The CD features the first recording of the composer's Riverrun, commissioned by the Venice Biennale and realized entirely with the technique of granular synthesis. This groundbreaking work was the recipient of the prestigious Magisterium award (the senior category for composers of more than 20 years experience) in the 1991 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France.
The disc also includes four other works, digitally
remastered, that appeared on the composer's earlier recordings -- the
text/soundscape work The
Blind Man, the ethereal computer
work Aerial (with horn player Steven Field), and two compositions from
Truax's last vinyl release, Sequence
of Earlier Heaven, the computer-synthesized works Wave Edge and Solar
Ellipse. Each was realized with the
composer's PODX system for digital sound synthesis and composition at Simon Fraser
University.
Digital Soundscapes (CSR-CD 8701) is available for a postpaid mail order price.
