Lionel Marchetti (b. 1967) is a French composer of musique concrète, a style of composition developed in France in the 1940s which uses manipulation of existing recorded sounds as a basis for the creation of new compositions. On this recording, he collaborates with Australian composer, performer and academic Cat Hope (b. 1966) and her ensemble Decibel.

The six works presented are meticulously constructed textural montages created (initially) from recordings of acoustic instruments including flutes, ocarinas and harmonicas. These origins, not necessarily obvious, ensure an organic sonic underpinning for the partition concrete parts, which can stand alone as recorded compositions or be performed with new accompaniments. They can also be read as ‘auditory scores’ to produce new...