Of much, much more interest is the [DVD-Audio] by Gilles Gobeil, with three pieces for the Ondes Martenot, one of the first electronic music instruments, already built in the early thirties, if I’m not mistaken. The Ondes Martenot is played by Suzanne Binet-Audet, and Gobeil processes these sounds via all sort of manipulation, mostly computer me thinks. In Là où vont les nuages… the instrument is linked to samplers, synthesizers and a sound processing unit, and the two melt together. This is serious music, with the capital ‘S.’ In terms of academic approach, this seems to me a continuation of whatever empreintes DIGITALes has been doing for the last decade. The up and down gliding of tones and sounds: it’s something that has been explored before too, but Gobeil’s electronic work, linking ‘ancient’ technology and to new technology is a very [good] work, which sounds — on this DVD — great. No images, just music is here…