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<label id="ohmavatar" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/boutique/ohmavatar/">
  <name>OHM / Avatar</name>
  <shortname>OHM / Avatar</shortname>
  <recording id="avtr_001" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_001/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/001_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Ding Dong de luxe</title>
    <catno>AVTR 001</catno>
    <year>1995</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>A short sound works compilation. How is it that the shortest sound pieces are
    almost always over 60 seconds long? That there are nearly none under 30 seconds? That nothing
    happens under 15 seconds except for jingles? Isn&#8217;t it an occasion for an attempt, a risk,
    an exploration, a sound search? AVATAR invited some artists to submit projects that dare enter
    the forgotten sound territory hidden between the instant and the brief.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_022" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_022/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/022_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Ohmix</title>
    <catno>AVTR 022</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>Avatar invited eight composers to select at will from OHM &#233;ditions&#8217;
    audio production from 1993 to 1998. They remixed excerpts, full pieces, entire cds or even the
    whole catalog. These different approaches result in a varied listening and also mark a return
    visit to Avatar in its foundational form: Christof Migone, Jocelyn Robert, Pierre-Andr&#233;
    Arcand, the first collective projects and the precursors in Quebec City, Bruit TTV. With this
    project Avatar remains close to its namesake. It metamorphizes, transforms itself and
    rematerializes in new pieces signed by eminent contributors. From Ralf Wehowsky to Alexandre
    St-Onge, each &#8220;reading&#8221; takes aim, at a particular angle, and positions itself as
    an encounter, a meeting in sound. The junctures are shared amplifications, they are augmented
    renderings produced by fine tuned auditions. OHMIX contributes to the history of OHM
    &#233;ditions and Avatar, it is a commentary, a conversation on and with. Avatar is still and
    by definition always already something other than itself; the media it utilizes attest to this
    (video, CD+, CD, CD-ROM, software, interfaces, new systems) as well as its activities
    (residencies, workshops, telematic events, radio art, performances, concerts) yet even these
    cannot purport to delimit its permanent slippage.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_031" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_031/">
    <artist>Georges Azzaria</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/031_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Concret</title>
    <subtitle>Headset Music</subtitle>
    <catno>AVTR 031</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>30.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_011" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_011/">
    <artist>Chantal Dumas</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/011_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Le parfum de femmes &#8212; Das Perf&#252;me der Frauen</title>
    <subtitle>Trois nouvelles sonores sur le th&#232;me de la migration</subtitle>
    <catno>AVTR 011</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>This cycle of sonic stories has been conceived by Chantal Dumas on the course of a
    long stay in Europe. Otherwise, she wouldn&#8217;t have thought to talk of migration. You have
    to be in the middle of things, feel them to become sensitive to them. In &#8220;Le parfum des
    femmes,&#8221; first solo album from Chantal Dumas, speech is embodied through perception.
    Sound holds a wealth of data, informing the listener as to the time, the action, the places. To
    be true, sounds here suggests images which the listener is free to interpret and appropriate.
    Words are always prominent here, but in these pieces, meaning weaves around sonic landscapes,
    music and text. And thus a story is told through a round trip inside multiple narrative
    threads. The perfume of women was awarded the 1st prize at the EAR International Competition
    (Hungary) and also at the Phonurgia Nova International Radio Competition (France) in
    1997.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="lndc_001" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/lndc_001/">
    <artist>Eltractor</artist>
    <artistdetail>Firquet, Michaud, Montal</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/001_LNDC.gif" />
    <title>domUSticksIDEOTRONs</title>
    <catno>LNDC 001</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDROM</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>Four Quicktime videos excerpts taken from Eltractor&#8217;s acclaimed show
    &#171;domUSticks IDEOTRONs&#187;.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_038" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_038/">
    <artist>Le grand orchestre d&#8217;Avatar (GOD&#8217;AR)</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/038_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>En concert: L&#8217;abolition des privil&#232;ges; Treize singes cyclopes</title>
    <catno>AVTR 038/039</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>DVD-V</code>
      <detail>+ 1 CD-Audio</detail>
      <availability>temp. out of stock</availability>
    </format>
    <description>DVD-Video [NTSC, multi-region, Dolby Digital] + CD-Audio</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_015" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_015/">
    <artist>Steve Heimbecker</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/015_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>The Enormouslessness of Cloud Machines</title>
    <catno>AVTR 015/16</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>33.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Steve Heimbecker is a Prairies artist who has been challenging artistic boundaries
    since the very beginning of his career, twenty years ago. Working in a fuzzy zone between
    video, installation, music and performance, he created works that stand out and that have been
    acclaimed all over Canada and internationally. Recently, a lot of his time has been dedicated
    to audio art projects, notably sound installations and numerous quadraphonic and octophonic
    works. Many will remember his &#8217;Soundpool: the manufacturing of silence&#8221; subsonic
    installation, shown in Quebec with the collaboration of Avatar. Following this first
    collaboration, Avatar/Ohm &#233;ditions and Steve Heimbecker get together again and present
    &#8220;The Enormouslessness of Cloud Machines,&#8221; a double cd set that offers an anthology
    of the multichannel sound works of Heimbecker, remixed specially for this publication. This new
    addition to the Ohm &#233;ditions catalogue covers works that Heimbecker created on
    multispeakers sound systems that he invented, and that he showed in performances. The resulting
    works are long ambient pieces that create an unheard of sound space.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_034" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_034/">
    <artist>John Oswald</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/034_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Arc d&#8217;apparition; Whisperfield</title>
    <catno>AVTR 034</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>DVD-V</code>
      <detail>+ 1 CD-Audio</detail>
      <price>27.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Arc d&#8217;apparition (DVD-Video); Whisperfield (CD-Audio)</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="obz_07" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/obz_07/">
    <artist>Productions Recto/Verso</artist>
    <artistdetail>Arteau, Morin, Oswald</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/07_OBZ.gif" />
    <title>Parcours sc&#233;nographiques</title>
    <catno>OBZ 07</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>This audio object is the result of an original idea and creative process conceived
    by &#201;mile Morin. Originally a long trail of images of areas taken during a voyage from
    Quebec to New York, Morin added the talents of composer John Oswald and writer Gilles Arteau to
    his &#8220;Parcours sc&#233;nographique.&#8221; On their own, without any form of contact with
    Recto/Verso and respecting only basic referential restraints, they supplemented, respectively,
    a sonic envelope and text. This is the origin of what you are about to hear. We conceived this
    recording like an oeuvre&#8230; autonomous yet distinct. Its strata are like successive layers
    that superimpose each other while following measured doses. We&#8217;ve strived to recreate
    spaces visible to the ear. Words are but vocalized sonic material. We believe that amongst
    these tracks lies a hidden trail.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_014" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_014/">
    <artist>Jocelyn Robert</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/014_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Canned Gods</title>
    <subtitle>A Typical Afternoon in the Backyard in Phoenix, Arizona</subtitle>
    <catno>AVTR 014</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>&#8220;Canned Gods&#8221; began with this observation: sound effects librairies on
    compact discs, the ones used in the movie industry or for radio plays, double up as cultural
    dictionaries. Each sound library presents the most important sounds for the culture that chose
    them. An example: one of the american sound library offers a huge number of car sounds, while
    the BBC s has maybe a dozen of them, while the latter has a number of field recordings from
    foreign colonies which do not appear on the American sound effects cds&#8230;even the form of
    presentation of these sounds (their length, order, etc&#8230;) is different. When considering
    these collections globally, one gets the feeling that they are some sort of an audio picture
    box or an audio picture book that presents a culture or a country. Thus, my idea has been to
    take one of these audio librairies and to use these sounds to trace a portrait of the culture
    from its own material. &#8220;Canned Gods: a typical afternoon in the backyard in Phoenix,
    Arizona&#8221; is the result of a first attempt with this approach applied to the United
    States.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="avtr_033" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/avtr_033/">
    <artist>Jocelyn Robert, ed.</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/033_AVTR.gif" />
    <title>Piano &#224; num&#233;ros</title>
    <subtitle>An essay on art and translation</subtitle>
    <catno>AVTR 033</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>Book</code>
      <detail>+ 1 CD-Audio</detail>
      <price>30.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Dominique Blain and Thecla Schiphorst had to devise a project within their own
    field and then translate it into an audio format using a Yamaha Disklavier. Put in context by
    Jocelyn Robert, with commentary by Alain-Martin Richard and Dot Tuer.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
