There seems no doubt that American minimalist music had flourished in the aftermath of loops and sonic reinjections of Pierre Schaeffer's French studio where he invented ‘musique concrete’ in 1948, composing his famous 'Études de bruits'.

It is from one of them, Étude pathétique, that Denis Dufour renews his experience of a transcription of a singular sound world. In Spot, offering a careful and accurate translation, not in letter but in spirit, he transposes the ineffable of ingenuity, of th...