The first in this two-disc installment - Architecture In Sound Volume One features the virtuoso work Pied Piper for clarinet and tape, the beautiful Elegy for viola and tape and the impressively complex tour-de-force Mere Bagatelle for prepared piano 4-hands and synthesizer.

Aucourant is proud to be the publisher of two very important CDs of electronic music by well known American composer Roger Hannay - digitally re-mastered from the original recordings in 20-bit high definition audio. A senior member of the community of avant-garde composers, Hannay has been the recipient of numerous distinctions and awards. The first of these two discs, ARCHITECTURE IN SOUND VOLUME ONE, presents seven of his electronic works composed between 1970 and 1982. Among them are the virtuoso work Pied Piper for clarinet and tape, the beautiful Elegy for viola and tape and the impressively complex tour-de-force Mere Bagatelle for prepared piano 4-hands and synthesizer.

Hannay is an acknowledged pioneer of contemporary music, and his electronic works are an important and valuable addition to the available recorded literature of this important style of music. For this special two-volume publication the original recordings were very carefully edited and remastered in high-definition audio, rendering the music as it has never been heard before. This collection of fine compositions will appeal to aficionados of electronic and contemporary music and will be of special interest to collectors and broadcasters around the world.