incl. photos and commentary |
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Duration:
12 hrs 37 |
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48.50 |
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We have been actively promoting electroacoustic
music since 1997. We were one of the first websites to sell music
online and are very proud of our record of helping the younger generation
of composers gain exposure and recognition as well as offering a comprehensive
catalogue of works from the pioneers of the genre.
Recently we have begun to offer a selection of our catalogue as downloadable
tracks in the hope that for a very small amount of money, you will
be willing to take the plunge and sample the music of some of the
less well known names on our website. These composers are the future
of electroacoustic music and by supporting them you will be helping
them to continue doing what they do best as well as giving yourself
the chance to hear some really outstanding music.
All the tracks are encoded as 320k (the highest quality available)
Stereo MP3s. The files are consequently quite large but won't be a
problem for anyone with a broadband connection.
All you have to do is go to our tracks
page, add the ones you want to try to your shopping cart, and
you will be presented with a webpage with links to the tracks as soon
as your credit card payment has been authorised. You will also be
sent an email with the links and a seven day period to download the
tracks. |
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Born Paris 1927
Amongst the catalogue of works by Bernard Parmegiani (60 opus), some of the titles testify more particularly to his musical path: Violostries (1965), Capture éphémêre (Fleeting Capture) (1968), L’CEiI écoute (The Eye Listens) (1970), L’Enfer, d’après La Divine Comedic (Hell, after the Divine Comedy) (1972), Pour en finir avec le pouvoir d’Orphee (To be Finally Done with the Power of Orpheus) (1971-1972), De natura sonorum (1974-1975), La Création du monde (Creation of the World (1982-1984), (CD Sèmes Victoires de la musique) (Triumphs of Music) (1990), cycle Plain temps (1991-1992-1993), Sonare, (1996), La Mémoire des sons (Memory of Sounds) (2000-2001).
Excepting some rare mixed pieces, the works as a whole take the farm of music for “fixed sounds”, 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 materials which he has developed throughout markedly diverse works.
In 1959 he began by creating the music for a film by Max de Hoas: Jours de ma vie (Days of my Life) which was awarded a prize at the Festival for Short Films in Tours. This experience was to be further enhanced over some 35 years, taking into account that the music for television, radio, advertising and the stage provided the composer with the opportunity to display musical accomplishment by experimenting with new musical forms and new instrumental techniques.
In this respect, his most well-known work is undoubtedly the signature sound signal at Roissy-Charles-de Gaulle Airport. He likewise went on to work with choreographs (Michel Descombey, Vittorio Biagi at the Théâtre du Silence, Christine Bastin, amongst others who, interested in some of Parmegiani’s works, later commissioned him to compose music for ballet.
Being interested in yet other forms of musical expression, Parmegiani made a foray into the world of pop music and jazz; in the company of instrumentalists such as the saxophonist Jean-Louis Chautemps with whom he created Jazzex in 1966, an encounter which he again renewed in 1971 with Le Diable a quatre, (Devil of four for the Michel Portal jazz group, then, Et après (And after), with Michel Portal playing the large accordion.
Anxious to further his exploration of the relationships between sound and the visual image, he tried out new forms in his “actions musicales” (musical ventures) wherein his wish to consider sounds as living beings prompted him to situate them in an anthropomorphic context.
In Trio (1973), Des Mots et des sons (Words and Sounds) (1978), Mess media sans (homo parleurs) (Mess Media Sounds - Homo Talkers (1979), Demons et des mats (Demons and Wards) (1988), he has created situations where sounds in the guise of sonorous actors are confronted by a human actor in encounters which are alternately humorous and dramatic. Also having an interest in video art, as discovered in the United States in 1971, he made a video film based on the music in “L’il écoute” (The Eye Listens), featuring visual imagery processed through a synthesiser.
Two experimental works were to follow: L’Ecran transparent (The Transparent Screen) (1973) and Jeux d’artifice (Artful Games) (1978), the first work having been produced by the WDR in Cologne and the second by INA.
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