Denis Dufour: Complete Acousmatic Works, Vol. 2

With the release of the second box, KAIROS continues the monumental undertaking of documenting Denis Dufour’s complete acousmatic works. When one considers the extraordinary stylistic breadth, the wealth of expression, and the ever-expanding sonic territories explored in this second 16-disc set, one might feel that Dufour’s œuvre has at last been fully charted or, conversely, that there is still an inexhaustible world left to discover. Our need for music is insatiable, yet Dufour’s sonic-musical creation, his multi-polar acousmatic art, once again rises far above the ordinary. May this second box set in the larger anthology demonstrate how he has become one of the rare figures capable of breaking the space-time barrier through his unique ability to absorb other sound worlds and unite the disparate spheres of the audible, thus embodying the voluptuous, generative chaos of the music of our time.