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eD: A Women Composer Triplet
On March 10, 2010 empreintes DIGITALes will release a triplet of discs — 2 new releases, and 1 reissue — by exceptional women composers.
Posted March 7, 2010 in Recent Arrivals »
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Premiere by Paul Dolden in HanoiSwedish guitarist Stefan Östersjö will premiere the work Who Has the Biggest Noise? by composer Paul Dolden on March 27, 2010 during the Hanoi Sound Stuff festival in Viet Nam.
Posted January 29, 2010 in Live Events »
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Ina-GRM: Polychrome Portraits 14: Pierre Schaeffer [English version] Just Released
The latest “Portraits-polychromes” is the English translation of the book devoted to French pionneer Pierre Schaeffer. (Only the original French book (PP13) includes the 4 CD-Audio.) Posted May 18, 2009 in Recent Arrivals »
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Ina-GRM: Luc Ferrari — L’œuvre électronique on 10 CD The Ina-GRM releases a second retrospective boxset: L’œuvre électronique (on 10 CD) by Luc Ferrari including a 104-page bilingual booklet with photos. Posted May 25, 2009 in Recent Arrivals »
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Les arbres Gets a Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2009![]() Nicolas Bernier and Urban9 were awarded an honorary mention in the digital musics category at the recent Prix Ars Electronica 2009 for their project Les arbres.
Posted June 2, 2009 in What’s New »
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eD: La rage by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay with Stefan Schneider empreintes DIGITALes is releasing a new DVD-Audio in “Surround 5.1” during the ICMC 2009! Inspired by Louis Hamelin’s novel La rage, this work by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay performed by Stefan Schneider was finalist at the 34th Concours international de musique électroacoustique et d’art sonore de Bourges (France, 2007), and the concert Alter ego (in which La rage was the main work featured) was awarded the 2005-06 Prix Opus for Best Concert — Musique actuelle, electroacoustics.
Posted August 17, 2009 in Recent Arrivals »
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And the Winners of the Destellos Competition Are…The Foundation Destellos have announced the results of the second edition of their international competition of electroacoustic composition: Diana Simpson has received the first prize for her work Papyrus, and the Motus Prize has been awarded to Tormenta de campos fértiles by Fernando Iazzetta. Pete Stollery’s work Still Voices has had an honorary mention in the competition. The members of the jury 2009 were: Cort Lippe, Robin Minard, Jonty Harrison, Wilfried Jenztsch and Daniel Teruggi. The members of the Motus jury were Vincent Laubeuf, Guillaume Contré, and Todor Todoroff.
Posted September 9, 2009 in What’s New »
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Circuit: Pionniers canadiens de la lutherie électronique
The issue 19:3 of Circuit features the musical institutions which allowed the establishement and the development of music made with electronics. [In French] Posted November 19, 2009 in Recent Arrivals »
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eD: trans_canada is 100th
empreintes DIGITALes won’t be turning 20 before January 2010. This won’t stop us in starting to celebrate right now with our 100th disc! The trans_canada festival at the ZKM in 2005 was centered around 8 new works by as many Canadian composers: Nicolas Bernier, Darren Copeland, Francis Dhomont, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp. The trans_canada DVD-Audio finally brings these works together in 24-bit high definition sound in both stereo and Surround 5.1.
Posted November 25, 2009 in Recent Arrivals »
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Yves Daoust Awarded the Prix Serge-Garant 2009The Foundation Émile-Nelligan has awarded the Prix Serge-Garant 2009, for the entire work of a composer, to Yves Daoust during a ceremony on December 2, 2009 at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montréal. For tyhe event, musicians Brigitte Poulin and David Cronkite performed Impromptu for piano, synthesizer / sampler, and tape. Founded in 1991 this triennial award has been given to Denys Bouliane, Michel Gonneville, Gilles Tremblay, Bruce Mather, François Morel, and John Rea.
Posted December 2, 2009 in What’s New »
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2009 Demanding Music Top 30
Today the eclectic radio show Délire actuel announced the Top 30 of its Demanding Music list which includes Gratte-cité by Ned Bouhalassa.
Posted December 29, 2009 in What’s New »
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empreintes DIGITALes Turns 20 and 15 Years OnlineThroughout 2010 empreintes DIGITALes is celebrating its 20 years of disc production. Several concert organizations from here and abroad are celebrating our label by presenting concerts with works from our collection. The label web site keeps current the zone “Our 20 Years” with all (known) events. Go visit!
Posted January 30, 2010 in What’s New »
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eD: New Releases by Francis Dhomont, Dominique Bassal
empreintes DIGITALes launches two more discs.
Posted March 1, 2010 in Recent Arrivals »
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Checkout Being FixedLately, we have noticed that some of you — our visitors and customers — experienced problems when going through the 2nd step of checkout. Thanks to your input we are working on getting this issue fixed (a JavaScript challenge). If you do encounter other bugs with our site, please do continue to let us know by using the suggestions boxes (at the bottom of every page). Posted March 15, 2010 in What’s New »
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Les arbres is Disc of the Year![]()
No Type’s disc Les arbres by Nicolas Bernier was awarded the Prix Opus “Album of the year — actuelle and electroacoustic musics” at the 13th Gala Opus on January 31, 2010 in Montréal. Also of interest: Chorals ornés for organ and tape by Yves Daoust — and performed by Régis Rousseau — was awarded the Prix Opus “Premiere of the year.”
Posted February 1, 2010 in What’s New »
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empreintes DIGITALes at Qwartz, Paris The empreintes DIGITALes label is again invited to participate in the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards events. The 6th edition will take place on April 2 - 3, 2010 at Palais Brongniart (Bourse subway station) in Paris (France). Come and visit us starting at 2 pm at Stand #36! Admission to the Market is free. Jean-François Denis and Christian Zanési will be part of a round table discussion on Pierre Schaeffer’s heritage on April 2; the next day at 6 pm Mathew Adkins will spatialize his Symbiont on the acousmonium.
Posted March 19, 2010 in What’s New » electrocd.com All
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