Description
Benniffer Editions, Canada 2012
”Birthdays” explores High fidelity studio editing methods of concrete sound and vocal manipulation. Each record Screenprinted by hand with archival high gloss varnish. Stored in a PVC sleeve with sticker with program notes by Dhomont & Jean-Francois Denis.
Francis Dhomont (1926-2023) in the late 1940s intuitively discovered with magnetic wire what Pierre Schaeffer would later call “musique concrète” and consequently conducted solitary experiments with the musical possibilities of sound recording. Later, leaving behind instrumental writing, he dedicated himself exclusively to electroacoustic composition and his work since 1963 was comprised exclusively of works for tape bearing witness to his continued interest in morphological interplay and ambiguities between sound and the images it may create.
