A student of composer Yves Daoust, winner of various prizes for electroacoustic compositions and founder of the live electroacoustic quartet Theresa Transistor. He seems to me the typical sort of composer you’d find on this label. In 24-bit they present three of his pieces, Impasto, Parcelles 21 and Objet menacé. The first is the longest and a triptych about expressionist abstract painters (Pollock, Riopelle and Shiraga), and it sounds indeed like expressionist abstract music. Lots of sounds thrown together and then mixed, edited and treated further. At least that’s my best guess upon hearing this music. Sounds roll about like thunderous storms and walls of snow bursting into masses tumbling down the mountain. A nice piece for sure, but perhaps at forty-five some minutes all a bit long. Luckily Parcelles 21 — a revised version of Parcelles 1 and Parcelles 2 — provides a more quiet piece, but is also moving all over the place. It’s hard to say, in both of these pieces what it is that Bouchard is using sound wise. Field recordings perhaps, but also down right electronic matter, and maybe acoustic instruments being treated in one way or another. It’s hard to say, as the level of abstraction is quite high on this release. The final piece is Objet menacé and the cover says it’s a symphony for parking meters, and brings up the massive attack again of the first piece. While some of this music sounds alike what similar composers do on this label, but throughout I seemed to like this more than some of the others on the label, but it’s not easy to pin down why that is. Maybe it’s the level of disturbance, or the notion of improvising with his sound material and the editing thereof? Maybe it’s the overkill in sound anyway? I am not sure. Maybe it’s the heat that provides me from thinking straight.

The 9th BIMESP 2012 will take place in São Paulo in two parts: 9 concerts of acousmatic music on August 27 to September 1st, 2012, and 3 concerts of mixed music, September 4 — 6. Are proposed, 3 portrait concerts — Francis Dhomont, Flô Menezes, and François Bayle —, historical concerts — The ’60s, The ’90s, The 2000s — with works by, amongst others, Bernard Parmegiani, Christian Zanési, Hans Tutschku, Robert Normandeau, Jens Hedman, Gilles Gobeil… — and concerts of music from Chile and from the Studio PANaroma.

The ICMC 2012 conference will take place on Septembr 9 - 14, 2012 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Hundreds of works will be presented in concert and listening sessions including those by Monty Adkins, David Berezan, Manuella Blackburn (Switched on), Elizabeth Hoffman (Soundendipities), Elainie Lillios, and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay.