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Pierre Schaeffer - l'Oeuvre Musicalel'oeuvre
musicale - the complete works of Pierre
Schaeffer is back! Following a huge
demand, GRM have re-issued this collection of works in a
3 CD boxed set. This is a superb compilation of the music
of the 'father of electroacoustic music'. A must have for
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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
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| 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
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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
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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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| We are fans of Bernard
Parmegiani and so we now have all six of his CDs in stock.
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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| Transformations |
Hildegard Westerkamp |
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| Westerkamp's work combines poetry, texts, spoken voice and sounds/music - on this CD: A Walk through the City (1981), Fantasie for Horns II (1979), Kits Beach Soundwalk (1989), Cricket Voice (1987) and Beneath the Forest Floor (1992) |
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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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| Hildegard
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Hildegard Westerkamp emigrated to Canada in 1968 and gave birth to her daughter in 1977. After completing her music studies in the early seventies her ears were drawn beyond music to the acoustic environment as a broader cultural context or place for intense listening. Whether as a composer, educator, or radio artist most of her work since the mid- seventies has centred around environmental sound and acoustic ecology.
She has taught courses in Acoustic Communication at Simon Fraser University (1981-1991) in Vancouver (BC) and is giving lectures and conducting soundscape workshops internationally. She is a founding member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE, 1993) and was the editor of The Soundscape Newsletter between 1991 and 1995 and is now on the editorial committee of Soundscape—The Journal of Acoustic Ecology, a new publication of the WFAE.
Her compositions have been performed and broadcast in many parts of the world. The majority of her compositions deal with aspects of the acoustic environment: with urban, rural or wilderness soundscapes, with the voices of children, men and women, with noise or silence, music and media sounds, or with the sounds of different cultures, and so on. She has composed film soundtracks, sound documents for radio and has produced and hosted radio programs such as Soundwalking and Musica Nova on Vancouver Co-operative Radio.
In a number of compositions she has combined her treatment of environmental sounds extensively with the poetry of Canadian writer Norbert Ruebsaat. More recently she has written her own texts for a series of performance pieces for spoken text and tape. In addition to her electroacoustic compositions, she has created pieces for specific ‘sites,’ such as the Harbour Symphony (1986) and École polytechnique (1990). In pieces like Visiting India, she explores the deeper implications of transferring environmental sounds from a foreign place into the North American context of electroacoustic composition and audio art culture. Most recently she collaboarated with her Indian colleagues Mona Madan, Savinder Anand, and Veena Sharma on a sound installation in New Delhi entitled Nada—an Experience in Sound, sponsored by the New Delhi Goethe Institut (Max Mueller Bhavan) and the Indira Ghandi National Centre for the Arts.
By focusing the ears’ attention to details both familiar and foreign in the acoustic environment, Hildegard Westerkamp draws attention to the inner, hidden spaces of the environment we inhabit. On the edge between real and processed sounds she creates sonic journeys in her compositions that reveal both the contradictions and visions of beauty in todays' world. |
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