Nouveaux Territories - 03 Ristic, Gonneville, Oesterle, Lizée Ensemble contemporain de Montréal Véronique Lacroix - chef Michèle Motard, mezzo-soprano | Andrea Tyniec, violin ACD2 2582 • The four works in the third volume of Nouveaux Territoires are representative of the century in which we live, with its blending of pop and highbrow culture, tradition and new technology. • The vocal part in Michel Gonneville's Microphone Songs is sung, manipulated, and processed in a way that recalls Björk's stylings.   Like Nicole Lizée's Left brain / Right brain, Gonneville's piece shares the rhythmic complexities of modern music, and syncopations typical of rock, jazz, and popular music. • Michael Oesterle's Dialogue sur d'infimes souvenirs evokes world music with a touch of nostalgia.   Hints of Middle-Eastern strings are combined with the more familiar sounds of the accordion, piccolo, tuba, and steel and snare drums. • André Ristic pushes contrasting styles even further in Projet d'opéra.   The composer takes historically inspired instrumental and vocal structures and makes them modern by adding sampled sounds and electronic manipulations.   The deliberately 'dirty' sounds of the virtuoso violin playing rubs up against the lush Romantic orchestral accompaniment. 1. Projet d'opéra -- Ristic, André     26.02 2. Microphone Songs -- Gonneville, Michel     12.18 3. Dialogue sur d'infimes souvenirs -- Oesterle, Michael     20.11 4. Left Brain/Right Brain -- Lizée, Nicole     11.40 ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879