Recent years have seen Erin Sexton earn accolades and praise from Montreal’s
vibrant sound art and improvised music scenes. After her first independent
release, ‘Aircraft’ (2004), and many subsequent collaborative projects, her highly
anticipated ‘Horizon’ double album has finally arrived on ‘les encodages de l’oubli.’

An experiment in sonic immanence, SOLO (CD1) features soft electrical
drones, physical feedback, oscillating waves, analog noise and electromagnetic
flux delicately manipulated by the artist creating fields, striking surfaces, and
touching the bare circuitry of her homemade electronics. She is slowly, patiently
inserting electrified metallic objects into your ears, moving them slightly in and out
of tune with the cosmic microwave background, conducting oscillations directly
to your brain, inducing otherworldly sonic experiences. Raw yet refined, theoretical
yet embodied, challenging yet ecstatic, these pieces zoom into the microcosm,
amplify the æther and discover subatomic delight.

DUOS (CD2) proposes four collaborations with some of Quebec’s foremost sound
artists and composers: Magali Babin, Érick d’Orion, Martin Tétreault and Hélène
Prévost. These improvisations combine Erin Sexton’s subtle and singular vibrations
with the well-known personalities of her counterparts, making it a listening experience
that transcends the firmament, exploring four distinct sonic worlds.

Sexton herself draws from EAI, free jazz, onkyokei, drone and minimalist influences
including Phil Niblock, Otomo Yoshide, Eliane Radigue, Alvin Lucier, Charlemagne
Palestine, Sun Ra, and Maryanne Amacher. She has collaborated with Ignaz Schick,
Chantale Laplante, Gayle Young, Bryan Eubanks, Greg Kelley, Jesse Kudler, Emilie
Mouchous, Alain Lefebvre, Chris Strickland, Philippe Lauzier, and many more.

In support of Horizon, Erin Sexton will be touring eastern North America in the summer
of 2011 and reaching European cities in the fall.