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A 1
Recording of Daniel Schachter's A 1. This piece uses traditional electronic technique and emphasizes on musical gestures. The sounds are mostly synthetically constructed and are heard throughout the piece.
1...789
Haris XANTHOUDAKIS: 1 ... 789 It is the setting to music (of the "setting in rhythm", more precisely) of two Greek texts talking about the French revolution and illustrating two opposite aspects of its impact in Greece, still occupied by the Turks, of the end of the seventeenth century: a "Patriarchal letter" (sort of circular of the Patriarch of Constantinople, to read in the Orthodox churches), condemning the French who "practiced the fraticide, killed their king and lost their faith in God" (in this order) and, on the other hand, a poem by Antonios Martelaos (1754-1818), congratulating the French for having shed blood for the freedom of the people. The first text is played at the beginning and end of the song (phonetically reversed and in a normal voice, respectively). The other forms slowly, parallel to a rhythmic accompaniment, of "disco" nature. This double reconstitution will be done in steps of proportion 1: 2: 3: ...: 7: 8: 9. A portion of this proportion, namely 1: 7: 8: 9, serves to generate an interval pattern (semitone, fifth, sixth minor, sixth major) that appears in both its sequential and simultaneous forms. Repetitive music, "disco" music, serial music, for a piece that wants to celebrate a bicentennial, its contradictory way, while keeping its distance.
2 pièces + 2 exemples
Recording of John Chowning's 2 pièces + 2 exemples.
2 poems
Recording of Janos Decsenyl's 2 poems.
2, rue Charles Dubois
Recording of Etienne Saur's 2, rue Charles Dubois. The title of this piece is the address of the house where Jules Verne lived in Amiens. This work is comprised of 3 movements inspired by one of Verne's novels and was created as part of the open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composer wrote this piece to explore Verne's fascination with the speed of means of communication.
3 divertissements numériques (1 franchir le rubicon, 2 fission, 3 mange ta télévision)
Recording of Jean-François Cavro's 3 divertissements numériques (1 franchir le rubicon, 2 fission, 3 mange ta télévision). This work is created with electronics and uses traditional electronic technique. There is present noise elements within this work's texture, which establish a good balance within the orchestration of sound. By working with electronic sound effects and pre-recorded sounds of many qualities or frequencies, balance is found.
3 elektronische Studien
Recording of Lothar Voigtländer's 3 elektronische Studien. The basis for the composition are the poems of the poet Erich Arendt. The poems were written around 1925 in his Expressionist creative period. Accordingly, the compositional means: concrete musical material is mixed with electronic sounds to achieve a strongly expressive and suggestive associative effect. It is less thought of as a "setting" of the texts, but should be added to the often strongly symbolic language formulations as a different, musical dimension. The vocals and the piano usually work live. The piano is mostly treated as unrecognizable - this is to achieve a seamless insertion into the electro-acoustic sound material. In a performance, both piano and singer can be electro-acoustically amplified and to a lesser extent technically manipulated (reverberation, iteration, etc).
3 for 5
Recording of Richard Zvonar's 3 for 5 for percussion, performed by Daryl Pratt. The piece is divided into three movements, with a different set of instruments for each. These are set up in three locations, which form an arc left to right across the performance area. Four playback speakers are situated beside and between the three playing locations. The tape sounds are entirely derived from recorded sounds of the percussion instruments. Throughout the piece, the live and recorded sounds continuously diverge as the piece progresses until at the end, the original sounds have been greatly expanded and enriched through speed transposition, mixing, filtering, etc.
3 pièces pour double basse et bande
Recording of Orlando Jacinto Garcia's 3 pièces pour double basse et bande. Was written for bassist Robert Black and completed in the summer of 1990. The tape part was made using the bass player's recordings of brief musical pieces (i.e. tremolos, harmonics...) which were then digitized by the composer, sometimes transforming and mixing the material in layers of sound. The second of the three pieces is characteristic of a genre of glissandos, register changes, and also long holds both on tape and for the live double bass part. Great care as to the correctness of tone and the control of timbre is necessary on the part of the double bass player.
4 in 1
Recording of Herbert Mitschke's 4 in 1. This piece uses traditional electro-acoustic technique to alter recording sounds and explore musical possibilities.
4 Piezas Instrumentales
For being the round world, who walks away in the East looking for new landscapes, after many trips and adventures he will return to the starting point from the West ... perhaps without wanting to or looking for it. By listening to these 4 instrumental pieces, you will think that they consist of an interpretation made for traditional music instruments. However, for me, the composer is nothing but a new experience in the field of technological music. In this case the experimentation consists of a program that improvises, plays, exchanges in many different ways an initial succession of tones giving rise to very different sound tissues. It is an experiment of the same complexity and quality as others that I have used in the past and that have given me totally different sound results. In this case the experimentation uses shades of defined and adjustable height, creating clear intervalic, acordic, polyphonic organizations, etc. In this domain, a similarity with instrumental music is inevitably obtained. I did not want to avoid this reality using bands of noise or continuous changes of harmonicity, but, on the contrary, I highlight the winter using homogeneous sounds that parody some known acoustic instrument. The four instruments chosen are: Trumpet, Marimba, Voice and Guitar. These instruments are presets of the Yamaha DX7II with all its advantages and disadvantages. I chose a solo arrangement for each extremely sharp instrument in terms of interval discourse and thus obtain a better appreciation of the different games, canons, permutations, dynamic levels, ornamentations, etc., which developed the program. Each in semitones. The scores corresponding to the pieces of Trumpet, Marimba and Guitar are recorded on diskettes, constituting "tapeless music", bone music that can be played directly by operating the computer to the digital synthesizer. The vocal piece has been made in …
4 Poèmes
Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's 4 Poèmes made in a technique for a recording studio of hand-held electronic music. The sound material is based on electronic effects, rustling, instrumental and vocal sounds. Each part is integral, allowing them to present in the order of choice.
5 Cookie jars and a broomstick
Recording of Paul Geladi's 5 Cookie jars and a broomstick. The piece is based on percussive sound. These come from 5 cookie jars and a broken aluminum broomstick found in a garbage container. All the sound were recorded with a SONY ECM 979 stereo microphone.
5 Cookies
Recording of Paul Geladi's 5 Cookies. This piece is based on percussive sounds that come mainly from 5 cookie jars and a broken aluminum broomstick. It is a reworked version of "5 cookie jars and a broomstick" from 1995.
5 Interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili
Recording of Scipio di Agostino's 5 Interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili. This work consists of 5 untitled movements. This composition was written for string quartet and computer processing. The string instrumentals are not meant to sound like their traditional timbre and instead have become something that is algorithmically conceived and interactively regulated.
5 little things mother taught me
Recording of Jeffrey Faustman's 5 little things mother taught me. This work is a collection of five miniatures composed from three sound sources: the soprano voice from Edgar Varese's "Poem Electrique", the composer's voice, and a radio broadcast. The movements are titled: 1. Cantare, 2. Tedium, 3. Traumen, 4. Distance, and 5. Escape/Hallucination.
5 little things mother taught me
Recording of Jeffrey Faustman's 5 little things mother taught me. This work is a collection of five miniatures composed from three sounds. Most of the material was generated from a single sample of an analog recording of a soprano voice - the soprano voice from Edgar Varese's POEM ELECTRIQUE "to be exact. The other two sound sources are the composer's voice and a radio broadcast.
5 microinfinitos
Recording of Sergio Rojas de Carvalmo's 5 microinfinitos. A constellation of 27 micro-songs exploring new flirtations between poetry and music. Built-in, forgotten electro-acoustic design; music free of any adjective, without any fear or melodies or even rhythmic pulsations where the eroticism of the body is expressed. Poetic language at the limits of conciseness, flirting with prose, far from any domestication of literary genres. Dialogues of contrasting cultural spaces, dialogues of dimensions and above all dialogues where reason and concepts are silent and where everything is mystery.
5 Minut pred
Recording of Vlastislav Matoušek's 5 Minut pred. For pre-recorded sound and saxophone. This work used digital sound effects to enhance the listener's experience.
5 Piccoli Ritmi
Recording of Agostino Di Scipio's 5 Piccoli Ritmi. For tape music with computer-processed guitar sounds and voice. This work divided into 5 short section, each announced by Spanish voice. The text being read is from a poem by H. Maturana. The sounds are derived from mixing and processing concrete sounds. The processing techniques includes an interactively operated method of real-time recursive granulation and time-shifting. Feedback controls were utilized, so that amplitude and density of the output sound affect the time shift ratio and the pitch in the algorithms.
6 electronic preludes
Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's 6 electronic preludes for tape.
6 pièces avec voix
Recording of Simon Jaunin's 6 pièces avec voix. For pre-recorded voice, percussion, and electronics. The composer writes: "An informal exchange between a reciter of considerable renown and not mentioned. The pieces revolve around the persistence of salient discursive elements in an unstable sound field. In addition, a strong tension is created between the mechanical aspect of development and freedom of tone."
6 regards sur L.
Recording of Xavier Garcia's 6 regards sur L. This piece uses voice and manipulates the sound to create unsettling and technical passages. There is a wide use of the music technique of spatialisation.
7 Confusongs
Recording of Carl Stone's 7 Confusongs.
Los 7 Espejos
Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Los 7 Espejos. This work was composed for 6 instruments and electronics. This work is based on the idea of the computer "mirroring" each of the instruments presented in the piece. The composer purposefully makes the instrumental material stray from their traditional sounds, creating a confusing listening experience for the audience.
7 excerpts from "visual haïku"
Recording of Warren Burt's 7 excerpts from "visual haïku". "Visual Haiku" was a set of 16 computer pieces made for Robert Randall's "Visual Haiku" project in 1994. All the music was made on various computer systems using software such as Band-in-a-Box, Sound Globs, M, Cool Edit and so on. Each of the "Visual Haiku" used algorithmic processes to assemble music which loudly and proudly proclaimed bad taste and slavish obeisance to commercial musical models, in keeping with the neo-Warholian aesthetic of Randall's work. "Visual Haiku" appear on the 2 CD set "Randelli's Selection" - on Scarlet Aardvark CD No. 47 A and B, available from www.warrenburt.com.
8 Deustche Tänze
Recording of Peter Wessing's 8 Deutsche Tanze.
8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal
Recording of Sten Hanson's 8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal. This work is part of a series called "recycling" where material from traditional music is brought into the world of electroacoustics and made to fit into that genre of music. This piece specifically uses material from a polka and is played with a willow flute. The recording of the willow flute was made 40 years ago and is the only one of its existence.
11.09.01
Recording of Edgar Guzman's 11.09.01. This is a work for electronics and was written as an homage to the victims of 9/11. It includes various sound samples from radio and TV broadcasts as well as fragments from Mozart's 'Lacrimosa'. The composer has included a recommended speaker layout in which all 8 channels are surrounding the audience in a circle.
11 september
Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis match between Sweden and Chile with more than 4,000 participants. The text is taken in small excerpts from the document in Spanish, English, Swedish, Danish, French, Dutch, and Icelandic. The piece consists of three sections overlapping each other gradually, which shows the relationship between the spoken words and the immediate danger connected with that text. The first section "as a spontaneous statement," deals with the document at its direct background: the silence is broken, in spite of the danger connected with the writing, manifolding papers that criticize the politics and methods of the junta and discuss the strategy of the opposition. The second section deals with the document as a medium of discussion. At the end of this section, the "media-environment," "almost as a magazine on foreign affairs," is broken by shouts from the demonstration at the Bastad which were heard directly in Chilean TV. The third section is about the appeal of MIR as a direct request to the audience: to isolate the junta through a boycott of Chilean products and through demanding from national politicians to break the silence which has long been maintained, among other places in the United Nations of which Chile is still a member. Inspiration for the piece came from the composer's participation in the activities of the …
12 haiku pour la paix céleste
Recording of Bernard Fort's 12 haiku pour la paix céleste. This piece is for 12 haikus for celestial peace. Haikus are very short Japanese poems which with reading, demonstrate the way of photography, as moments, sensations and feelings. There is a wide variety of both synthesized sounds and manipulated samples.
12 heures 45 minutes
Recording of Patrick Fleury's 12 heures 45 minutes.
E 15
Recording of Peter Kolman's E 15.
15° harmonico
Recording of Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso's 15° harmonico. For harmonica, piano, and tape. This piece develops a series of variations of the initial piano sequence. Most of the sounds in the electronic part are taken from the samples of the piano itself, but a flute and various percussion instruments have also been used. These sounds have been reworked using different filtering techniques, to impose a harmonic relationship commonality between instrumental and electronic writing.
17 Juni 1944
Recording of Thorsteinn Hauksson's 17 Juni 1944.
20 000 lieux around il centro del Welt
Recording of Jadel Andreetto's 20 000 lieux around il centro del Welt. This work was inspired by Jules Verne. During a sleepless night, the composer read a variety of chapters from Verne's books and began playing basses, guitars, and their laptop. These improvisations created the framework of the finished piece.
[35 Denton Music Festival poster]
Poster advertising the 35 Denton Music Festival on March 8-11, 2012, in Denton, Texas. The poster features an illustration of a cyclist in the foreground, two cyclists and a van in the background, and the event title and details in orange and brown text in the upper left quadrant of the image.
[35 Denton Music Festival poster]
Poster advertising the 35 Denton Music Festival on March 8-11, 2012, in Denton, Texas. Poster features an illustration of a vertical bookcase filled with books and other objects, on which the names of the participating bands are printed. Event dates and wristband/ticket information is printed across the top of the poster and sponsor names/logos are printed across the bottom of the poster. Headlining bands were The Jesus & Mary Chain, Built to Spill, Bun B, Best Coast, The Mountain Goats, OM, The Raincoats, Devin the Dude, Atlas Sound, and Dum Dum Girls. The festival included over 150 acts.
[35 Denton Music Festival program]
Program for the 35 Denton music festival March 11-13, 2016. Contains details regarding the performer lineups at participating venues as well as advertisements for various Denton businesses. Cover features artwork by Nevada Hill.
[35 Denton poster]
Poster advertising the 35 Denton Music Festival on March 11-13, 2016, in Denton, Texas. Poster lists the participating bands in a block of text above an illustration of various animals as musicians over a background of multicolored geometric shapes and radiating yellow lines. Headlining bands included Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, Biz Markie, and Eliot Sumner.
48 13 N, 16 200
Recording of Tae Hong Park's 48 13 N, 16 200. This is a work for electronics that includes ambient sounds and spoken German language.
94 eleciones
Recording of Ricardo Arias' 94 eleciones. Inspired by the fascination of the fashionable spectacle of biodiversity. Within the tropical forest, psittacine, quickly show their invasion of acoustic space with repetitive and annoying messages. Sound recordings made in the forest and recordings of paid political advertising. The composer was devoted to cutting and assembling in sequence fragments of electoral sound borders and joining mixed unaltered vocalizations of birds and other animals.
96
Recording of Sten Hanson's 96. "According to Amnesty International, there are 96 countries in the world that have political prisoners. In most of these countries, there is clearly physical or mental torture that is punishable by law and unlawful killings." Sound material includes sounds of doors shutting, locks locking, bells, ringing, etc.
114 Songs
A collection of 114 songs set by Charles Ives, with lyrics by Ives and others. The back of the book contains a philosophical essay by Ives.
124 E 170th St
Recording William Ortiz's 124 E 170th St. (for electronic tape, narrator, and percussion). It is a mixed electroacoustic work depicting the Puerto Rican urban experiences the United States: the struggle against the agony of the ghetto and against the imposition of a crushing colonial state of mind. The piece is a summons to awake from the broken English dream and assume the Puerto Rican and Latin American essence that belongs to us. The text was written by two Puerto Rican poets living in New York City: Pedro Pietri and Sandra Esteves. The music largely makes use of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and involves theatrics.
888: Acht minuten achter acht netten vissen
Recording of Paul Geladi's 888: Acht minuten achter acht netten vissen. This work is for 8 mono soundtracks, supplied as 4 stereo pairs. The soundtracks are in finished form and should be mixed according to a set of instruction given by the composer, on an 8 channel mixer to stereo or quadro configuration loudspeakers. The piece is for live performance. The 8 mono tracks are to be reorganized in 2 groups of 3 and 5 tracks each and the tracks do not have to start synchronously, allowing for an incredible amount of performance interpretations.
950 for Bob
Recording of Terry Setter's 950 for Bob. He describes this style of composition as "focusless music," which is structured in such a way that the listener always hears an undifferentiated sound continuum, making the smallest changes noticeable. The title refers to the length of the piece (950 seconds) and to Robert Ericksson, to whom the piece is dedicated.
10C.7D1.023-0.1
Recording of Gianluca Ruggieri's 10C.7D1.023-0.1. This is a work for electronics and consists of 4 untitled movements.
1789-1989
Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lamentation of Louis XVI" and "The Permanent Guillotine", and ends with a few words from the Declaration of 1789, in French.
1789 Libegal FRA
Ivan PATACHICH: 1789 Libegal FRA The title of the play is a date, known throughout the world, and an acronym containing the first syllables of the three slogans of the French Revolution: FREEDOM, EQUALITY, FRAternity. The sound materials of the play are those three words spoken and sung in nine languages, French, English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, German, Erithrenic, Russian, Hungarian, and the sampled structures of the vowels and consonants of these notes in nine languages, as well as two concrete sounds. These sounds are interlaced by a pre-recorded and modulated percussion part and another one of percussion "alive" / live / without modulation. The work has nine parts "atacca". Its bridge shape is phrased by rhythmic contrasts. After the fifth section, the sections return "in crayfish", but in a varied form. The stereophonic work was realized with the collaboration of Istvan Horvath, sound engineer, Gabor Kosa, impact, Agnés Mester, -soprano, Gabor Olah, -Baryton.
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