Pieces for Sine Wave Oscillators

by Olivier Alary

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Acoustic Ecologist I originally thought this album was a meditative, minimalist exercise: a deep listen with not all that much to say. Then when I damaged my ears (I'm okay now), I heard high-pitched ringing. It was musical and lush. Alary has created a piece reflecting on the fragility of human hearing. How when we age we lose something so intimate to our understanding of the world. Pieces is a magnificent work about being a decaying being. (Recommend listening to it on low volume at least once.)

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1.	I 10:59	buy track
2.	II 11:58	buy track
3.	III 12:48	buy track
4.	IV 08:33	buy track
5.	V 14:37	buy track
6.	VI 03:17	buy track

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Pieces for Sine Waves Oscillators is the first collection of purely electronic music by musician and composer Olivier Alary. These six tracks explore the melodic, harmonic and contrapuntal possibilities of the most rudimentary expression of sound: the sine tone. In Alary's hands, these basic, occasionally discordant elements become a soundtrack to feeling and rest, dream and presence—sometimes bell-like, sometimes evoking brass, strings, organs or woodwinds.

Using a network of 64 software oscillators, the composer creates voices, blurring melodies, which drift and intertwine—a post-modern, digital chamber music that also recalls Medieval forms, Renaissance choirs. Pieces for Sine Waves Oscillators has none of the coldness that characterizes similar work by minimal electronic composers: these gentle, vivid elegies seem to shift and breathe, twisting like aurora, gesturing toward the sacred.

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released June 2, 2017

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Olivier Alary Montreal, Québec

Olivier Alary is a Montreal-based musician and composer. Trained in architecture, sonic arts and
instrumental composition, Olivier is interested in exploring the grey area between music and
noise. For the past ten years, he has provided soundtrack for over forty feature-length film. In parallel of his film work, he has released albums on Rephlex, Fat-
Cat Records, and 130701. ... more

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