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	artista : VVAA
	titolo : Archives GRM
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : 5xCD
	packaging : box 5xcd + 1 foto album
	cod. nr. ina c 1030
		2006

For the 30th birthday of INA, the GRM has decided to present in this CD box some of his archives. The roots and historical development of musique concrete and experimental electronic/tape music - packaged in stunning form. The 5 jewel cased CDs feature a total of 101 tracks (many previously unreleased, others never released on INA before; most are edits to some degree). Provides a captivating overview of decades of breakthrough developments in sound/architecture, and is a totally essential artifact in its own right.

CD1 "les visiteurs de la musique concrète" : André Hodeir - Pierre Boulez - Jean Barraqué - Darius Milhaud - Roman Haubenstock-Ramati - Henri Sauguet - Edgar Varèse - André Boucourechliev - Claude Ballif - Iannis Xenakis - Olivier Messiaen.
CD2 "l'art de l'étude" : Pierre Schaeffer - Monique Rollin - Michel Philippot - Philippe Arthuys - Luc Ferrari - François-Bernard Mâche - Mireille Chamass-Kyrou - Ivo Malec - Philippe Carson - Akira Tamba - Beatriz Ferreyra - Alain Savouret.
CD3 "le son en nombres" : François Bayle - Dieter Kaufmann - Jean-Claude Risset - Ivo Malec - Denys Smalley - Gilles Racot - Yann Geslin - Bénédict Maillard - Jean Schwarz - Francis Dhomont.
CD4 "le temps du temps réel" : Bernard Parmegiani - Åke Parmerud - Denis Dufour - Horacio Vaggione - Alain Savouret - François Bayle - Gilles Racot - Daniel Teruggi - Ramon Gonzales-Arroyo - Michel Redolfi.
CD5 "le grm sans le savoir" : Bernard Parmegiani - Robert Wyatt/F. Bayle - François Bayle - Alain Savouret - Jean Schwarz - Michel Portal/J. Schwarz - Boris Vian/B. Parmegiani - Robert Cohen Solal - Guy Reibel - Edgardo Canton - Christian Zanési.

Prezzo: € 48,00

	artista : Bernard Parmegiani
	titolo : Plain-Temps
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. inac2027
		2006
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Classic new work from the most important INA GRM composer.
"Présent composé" (1991). "Entre-temps" (1992). "Plain Temps" (1991-93).
"The gradual slowing down of the tick-tock sound of a penduluum with which this piece opens provides us with not only the most symbolic but also the most illusory image of the passing of time. This is followed by a constantly changing continuum, apparently homogenous and harmonious yet ultimately fragile. In the ever wider intervals that open up between these carefully-timed happenings, soundscapes appear. These resemble certain image-memories of everyday events, some close, some distant." [Parmegiani]

Prezzo : € 17,40

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	artista : Pierre Schaeffer
	titolo : Solfège de l'objet sonore
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : 3xCD + book
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. ina c 2010/11/12
		2005
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Repressed for the first time in a few years, this is a new reissue of an obscure artifact from 1967. Issued on 3 CDs, with a 176 page book (in French, English & Spanish), at a pretty low unit price. These CDs contains sound examples and spoken text (explanations) by Schaeffer.
Solfège De L'objet Sonore (Music Theory Of the Acoustic Object) is a sound recording that accompanied Traité des Objets Musicaux (Treatise On Musical Objects) by Pierre Schaeffer, originally issued by ORTF (French Broadcasting Authority) as a long playing record in 1967 (a more common 3 cassette version was distributed later). It features 282 short "sound examples", including the works of: Bernard Parmegiani, Ivo Malec, Pierre Henry, Françoise Bayle, Edgar Canton, Iannis Xenakis.
Guy Reibel: "It was a wonderful period when the GRM was like a beehive buzzing with a multitude of strange, unpredictable events. Instrumental and electroacoustic mediums were combined, the place became a meeting point for all kinds of music and sounds. We were prepared for anything, craving new experiences and previously unheard-of sounds, working night and day in close musical communion, the center of which was Music Theory, that compulsory beginners exercise that is, in fact, a distillation of the most valuable discoveries musicians have made over the centuries. We created, transposed, fragmented, multiplied and transformed thousands of sounds that Pierre Schaeffer used to concoct his creations and gradually build up his musical language. Even though the musical world has never been very enthusiastic about Schaeffer's research, his message has been understood and has significantly influenced musical creation in the second half of the 20th century. Schaeffer has proved himself to be one of this century's major researchers and his influence can only continue to grow."

Prezzo : € 29,40

	artista : Pierre Schaeffer
	titolo : L'Œuvre Musicale
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : 3xCD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. ina c 2010/11/12
		2005
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2005 repress with new cover art. Finally available again, the complete works compilation of the groundbreaking work by the electronic music pioneer.
This 3-CD package is the definitive and complete collection of Pierre Schaeffer's musical works, beginning with the first of his musique concrète compositions, continuing with the collaborations with Pierre Henry, and concluding with Schaeffer's late works from the 1970s. In 1948, Pierre Schaeffer, then a radio engineer at Radiodiffusion Française, took a radio sound truck out to Batignolles, near Paris, to record railroad locomotives. He used those sounds in a sound collage called Etude aux Chemins de Fer and then named his new approach 'musique concrète'. He composed four other sound collages in 1948, using thin-metal instruments, wooden percussion, and two whirligigs (Etude aux Tourniquets), an orchestra tuning up (Etude pour Orchestre), noises derived from a piano that is played in a variety of ways (Etude au Piano), and pots, pans and voices (Etude aux Casseroles). The five compositions were then broadcast from Paris on October 5, 1948 as a 'Concert of Noises', and the broadcast was so successful, and evoked such widespread interest, that Schaeffer was granted an assistant. Pierre Henry worked with Schaeffer from 1949 to 1957. Their first collaboration was Symphonie pour un Homme Seul, which was eventually used by Maurice Bejart in a 1955 performance by his dance company. Their next major collaborations were Orphee and Orphee 53. One of the special surprises to be found in these recordings is Pierre Henry's Echo d'Orphee, pour P. Schaeffer, composed in 1988 as an homage to Pierre Schaeffer. Henry referred to it as a "patchwork (of the existing) 'fragments' from Orphee (Orpheus 51 and 53, a 1950 collaboration between the two composers) ... conceived in your style rather than mine ... a magnetic present." These discs also include Schaeffer's works from the late 1950s and 1970s, some of them revisions of his early music, some of them technically improved, some of them reworked and shortened. You'll also find an extensive and informative booklet in French and English, with essays and tributes by Schaeffer's colleagues (among them François Bayle, Michel Chion, François Weyergans, and Jean-Christophe Thomas), a history, bibliography, excerpts from his books, letters, and photographs. It's a rich collection of material. Schaeffer was one of those people who changed the world, and this package will give you a good idea of how it happened.

Prezzo : € 29,40

	artista : Bernard Parmegiani
	titolo : L'œil écoute
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. inac2026
		2004
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L'œil écoute. (19:17)
La roue ferris. (10:40)
Espèces d'espace. (21:47)

New 2004 Parmegiani release, featuring: "L'oeil Ecoute" (1970), "La Roue Ferris" (1971), "Especes d'espace" (2002-2003).
"Excepting some mixed pieces, his work as a whole takes the form of music for 'fixed sound', coming within the scope of the immense repertoire of electro-acoustic music. In 1971, he made a video film based on the music in 'L'Oeil ecoute', featuring visual imagery processed through a synthesizer. We only need listen to the opening of 'L'Oeil ecoute', a sustained swirl and flurry, emerging as a wave about to break, which we only just manage to glimpse at its approach, just like this train which we take a full speed, surging forward headlong at the opening of the piece. At the very outset, on the one hand, everything is given in a single act, the music is already moving forward; and on the other, the ghostly realm into which it takes us is already amply filled out. We note that the large arbitrary breaks in tone Parmegiani achieves in 'L'Oeil ecoute' and indeed throughout all his musical compositions, arise as searching encounters. As such, they are gestures deriving from the sculptor himself. The blocks used are very imposing and the matter extremely dense..."

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : Bernard Parmegiani
	titolo : Violostries
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : 2xCD
	packaging : jewel case
	cod. nr. inac1012-1013
		2003
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CD1
Violostries. (16:40)
Pour en Finir avec le Pourvoir d'Orphee. (23:27)
Dedans-Dehors. (22:24)

CD2
Rouge-Mort. (16:52)
Exercisme 3. (23:50)
Le Present Composé. (23:50)

Finally reissued, with new artwork; this has been the most in-demand electroacoustic CD for the past few years. Parmegiani is one the electroacoustic superstars of the INA GRM universe, and along with various Bayle titles this is a great place to start with the label. This amazing double CD is broken up into 2 parts: the first disc consists of old-style tape-splicing electroacoustic material, dating from 1963 to 1976 ("Violostries," "Pour en Finir avec le Pourvoir d'Orphee" & "Dedans-Dehors"). The 2nd disc represents post-computer acousmatic music, with works from 1986 to 1991 ("Rouge-Mort:" "Thanatos," "Exercisme 3" & "Le Present Compose"). All are thoroughly soaked with the intuitive power of brain-scanning sonic properties, tones fade and explode with stunning neuronic intensity. "Exercisme 3" features "a sort of interface enabling natural sounds or analogical synthetic sounds to release digitally synthesized sounds. Such and such a series of impulsions releases virtually aleatoric, and sometimes very varied, repetitions of digital sounds. These repetitions are often very 'dense' and take us to the limits of continual sound phenomena, thus making these 'factory sounds' lose their instrumental 'soul.' Thus, we suddenly swing from one domain to another, from the instrumental to the electroacoustic, from a language we understand, to an 'unknown language'.

Prezzo : € 27,90

	artista : Pierre Henry
	titolo : Labyrinthe!
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : CD

	cod. nr. inac2022
		2003
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First performance commissioned by Radio France, March 2003.
"For the first time during my journey and ventures into the world of creation, I dreamt of a breath of fresh air deriving from the electronic realm. Labyrinthe! emerged as the result. All in all, a collaborative work achieved, overcoming the distance between its sources. The sound cuts from GRM reached me as set of reflections, like 'cadavre exquis'. Fragments in any order, all on CD, sent by post, 7 composers, 7 colleagues sent me 58 tracks of varying lengths in various keys. this continuity inspired me to create a maze-like musical form, in concentric volumes, all thoroughly intertwining with each other. Above all, my contribution is intended to be harmonic. I take great care in attending to any drifting effects occuring with other sounds. A smooth descent for all, in their order of entry into the subterranean: Donato, Geslin, Gayou, Losa, Zanési, Terruggi, Dao." [Pierre Henry]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : Bernard Parmegiani
	titolo : Sonare
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. inae5203
		2002
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One 25 minute piece, from 1996. A State/CIRM commissioned work.
"There is already music... of an Italian character in this title! Sonare: l love this word because it is Italian and because upon hearing it, music simly springs forth from within it. For each of the 5 movements, I have chosen a pseudo-instrumental or synthesis sound which I sense will allow me to bring out its very essence to develop it until it is within the deepest levels of the soul, if the soul can at all be rendered accessible to such acoustic resonance!!! I had to imagine the most suitable interplay to bring out such 'intrinsic resonance'. Now of course, no interplay can be genuine unless certain freedoms are present within or inherent to it, the rule being that such an interplay should remain musical whilst the sounds, 'in a real context' become linked to or opposed to each other. No combat, just interplay for its own sake, for itself alone, and at the same time, changes in contour, an opening or closing in the tone, range, patterns of rhythm, as if the work were a living being in itself which these creations in sound so often closely resemble, these same creations in sound, intended firstly for our ears but not only for our ears." [Parmegiani]

Prezzo : € 14,70

	artista : Bernard Parmegiani
	titolo : La Mémoire des Sons
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : CD
	packaging : jewel case
	cod. nr. inac2019
		2002
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Capture éphémère. (1967) 11:57
Sons-jeu. (1987) 21:10
La Mémoire des Sons. (2001) 24:40

"Excepting some rare mixed pieces, Paremegiani's works as a whole take the form of music for 'fixedsounds', coming within the scope of the immense repertoire of electro-acoustic music. From his training in the art of mime and his experience as a sound engineer, Parmegiani has retained a taste for a hand-to-hand approach (sound/embodiment, as we could be tempted to say) with various sound mate-rials which he has developed throughout markedly diverse works." RE: "Capture Éphémère": "The beating of terror-stricken wings, gliding ascents, rockets, dull explosions: the fission of the fine powder of the sound is then recovered, in layers of 'captured', beating time: impossible stases of reso-nance ('fleeting' by their very nature ...) which however persist, beating out their miraculous cohesion: a magical effect even today: proof that it is not due to technique. Or: a sequence of utter loss, waste: an accumulation as Schaeffer would have said ('reiteration abounding in brief elements'; 'like a shower of stones dispersing'...), having the fluidity of a waterfall, with one hundred thousand elements interwoven in discontinuity, 'eccentric', generous, suffocating... Or: this furious vibration, which in its steep ascent, is imbued with a triumphant appearance of tireless virtuosity... And so many intimately interwoven composite sequences, as they advance, hurtling through space (and the Russian mountains ...) with seemingly inexhaustible energy; and marked several times, just before a silence, by the same small elegant asterisk. However, all of this (deafening volubility) is finally calmed by a short coda: where a movement to reduce and rarefy particles splits this mass in extremis into an ethereal shower of sparks, having the effect of a prolonged pause." [Jean-Christophe Thomas]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : Bernard Parmegiani
	titolo : La Création du Monde
	etichetta : INA GRM
	formato : CD
	packaging : jewel case
	cod. nr. inac1002
		1996
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Lumière noire. 17'36
Métamorphose du vide. 23'11
Signes de vie. 32'00

On this CD Parmegiani tries to acousmatically recreate "The Creation Of the World" -- starting with the Black Light of the pre-"Big Bang": "The absence of tonality that characterizes a good deal of sound material in 'Black Light' is due to the use of 'white' noises, that is to say sounds whose mass theoretically contains all the frequencies that can be accumulated statistically..." And then leading on to "The Metamorphosis Of the Void" & "The Sign Of Life." And so on. Parmegiani is one of our favorite of the French electroacoustic composers, his attention to sonic detail always a marvel to witness; recordings are few and far between. "What [Parmegiani's] compositions have in common is a strong emphasis on sounds produced by matter and sounds recorded from nature which he uses as a model. The concept of metamorphism which characterizes many of Parmegiani's works is expressed in his use of such elements as the ephemeral, the fleeting, the motions of air, the transparency or non-transparency of the space in which he arrays different levels of depth, the repetitive, the 'mirror effect'."

Prezzo : € 17,40