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Jean SCHWARZ
“Unreleased & Rarities (1972-2002)”
Transversales is very glad to announce the release of « Unreleased & Rareties » spanning 1972-2002, revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Jean SCHWARZ.
He served as an engineer at the CNRS in the Ethnomusicology Department of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris and was a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (G.R.M) from 1969 to 1999.
This compilation allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Jean Schwars’s personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the dance, screen or the performing arts.
Remastered high-resolution audio transferred directly from the original master tapes.
27,00€
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Bernard PARMEGIANI
“Mémoire Magnétique, vol. 3 (1967-1971)”
Transversales is very glad to announce the release of « Mémoire Magnétique, vol.3 » spanning 1967-1971, revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani.
The third volume of this compilation allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Bernard Parmegiani’s personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the screen or the performing arts.
Remastered high-resolution audio transferred directly from the original master tapes.
L'ARAIGNELEPHANT (1967)
Musique pour le film de Piotr Kamler
NARCISSUS ECHO (1971)
Musique pour un film d'animation de Peter Foldès
SADIQUEMENT VOTRE I (1968)
Musique pour une émission TV de Michel Wichard"Agrippe-le Agrippine !"
SABLES (1970)
Musique composée pour le film de Lucien Clergues
LA VILLE EN HAUT DE LA COLLINE I (1968)
Musique pour le film de Jacques Vernier
JE, TU, ELLES (1969)
Musique pour un film de Peter Foldès
LABYRINTHE (1970)
Musique pour le film de Piotr Kamler
26,00€
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Luc FERRARI
“Solitude Transit”
Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Solitude Transit unpublished archives by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari. Music composed for contemporary dance, choregraphed by Anne-Marie Reynaud.
Affiliated with French Radio's Groupe de Musique Concrète, co-founder of the GRM with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005) major figure of musique concrète and electroacoustic music broke away to pave his own path of individualistic expressions of minimalist music, musical theater, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks.
25,00€
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Bernard PARMEGIANI
“Mémoire Magnétique, Vol 2.”
Transversales is very glad to announce the release of Mémoire Magnétique Vol. 2 spanning 1966-1993, revelatory collection of short and secret music by electronic music pioneer Bernard Parmegiani.
Since the late 50's, Bernard Parmegiani, a major figure of electroacoustic music and a founding member of GRM has created some eighty two concerts music. From the start, Parmegiani’s work was closely linked to the screen, with dozens of documentaries, films, long features, animation films but also musical pieces for dance, stage or television. If many of his pieces are landmarks in the history of electroacoustic music (De Natura Sonorum, La Roue Ferris…), his application music compositions are strongly embedded in the subconscious landscape of the French public (Stade 2, Roissy Paris Airport…).
The second volume of this compilation allows us to discover some of unreleased rarities from Bernard Parmegiani’s personal archives and unpublished recordings which were composed for the screen or the performing arts.
24,00€
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Pierre HENRY
“Un Monde Lacéré”
Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of "Un monde lacéré" by electroacoustic music pioneer Pierre Henry.
"Pierre Henry was born in 1927 In Paris. He started studying music as early as the age of 7.
In 1944, guided by Olivier Messiaen, he imagined and started composing music for the future. His meeting with Pierre Schaeffer was crucial for his creation.
Inventing new technical composition processes which in time have become widely used on a large scale, he has constantly given this music a far reaching power no one expected at the start.
He has also invented his own sound, as easily distinguishable as the sound of the most famous jazz musician."
This piece is a special tribute to Jacques Villeglé and his work.
It is the world opening performance of this opus, recorded in studio Son/Ré.
22,50€
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Jonathan FITOUSSI
“Plein Soleil”
Jonathan Fitoussi is a French composer that explores an electronic music versed in futuristic tones that evokes the vision of the future as it was perceived in the 60s or 70s, mixed with the perception of a unique, utopic world, yet to be reached, yet to be build.
On top of two live recordings, several collaborations and music for movies, this is his fifth solo album, and his first for Transversales Disques, a label he co-founded.
Leading the electronic aesthetic of its writer towards more rhythmic, hypnotic tracks, this album is also a new step in the ever growing discography of this musician.
Deluxe Edition, Classic Tip-On Gatefold Jacket
Cover : Victor Vasarely, Constellations (1967).
25,00€
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Luc FERRARI
“Photophonie”
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by electroacoustic music pioneer Luc Ferrari.
- « Photophonie » (1989) / Music for the photographic exhibition of Alain Willaume.
- « Il était une fois » (1973) / Commissioned by the G.M.E.B.
- « Trans-Voices » (1992) / Curated by the American Center, Paris.
- « Leica » - (1977) / Advertising for the Leica camera.
Affiliated with French Radio’s Groupe de Musique Concrète, co-founder of the GRM with Pierre Schaeffer in 1958, Luc Ferrari (1929-2005), major figure of musique concrète and electroacoustic music, broke away to pave his own path of individualistic expressions of minimalist music, musical theater, field recordings, orchestral music and soundtracks…
22,50€
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Ariel KALMA
“Nuits Blanches au Studio 116”
Unreleased Rarities from Ariel Kalma’s personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM’s Studio 116 during the 70’s.
Born and raised in Paris, Ariel Kalma started playing the recorder and saxophone as a youth. After successive studies of Computer Science, Music and Art in Paris he performed in various concerts from middle-age music to free jazz duo. Ariel toured the world, then performed and recorded with several bands.
After learning circular breathing on soprano sax, Ariel could include those endless notes into his own long-delay-effect system, dual Revox set-up (two tape machines “chained” together to form a long delay system).
In France during the mid-1970s, Kalma was staffed as à recording assistant at legendary Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA GRM) studios, where Ariel recorded some of his compositions in the Studio 116 ; the same music concrète laboratory that spawned masterpieces by members Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani…
22,50€
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Bernard PARMEGIANI
“Rock”
Back in stock.
Limited edition (500 copies) remastered from the original master tapes by Jonathan Fitoussi.
This is the first release by the French label Transversales founded by Sebastien Rosat and Jonathan Fitoussi. The never before released soundtrack of the film “Rock” (1982) directed by Michel Treguer and composed by Bernard Parmegiani (1927-2013).
Major figure of electroacoustic music and member of the historic GRM where he composed among others his masterpiece, “De Natura Sonorum”, Bernard Parmegiani produced also a large number of jingles, soundtracks, and indicatives.
On listening to Rock, one is reminded of John Carpenter or François de Roubaix: a work which mixes the sounds of the TR-808 drum-machine, Synthi AKS, Farfisa organ, and Clavinet. Remastered from the original master tapes.
Includes exclusive liner notes.
20,90€
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Igor WAKHEVITCH
“Kshatrya, The Eye Of The Bird”
Transversales Disques presents « KSHATRYA, The Eye Of The Bird », never released before recording by french avant-garde electronic composer Igor Wakhevitch, who composed a bunch of major experimental albums in the 70’s such as « Logos », « Docteur Faust » , « Hathor » "Les Fous d'Or", "Nagual" and "Let's Start"
During this 10 years period, Wakhevitch was close to Jean-Michel Jarre, the Pink Floyd, the Soft-Machine, and legendary choreographer Maurice Bejart having with him many conversations around dance and music, human body and soul, spiritual path, collective life, new society, human evolution. As a composer Igor Wakhevitch collaborated with Salvador Dali, Carolyn Carlson, and Terry Riley to name a few. He's considered as one of the first french composer using synthesizers like Synthi AKS, ARP2600 or Moog modular systems.
After spending almost 30 years in India, Igor Wakhevitch digged in his archives this unreleased work recorded in 1999 on his « Mysterious Island 88 » system. Esotheric, sacred and cosmic , « KSHATRYA, The Eye Of The Bird » is the logical follow up of Igor’s early works and a monumental piece of electronic music. A must!
22,50€
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Igor WAKHEVITCH
“Kshatrya, The Eye Of The Bird”
Transversales Disques presents « KSHATRYA, The Eye Of The Bird », never released before recording by french avant-garde electronic composer Igor Wakhevitch, who composed a bunch of major experimental albums in the 70’s such as « Logos », « Docteur Faust » , « Hathor » "Les Fous d'Or", "Nagual" and "Let's Start"
During this 10 years period, Wakhevitch was close to Jean-Michel Jarre, the Pink Floyd, the Soft-Machine, and legendary choreographer Maurice Bejart having with him many conversations around dance and music, human body and soul, spiritual path, collective life, new society, human evolution. As a composer Igor Wakhevitch collaborated with Salvador Dali, Carolyn Carlson, and Terry Riley to name a few. He's considered as one of the first french composer using synthesizers like Synthi AKS, ARP2600 or Moog modular systems.
After spending almost 30 years in India, Igor Wakhevitch digged in his archives this unreleased work recorded in 1999 on his « Mysterious Island 88 » system. Esotheric, sacred and cosmic , « KSHATRYA, The Eye Of The Bird » is the logical follow up of Igor’s early works and a monumental piece of electronic music. A must!
15,50€
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Philip GLASS
“Music in Twelve Parts (Live in Paris, 1975)”
The newly discovered and unreleased concert from 1975 recorded by the Philip Glass Sextet at La Maison de la Radio, Paris.
The sextet is composed of Philip Glass, Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry, Michael Riesman, Joan La Barbara and Richard Peck.
Music in Twelve Parts is a set of twelve pieces written between 1971 and 1974. This performance in France includes part 1, 2, 3, 11 and 12 on a double LP.
Also included a very rare Philip Glass interview from 1974 in his NYC loft during the rehearsals of this piece, produced for the French radio by Daniel Caux - musicologist and co-founder of Shandar Records.
A never before released –Philip GLASS (1975) live recordings, released in partnership with the National Audiovisual Institute – INA.
"A new sound and a new chord suddenly break in, with an effect as if one wall of a room has suddenly disappeared, to reveal a completely new view." - A. Porter
24,00€
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Bernard PARMEGIANI
“Mémoire Magnétique, Vol. 1 (1966 – 1990)”
Never before released !
Transversales is very glad to announce the release of « Mémoire Magnétique, vol.1 » spanning 1966-1990, revelatory collection of commercial and secret music by electronic music pionneer Bernard Parmegiani.
Since the late 50's, Bernard Parmegiani, a major figure of electroacoustic music and a founding member of GRM has created some sixty concert music.
From the start, Parmegiani’s work was closely linked to the screen, with dozens of documentaries, films, long features, animation films but also musical pieces for dance, stage or television. If many of his pieces are landmarks in the history of electroacoustic music (De Natura Sonorum, La Roue Ferris...), his application music compositions are strongly embedded in the subconscious landscape of the French public (Stade 2, Roissy CDG Paris Airport...).
The first volume of this compilation allows us to discover some of these lost tapes and unpublished recordings which were composed for the screen or the performing arts.
“This series of rare application music compositions are representative of the vast scope explored by Parmegiani. Far from the strict format of concert music, its codes and usages, this music designed to fit with the screen is a work of amazing freshness and spontaneity.
It is pervaded with a singular balance, between minimalist music and a more articulated language. There is a space for melody, for word repetitions. Actually, repetition is a constant feature, blurring the line between his concert work and the rest. More than a border line, it seems to define two worlds, which communicate through it.
With an impressive number of application works, and some time spent at the head of the Sound / Image sector in the research service led by Pierre Schaeffer, the composer has managed to build up a framework designed for research and mutual exchange. Bernard Parmegiani presents us with lights, gestures, lines, various registers. Besides, how could one perceive these pieces of music without the pictures they are supposed to enhance? Each title is suggestive, and the best answer is in the field of imagination.
In the middle of the B-side, there is a true gem dated 1977. In this second extract of “Versailles… peut-être“ Bernard Parmegiani gives us a glimpse of the future. One can feel the pulse of the 80’s and of the first accents of Techno Music. It feels like driving a drop head car at 134 BPM, faster than on Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn”. One can also sense that soon the LFO will be replaced by the drum-machine.
Listening to these pieces of music arouses the same sensation as reading the prose of an author already known for his poetry. If one has never read his poems, here is the record that will open the door on a new world to be discovered.” Maxime Barthélemy.
Remastered high-resolution audio transferred directly from the original tapes.
Exclusive Liner Notes + obi strip.
24,00€
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François BAYLE
“Electrucs !”
Never before released.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the GRM, the composer François Bayle introduces us to some of his unpublished archives : “Electrucs !” (1974) composed on a 1970’s Synthi AKS synthesizer like an imaginary soundtrack.
“Foliphonie” (1974) inspired by “La Grande Polyphonie”. “Marpège” (1995) dedicated to Bernard Parmegiani. Also includes “Cinq dessins en rosace” (1973).
Born in 1932 in Tamatave (Madagascar) where he lived for 14 years, François Bayle is a major figure of electro acoustic music and member of the historic Pierre Schaeffer’s “Groupe de Recherches Musicales” (GRM) joined in Paris in 1958. In 1975, the GRM was integrated with the new Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) with Bayle as its head, which post he held until 1997, he brought a valuable contribution to the opening of musical research in these original innovative institutions. Ever since his first productions (“L’expérience acoustique” 1971) François Bayle has developed through a great variety of “formats” and designed the Acousmonium a sound diffusion system used originally by the GRM.
He also originated the record series Collection Ina-Grm, organizes concerts and supports the development of technologically advanced musical instruments (Syter, Grm tools...).
After leaving GRM in 1997, he founded his own electronic music studio and record label Magison.
22,00€
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Bernard BASCHET
“4 espaces sonores”
Excellent release from april 2018 but not stock so far.
Rare 1979 recording of Bernard Baschet performing on his Sound Sculptures. The Baschet brothers are known worldwide as creators of Sound Sculptures, fantastic shapes of moulded metal and glass, which combine the visual arts with music. François Baschet had always been fascinated by acoustics, by the relationships between the shape and material of an instrument and the beauty of its sound. Bernard Baschet was passionately interested in contemporary music and firmly believed that such instruments were the proper tools for modern music, for they offered to the artist and performer a personal means of expression denied by electronic devices. Together the brothers began to design and produce Sound Sculptures, which could also be regarded as musical instruments. Circa 1965, Bernard worked alongside Pierre Schaeffer as a member of the GRM (Musical Research Group) on the elaboration of what was to become Schaeffer's Traité des objets musicaux (Treatise on Musical Objects). The Baschet brothers also created structures and instruments of all sizes, including bell towers, windmills and fountains, using the natural elements of wind and water to make music. Bernard Baschet was especially proud of his pedagogical work amongst deprived and handicapped children, with the instrumentaium made up of fourteen pieces.
25,00€