Sonde- EN CONCERT (Music Gallery Editions MGE14) 1978

Sonde - EN CONCERT (MGE14) 1978

From the back cover (enclosed):

Live concert improvisations. Some of the pieces are played on new sound-sources designed and constructed by members of the group. Others use traditional sources in a new context. Occasional use of electronic sound-modification techniques.


From the insert (enclosed):

Mario Bertoncini showed Le Groupe Mud that music can be made from
'sound sources' which the musician conceives and makes himself. The activity, which he calls "Musical Design", is not the same as instrument building.
An instrument can play any number of different peices. On the other hand, the sounds available from a 'sound source' constitute a single piece. This is a kind of sculpture in sound in which no parts are predetermined and in which the only guide is the kind of sound one wants to explore.(...)
The use of electronic amplification makes it possible to discover a world of sound in any type of material. Each successive degree of amplification is like hearing further and further inside he material with a kind of musical microscope. The sound can also be varied, in real time, by electronic processes such as filtering or ring modulation(...)
Gradually, through a period of improvisational practice, each sound-source begins to impose a 'form' on the piece.One source may ask for an active, fast-moving piece with silence in which players contrast different sounds; another may require a slower, continuous band of sound with constantly shifting colours, with the players providing the blend. But each time the piece is played it is new. With each improvisation a new aspect of it is discovered, and this becomes part of the piece which never stops growing.
Sonde - en concert

Side One:

A1- Mudiature 0:15
A2- Sahabi 3 7:02
A3- Voix 9:05
A4- Flutes/Modulation 5:25
A5- Mudiature 0:20

Side Two:

B1- Les Plaques 11:03
B2- Sahabi 2 14:06


















Performers – Andrew Culver, Charles De Mestral, Chris Howard (tracks: A1, A3 to A5, B1), Keith Daniel (tracks: A1, A3 to A5), Linda Pavelka (tracks: A1, A3 to A5), Pierre Dostie
Photography – Culver, Miller

Side A is from a concert at Music Gallery, Toronto, on January 14, 1978.
Track B1 is from a concert given at the group's studio in Montréal on July 13, 1977.
Track B2 is from a concert given at York University, Toronto on January 17, 1978.
This record is dedicated to Mario Bertoncini.

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