Gratte-cité Ned Bouhalassa

- Composer(s): Ned Bouhalassa
- Writer(s): Fortner Anderson
- Performer(s): Delphine Measroch, Christian Olsen, Fortner Anderson
- Filmmaker(s)/Video artist(s): Khrystell E Burlin
- Cover image: Luc Beauchemin
- Mastering: Dominique Bassal
- Canada Council for the Arts • SODEC
Prix Opus 2008-09: Disque de l’année — Finaliste
… a couple of new releases from award-winning electroacoustic composers… — The Sound Projector, UK
Mostly, though, it’s a maze of dreams you journey through Ned Bouhalassa’s opening work on this phonogram. I can even hear and feel the swinging on a swing; that fluctuation in gravity and that smooth air rushing back round your face… — Sonoloco Record Reviews, Sweden
- empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 0895 / 2008
- UPC/EAN 771028089598
- Total duration: 76:37
Stereo
- MP3, 320 kbps
- 48 kHz, 24 bits
Surround 5.1
DVD-Audio — Advanced Resolution: Surround 5.1 (MLP 4824) + Stereo (4824) •• DVD-Video [NTSC, multi-region]: Surround 5.1 (Dolby Digital) + Stereo (4824) •• DVD-ROM: MP3 (320 kbps) files
- 1The Lighthouse (2005), 6:41videomusicvideo and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 2Urban Cuts (2005), 34:06cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 2Montréal 1 (2005), 3:32cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 3Montréal 2 (2005), 7:59cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 4Las Vegas (2005), 9:31cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 5Berlin 1 (2005), 5:56cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 6Berlin 2 (2005), 7:06cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 7mOrpheus (2003), 15:425.1-channel fixed medium
- 7Orpheus’ First Dream (2003), 4:215.1-channel fixed medium
- 8Orpheus Wakes Up (2003), 3:515.1-channel fixed medium
- 9The Train Station (2003), 2:355.1-channel fixed medium
- 10Alexanderplatz (2003), 4:545.1-channel fixed medium
- 11Impulse (1999), 13:59fixed medium
- 12Songe errant (2005), 5:505.1-channel fixed medium
- empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 0895_NUM / 2008
- UPC/EAN 771028089581
- Total duration: 76:37
Stereo
- 48 kHz, 24 bits
• MP3 • OGG • FLAC
- 1The Lighthouse (2005), 6:41videomusicvideo and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 2Urban Cuts (2005), 34:06cello, drum kit and 5.1-channel fixed medium
- 3mOrpheus (2003), 15:425.1-channel fixed medium
- 4Impulse (1999), 13:59fixed medium
- 5Songe errant (2005), 5:505.1-channel fixed medium

Gratte-cité
[Cityscraper]
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DVD-Audio Surround 5.1 2.0IMED 0895CAD 25.00US+3.00+4.00
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Download 2.0IMED 0895_NUMCAD 12.00
Notices
About Gratte-cité
The title of this disc translates to “cityscraper.” In preparing the sonic materials for these pieces, I selected, like a DJ, what I liked out of my large collection of recordings, though in my case, these are recordings of city soundscapes. I then imagined a fantasy, where a gigantic vinyl record’s grooves are replaced by the jagged outline of skyscrapers, and I, a giant, drop an impossibly-large needle and begin to ‘play’ the city.
This disc is dedicated to my wife Brenda Keesal, who is also my best friend, my biggest supporter, and an excellent judge of what works.
Ned Bouhalassa [viii-08]
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