Composer Monique Jean presents her installation, entitled Point d’attaches ou les infidélités rotatives, at Montréal’s Oboro gallery from January 8 to February 5, 2005. This sound installation comprises a large vertical plane hanging from the ceiling, on which 80 speaker cones from the 1950s and the 1960s are attached.

Two Montréal improvisers recorded live. A lot more happens here than on most noise-oriented records. For one, the noise is varied a lot, and goes somewhere. It does more than try to shock. And it doesn’t sound like dreck. I like the hyperreggae of média tactique which like a lot of the outing here is noise music you can follow. What’s more, the large majority of the material here enchants and surprises, and makes cacophony pleasurable. Hoodathunkit?