Executive producer, Reijo Kiilunen ; produced in collaboration with IRCAM (Institut de recherche et de coordination acoustique/musique)
For soprano (1st work), cello (2nd work), flute (3rd work), or percussion (4th work); with electronics.
Compact disc.
Program notes by Pierre Michel in French with English, German, and Finnish translations, biographical notes on the performers in the same languages, and text of the 1st work with French and English translations (23 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
Recorded Nov. 1996 (3rd work), and Mar. (1st work), Apr. (2nd work), and June (4th work), 1997, Espace de Projection, IRCAM, Paris.
Sung in old Provençal and English.
Lonh (15:46) -- Près (19:18) -- Noanoa (8:40) -- Six Japanese gardens. Tenju-an Garden of Nanzen-ji Temple (3:50) ; Many pleasures (Garden of the Kinkaku-ji) (1:28) ; Dry mountain stream (3:20) ; Rock garden of Ryoan-ji (3:52) ; Moss garden of the Saiho-ji (2:52) ; Stone bridges (3:28)