Bretagne, entre 919 et 995. Après une jeunesse d'exil, Alain de Barbetore, de retour en Armorique, s'emploie à en chasser les Normands. Ses actes héroïques l'entourent d'une aura, jusqu'à lui accorder la protection divine lors de sa reconquête de Nantes. Le roman conte également ses amours pour trois épouses, son indéfectible amitié pour ses compagnons et ses incroyables funérailles.
For the 30th birthday of INA, the GRM has decided to present in this CD box some of his archives. INA - GRM (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel - Groupe de Recherches Musicales) in Paris, France, is the pioneering organisation of electroacoustics, acousmatics and musique concrète, with a history going back many decades, as active today as ever, recording and releasing a long string of historically important, but also new and innovative, electracoustic works, while also engaging in research into new techniques and teaching. The Acousmonium of the GRM is utilized giving renowned concerts of electroacoustic music.
To mark and celebrate the thirty years of the INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), the GRM (Groupe des Recheches Musicales) has chosen to bring together an exceptional set of five compact discs, illustrating some of its most remarkable musical archives. These original works, which are often previously unpublished or have been dispersed throughout a host of other publications, are important because of the originality and audacity they testify to in the second half of the 20° century. Some listeners will be pleased to see that there are a number of illustrious composers here who, in the 1950s, frequented the studio of Pierre Schaeffer, and others will discover numerous musicians whose enthusiasm enabled this innovative musical genre to last throughout the following decades.
Emmanuel Hoog, président directeur générale de l'Inafrom the attached booklet