Ælab was founded in 1996 by Stéphane Claude an electroacoustic composer and sound engineer and Gisèle Trudel, media artist. Both live and work in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

‘Riding’ contains four tracks of 39 minutes long and consists of a trip the pair made to New Zealand where they investigate the relation between the natural world with Maori students. This work is based on the duo’s interest to study human agency and ecology.

The music combined field recordings: bird songs, water streams, drones, oscillating tones and synth loops. These produce a mysterious soundscape while nature provides sounds that reveal a real world and less enigmatic.
– Guillermo Escudero