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Jean-Paul Jeannotte record sleeve on the Select label
1965
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Credits:
Phonothèque québécoise collection

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David Gaudreault, guitarist, listening to his recording with Gilles Poirier, head of the SNE label.
1990
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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The art of recording is often poorly understood. Gilles Poirier, a pioneer in the recording of classical musicians in Quebec, perfected his techniques at Radio-Canada to begin with, and then with his own record label(SNE). In addition, his catalogue included contemporary music by Quebec composers.

He maintains that the sound man faces a blind audience (who cannot see the musicians playing) and so must strive at the console to achieve a precise and subtle kind of compensation, to bring the sound perspectives heard in the original acoustic setting to life and to have them "make sense".

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Gilles Poirier, head of the SNE label, with flautist Michel Bellavance at Saint-Augustin de Mirabel
April, 1995
Mirabel, Quebec, Canada

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Gilles Poirier with composers Denis Dion and Denys Bouliane at the Hôtel Champlain.
29 November 1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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The following Quebec independent labels have contemporary music catalogues:

Alien8 Recordings (electronic music) / Allied Record Corporation / Ambiances magnétiques / Analekta / Atma / Avatar / Centrerecords (Canadian Music Centre) / Records Victo / Empreintes digitales / Janus (became Pirouette) / Laurentian Records / McGill Records / Radio-Canada International / SNE / UMMUS

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Launch of a record by Michel Cardin, lute-player, at the Maison Youville.
1990
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Gilles Poirier, sound man and head of the SNE label, receiving an Opus prize.
1998
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Gilles Poirier, sound man and head of SNE, with with Maryvonne Kendergi and Mireille Gagné.
1995
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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The following three people made important contributions to contemporary Canadian music: Maryvonne Kendergi (who interviewed Igor Stravinsky on Radio-Canada), Mireille Gagné, director of the Canadian Music Centre(an organization that publishes recording-related materials) and Gilles Poirier, sound man and director of the SNE label.

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Record sleeve from 'La diva et le vinyle' by Martin Tétreault and Robert M. Lepage.
1997
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Contemporary music may at times turn to the past. Here a "music actuelle" turntablist (DJ) goes back to recordings made by Maria Callas, in collaboration with a clarinettist/improviser, Robert Marcel Lepage. The frontiers between genres have become fluid.