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  <shortname>independent</shortname>
  <recording id="skr_96" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/skr_96/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/96_SKR.gif" />
    <title>Pendler</title>
    <catno>SKR 96</catno>
    <year>1996</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="estherb_01dd" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/estherb_01dd/">
    <artist>Esther B</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01DD_ESTHERB.gif" />
    <title>It is not easy for Doug Engelbart to give a conference when Youppi and Mad Dog are in
    the house</title>
    <catno>ESTHERB 01DD</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <detail>&#8220;deluxe-deluxe&#8221; edition</detail>
      <price>10.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>&#8220;Deluxe-deluxe&#8221; edition of the mini-CDR of the same name (available in
    Montr&#233;al&#8217;s Distroboto, also available in a web version) with, as a bonus, the two
    infamous Diana Ross remix tracks. An obnoxiously oblique homage to the inventor of hypertext,
    continuously disturbed by the impertinent interventions of an ex-wrestler and a baseball
    mascot. [dt]</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="bi_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/bi_01/">
    <artist>Magali Babin, i8u</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_BI.gif" />
    <title>Peak</title>
    <catno>BI 01</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>&#8226;&#8226; Note: this CDR was made in 2003</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="nb_970101m" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/nb_970101m/">
    <artist>Natasha Barrett</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/970101M_NB.gif" />
    <title>Rocks &amp; Wraiths</title>
    <catno>NB 970101M</catno>
    <year>1997</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="nb_980101m" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/nb_980101m/">
    <artist>Natasha Barrett</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/980101M_NB.gif" />
    <title>Chillies &amp; Shells</title>
    <catno>NB 980101M</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>20</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="mb_mm" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/mb_mm/">
    <artist>Michelle Boudreau</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/MM_MB.gif" />
    <title>Ma Magie</title>
    <catno>MB MM</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>10.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="mb_ch" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/mb_ch/">
    <artist>Michelle Boudreau</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/CH_MB.gif" />
    <title>Des passages de Charni&#232;re et autres pi&#232;ces</title>
    <catno>MB CH</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="mb_chmm" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/mb_chmm/">
    <artist>Michelle Boudreau</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/CHMM_MB.gif" />
    <title>Des passages de Charni&#232;re + Ma magie et autres pi&#232;ces</title>
    <catno>MB CHMM</catno>
    <year>2004</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <price>30.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="mb_2007" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/mb_2007/">
    <artist>Michelle Boudreau, Derek Charke</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/2007_MB.gif" />
    <title>Les roches chantent</title>
    <catno>MB 2007</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="cc_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/cc_01/">
    <artist>Cal Crawford</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_CC.gif" />
    <title>flume ridge.halifax.lisbon</title>
    <catno>CC 01</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Self-released CDR featuring 13 unreleased works from the composer. Extremely
    limited edition (10 copies, numbered). &#8226;&#8226; Note: this CDR was made in
    2003</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="gph_001" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/gph_001/">
    <artist>Ken Gregory, Steve Heimbecker, Shawn Pinchbeck</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/001_GPH.gif" />
    <title>Sonic Waking</title>
    <catno>GPH 001</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>21.75 CA$</price>
      <rebate>
        <realprice>25.00 CA$</realprice>
        <percentage>13</percentage>
      </rebate>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>&#8220;The recordings on this cd mark the beginnings of Send + Receive: A Festival
    of Sound, a festival which I directed until 2004. On November 21, 1998, a crowd of about 100
    people gathered in the Bulman Student Centre at the University of Winnipeg. No one was sure
    what to expect from the pile of gear installed in the middle of the room surrounded by some
    chairs, and four speakers (a quadraphonic mix). While Ken, Steve and Shawn began to play, the
    audience took up the &#8216;invitation&#8217; to gather round. Chairs were slid to the side.
    The performance gradually built up layers of sound and then something totally unexpected
    happened. The crowd began to circle, mostly counterclockwise, in a slow orbit around the
    artists, moving into and out of different sound fields, creating their own &#8216;mix,&#8217;
    erasing the role of &#8216;passive&#8217; audience and encouraged active participation, one
    that celebrates improvisation, and rewards people for getting off their asses. It was a
    spontaneous and beautiful reaction, to this day one of my favourite moments of Send +
    Receive.&#8221; -Steve Bates, February 2006 &#8220;In 1993 and 1994, Ken Gregory, Steve
    Heimbecker and Shawn Pinchbeck met at various sound art happenings in western Canada.
    Previously not knowing that each other were active in the prairies, they quickly realized that
    they had many things in common with their artistic practices and their origins in the mid
    eighties in isolation in their respective prairie cities; Ken from Winnipeg Manitoba, Steve
    from Calgary Alberta, and Shawn from Edmonton Alberta. In 1995, Steve and Shawn, because of
    their close proximity, started collaborating together regularly. Ken and Steve both went to
    Edmonton several times in the mid to late ninties to perform and conduct workshops for the
    Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) of which Shawn was the president of at the time.
    This particular project started out in February 1998 with an invitation to Ken, Steve and Shawn
    to go to emmedia in Calgary to do a week long collaborative residency ending with a concert at
    the Alberta College of Art and Design. The results were inspiring for all of them. Ken arranged
    a concert in November 1998 at the Send and Receive [001] a festival of sound in Winnipeg. This
    recording is the result of that concert and indeed a snapshot of the electroacoustic activities
    going on in the prairies at that time.&#8221; -Shawn Pinchbeck</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="obqa_0102" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/obqa_0102/">
    <artist>Steve Heimbecker</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/0102_OBQA.gif" />
    <title>Songs of Place</title>
    <catno>OBQA 0102</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xDVD-V</code>
      <detail>+ book &#8226; Canada, USA</detail>
      <price>79.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <format>
      <code>2xDVD-V</code>
      <detail>+ book &#8226; other countries</detail>
      <price>93.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <format>
      <code>2xDVD-V</code>
      <detail>+ book &#8226; institution</detail>
      <price>223.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>2 DVD-Video [NTSC, multi-region, Dolby Digital, DTS Surround] The two DVD-Vs
    represent video and surround sound portraits of four places: Halifax (NS), Montr&#233;al (QC),
    Vancouver (BC), and Springwater (SK). In production since 2000, this series was re-mastered for
    pubication in Oboro&#8217;s New Media Lab, while Heimbecker was in residence in 2004. In the
    bookwork, five contributors were invited to reflect on the &#8220;portraits&#8221;: Vincent
    Bonin, Anna Friz, Christof Migone, F Scott Taylor, and Barry Truax. The artist himself
    contributes a text, which analyzes his last ten years of research.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="oj_2000" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/oj_2000/">
    <artist>Otto Joachim</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/2000_OJ.gif" />
    <title>Elektroakustische Momente</title>
    <catno>OJ 2000</catno>
    <year>2000</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="vi_00" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/vi_00/">
    <artist>Mathieu L&#233;vesque</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/00_VI.gif" />
    <title>D&#244;me g&#233;od&#233;sique</title>
    <catno>VI 00</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>&#8220;No doubt, it is acme of minimalism&#8230;&#8221; &#8212;Voir</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="tl_2007" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/tl_2007/">
    <artist>Theodore Lotis</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/2007_TL.gif" />
    <title>Ecolapsis</title>
    <subtitle>Music for Dance</subtitle>
    <catno>TL 2007</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="mid_1992" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/mid_1992/">
    <artist>Mark Mushet</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/1992_MID.gif" />
    <title>Paul Dolden: The Threshold of Deafening Silence</title>
    <catno>MID 1992</catno>
    <year>1992</year>
    <format>
      <code>VIDEO</code>
      <detail>VHS NTSC Hi-Fi stereo</detail>
      <price>30.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Last 2 copies &#8226; Music video documentary</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="rousse_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/rousse_01/">
    <artist>Julie Rousse</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_ROUSSE.gif" />
    <title>Quelques minutes sur les bienfaits de la guerre</title>
    <catno>ROUSSE 01</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR3</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="jls_2005" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/jls_2005/">
    <artist>Jorge L Sad</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/2005_JLS.gif" />
    <title>Retransmisi&#243;n</title>
    <catno>JLS 2005</catno>
    <year>2005</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <detail>+ vid&#233;oclip</detail>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>[Les instruments de musique:] &#8220;Ils seront employ&#233;s &#224;
    l&#8217;&#233;tat d&#8217;objets et comme faisant partie du d&#233;cor. [&#8230;] De plus, la
    n&#233;cessit&#233; d&#8217;agir directement et profond&#233;ment sur la sensibilit&#233; par
    les organes invite, du point de vue sonore, &#224; rechercher des qualit&#233;s et des
    vibrations de sons absolument inaccoutum&#233;es, qualit&#233;s que les instruments de musique
    actuels ne poss&#232;dent pas, et qui poussent &#224; remettre en usage des instruments anciens
    et oubli&#233;s, ou &#224; cr&#233;er des instruments nouveaux. Elles poussent aussi &#224;
    rechercher, en dehors de la musique, des instruments et des appareils qui, bas&#233;s sur des
    fusions sp&#233;ciales ou des alliages renouvel&#233;s de m&#233;taux, puissent atteindre un
    diapason nouveau de l&#8217;octave, produire des sons ou des bruits insupportables,
    lancinants.&#8221;&#8212; Antonin Artaud, Le th&#233;&#226;tre et son double Retransmisi&#243;n
    is a collective creation based on Antonin Artaud&#8217;s radiophonic work Pour en finir avec le
    jugement de Dieu [To Have Done With the Judgment of God], for three improvisers, live
    electronics, and edited video images. Composed by Jorge L Sad, with the Gest(u)alt Ensamble
    (Juliana Moreno, flute; Claudio Eiriz, percussion and vocals; Javier Mariani, clarinet and
    wakra-phuku; Francisco Colasanto, Max/MSP programming and computer; Gabriel Gendin, audio
    engineer), and video images by Deborah Lynne. The old vinyl recordings of the performance have
    been digitalized without any restoration process, in order to leave &#8220;the sound of
    time&#8221; untouched. The sonic character of the voice of Artaud and the other actors
    (Mar&#237;a Casares and Roger Blin), their visceral inflexions and strong sound qualities, were
    the models that we have taken to elaborate the character of the different sections of the work.
    Retransmisi&#243;n is an hommage to Artaud and his prophetic vision of the 21st century:
    cloning for military purposes, wars made by remote control to impose american products,
    destruction of nature.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="vl_01" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/vl_01/" recent="yes">
    <artist>Virgule</artist>
    <artistdetail>Allen, B</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/01_VL.gif" />
    <title>Let&#8217;s Go to Easter Island</title>
    <catno>VL 01</catno>
    <year>2007</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR3</code>
      <price>15.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>All music improvised by Esther B and Gordon Allen in Montr&#233;al, at Darling
    Foundry 2006. Let&#8217;s Go to Easter Island is an album based on improvisation, recorded
    spontaneously at Darling Foundry in Montr&#233;al during fall 2006. A meeting of two really
    different instruments Virgule marks a specific space between two atmospheres, a music
    traversing a wide colourful palette. It is very mysterious when sometimes in the flow some
    notes fuse. When they don&#8217;t dance to Youtube, or visit galleries, Virgule jams or plays
    concerts. They wish to eventually do a music residency on Easter island or any tropical island.
    A stereo is a stereo but art is forever!</description>
  </recording>
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