"Oriental Intrigue" from the album "Tant Pis 81-82" by Cham-Pang, an 80's band/performance unit for which I was in charge of the music. Label: Tenzier

Oriental Intrigue (1981)

"Tant pis pour les Heures de Sommeil" from the album "Tant pis 81-82" by Cham-Pang, a musical/performance group for which I was responsible of the music. Record label: Tenzier.

If I can remember clearly, instruments used were:
- EMS synthi
- TR-808
- Pro "something" synth (for bass)
- Ro-to-tom percussions (Angel Calvo)
- Alto Sax (Robert M. Lepage)
- Lyricon (Daniel Lajoie)
Voice: Yvel Champagne

- Do not hesitate if you have any questions...

Tant Pis Pour Les Heures De Sommeil (1981)

Available on Anna Logue "Echoes from our Past"
DNA by the group Vex (Montréal)
Recorded in 1979
Group was founded by Alan Lord (Vent du Mont Schärr) and Bernard Gagnon (Bernard Gagnon, Heaven Seventeen, Cham Pang) Drums: Angel Calvo (Rational Youth, Cham Pang)

This song can be heard on the soundtrack for the film "Montréal New Wave"

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DNA - Vex

Composed in 1983 on the Synclavier (McGill Electronic Music Studio) using Script. I needed a break from the abstract and felt like doing something light and so I came up with this piece. Is available on album "Bernard Gagnon: Musique Électronique 1975-1983" released on Tenzier (2012)

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Totem Ben

This is a piece from my album "Bernard Gagnon: Musique électronique 1975-1983" released by the Tenzier label.
Title is "Gololo-Mashta"
Composed in 1975, played by "L'Agace-Volaille" my ensemble at the time. Recorded on 2 track. Later electronically processed at McGill studio, probably in 1980...
The piece was based on a numerological series that expands into infinity and so it has no real ending. Basically, it would stop when musicians could not take it anymore. Some sort of "mental shred", I guess...

Musicians:
Drums: Michel Courcy
Electric Bass: Jean-Pierre Gratton
Custom tuned electric guitar: Jean Bourque
Clarinet: Michel-Paul Chabot
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Gololo - Mashta

Extract from my album "Musique Électronique 1975-1983" on the tenzier label. www.tenzier.org

This piece, written in Synclavier's script language (1983) is a reflexion on our karma and the impact of collisions between parallel lives. We walk around, bump into each other and then guess what? We think we recognize repetitive patterns and can use them but in the end we are fooled...

Nous sommes tous des Cré Basile

"Gwendoline Descendue!" was created at the McGill Electronic Music studio in 1981. Using John Willie's bondage starlet as a muse, I uncovered her "assassination" through an aural process close to what I had visually seen in Antonioni's "Blow Up". The manic rhythm and intensity are influenced by a cinema genre that has always strongly attracted me: giallo. The form of the piece is helicoïdal, pretty much like a lot of western or even eastern bondage techniques.

The piece won two awards at the time, the CAPAC (now SOCAN) Composition award and the Radio-canada Jeunes Compositeurs award. 

It is available on Tenzier's release: "Bernard Gagnon: Musique Électronique 1975-1983" on vinyl, limited edition.

Gwendoline Descendue!

Composed at McGill Electronic Music Studio (1980) A reflexion on one's ownership of one's own language and thought.

Dictée

Now on the album "Bernard Gagnon: Musique Électronique (1975-1983)". Written in 1979 on Arp 2800. This is an homage to writer Francis Ponge and his singular piece "La Crevette sommée une fois pour toutes". The whole piece is a retroactive system that I designed and let go by itself. It is basically one live stereo take, no post-processing, no overdub.

Sea Lunch

Musician/composer from Montréal


Member of experimental/improvisational band Mergélèpe-Guorismogue (1973), of Atelier de Musique Expérimentale and early Montréal punk and new wave bands Vex, Heaven Seventeen, Cham Pang. Founder, with Robert M. Lepage, of band "La Flore Laurentienne" found on Ambiances Magnétiques label. Also composer under his name.

Album "Bernard Gagnon: Musique Électronique 1975-1983" released on Tenzier in 2012

DNA is on Anna Logue records

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