Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.

Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.

Recording of Alain Thibault's Deca-Danse. Using a recording of a speech by President Ronald Reagan, Thibault makes a statement about the destruction that humans cause for one another. Th piece is split into ten sections: 1. Technopolis; 2. You are Loved; 3. Special Emission; 4. President's Message; 5. Reagan's Happiness; 6. Reagan's Delirium; 7. The Most Beautiful Gift of God; 8. Generation x; 9. Mx; 10. Future x. The piece was created at the Studios Bruit Blanc and McGill University.

This piece for magnetic tape and string quintet with double bass takes as a reference a fairly well-known instrumental practice, the Scordatura, that is to say the game with an unusual agreement. However, this idea is here used more figuratively, since at no time the musician does not tune his instrument but at any time it is proposed to him the transformation of an object-stamp chosen for its roughness, given in its raw form and presiding at the origin of this work. From then on, this very broad thought guided me to transpose a music made of big sound blocks evolving rhythmically in registers, in densities, in power. A personal gestural metric allowed me to continually carve and order these amalgams in an attitude of sculptor-electroacoustician. Here the magnetic tape is written as the score and the score as the tape. This constant coming and going must give, precisely, the dissociable and inseparable spirit at the same time, to this playable in several versions. The same developments, modifications or permanent evolutions with filtering, repetitions, changes of lighting registers, amputations or multiplications were implemented at the level of the band as well as at the level of the instrumental writing. Thus, …

Recordings of Barry Truax's Wave Edge for four computer-synthesized soundtracks. Part of a set that includes the piece "Solar Ellipse" (1984-85), focusing of spatial trajectory and related images. Wave Edge was inspired by the I Ching hexagram number 4, Youthful Folly, comprised of the trigrams for water and mountain, which portrays a spring bubbling up at the foot of a mountain.

The model is nude and seated. Her right arm rests on a red robe draped over the chair.

Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Tao, 4ème élément: Métal. Tao is a four-movement work, inspired by Taoism. The four movements are Eau, Fea, Bois, Métal, and Terre. This recording only contains the fourth movement, Métal, in two different versions. These versions include the original 1983 version with electronics and percussion and the 1984 version with amplified zheng, percussion, and electronics.

In this admirable poem, everything is included: rhythm, velocities, movements, spaces, materials, numbers and form. Music puts at the service of the text natural images / movements, their synthetic imitation and transformation chosen for their expressive character. Of symphonic character by the wide variety of sound sources, the mixing creates uniformized energy textures, of melted character, vertical, or, on the contrary, contrapuntal chains. Exile: moment of transition between two worlds ... Directed at the analogue studio Métamorphoses d'Orphée, Musics & Research, Ohain (Belgium) with the radio creation fund of the French Community of Belgium for the new version.

Recording of Larry Wendt's Broken Crystals, from "World-Class Technology." It is an extended narration piece that takes the form of a personal recollection. It is narrated by a Silicon Valley worker who works for an integrated circuit foundary that grows garnet crystals for the manufacturing of bubble memory. The factory is overcome with insects that destroy the crystals, and, in response, Silicon Valley is bombed with Cane Toads in order to get rid of the bugs. As a performance piece, the narrative would be read live while the background tape of manipulated environmental sounds along with a vocal processing device to allow immediacy to the live performance. Sometimes performed with theatrics or projected slides.

Recording of Martin Wesley-Smith's Wattamolla Red.

Within Time Mark (commissioned by percussionist Kathleen Kastner), are specific considerations including a continuum of timbre - thus providing for an integration of electroacoustic and live sounds without the loss of individuality, and spatial disposition - wherein the location from which sounds emanate within the host performance space is also a parameter for composition. Originally realized in 1983 with concrete and modular voltage-controlled synthesis techniques (including much analog tape editing), the electroacoustic portion of the composition was reworked to reduce the inherent analog tape hiss and was then digitally re-recorded in 2000.

Recording of Charēs Xanthoudakēs' L, comme Bunuel ou la forêt des symboles.

Recording of Roland Yvanez's "Brumes" for solo magnetic tape. The title translates to "Mists." The piece evokes the relationship between water and air on the surface of the ocean.

The title of the work comes from a word Nahuatl which literally means "burning water". Piece quickly explores a sound material frequently associated with maracas, harps, bamboos and a guitar. The live sound of the maracas comes from the traditional rhythmic patterns found in most traditional Latin American music, models that the performer is asked to combine with great dexterity to build wider and very complex rhythmic structures. These rhythmic structures are then confronted with passages of the same complexity on the tape, creating and developing ever more a "star" polyrythm that finally disintegrates. The path is then drawn for a traditional accompaniment game of maracas.

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