retour Lawrence Fritts rewiewed by University of Iowa City, Iowa, USA, Extrait Festival International d’Art Acousmatique, Futura 2000, Crest, F ...While pitched sounds figured prominently in many works of the festival, they tended to be used in atmospheric, rather than structural ways. One of the most evocative was Eléonore Bak’s Les Gardiens du Son. Here, isolated high pitched sounds are presented in a spare, almost uninterpreted time-space. As the piece progresses, reverberation and multiple-tape delays act to sustain high-frequency regions of the sound, evolving into a slow meditation on the pitches …