This album — the third electroacoustic music DVD-A by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay of [iks], Splice, and De type inconnu — just won a 2011 Opus award, and it’s well deserved. The works are sophisticated, strong, bass-heavy, and gorgeously spatialized in 5.1 sound. Ces énigmes lumineuses is a gem of aural mystery, and the videomusic piece Walk That Way. Tuesday, Turn is a simple yet effective superimposition of electornic feedback and mechanical pulse. Out of seven works, only For Ever Now Soon an End seems to long and uneventful.

The 15th Opus Prizes winners were announced yesterday, January 29, 2012, in Montréal. The “Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics” is Quelques reflets by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.

The finalists discs for Opus Prize 2010-11 (Disc of the Year — Musique actuelle, Electroacoustics) are:

• Automacité by Christian Bouchard
• De type inconnu by the duo of the same name (Sylvain Pohu, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay)
• Désordres by Roxanne Turcotte
• Éclats by the group [iks]
• Quelques reflets by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

The 15th gala will take place on January 29, 2012 at Salle Bourgie of the Pavillon Claire et Marc Bourgie of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal.