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texture. Malgre Ie sentiment d'immobilite engendre par les materiaux,
I'ecoute n'en demeure pas p3l;sive devant Ie paysage forme de masses en
lente evolution.llarboilr, Ie troisieme mouvement, contient des materiaux
provenant d'enregistrements de cris de mouettes et du clapotisdes
vagues, tandis que Ie demiermouvement, Dragon, evoque l'atmosphere
de la danse du Dragon du Nouvel An chinois al'aide des sons de
tambours, cymbales et petards.
Crees al'aide du systeme de synthese et de composition PODX et du
processeur numerique DMX-l000, toutes ~es reuvres de Pacific Rim ont .'
ete realisees dans les studios du School for the Contemporary Arts de
I'universite Simon Fraser, Pour vous procurerc:e disque, contactez
Cambridge Records
4346 CambrIdge Street
Burnaby, British Columbia
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1!l'ves Daoust - Anecdotes
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urban and oceamc environments ~f the Pacific R~. The first
movement, Ocean, is based upon recordings of ocean waves on the
. west coast of Vancouver Island. As in all four movements in Pacijic,
the main technique applied in modifying the environmental sounds is
ihat of"a time-stretching of the material that leaves the originalpitch
intact". The.;ate at which short overlapping grains of sound move
tlrrough the original material is controlled "and simultaneous versions
()f the material emphasize its momentary timbral characteristics to
create resonances' that resemble voc:alformants". Fog, the second
movement, takes recordings ofboathorns and revellers in Vancouver
'Harbour on New Year's Eve, and stretches them 'into "seemingly
timeless proportions", This transformationis assisted by the blending
characteristics of the naturally reverberant environment of the harbour
and mountains. An infrequently occurring attack, the onset of a hom
almost hidden within the texture, articulates .the elongated voices.
Despite the seemingly static quality of the materials, one is slowiy and
c:ontinually drawn tlrrough the unfurling of neW dimensions ofthese
sound masses. The cries of seagulls and lapping waves make up the
materials used in the third movement, Harbo~r, and the festive and
percussive sounds ofdrums, bells, cymbals, and firecrackers from the· .
Dragon Dance of the Chinese New Year are employed as the basis for'
the final movement, Dragon, again stretched out in time to reveal new
possibilities ofperceiving its inner workings:
All of the works Qn Pacific Rim were produced in the studios of
tlle SchoolJor the Contemporary Arts at Simon FrasefUniversity
using tlle PQDX system for sound synthesis and composition and the
DMX-lOOO Digital Signal Processor. Pacific RIm is available Crom:
Cambridge Records
4346 Canlbridge Street
Burnaby, British Columbia
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Yves Daoust - Anecdotes
empreintes DIGITALes IMED-9106
Le petit deinier de l'etiqu~ttemontrealaise empreintes DIGITALes,
Anecdotes, presente des reuvres du compositeur Yves Daoust. Un
j~nnier de l'elcctroacoustique quebCcoise, Daoust travailla pendant .
\,sieurs annees atitre de concepteur sonore aI'Office nationale'du film,
The sixth release by MontrCal's empreintes DIGITALes label
features the work of composer Yves Daoust. Daoust, one of ihe pillars
of electroacoustic music in Quebec, worked as a sound designer at the
National Film Board in the 70's, participated in the founding of
ACREQ (Associ~tionpour Ie creation et Ie recherche
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Bontact! I Octobre/ October 1991.