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6th day

Description: Recording of Agnieszka Waligorska's 6th day. This work is for electronics, voice, pre-recorded manipluated sound, and saxophone.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 12 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Waligórska, Agnieszka

About Howard Johnson/Affirmative

Description: Recording of Joshua Fried's About Howard Johnson/Affirmative. This work uses MIDI in unusual ways. Sound modules become a silent controller of analog gates, and continuous controllers manipulate digital processors in real time. When channel gates are triggered at an even rate, one obtains the well-known strobe effect of slowing down, stopping or even reversing the apparent motion of a rotating object. As trigger cycle and loop cycle move out of phase, bits of sound seem to wander from speaker … more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Fried, Joshua

Alias

Description: Recording of Ake Parmerud's Alias. Alias is inspired by the thoughts on the relationship between the composer, Gesualdo da Venoza, and his art. composed of two opposing movements, the first of which is based upon a fragment of a love-song by John Dowland (contemporary to Gesualdo) has been deconstructed, processed and reprocessed into a set of variations output in a linear fashion. The traditional lute-part has been strongly stylized into a chord comprised of the note A-1 and the first 16 harmo… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, Ã…ke, 1953-

Alma latina

Description: Recording of Rajmil Fischman's Alma latina. The composer has this to say on the background of the piece, and of this piece itself: Time is a strange background against which our lives develop. Linearity is usually out of the question and memory cunningly warps and re-invents our past experience to such an extent that the latter becomes alive, threading between past and future. It has been forty years since my personal thread started, more than twenty since I left the birthplace and a long time … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 13 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Fischman, Rajmil, 1956-

American Jingo

Description: Recording of Christopher Penrose's American Jingo.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 19 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Penrose, Christopher, 1967-

American Triptych

Description: Recording of Trevor Wishart's American Triptych. The composer describes the aim of this work as to "recreate and transform the voices of well-known public figures in order to comment on them or their social context".
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Date: 1999
Duration: 15 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Wishart, Trevor

The answer which the court gives

Description: Recording of Christopher Rolfe's The answer which the court give you. The two sections here were excerpted from a longer work for piano and tape. The text material is drawn from documentary recordings of oral arguments before the U. S. Supreme Court, and processed by various resonant synthesis techniques (Karplus- Strong, convolution). The piece sonically depicts that public speakers are fundamentally creating music.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 25 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Rolfe, Christopher, 1962-2021

Aquapolis

Description: Recording of Lou Mallozzi's Aquapolis. The sound material is language and ambient recordings. The text is written in English, and has been translated into German and Venetian Italian. There are aquatic sounds, body sounds, and sounds of physical labor. Conceptually, the piece is based on a fictional trans-historical walk through an aquatic city, loosely based on Venice. The piece is in four sections: Preamble, 2000 Years Ago, 200 Years Ago, and This Year.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Mallozzi, Lou, 1957-

Arturo

Description: Recording of Elainie Lillios' Arturo. This work is based off of an interview with a tarot card reader living in Denton, Texas named Arturo. According to the composer, Arturo has interacted with many people and learned many life lessons. This piece reflects some of his views on life and the casting of cards to reveal future possibilities.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-

L'autre

Description: Recording of Edmund Campion's L'autre. This work explores the similarity between "consciousness and the unconscious" and the "contention for ascendancy between poetry and music". The piece begins with an emergence of consciousness - the birth of language out of sounds and syllables and dives into the development of the two elemental principles.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 19 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Campion, Edmund J., 1957-

Babel

Description: Recording of Jorge Rodrigo Sigal's Babel. This work is part of a larger CD project called "Manifesto". The piece is meant for flute, tape, and optional live electronics. The sound materials were recorded in Spain, France, and Mexico City. The composer dedicates this work to Stefano Scarani and it was premiered by Mr. Harrie Starreveld.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Sigal, Rodrigo

Barbe à papa (Arum manis)

Description: Recording of Jack Body's Barbe à Papa (Arum Manis). The original recording forms the basis of the tape and is the sound of a two stringed fiddle played by an Indonesian seller, recorded by the composer in 1977. Carrying the already made candy floss in a bin from his shoulder the seller played the fiddle to advertise presence. The music was both improvisation and sometimes recognizable tunes, and consisted of a melody.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Body, Jack, 1944-2015

Le bass de auf a bourges du dat

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger and Ulrich Süsse's Le bass de auf a bourges du dat. It is a work for saxophone, bass clarinet, and electronics. There are speech snippets which are accompanied by free improv from the saxophone and clarinet, while processed and manipulated recording of these instruments play in the background.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen & Süsse, Ulrich

BE

Description: Recording of Terje Winther's BE. This work is based on spoken text from Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe as well as orchestral sounds written by the composer for a piece made in 1985-86. The composer describes this work as "a piece of transition, of static, and the latent power that lies in the communication between the two".
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Date: 1996/2001
Duration: 14 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Winther, Terje, 1963-

Berlin views

Description: Recording of Günter Heinz's Berlin views. This work presents the "sound of the city at the end of the century" and arose in connection with the video project Ç Vortex È of Akademie der Künste Berlin.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Heinz, Günter (Composer)

Beyond the Saying

Description: Recording of John Rimmer's Beyond the Saying. This work transforms a recording of the composer saying the phrase, "You reap what you sow". There are five main types of sounds. These sounds include a brush stroke-like gesture, arch shapes of sine wake-like sonorities, stretching in time of individual words, diphthong sounds, and displays of percussive consonants. It was composed at the Computer Music Facility, Centre for Arts, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Rimmer, John, 1939-
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Big Band Chronicles Cassette 1A

Description: Part A of the first cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the pre-war years through the early years of the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "The Last Time I Saw Paris," "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," and "I'll Walk Alone."
Date: 1994
Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
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Big Band Chronicles Cassette 1B

Description: Part B of the first cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the pre-war years through the early years of the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "It's Always You," "Stardust," "Blues in the Night," and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree."
Date: 1994
Duration: 44 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
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Big Band Chronicles Cassette 2A

Description: Part A of the second cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the time of the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "Skylark," "All or Nothing At All," "Pistol Packin' Mama," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."
Date: 1994
Duration: 44 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
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Big Band Chronicles Cassette 2B

Description: Part B of the second cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the time of the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "Poinciana," "You Always Hurt the One You Love," "The St. Louis Blues March," and "There, I've Said It Again."
Date: 1994
Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
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Big Band Chronicles Cassette 3A

Description: Part A of the third cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the years immediately following the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "'Til the End of Time," "Laura," "It's Only a Paper Moon," and "Ole Buttermilk Sky."
Date: 1994
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
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Big Band Chronicles Cassette 3B

Description: Part B of the third cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the years immediately following the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "Rumors Are Flying," "Sioux City Sue," "That's My Desire," and "Puttin' on the Ritz."
Date: 1994
Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Gilliland, John
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