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Arcanum

Description: Electronic compositions Arcanum [Secret] is based on a computer-generated score and a defined distribution function which were utilized in the construction of the compositions. They use precise tone heights in the microtonal interval systems on the basis of characterized tone clusters and alternating chords. Arcanum uses tone pitches given in frequencies in bound positions from 50 to 5,000 Hz. Couples of random numbers limited by the interval from a major second to three octaves became the fir… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Růžička, Rudolf, 1941-
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Archaeusin Euphonia

Description: Recording of Nicolae Brînduș's Archaeusin Euphonia. In this work, the electronic-music is a play back for the performance "live" of the musicians. Their involvement in the play is more or less free or proposed by the leader of the group. The recording is a version dedicated to the group "Archaeus" of Bucharest conducted by Liviu D_nceanu.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 20 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Brînduș, Nicolae
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Archimedes: Scene II

Description: This second scene begins with Archimedes, now a young man, emerging from the laughter of scene i; he begins to realize that he undertands mathematics, more than undertands it, he can master it, create it, think it, live and breathe it. The music is composed for a wide variety of geometrical images being drawn and animated on the planetarium dome, in synchronization with a live mime who with his gestures, causes the images to appear, to move, to transform and to engulf. The music is designe… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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Architecture Nuit: Cinq Poèmes

Description: As always the old dilemma: does the music follow the words or does it pursue a concomitant and independent discourse? Here, the text is a source among others (like the timbre of the voice, the alchemical transformations of the sound ...). Source of images, meaning, and especially space: interior space of sensations, emotional calls, silences behind the words and still real, external space, perceived in the text. The music responds, as soon as the recording of the voice, by a set of different sp… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette
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Arder

Description: Recording of Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso's Arder.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Velloso, Rodrigo Cicchelli
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Are we?

Description: Recording of Þorsteinn Hauksson's Are we? performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Fabrice Pierre. The piece if for two trumpets, two trombones, two percussionists, and tape. The message of the piece of music is unstated by the composer, but he says "music of the Muses can express it in a much clearer way" than spoken or written words.
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Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Þorsteinn Hauksson, 1949-
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Arena

Description: Recording of Peter Beyls' Arena.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 28 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Beyls, P. (Peter), 1950-
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L'argent… toujours l'argent !

Description: A study on the coin as an object of reflection (sound value) and as a reference object (advertising). Like a frantic race to save time, the isolation of speed, the quest for the ephemeral. A look at human anxiety.
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Date: [1989,1990]
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Tremblay, Marc, 1910-
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Arghanum III

Description: Arghanum (Gk. organon), arabic name for the byzantine organ. According to Ibn Khurdédhbih, writing in the 9th. c., it had bellows of skin and iron, and the word "arghanum" was interpreted as meaning 1000 voices. Arghanum III (1987-II) : the composer explores the myriads transformations possible when sampling materials out of his own earlier [mostly vocal] compositions. The result is somewhat autobiographical: primeval, organic, watery sounds, perceived as through a mist, floating, with remembr… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Arghanum IV

Description: Arghanum (Gk. organon), arabic name for the byzantine organ. according to Ibn Khurdädhbih, writing in the 9th. c., it had bellows of skin and iron, and the word "arghanum" was interpreted as meaning 1000 voices. Arghanum IV uses a technique based on remembrances, mostly achieved by extracting materials from earlier compositions by lanza. Arghanum IV takes materials from the vocal pieces Penetrations VII and Ekphonesis V [written for and recorded commercially by Meg Sheppard]. The work also uses… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Arras

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Arras for four computer-synthesized soundtracks. Arras refers metaphorically to the heavy wall hanging or tapestry originally produced in the French town of the same name. The threads running through the material form both a background and, when colored, a foreground pattern as well, even when they are the same thread. In the piece there is a constant ambiguity between whether a component sound is heard as part of the background texture, or whether it is heard as a fo… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 40 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry
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Arrivals

Description: Recording of Andrew Lewis' Arrivals. Arrivals was composed in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham. Arrivals takes its title from the way in which the music is continually moving towards goals and destinations, at both the macro- and micro-musical levels.
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Date: 1987
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Andrew, 1963-
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The Art of Flying

Description: The sounds for The Art of Flying are realized in the Electronic Studio Radio Belgrade (SYNTHI 100), Institute of Sonology Utrecht, and the Electronic Studios of the California Institute of the Arts (BUCHLA 300). The microphone recordings are made in Arizona and California. The separation between concrete and synthesized sounds is not important any more in this piece. It is a play of imagination.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Weiland, Frits C.
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Asi el Acero

Description: In Asi el Acero, I tried to marry two very different sound worlds: the steel drum, generally associated with Caribbean music, and the world of electroacoustic music, usually associated with technology, computers and synthesizers. In order to find a coherent ensemble for both, I have done important research in the classical repertoire of steel drum, music by nature very "noisy", very rhythmic and very repetitive. From there came to me the idea of ​​using small rhythmic cells to adapt the fixed i… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier, 1956-
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Astratto

Description: When I realized the electronic music of "Astratto", in the 1986, I already founded with other composers the S.I.M. (Società di Informatica Musicale) in Rome , and we worked about the design of a digital systems controlled by host PC and based on the application of the TMS 32010 16/32 bit DSP Texas Instrument. It was one of the first world application of this new technologies in the field of electronic music. At that time one of the DSP systems was controlled by an 16bit Host Pc. The DSP s… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Galante, Francesco
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Atmen noch

Description: Recording of Teresa Rampazzi's Atmen noch. After many months of researching the relationships between harmonic or better harmonic spectra, this piece was the result of that research. This research was done jointly with Rampazzi's student Maria Luisa Bon. The form of the work is sets of stamps and association between them and a Grecian-inspired Cantus Firmus. The groups are figurations of galaxies out of time.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
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Attracteurs Étranges

Description: Recording of Patrick Fleury's Attracteurs Étranges.
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Date: [1988,1989]
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Fleury, Patrick, 1951-
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Attracteurs Étranges

Description: Recording of Jean-Claude Risset's Attracteurs Étranges, performed by Serge Conte, is a computer-produced piece for clarinet and tape. The piece has four sections of unequal lengths: I. Initial (about 7 minutes), the sonorous pitches gravitate above a high B - a point attractor; II. Vocal (about 2 minutes and 35 seconds, A brief encounter between the clarinet and the voice of Daniel Arfib, slowed down, noisy, hybridized with the instrument; III. Vertical (about 5 minutes 20 seconds), the clarine… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 46 minutes 01 second
Creator: Risset, Jean-Claude
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Aux lampions

Description: Recording of Bertand Dubedout's "Aux lampions" ("To the lanterns"). Lampions are small oil lamps, formerly popular as a carriage light. It is a concrete piece in three movements: "Bal convexe" ("Convex ball"), "Le cocher" ("The coachman"), and "Sous les planches" ("Under the boards"). For writers like Bulgakov, Gogol, and Chekhov, the ball scene is often a story of action, tragedy, or desperation; the ball can ruin an existence or bring hope. Delight, delusion, and loneliness are the multiple s… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Dubedout, Bertrand
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Aw/wW

Description: Recording of Miloš Petrović's Aw/wW ("Anton with-without Webern") for tape, interpreted by Ruža Petrović, Paul Pignon, and Miloš Petrović. Petrović uses the sound and structure in Anton Webern's works as a way of broadening the sound media in his own work. He places this work in a space defined by primal elements of different media, which allows for a greater number of operations on the speech-gesture relationship, while contributing to the cohesiveness of the result. Magnetic tape-transfected … more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Petrović, Miloš, 1952-2010
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Awaking (the first awaking the second water)

Description: This piece is in guest of the real chances of a dream world coming true, whose incessant changes lead its way into an infinite make, only awakening opens gate a reality. A new space is created. The "water" is incessant struggies of life for realisation. It is the constant recurrence of hope, struggle, and annihilation. Reality is alarming; it would like to escape into a dream. Then everything begins again.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Csont, István
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Aya

Description: A recording of Chiaki Takatsuki's Aya. Waves of electronic sound twisted like threads are twisted little by little. First, a dynamic scene, making use of the revolving sound image. At the end, space of tranquility. A gyrating sound was made from the original circuit, based on two controlled amplifiers (voltage). One can find a circular sound not a circumference but in front of or behind the audience.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 47 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Takatsuki, Chiaki
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Backtrace

Description: Recording of Chris Chafe's Backtrace.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Chafe, Chris
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Balkanisation

Description: Historically, Balkanization refers to the nationalistic division of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe into many small, antagonistic states in the years preceding World War I. For this piece, I have taken several very brief excerpts of traditional village music from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, and have separated, put them into various levels of conflict, and have finally tried to reconcile them as much as possible. The tape from which I have taken the excerpts which form the basis of Ba… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.
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