technological stamp

[Sean Cooper <scooper@xxxxxxxx>]

this is a *profoundly* inane question, and i'm hoping somebody might be
able to answer it for me off-list, but can anybody describe for me what is
the technical process being used in the closing minute or so of disc 2,
track 8 of bernard parmegiani's "violostres"? the sounds i'm referring to
are sort of laser-gun-sounding attacks with an almost watery quality to
them. i'm not a musician and i have no intention of "ripping off" whatever
that process happens to be, i'm just fascinated by the quality of these
sounds. i'm interested in how he might have gone about making them -- and
whether there might be a recognizable "technological stamp" that would
allow one to decipher that.

sc