Chrysopée Électronique

Chrysopée Électronique is an album series, produced by French electroacoustic music center IMEB – Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, and released by an affiliated Mnémosyne Musique Média publishing house. Named after chrysopoeia, an alchemical transmutation into gold, this series present electroacoustic/experimental works, composed and recorded over the years at GMEB/IMEB studios. Chrysopée Électronique features solo albums, or musical monographs, by the core group of IMEB composers, such as Françoise Barrière, Pierre Boeswillwald, Christian Clozier, Roger Cochini and Alain Savouret, and several visiting composers: Beatriz Ferreyra, Gonzalo Biffarella, Francisco Kröpfl, Luis Maria Serra and Horacio Vaggione (Argentina), Eduardo Kusnir (Venezuela), Sten Hanson (Sweden), François Giraudon (France). Since 2000, an annual Compendium International 2xCD compilation was released in the series, and to celebrate GMEB's 30th anniversary, IMEB Opus 30 Vol. 1 (1970-1983) and Vol. 2 (1984-1999), both on 3xCD, were issued in 2003. Until Mnémosyne Musique Média publishing house was established by IMEB around 1994, Chrysopée Électronique albums were distributed by Harmonia Mundi s.a. Even though Le Chant Du Monde logo doesn't appear on any of the releases, they all have LDC xxxxxx catalog numbers, perhaps by association with early Cultures Électroniques editions.