This is the 5th part of the complete experimental and electronic music by the composer - after Liège à Paris (1977), Eight parabolic studies (1972), Four parabolic mixes (1972-2001)
Mixed music (1966-70) and before Narrative voices and electronic (1960-1982), Paraboles-Mix avec Leçons d'Enfer (1972-1999) and Experimental Electronic and Noise (1954-61)

Electronic experimental and microtonal (1953-1999)
5 rare pieces that come from 5 decades and performed by Rohan de Saram (Quatuor Arditti),
Evert van Tright (who played mainly Stockhausen), Brigitte Foccroulle, Danielle Dubosch,
Isabelle Schmit (three great belgian pianists) Sumila Goto, Mikoto Jakahata, Shuzan Morita
(from the japanse Yonin No Kai Trio) and last but not least and for the only time: Henri
Pousseur him-self.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris. He encountered Pierre
Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and thereafter devoted himself to avant garde research. Beginning around 1960, he collaborated with Michel Butor on a number of projects, most notably the opera Votre Faust (1961-68). Pousseur has taught in Cologne, Basel, and in the United States at SUNY Buffalo, as well as in his native Belgium. From 1970 until his retirement in 1988 he taught at the University and Conservatory of Liège where he also founded the Centre de recherches et de formation musicales de Wallonie.

Generally regarded as a member of the Darmstadt School in the 1950s, Pousseur's music employs serialism, mobile forms, and aleatory, often mediating between or among seemingly irreconcilable styles, such as those of Schubert and Webern (Votre Faust), or Pousseur's own serial style and the protest song "We shall overcome" (Couleurs croisées). His electronic composition.......
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