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Decline

Description: Recording of John Duesenberry's Decline. This piece features "Decline", a poem by Georg Trakl. Most of the sound sources come from bird calls, the poem itself, or a six-note collection by various electronic of solo string timbres. Pairs of these sounds are combined to form new sounds which partake of the timbral and rhythmic characteristics of both sources. The work has three sections; each stanza is recited at the center of each section.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 6 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Duesenberry, John, 1950-

Dedicate to you II

Description: Recording of Lars Gunnar Bodin's Dedicate to you II. A text is fragmented by the equipment of the electronic music studio and then processed to form a model of semi-subconscious communication. The voice fragments are then processed and manipulated with electronics to create the granular synthesis like sound.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-

Dialogues

Description: Recording of Jacob TV's Dialogues. This work is made up of two movements: "Gulf war" and "Talk show". Dialogues uses recording of speech and electronics to created musical gesture and interaction.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Jacob TV, 1951-

Dimers liquids

Description: Recording of Cèsar Amiguet Puig's Dimers liquids.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 59 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Amiguet Puig, Cèsar

Djuro's Tree

Description: Recording of Larry Austin's Djuro's Tree. Octophonic computer music. Djuro's Tree is centered around a family portrait of three generations. The story is set in a dynamically moving octophonic "family" tree of sound. The sounds of the tree's limbs creaking and rustling were taken from the BBC Sound Effects Library. The creaking limbs are a recording of a squeaking wooden chair. Software and hardware systems used in Birmingham included Sound Designer, SoundHack, Audiosculpt, Csound, and GRM Tool… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Austin, Larry

Don't hesitate, do it right now

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's Don't hesitate, do it right now. This work consists of 4 separate pieces: 'Che', 'The Glorious Desertion', 'Don't hesitate, do it right now', and 'Revolution'. This collection of pieces were inspired by the ADC (American Deserters Committee), a group of American soldiers that found sanctuary in Sweden after deserting the American army during the Vietnam war. The spoken text in this piece is sampled from a speech given by Che Guevara, a public figure who took part in C… more
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Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

Dreampaths, A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90

Description: Recording of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90. This is a single movement work for soprano solo, two sopranos, two altos, and computer generated tape. In the text of the Canto, Pound incorporates Latin, English, Chinese and Greek, in order to describe the visual imagery of the poem which begins with a quote from Richard of St Victor. The computer-generated portion of the work is composed of both synthesized sounds and sampled, processed sounds from a collection of Chine… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn, 1953-

Dreamsong

Description: Recording of Michael McNabb's Dreamsong. It features a mixture of synthesized, digitally recorded and digitally processed sounds. These sound, along with the precision control of digital processing and mixing, result in an expressive sonic continuum ranging from unaltered real sounds to those that are totally imaginary. The melodic and harmonic structure provides the framework for continuous timbral and textural transformations. The work was done using digital synthesis, processing, and sound e… more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: McNabb, Michael

Dressing old words new

Description: Recording of Christian Banasik's Dressing old words new. For baritone saxophone and tape (version II for bass-clarinet and tape). The structure of the piece is based upon formal characteristics and idiomatic expressions of the 76. Sonnet by William Shakespeare which was analyzed by pitch to midi converter and computer programs. The sound of the recitation was transformed and produced metric-rhythmical patterns and pitches thus generating the material for the composition. The basic patterns are … more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Banasik, Christian

Drop !

Description: Recording of Per Arvidsson-Bremmers' Drop !. This piece was commissioned by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health. The task was given to different artists to create a work that would shed light on HIV and AIDS.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 23 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Arvidsson Bremmers, Per

Earth Ascending

Description: Recording of Elainie Lillios' Earth Ascending. This work uses traditional electro-acoustic techniques to create a complex sonic work blending the use of voice and sound processing, consisting of three movements.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-

Echoes of Home: All the way from Ireland

Description: Recording of Sylvi MacCormac's Echoes of Home: All the way from Ireland. The composer describes this work as a portrait of a family that includes the voices of several members of her family. Each family member speaks a different text that are then overlapped with each other as well as other sounds.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: MacCormac, Sylvi

Edison

Description: Recording of Michael Heisch's Edison. This work was created by ​​recording the pops and hisses of various shellac records onto DAT.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Heisch, Michael

Edit for Pauline

Description: Recording of John Cousins's "Edit for Pauline" for tape.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Cousins, John, 1943-

Ekphonesis V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Eleventh of the ninth, two thousand and one

Description: Recording of Robert Andrew Mackay's Eleventh of the ninth, two thousand and one. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word as well as environmental sounds that reflect the tragedy of 9/11. There are also samples of the piece "O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)" by Carl Orff.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 12 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Mackay, Andrew, 1967-

Empty Mirror

Description: Recording of Neil B. Rolnick's Empty Mirror. This piece uses as sound sources the music of peoples distinctly apart from the tradition of Western Classical music. The composer makes use of the complex interplay of harmonic and rhythmic motion and tries to shape the sounds from diverse and trans-cultural nature of the original material.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.

Ethereality

Description: Recording of Adrian Moore's Ethereality. This is an 8-track tape made for electronics.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Moore, Adrian, 1969-

Excess Pitch

Description: Recording of Rose Dodd's Excess Pitch.
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Date: 1997/1998
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Dodd, Rose

excess pitch

Description: Recording of Rose Dodd's excess pitch. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Dodd, Rose
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