Monnet: Bosse, Crâne Rasé, Nez Crochu; Imaginary Travel, etc

Guy/Ensemble Court-Circuit/Valade(Zig-Zag, two CDs)Though regularly performed in France, Marc Monnet's music remains virtually unknown on this side of the Channel. It's hard to categorise. Born in 1947, Monnet studied with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne, but little of his teacher's originality and musical discrimination seems to have rubbed off. Many of Monnet's works involve real-time electronics developed at IRCAM in Paris, but which are used to surround fundamentally crude musical material with ...

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