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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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| 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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After many years of writing sound scores for contemporary dance, mime and experimental theatre performances, Graham has developed his approach to composition further into a genre of music which is difficult to classify, but which could be regarded as sound theatre.
The later musical works are now complete experiences in their own right; they follow a traditional approach to composition, in that they consist of movements, but the movements flow seamlessly into each other creating one continuous piece, usually lasting in the region of 50 minutes.
The music is very dramatic and never stands still, constantly shifting in waves of nervous calm and climactic intensity. The tempo reflects the ever changing pace, waiting, tumbling, staggering and racing, carrying the listener through the evolving and extremely emotive sound-scapes.
The instrumentation used in all pieces is acoustic, and digitally processed in the studio. This generally consists of saxophone, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, piano, hammer dulcimer, electric guitar, percussion and vocals, both solo and choral.
A vague analogy to his compositional process would be similar to the way Jackson Pollack painted his pictures - an intuitive knowledge and feel for the quality, viscosity, texture and colour of the paint and its application and place within the canvas, in his case, these sensitivities are applicable to sound rather than paint.
The layering and balancing of the sounds and their identities/personalities and their place within the overall stereophonic perspective is a vital part of his composition, as it is in any conventional approach, but there the similarities end. Generally speaking there are no melodic themes (perhaps the odd re-occurring motif) to explore or extemporise upon and no conventional consistent time based rhythmical structures.
He is, in brief, attempting to create some form of musical experience that is akin to an ever-changing emotive organic living journey.
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