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Paul Dolden (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1956) • residence: Montréal, Québec • composer • performer
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Dolden in Performance, Montréal![]() Paul Dolden will be in performance for an evening of structured improvisation with James Newhouse on Sunday April 6, 2008 at La Sala Rossa, Montréal. Who Can Play the Fastest? will also feature Sylvain Houle (saxophone) performing Paul Dolden’s work Revenge of the Repressed. Resonance #2.
Posted March 28, 2008 in Live Events |8929|
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Dolden Works on a TriptychFresh news on Paul Dolden’s activities. He just completed the piece Who Can Play the Fastest?, commissioned by the Stockholms Saxofonkvartett. He is also working on two other works: Who Has the Biggest Noise? — a commission by Swedish guitarist Stefan Östersjö —, and Who Has the Biggest Sound? (for “tape”). We’ll let you know about the respective places and dates of the premieres.
Posted January 22, 2008 in What’s New |8855|
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No Type: A_dontigny Explores the Humanities
With Geisteswissenschaften, A_dontigny approches directly or metaphorically an artist (Koons, Turner), a movement (American and French abstractionism), an author (Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Frege) or even a concept (such as the impossible to translate “Wirkungsgeschichtesbewusstsein”) and produces a disc which is in parallel to ‘traditional’ electroacoustics and (industrial, punk and techno sub-cultures) electronica. A feast made with 3 accomplices: Paul Dolden, Diane Labrosse, and Jon Vaughn.
Posted April 15, 2007 in Recent Arrivals |8604|
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Dolden in Musicworks 96An interview with composer Paul Dolden by Jeremy Owen Turner is published in issue 96 of Musicworks, Toronto (Canada).
Posted November 23, 2006 in What’s New |8542|
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Bartley, Truax, Dolden in TorontoOracle, a new work by Wende Bartley, will be premiered on June 10, 2006 at the Ontario College of Arts & Design (Toronto) for the “Power of Space” concert, presented by Contact Contemporary Music and New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). Works by Barry Truax (Riverrun), Paul Dolden (Below the Walls of Jericho), Michael Gordon, and Iannis Xenakis will also be presented.
Posted June 6, 2006 in Live Events |7716|
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eD: Dolden Unleashes a Storm of Pleasures!![]() Délires de plaisirs is the latest release of the empreintes DIGITALes label. After five years of efforts, Paul Dolden reveals his latest opus on this disc, Entropic Twilights: a work of gargantuan proportions which pairs the maximalist drive of the composer with tonal and optimistic melodies. The disc also features two works from the Resonance Cycle: The Gravity of Silence. Resonance #5, with Chenoa Anderson on flute, and The Heart Tears itself Apart with the Power of its own Muscle. Resonance #3, on which Dolden plays the violin, viola, cello and double bass parts.
Posted April 26, 2005 in Recent Arrivals |7530|
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Dolden: Retrospective in Sweden, Solo Concert in DenmarkPaul Dolden, Ligeti and Yoshimi are Guest Composers at the Borderline Festival, in Malmö (Sweden), on April 25 - 29, 2005. More than twenty works by Dolden are featured in this great retrospective. Furthermore, the last evening will see the premiere of the complete and final version of Entropic Twilights. The previous week, on April 20, 2005, Dolden will give a solo concert at DIEM in Århus (Denmark).
Posted April 12, 2005 in Live Events |7509|
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Second morceaux_de_machines CD
Two years after their first album, liberum arbitrium, the eletcronic noise duet morceaux_de_machines is back with Estrapade. On this new opus, they are joined by Diane Labrosse (sampler), Martin Tétreault and Yoshihide Otomo (turntables). Moreover, post-production and mastering was entrusted to maximalist composer Paul Dolden. Posted March 16, 2005 in What’s New |7490|
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Dolden, Roy Win Opus Prizes![]() Composers Paul Dolden and Stéphane Roy each won an Opus prize in their respective categories. Dolden won in the “Disc of the Year - Musique actuelle and Electroacoustics” category for his recent album Seuil de silences (an expanded and entirely remixed and remastered reissue of The Threshold of Deafening Silence). Roy won in the “Book of the Year” category for his L’analyse des musiques électroacoustiques; Modèles et propositions (“Models and propositions for electroacoustic music analysis”).
Posted February 3, 2005 in What’s New |7497|
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4 Opus Nominations for empreintes DIGITALes![]()
Four of empreintes DIGITALes’s 2004 discographic productions are nominated at the Opus awards in the category “Disc of the Year - Musique actuelle and Electroacoustics”: Fractures by Christian Bouchard, Le contrat by Gilles Gobeil and René Lussier, Seuil de silences by Paul Dolden and also Migrations by Stéphane Roy.
Posted December 10, 2004 in What’s New |7475|
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Dolden and Thibault at the SMCQ, MontréalThe Québec society for contemporary music (SMCQ) present “In Extremis,” October 22, 2004. Amongst the works presented at this concert, we find to composition for tape, Beyond the Walls of Jericho by Paul Dolden and Le cauchemar climatisé by Alain Thibault. Posted October 1, 2004 in Live Events |7442|
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empreintes DIGITALes in April 2004 in Lille, France
For the “Monde parallèle Montréal 45°N//” event, organized by Lille - Cultural Capital of Europe, label empreintes DIGITALes presented a portrait of Montréal’s electroacoustic creation since 1971 through 24 works by 21 Montréal composers: Serge Arcuri, Yves Beaupré, Christian Bouchard, Ned Bouhalassa, Christian Calon, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Yves Daoust, Francis Dhomont, Paul Dolden, Louis Dufort, Gilles Gobeil, Monique Jean, René Lussier, Robert Normandeau, Arturo Parra, Mario Rodrigue, Stéphane Roy, Alain Thibault, Jacques Tremblay, Marc Tremblay, Roxanne Turcotte. Electroacoustic label empreintes DIGITALes, new media and electronic art festivals Elektra and Mutek with the collaboration of the Society for arts and technology (SAT) all teamed up to present the best of Montréal’s electronic music and video.
Posted April 14, 2004 in What’s New |7374|
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Paul Dolden Premieres in ChileFrom November 10 to 17, 2003 Paul Dolden will be guest composer at the 13th Festival de Musica Contemporanea in Santiago (Chile). Amongst the works presented will be the premiere of Twilight #2, a new 25-minute mixed work for cello, violin, piano, and tape to be performed by the Trio Fibonacci. Posted November 4, 2003 in Live Events |7313|
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eD: Gigantic Update for Paul Dolden![]() ![]()
Ten years after the publication of his milestone album, Canadian composer Paul Dolden offers us something more than just a re-issue but a gigantic reconstruction of his work. Indeed, the hundreds of tracks which makes each of the works featured on both Intoxicated by Speed’s two volumes were re-processed, re-mixed and re-mastered with the most recent digital technologies. No comparison is possible with the previous analog mixes! A third album stems from this impressive revamping task, Seuil de silences, featuring previously unreleased compositions and works from the 1990 album The Threshold of Deafening Silence.
Posted October 14, 2003 in Recent Arrivals |7300|
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Oswald + Turcotte + 3 Dolden in Stock!empreintes DIGITALes´s final sprint is over: 3 CDs by Paul Dolden, John Oswald’s Aparanthesi CD and Roxanne Turcotte’s second CD: Libellune are now available online! Posted July 9, 2003 in What’s New |7269|
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5 empreintes DIGITALes Sent to the Printer…5 new empreintes DIGITALes releases were set to the printer this morning: 3 CDs by Paul Dolden, the offical box of John Oswald’s Aparanthesi CD and Roxanne Turcotte’s second CD: Libellune! Posted June 25, 2003 in What’s New |7260|
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Electro to Buzz at Open EarsOn Sunday May 11, 2003, the Open Ears Festival, Kitchener (Ontario) helds a free electroacoustic concert in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). Featuring works by Paul Dolden, Monique Jean, David Eagle and a world premiere by Francis Dhomont.
Posted April 1, 2003 in Live Events |7223|
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Paul Dolden “Remastered”UK magazine The Wire publishes an interview with Paul Dolden in its March 2003 issue (#229). The empreintes DIGITALes label is completing the production of 3 new discs by Dolden who just finished the impressive task of remastering all his works. A first CD, Seuil de silences, reissues 3 works from the original The Threshold of Deafening Silence (from 1990) with 2 unreleased mixed works. The original edition of L’ivresse de la vitesse (“Intoxication by Speed”) (from 1994) was also entirely revamped and will soon be available as 2 distinct albums.
Posted March 12, 2003 in What’s New |7216|
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Kappa Ensemble Perform Dolden, Basque, ThibaultIn concert at Casa del Popolo (Montréal) Thursday May 9, 2002, the Kappa ensemble plays, amongst others, the compositions ElectroniK by Nicolas Basque, Pourpre est la nuit by Alain Thibault and Paul Dolden’s guitar and tape pieces Physics of Seduction and The Vertigo of a Ritualized Frenzy. Posted May 1, 2002 in Live Events |7062| electrocd.com Paul Dolden: headlines |
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