Christian Bouchard ist ein Klangkünstler aus Montréal. Mit Automacité legt er sein 2. Album vor. Dieses erstreckt sich über 5 Stücke, die eine Laufzeit von 73 Minuten erreichen. Bouchard arbeitet mit Soundsamples aller Art die er zu einem sehr rhythmischen Klangkosmos zusammenbaut. Die Geräusche flirren und surren durch den Raum und entwickeln sich von einer spartanischen Kakophonie zu interessanten Klangmonumenten. An manchen stellen entstehen fasst schon Tekknoartige Sequenzen, in denen der Sound dunkel brodelt und die Ohren von den fremdartig wirkenden Geräuschen umspielt werden. Durch das Einbauen von Synthesizerartigen Soundwellen gewinnen die Konstruktionen mitunter Songartigen Charakter.

Bouchard kreierte mit Automacité einen düsteren Soundtrack, der zwischen wirren und beängstigenden Geräuschen und dunkler Melancholischer psychedelischer Klangwelten hin und her schwingt.

Das Album erscheint auf einer in einem schön gestaltetem Pappschuber befindlichen DVD-A die das Album als hochauflösende MP3s und in 5.1 Mixen enthält. Vor allem letztere eröffnenden ein unglaubliches und auch verstörendes Hörerlebnis.

The 19th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son 2012 will take place on October 24 - 28, 2012 at Théâtre Marni in Brussels (Belgium). On the programme: portrait-concerts of Daniel Teruggi and Gilles Gobeil, tribute concert to François Bayle, premiere concert by Annette Vande Gorne, one acousmatic concert as part of the World Music Days, the spatialisation competition and master classes…

The first prize of the 7th acousmatic composition competition Métamorphoses 2012 was awarded to Manuella Blackburn for her work Switched on. The Public Prize went to Orestis Karamanlis for his work Toys.

The festival Akousma 9, October 24 to 27, 2012 at Usine C in Montréal (Québec), presents 8 concerts featuring, amongst others, Manuella Blackburn, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, and Mathew Adkins.

Elizabeth Hoffmann who works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, releases her first solo album for Montréal-based Empreintes DIGITALes. The album totals six tracks exploring the shades and possibilities of electroacoustic music. Personally I’ve always been more interested in the final and audible result rather than the process behind creating the music. That being said, Hoffmann manages to captivate six different moods on the album starting off with the gentle chime ringing, organic and battering murky drums but yet still dead clinically sterile and icey environment of Resonants, onto the subtle and elongated modulations of rippling water present on Water Spirits. Songstressed shares much of the same audible qualities as Resonant but introduces a shrilling pipe sound, which in nature appears to be recorded in a sardonic wind tunnel, inhabited by abhorrent creatures. Songstressed transforms into d-ness which is a symphony of spiralling high-pitched sounds, shrouding the composition in a mulitude of layers. Towards the end of the album Soundendipities reveals a vortex of eeire malevolence and as the tracks proceeds in its development, the mood turns from eerie into a ominously clangorous orchestration of which Pascal Laugier would be proud. Out now on Empreintes Digitales.

Elektramusic is presenting a concert of acousmatic and videomusic works by Mathew Adkins, Hans Tutschku, Dominique Bassal, and others on Octobre 25, 2012 at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (France).