FRANCIS DHOMONT

Birthdays

(Beniffer Editions - BFF130) LP (one-sided) $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recordings from 2007–2010 by 85-year-old French composer (his first appearance on vinyl since Sous Le Regard D’un Soliel Noir [INA-GRM 1982]), exploring high-fidelity studio editing methods of concrete sound and vocal manipulation. Platters are screenprinted by hand with archival high-gloss varnish. PVC sleeve, sticker, program notes by Dhomont and Jean-Francois Denis. Edition of 300.

FRANCIS DHOMONT

Frankenstein Symphony

(Asphodel) Used CD $5.00

Stitched together fragments of other musical pieces, woven together into a coherent, workable whole, from friends and former students who gave their blessings to be part of the electroacoustic / acousmatic pioneer’s experimental venture from the late 1990s, the 64-minute piece consists of layers of tape manipulations and musique concrète, with reassuring hints of traditional harmony and melody appearing in the middle distance and then slowly transforming into something entirely different.