phonographie

Phonothèque québécoise
A Sound Archive
Preserving, documenting and sharing our sound heritage

Completed Projects

Phonography, hearing the heritage

JAZZ : Les folles nuits de Montréal
1 CD (2005)

Phonothèque québécoise, Centre d’histoire de Montréal and Justin Time coproduction

Exhibit’s soundtrack about the history of jazz in Montreal; booklet with a jazz records chronology; compilation from Justin Time catalogue with great canadian jazz musicians like Oscar Peterson, Paul Bley, Nelson Symonds, Maynard Ferguson, Ranee Lee, Oliver Jones, Michel Donato...

JR 6704-2 [UPC 0-68944-67042-0]

La Bolduc, l'Intégrale,
4-CD or cassette box set (1993)

Phonothèque québécoise and Enregistrement Analekta Inc. coproduction

Produced from the original 78 rpm records, this reissue of La Bolduc's complete recordings includes 86 tracks and a 52-page booklet with all song lyrics, recording dates and master numbers.
AN 2 7001-4 [UPC 7-74204-70012-6]

Maurice Blackburn. Filmusique. Filmopéra,
2-CD box set (February 1996)
Co-produced by the Phonothèque québécoise and the National Film Board; Distribution Analekta

Released in February 1996, this reissue contains 2 CDs and a bilingual 84-page booklet tracing the evolution of sound artist Maurice Blackburn. The box set includes excerpts from the film soundtracks for Twirligig, A Phantasy, Blinkity Blank, Je, Caprice de Noël, Jour après jour, L'Eau, E, Ciné-crime, Notes sur un triangle, Mourir à tue-tête, Les Filles du Roy, plus the electroacoustic work Verbération and a sound tribute to Maurice Blackburn by Yves Daoust. AN 2 7005-6 [UPC 7-74204-70052-2]

Ixe-13 IXE-13 (1997)

IXE-13 is a unique phenomenon in Quebec cinematography. This very rare "musical", inspired by Pierre Saurel's famous eponymous serial, is the work of Jacques Godbout (libretto and production) and François Dompierre (music). The French Canadian Dream was part of 1950s popular culture, when thousands of readers would avidly await each new adventure of a hero who appealed, for different reasons, to mothers and to young men and women alike. Theatrical and operatic,

IXE-13 is also exciting and fanciful. This film is made to be listened to, bringing it within the realm of "Cinema for the Ear". Twenty-five years after it was first released, the Phonothèque québécoise, together with the Cinémathèque québécoise and Les Productions François Dompierre Inc., wanted to revive this monument to healthy irreverance by resuscitating the phonographic trace of the film score in a new version without images. PFDCD 8000 [UPC 7-76693-80002-8]

If you are interested in purchasing one of these recordings, please contact the Phonothèque,

by phone:

(514) 282-0703 afternoons, Tuesday through Thursday

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mailing address:
Phonothèque québécoise
335, boul. de Maisonneuve Est
Montreal (Quebec) H2X 1K1

fax: (514) 282-0019