« The coming of the Montreal musiques actuelles/New Music America festival in November of 1990 inspired us to underline this event with the production of a special disc, whose unifying concept would be a substantial artistic challenge to composers and that would compel electroaccoustics to surpass itself. Therefore, we have commissioned twenty-five electroaccoustic snapshots by composers from Québec, Canada, the United States of America and Mexico…

« …This disc is more than a collection of short pieces; it presents a synthesis of new electroaccoustic creation as it is practised in all its forms… »

– Jean-François Denis & Claude Schryer

MICHAEL SMITH

1. Style de bougalou

CRAIG HARRIS

2. Somewhere between

JEAN-FRANCOIS DENIS

3. Point-virgule

JOHN OSWALD

4. Bell Speeds

YVES DAOUST

5. Mi bémol

CLAUDE SCHRYER

6. Les Oiseaux de Bullion

MARTIN GOTFRIT

7. The Machine’s Four Humours

JOHN OLIVER

8. Marimba Dismembered

ZACK SETTEL

9. Skweeit-chupp

STEPHANE ROY

10. Résonances d’arabesques

DANIEL SCHEIDT

11. What if

BRUNO DEGAZIO

12. Humoresque 901534

RICHARD TRUHLAR

13. Simulant

GILLES GOBEIL

14. Associations libres

ROBERT NORMANDEAU

15. Bédé

LAURIE RADFORD

16. Landlocked

CHRISTIAN CALON / CLAUDE SCHRYER

17. Prochaine Station

HILDEGARD WESTERKAMP

18. Breathing Room

AMNON WOLMAN

19. Man-bridge

FRANCIS DHOMONT

20. Qui est là?

ROXANNE TURCOTTE

21. Minisérie

CHRISTIAN CALON

22. Temps incertains

DAN LANDER

23. I’m looking at my hand

JAVIER ALVAREZ

24. Mambo a la Braque

CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN

25. Bajanoom