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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.
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.
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.
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.
59 Winds
Recording of Apostolos Loufopoulos' and Myrto Korkokiou's 59 Winds. This work was created as an experimentation of the element 'wind', one of the most important features in flute playing. In this work the sensation of wind is developed through the use of wind-based flute sounds.
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.
Aarhus
Recording of Mario Mary's Aarhus. This is a work for violin and tape and explores the relationship between the two. This work was dedicated to violinist Bodil Rorbech.
Aboji
Recording of Tae Hong Park's Aboji. This work is a companion piece to "Omoni", both works being composed originally for two channel playback and subsequently for eight channels. The sound samples used in this composition are mostly speech, environmental, synthesized, and processed sounds that were a result of numerous interviews with various individuals.
Abstract n° X
Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Abstract n° X. The composer describes this work as an abstract mindscape based on a distantly experienced reality. The basic materials are sounds the composer recorded in China.
Accessus
Recording of Fabián Esteban Luna's Accessus. This work represents the search for equilibrium and includes an implicit metaphor of the sea to act as a symbol for the search. This work was created by sampling sources and diverse synthesis.
Acousmatek
Recording of Didier Simione's Acousmatek. This is a work about the distribution of U.S.T. over time and across different spaces and includes 3 parts: 1. deep space, 2. near space, 3. return to the initial space. The composer attempts to prioritize the emotional aspect over the intellectual aspect of the music.
Actualitanie
Recording of Serge Bouc's Actualitanie. This is a work for electronics that contains various samples of spoken word.
Ad Nilo
Recording of José Manrique's Ad Nilo. This is a work for electronics.
Adam et Eve
Recording of Alain Basso's Adam et Eve. This is a work for electronics that was created as part of an open work project for the Synthése Festival in Bourges, France, under the theme "The mother, the father".
The Aeolian Harp
Recording of Heinrich Taube's The Aeolian Harp. This work was created with recorded tape and an aeolian harp, which creates musical sound from air passing through the strings. The composer dedicates this song to their sister, who died of cancer in 1997. The composer says that the piece acts as a reflection of their struggle to come to terms with her death.
Aerial
Recording of Monty Adkins' Aerial. This is a work for electronics and is included on the album "Mondes Inconnus" by the composer.
Afflux / Reflux
Recording of Colby Leider's Afflux / Reflux. This is a work for electronics.
After the summer rain
Recording of Hideko Kawamoto's After the summer rain. This is a composition for amplified piano and two-channel tape. This work is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Asher Peevey and written for his mother Cecilia Peevey. It was inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's poems, (Nos Pleurs) and Before the Summer Rain. The work as a whole is meant to capture the image of a summer forest and uses a note motif that closely spells out the name "Clarence".
Agora
Recording of Natasha Barrett's Agora. This work is an installation and a performance involving electroacoustic music, theatre, and the structural use of space. The theatre version of "Agora" is an event where spatial-music is the structural and theatrical driving force. There is one soprano performer but no "acting out". The work extends the aesthetic of the music theatre of Kagel and the consideration of delineated space defined in Oscar Schlemmer's theory of performance.
L'aile de l'abeille
Recording of Denis Dufour's L'aile de l'abeille. This work expresses the idea of coming into a new millennium with a history that has been reconstructed and stigmatized. The composer gives a special thanks to Agnès Poisson for the sound recordings used, This work was produced at Motus studio.
Aires Acondicionados
Recording of Lennart Westman's Aires Acondicionados. This is a work for solo-oboe and electronics that consists of recordings of one oboe d'amore and an English horn. This piece was commissioned by Jesper Harryson, a solo oboe player in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Akashiya
Recording of Shinchi Morita's Akashiya. This work derivied from collected sounds from the composer's home, these sounds were processed and constructed via computer.
Akebi
Recording of Shinichi Morita's Akebi. This is a work for electronics that explores different tones and colors of sound.
Alba
Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
The Alban Berg Album
Recording of Marcelo Ajubita's The Alban Berg Album. This is a work for electronics that includes train sounds and samples of violin.
Alf Tua (para flauta y soporte digital)
Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Alf Tia (para flauta y soporte digital). Alf Tua is a work for transverse flute and electronics. The electroacoustic part is composed entirely of sounds that we had previously searched for and recorded together with the flutist. In the live version the instrumentalist plays along with the playback of a CD.
Alizés
Recording of David Fortez' Alizés. The composer describes this work as more of a "recomposition" than an original composition. It was born from the cross between two pieces that the composer had just finished: Giocoso and Bleu Nuit. The composer took the main parts from both this pieces and furthered his abstraction of the sound material. This piece was mixed entirely in stereophony using concrete sounds.
Allamuchy
Recording of Elizabeth Hoffman's Allamuchy. This work explores moving through and being surrounded by various densities of substance by using a few natural sounds, comb filters, and other techniques.
Allegoriae sonantes
Recording of Konstantinos Karathanasis' Allegoriae sonantes. This piece is based on sounds derived from a grand piano by a small copper bar. The composer felt that this piece held something allegoric to it, something beyond its sonic nature, and attempted to explore that idea through the sound.
Allegro Moderabile
Recording of Paolo Besagno's Allegro Moderabile. This work consists of train sounds and the voice of the composer's grandpa, to whom the piece is dedicated. The composer states that this work is a short story of a man who has spent 40 years of his life watching his country through the windows of a train. The title of the work is the combination of musical term, Allegro, and the Italian word, moderabile, which refers to a train's braking system.
El alma mula
Recording of Jorge Luis Sad's El alma mula. This is an electroacoustic work for cello. This work is dedicated to argentine Cellist Martín Devoto.
Alphamega
Recording of Eric Mulard's Alphamega. This work was produced in 2001 as part of "The Open Work on the Creation of the World", proposed by the IMEB. This work represents the birth of speech by using articulated language to showcase the alphabet.
L'altra dimensione
Recording of Thuridur Jonsdottir's L'altra dimensione. This is a work for electronics.
Altrove con il suo nome
Recording of Mauro Cardi's Altrove con il suo nome. The text in this work is sampled from "Oggetto d'amore" by Pasquale Panella and the theatric content of the text is reflected in the recording. The sound materials used in the tape is primarily made up of samples from the actress' voice. The piece premiered in Rome in December, 2000 and again in 2001 as part of a larger project.
L'altruise de l'épinoche
Recording of Agnés Poisson's L'altruise de l'épinoche. This is a work for electronics and contains various sound samples that are percussive in origin. The composer hopes to convey a deeper meaning through the percussion sounds playing off of each other.
Amour Sacré
Recording of Joris De Laet's Amour Sacré. This work was created as part of the open project under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs" at the Synthèse festival. The foundation of the sound material in this piece are fragments from a recording of the song "Amour sacré de la patrie" sung by Jean Hotté. From these samples, choirs and amalgamations are formed with the transformed sounds.
analogia e identidad
Recording of Daniel Sergio Cervantes' analogia e identidad. This piece belongs to a group of compositions based on texts of Jorge Luis Borges. This piece is a play that attempts to represent philosophical ideas of the circular character of time, where our acts through it sentence us to repetition.
Anamnesis
Recording of Bradley Decker's Anamnesis. This is a work for electronics that includes tracks for octophonic speakers.
Anatomia
Recording of Luís Antunes Pena's Anatomia. This work was created as a phonetical deconstruction of the text "Amor" by Jorge de Sena. The words provide the sonorous and rhythmical material of the piece and, simultaneously they become itself loud poetry. The music is sometimes an instrumentation of the text and, other times the text is music.
Ancestral Voices
Recording of John Rimmer's Ancestral Voices. The idea for this composition came from the composers fascination with family history and genealogy, specifically the names of his eight great-grandparents. The composer associated the sounds of eight instruments with each ancestor beginning with New Zealand instruments and moving to other countries around the world. Throughout the work the sound of a women's choir singing the fifth century hymn, Caeli Deus Sanctissime, heightens the sense of ancestry.
Ancienne Etude - Introduction
Recording of Catalina Peralta's Ancienne Etude - Introduction. This work is dedicated to the baritone, Guido Ebi, and acts as a reflection on the book "Igitur ou la Folie d'Elbehnon" by Stéphane Mallarmé. This work was commissioned by the Culture Ministry of Colombia.
And I think to myself...
Recording of Rajmil Fischman's And I think to myself.... This is a work for electronics that was inspired by the song "What a Wonderful World". The idea of the piece comes from the idea of taking a virtual "stroll" through a utopia described by Plato in his book, The Republic. There are three central movements that correspond to the realization of wisdom, courage, and temperance.
Andromeda
Recording of Federico Giraldo's Andromeda. This work was created with an analogue synthesizer with real time processing and a computer. The composer states that this piece is based in "thin sounds that displace freely to convergent points".
Anechoic Pulse
Recording of Panayiotis Kokoras' Anechoic Pulse. Most of the sound material for this piece was recorded at the anechoic chamber at the University of York in England. The sound material, not easily recognizable most of the time, undergoes a simple transformation in terms of sound processing. The piece ends with a pulse drone created with tiny strokes of a metallic stick on a 19 inches timpani. This work is dedicated to the composer Sungji Hong.
Angels and devils
Recording of Natasha Barrett's Angels and devils. This piece is one of two shorter acousmatic works underlying a theatre creation called "Agora". This recording is meant to explore the psychology of good versus evil and includes fragments from an old Norse poem: Volundkvadet.
Angorum Catena
Recording of Magdalena Buchwald's Angorum Catena. This is a work for electronics and was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio in Warsaw. This piece is dedicated to Krzysztof Szlifirski.
Le antichissime e libere figurazioni
Recording of Enrico Cocco's Le antichissime e libere figurazioni. This is a work for electroacoustic sound and includes various vocalizations that have been manipulated.
Anticlèa
Recording of Elizabeth Mara Bossero's Anticlèa. This work was inspired by the meeting of Odysseus with his mother, Anticla, in 'Hades', book XI of the Odyssey.
Apte
Recording of David Behar's and Xavier Gipulo's Apte. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of electric guitar and French spoken word.
Aqua Salutaris auditur
Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
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