Alibi.(Review)

Publication: Computer Music Journal

Publication Date: 22-MAR-01

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The recent Jacques Tremblay compact disc, Alibi, includes six pieces dating from 1990-1995. Mr. Tremblay is a young composer who explains in the program notes that he began as a guitarist and encountered electroacoustic music as a "revelation." Further, he grounds his work in the use of concrete sound, both vocal and ambient, and favors a rich, dark sound palette. The "typical" sonic makeup of the first three pieces, in particular, are so varied and rich, yet oddly similar to each other,...

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