Record launch and west coast debut of a new Montreal label, Empreintes Digitales, under the direction of Jean-François Denis and Claude Schryer. A concert featuring performances by Lori Freedman, Kathy Lewis, Pauline Vaillancourt, and the composers, of works by Daniel Scheidt, Alain Thibaut, Robert Normandeau and Christian Calon.

The concert on February 22 featured Jacques Drouin performing a piano composition by Alain Thibaut, percussionist Trevor Tureski in Scheidt’s Obeying the Laws of Physics and Claude Schryer in a new work for clarinet and electronics.

The concert on February 23 featured Martin Gotfrit, Jean-Francois Denis, Hildegard Westerkamp, Daniel Scheidt on computers, Claude Schryer on clarinet and bass clarinet, Alain Thibault and Jacques Drouin on MIDI piano and Robert Normandeau and Trevor Tureski on percussion.

Programme (from recording):
The Machine’s Four Humours (Martin Gotfrit, 1990)
Point-virgule (Jean-Francois Denis, 1990)
Breathing Room (Hildegard Westerkamp, 1990)
A Digital Eclogue (Daniel Scheidt, 1986)
Concerto pour piano MIDI (Alain Thibault, 1989)
Mémoires vives (Robert Normandeau, 1989)
OUT (Alain Thibault, 1985)
Obeying the Laws of Physics (Daniel Scheidt, 1987)

Audio Recording duration: 01:28:46

Digitized audio of this concert is available through the Western Front Archives upon research request.