Digital Transfer: Diego Losa
Cut at 45rpm by CGB & Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April-May 2013
Layout: Stephen O'Malley
Translations: Valérie Vivancos
Coordination GRM: Christian Zanési & François Bonnet
Executive Production: Peter Rehberg
De Natura Sonorum was premiered at the Salle Wagram in Paris on 3rd June 1975. A suite of twelve movements, divided into two series of six.
De Natura Sonorum whose title echoes Lucretius' De rerum natura, similarly explores the multiplicity of sound possibilities. This profuse work, with countless discoveries and dazzling intuitions, has influenced several generations of composers and remains a truly seminal piece in the experimental music soundscape. De Natura Sonorum, one of Parmegiani's masterpieces, has left an indelible mark on the classical period of electroacoustic music. At last, it is being reissued on vinyl and for the first time this includes the whole of its twelve movements. - Christian Zanési & François Bonnet
“The first series comprises six related movements, usually organised in pairs, electronic sounds with instrumental and more rarely, concrete sounds: Incidences/resonances brings into play controlled resonances akin to sounds of concrete origin in a process that helps to expand the variable electronic sound sour....... więcej