INA-GRM

Records by the pioneering French public centre in electro-acoustic research founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1958 Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), part of INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) since 1975, directed by François J. Bonnet since 2018.

See also Spectres (annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and INA-GRM).
 
Paris
 
23 titles
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Éliane Radigue - Œuvres électroniques (14 CD box set)
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
2025 repress of the incredible 14xCD lavish box set, a 16+ hour compendium of the electronic music key works from one of the most important electronic composers of the 20th century complete with a 100-page booklet.
François Bayle - 50 ans d\'acousmatique (15 CD + booklet box set)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.
Robert Cahen - La nef des fous (vinyl LP)
2024
Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.
François Bayle - Le Projet Ouïr (CD)
2023
A 62' minute piece composed between 2015 and 2019, published for the first time on CD digipak.
Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (pour Georgia O\'Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (vinyl LP)
2023
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Félicia Atkinson and Richard Chartier.
Daniel Teruggi - Sphæra (vinyl LP)
2023
An electroacoustic piece composed between 1984 and 1989, inspired by the ancient theory of the four elements and exploring the notions of matter and its transformation.
Luc Ferrari - L\'œuvre électronique (10 CD box set)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
A lavish 10-CD box set with a 106-page book, featuring more than 11 hours of seminal works by one of the most important electronic and electroacoustic composers of the 20th century.
Bernard Parmegiani - L\'œuvre musicale en 12 CD (box set)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
currently out of stock
An essential anthology gathering more than 30 works composed and recorded over four decades by one of the most iconic concrète composers.
Beatriz Ferreyra - Senderos de luz y sombras (vinyl LP)
2023
A 16-channel piece composed between 2016 and 2020, inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and some of the uncanny motions of the unconscious mind, where strangeness meets the ordinary, in memoriam Bernard Baschet, Bernard Parmegiani and Carlos Pellegrino.
Peter Rehberg - at GRM (2009, 2016) (vinyl LP)
2022
Two previously unreleased recordings of Peter Rehberg (1968-2021), live performances given at the GRM which, each in their own way, vividly illustrate the extent of his sonic palette.
Lionel Marchetti - La grande vallée / Micro-climat (vinyl LP)
2021
Two essentiel works of musique concrète commissioned for and and realised at the GRM by Lionel Marchetti during the mid ‘90s.
Okkyung Lee - Statistique Synthétique / Teum (the Silvery Slit) (vinyl LP)
2021
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series with two electroacoustic pieces by Florian Hecker (computer-generated multiphonic sounds and resynthesized recordings of localized textures) and Okkyung Lee (an acousmatic piece written for computer-generated sounds, pre-recorded materials and cello that was developed for the Acousmonium sound diffusion system during a residence at Ina GRM, Paris, in January 2019).
Bernard Fort - FRACTALS / Brain Fever (vinyl LP)
2020
A highly psychedelic electroacoustic piece from 1981 built on fractal patterns in the studios of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes de Lyon, and another one composed almost four decades later, based on birdsong and forest sounds.
Luc Ferrari - Music Promenade / Unheimlich Sch​ö​n (vinyl LP)
2019
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Two pieces of electroacoustic music and musique concrète, Music Promenade (1964-1969, permanent version for four stand-alone tape recorder) and Unheimlich Schön (made in 1971 in the studios of the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden).
Régis Renouard Larivière - Contrée (vinyl LP)
2019
Three rare pieces by a composer best known for his work for the stage, dance and theater, a perfect introduction to the work of a fascinating figure of 20th century electroacoustic music.
Pierre Schaeffer - L\'œuvre musicale (3 CD box set)
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
The new and final edition of this 3CD box gathering all the musical work from Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995).
Horacio Vaggione - Schall / Rechant (vinyl LP)
2024
sold out
Four purely electroacoustic pieces recorded between 1994 and 2002 by the Argentine composer and theorist.
Kali Malone - Living Torch (vinyl LP)
2022
sold out
The first collaboration between the GRM and new label-partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series which Peter Rehberg of Editions MEGO set the foundation for in 2012, Living Torch is a major piece by Kali Malone adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire.
Kali Malone - Living Torch (CD)
2022
sold out
The first collaboration between the GRM and new label-partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series which Peter Rehberg of Editions MEGO set the foundation for in 2012, Living Torch is a major piece by Kali Malone adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire.
Michèle Bokanowski - Rhapsodia / Battements solaires (vinyl LP)
2021
sold out
Two contrasting pieces by French composer Michèle Bokanowski, recorded a decade apart, which nevertheless demonstrate her unique style.
Lucy Railton - Forma / Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly) (vinyl LP)
2020
sold out
Two pieces that evolve with grace and inspiration in the vast domain of the sound world, each with their own agenda.
Jim O\'Rourke - Shutting Down Here (vinyl LP)
2020
sold out
Recorded at INA GRM and Steamroom, covering a period of thirty years, the gap between the two visits Jim O'Rourke made to the GRM, featuring Eiko Ishibashi on piano, Atsuko Hatano on violin and viola and Eivind Lonning on trumpet, Shutting Down Here is considered by O'Rourke himself as his “most meaningful” release.
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum (vinyl LP)
2013
sold out
Reissue of Bernard Parmegiani's masterpiece (1975), considered as a milestone in the history of music, an absolute classic of electroacoustic music.
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