akademikerinnen bin ich immer sehr kritisch: oft ist ihre musik eine reinste effekthascherei oder zu verkopft. Man möchte gerne sagen: weniger ist mehr. Aber hier bin ich begeistert: schöne elektroakustische musik, die konzentriet auf ein paar sounds ganz elegant daher kommt.

La giovane compositrice canadese che si muove in ambito elettroacustico, presenta cinque terni nati dal 2017 a seguire. Le idee alla base delle incisioni garantiscono una buona resa qualitativa euna drammaturgia narrativa. Spicca in tal senso l’apertura Dementia che, prendendo spunto dalla malattia di Alzheimer, descrive paesaggi sonori che effettivamente evocano stati confusionali e frammenti di lucidità.

Alla ricerca di paesaggi sonori inesplorati. Valido 6 quanto realizza Christian Bouchard con IV (Empreintes Digitales). II compositore del Quebec a un nome di peso nel mondo dell’elettroacustica e anche qui, conferma quanto gli viene riconosciuto. Nei circa 70 minuti suddivisi in cinque brani, si viene proiettati in atmosfere quasi cosmiche, dove frammenti sonori di ogni genere aprono la strada alla sperimentazione: nonostante si troth di incisioni provenienti do anni diversi, 2014 per Nombres et silences e 2021 di Birdscape, it risultato eccelso.

Léa Boudreau describes herself as “an electronic circuit maker, sound crafter and immersive environment builder.” The Montréal-based artist’s work explores interspecies relationships and “the intersections of capitalism, power dynamics, speciesism, and (various forms of) supremacy to raise awareness over insidious and oppressive structures.”

Her Limaçon is a gorgeous piece of electroacoustic art, available on the wonderful empreintes DIGITALes label. She and I spoke about the new album and her art practice.

[View the 28-minute video interview via The Moderns’ web site.]

Released via Canada’s self-proclaimed reference label named empreintes DIGITALes on July 1st, 2023 is Limaçon, the first full CD album release by Léa Boudreau. With a total of five compositional pieces rolled out over the course of roughly 42 minutes we see Boudreau exploring a realm of warm, organic and tentative Electronica structures defined and characterized by a use of comforting and all-embracing sinewave bass pulses and playful, oftentimes non-repetive bleeps and sweeps of probably modular origin, Deep Listening Music and swampy Ambient textures paired with abrasive digital scrapings and little joyful melodic motifs leading into large scale panoramic layers, experimentally plucked string sequences as well as faint echoes of Modern Classical music and deeply enchanted atmospheres especially prevalent in tunes like Recovery which would make a great fit as a score for early 70s style space adventure flics in parts whereas the final cut combines noisy, earth-shaking tectonic shifts, distant Field Recordings and a more collage-like approach for a closing just to pick out two standout cuts in particular. Recommended.