L’oreille voit [The Ear Sees]: Compact-compact 4
Randall Smith
… approches the art form with innocence and the intention to have fun. — AllMusic, USA
Smith’s work is an electroacoustic wonder. — Incursion Music Review, Canada
- Composer(s): Randall Smith
- Author(s): Gary Popovich
- Cover image: Randall Smith
CD (IMED 9416, 1994)
- 1La volière (1994), 12:58fixed medium
- 2The Black Museum (1993), 15:05fixed medium
- 3Ruptures (1991), 8:10fixed medium
- 4CounterBlast (1990), 9:21fixed medium
- 5The Face of the Waters (1988), 9:40fixed medium
- Label: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 9416
- 1994
- UCC 771028941629
- Total duration: 55:44
- Crystal case
- 125 mm × 142 mm × 6 mm
- 80 g
On the web
Download (IMED 9416_NUM, 1994)
- This item can be downloaded and/or listened to at empreintesdigitales.bandcamp.com.
- 1La volière (1994), 12:58fixed medium
- 2The Black Museum (1993), 15:05fixed medium
- 3Ruptures (1991), 8:10fixed medium
- 4CounterBlast (1990), 9:21fixed medium
- 5The Face of the Waters (1988), 9:40fixed medium
- Label: empreintes DIGITALes
- IMED 9416_NUM
- 1994
- UCC 771028941681
- Total duration: 55:44
Liner notes
The Ears Sees, the Disc
The imagination is not, as its etymology suggests, the faculty for forming images of reality
; it is the faculty for forming images which go beyond reality, which ‘sing’ reality.—
Gaston Bachelard ,Water and Dreams
Special acknowledgement to my brother Chuck for introducing me to the world of electroacoustic music at the right age, and to
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In the press
Review
Review
Five compositions by the electroacoustics wizard
Review
Noises arising from the elements situated as supporting canes in imprecise and disquieting situations. Other less identflable sound clusters survive the mechanical explosions which crumble and are recycled into a new timbric feature or a simple self-echoing.
Translated from Spanish.
At a Glance Reviews
In the acousmatic tradition,
Kritik
Hier wird Technik zu etwas durch und durch Lebendigem, Atmosphärischen, Emotionalem, Erzählendem, weit entfernt von rein Funktionalem. In diesen Klangerzählungen geschieht sehr viel, und gleichzeitig entsteht Raum für spontan sich entfaltende imaginäre Bilder im Kopf. Bizarre kleine Welt-MiniaNren / Miniatur-Welten, Natur und beseelte Maschine zugleich, lebendige SkulpNr, voller sich immerfort verändernder Polyrhythrnik. Geschichtenerzähler, Filmregisseur, Choreograph, Komponist, „Instrumentalist“,
Review
A bit more patient and slowly evolving than your average electroacoustic work. This gives a lot of emphasis to stimulating, grainy textures and raw imagery, without constantly interrupting you with that sterile “electronics-in-a-void” sound that can make me blase about electroacoustic work sometimes. Satisfies the same tastes that enjoy
Review
Critique
Continuum Celebrates First Decade of Concerts
Review
Acoustic sounds, synthesized sounds, sounds that seem acoustic but are not, each blending into a disc that your ears will enjoy “seeing.” This is my first experience with
There is much to recommend here but let me focus on
Critique
Dans le dernier numéro de R&C, nous vous présentions 3 nouveaux CDs de empreintes DIGITALes. En voici encore sept
Avec ces nouveautés, c’est aussi le début d’une série intitulée “compact-compact”, des CDs de courte durée, environ 40 minutes, vendus à moitié prix (alors que le coût de fabrication est strictement le méme
C’est le cas par exemple avec






