Group of the Electronic Music Studio of McGill: Vox Machina.(Review)

Publication: Computer Music Journal

Publication Date: 22-MAR-01

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Group of the Electronic Music Studio of McGill: Vox Machina

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The latest release from GEMS (Group of the Electronic Music Studio of McGill), Vox Machina, includes compositions from five composers with different philosophies about composing in the electronic music medium. With this third recording, the group combines quality musical compositions with multimedia presentations to fully exploit the potential of computers in music.

The first work on the recording is Michael Picton's Ouvertures II. This piece features percussion and electroacoustic sounds. It is an elaboration on his 1991 composition, Ouvertures, and involves the superimposition of D'Arcy Gray's percussion over the tape of manipulated samples of Chinese cymbals, church bells, bowed bells, and rattling keys. For the...

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