Actes Sud is a very successful book publisher with a strong identity and high standards. They strive to support the creativity of everyone involved in their publishing adventure and to encourage the emergence and recognition of their talent. Actes Sud now aims to open the door to musicians eager to find an ambitious alternative for their projects. As a result, Actes Sud Musicales is a series of high quality original recordings in real books, featuring contemporary photographs: CD-Books featuring photography put to music or music put to images.

The second Viennese school has long represented the surest source of modernity and, in this, it occupies a privileged place. Listening to Schoenberg, Berg or Webern is a sure way to challenge acquired habits.

Here performed by the cosmopolitan pianist Jean-Louis Steuerman, these piano pieces are accompanied by the photography of Michael Ackerman who, to illustrate this universe, has chosen pieces expressing specific atmospheres where time is both unbalanced and suspended. The photographer invites listeners, in all freedom, to immerse themselves musically in his suggestions.