denislorrain.org - Compositions

All unpublished scores: available from the Canadian Music Center or from the composer (em@il).
Recordings of electroacoustic fixed media works and Constructions, fixed media parts of mixed works: available from the composer (em@il).

During the period 1965 (ca.) to 1973: various pieces, live performances and sound tracks for theater (in Montréal and in Québec: La relève and Nouvelle compagnie théâtrale (see also) theater companies, ACTA Festival, productions of director André Brassard, etc.), animation films (University of Montréal) and radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

Huit pièces pour piano (1968)

Easy piano pieces for children. Publisher: Berandol Music Inc., Toronto, Canada, 1969 (under pseudonym David Laumes, 2 volumes, BER1550-1551 > search "Laumes" )

Arc (1969)

For string orchestra (duration: 10')

P-A, version II (1970)

For eight speaking voices (duration: 11'25")

P-A, version III

Fixed media (duration: 11'25")
First realization in the Groupe Informatique-Musique of the University of Montréal (1971)
Second realization (version Luminy) in Jean-Claude Risset's laboratory of the UFR of the Luminy Campus of the Aix-Marseille University (1976)

L'Angélus (1971)

For clarinet and fixed media, realized in the McGill University Electronic Music Studio (duration: 6')
Fixed media part revised in IRCAM (1987)

Suite pour deux guitares (1972)

For two guitars (duration: 4')

Séquence (1972)

For organ (duration: 5'30")

Polyphrase (1973)

For string orchestra (duration: 15'), commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Génériques (I, ∑, R) (1974)

Family of of three fixed media pieces (durations: 8' each). Realized in the Utrecht University Instituut voor Sonologie

Contra Mortem (1975)

Maximal contrast cycle for solo clarinet (duration: 10'37")

Droite, hommage à Le Corbusier (1974-76)

Fixed media: radiophonic piece for instruments and texts by Le Corbusier (duration: 18'). Realized in the Stockholm Elektronmusikstudion. Commissioned by the Canadian Federation of University Women

Le talon d'Achille (1976)

Maximal contrast path for solo flute (duration: 15'20")

Extrema (1977)

For organ and one percussionist (duration: 14')

Les portes du sombre Dis (1979)

Cycle for fixed media (duration: 25'). Realized in IRCAM

"Di mi se mai..." (1979)

For brass quintet, one percussionist and texts by Leonardo da Vinci on fixed media (duration: 14'). Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts for the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec

The Other Shape (1985)

For one percussionist and fixed media (duration: 24'). Realized in IRCAM. Commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts for percussionist Robert Leroux

... black it stood as night (1985)

Fixed media (duration: 14'15"). Re-composition of the fixed media part of The Other Shape

La nuova ricordanza (1986)

For two harpsichords (duration: 13')

Du jour, la nuit (1995)

For solo flute (duration: 5'). Publisher: Éditions Henry Lemoine, 1997 (collection Pierre-André Valade > seach "Lorrain")

Construction 037, Gryllibus (2004)

Fixed media: recorded piano emulator (duration: 13'34")

Construction 038, Au Plan musical (2004)

Fixed media: recorded piano emulator (duration: 23'55")

Construction 039, Hologramas, Homenagem a KTC (2010)

Fixed media: recorded piano emulator (duration: 33'12")

Construction 040, Treize miniatures en formes de galaxies (2010)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 21'02")

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Construction 041, Toccata (prélude) et fugue (2012)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 7'15")

Construction 042, Due cose, mille cose (2013)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 20'54")

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Construction 043, Ostinata (2014)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 13'40")

Construction 047, Eight Sturmian-Noll Studies (2015)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 22')

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Construction 053, "... somewhere south of silence" (2016)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 13')

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Construction 059, Streams of Khrónos (2019)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 14')

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Construction 061, Pleins et déliés (2021)

Algorithmic composition for MIDI piano — e.g. Disklavier (duration: 16')

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Construction 067, Hovering Memories (2022)