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Aires Acondicionados

Description: 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.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart

The Alban Berg Album

Description: Recording of Marcelo Ajubita's The Alban Berg Album. This is a work for electronics that includes train sounds and samples of violin.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Ajubita, Marcelo

Amour Sacré

Description: 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.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Laet, Joris de, 1947-

Anechoic Pulse

Description: 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.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Kokoras, Panayiotis, 1974-

L'arracheuse de poussière

Description: Recording of Julien Belet's L'arracheuse de poussière. This is a work for electronics that the composer describes as a "voluntarily unfinished piece of poetic character" with children's voices whispering.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Belet, Julien

Atropos

Description: Recording of Nikos Stavropoulos' Atropos. The title of this work references one of the Moirae (the Fates) and metaphorically indicates the acousmatic processes involved in the work's composition. While the title is not directly related to the content of the composition, it was chosen to reflect the processes and their relation to the materials. The recording included has a stereo version as well as individual tracks for 6 speakers.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 01 second
Creator: Stavropoulos, Nikos, 1975-

L'aube Assaillie

Description: Recording of Hector Parra i Esteve's L'aube Assaillie. This is a work for electroacoustics and cello. The composer has attempted to create a distinct/varied polyphonic language for strings which has been inspired by avant-garde physics, contemporary dance, and collaboration with the instrumentalists. This work was create in collaboration with the French choreographer, Frédéric Lescure.
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Date: 2004/2005
Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Parra, Héctor 1976-

L'Aura

Description: Recording of Alessandro Grego's L'Aura. This is a work for electronics and piano. The composer has described it using an abstract story of someone trapped in darkness.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Grego, Alessandro, 1969-

Autres Miroirs

Description: Recording of Claudio Parodi's Autres Miroirs. This work is a study about the relationship between processed recording of Tunisian reeds and natural recordings of the same instruments.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 6 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Parodi, Claudio

Bambo intervention

Description: Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Bambo intervention. This piece explores the ideological space between the bamboo flute and the tape recorder as well as between Western desires and Eastern traditions. This piece is structured around binaural soundscape recordings made in rural Taiwan. These field recordings stress authenticity of performance and the importance of location.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy

Banchory Ears

Description: Recording of Pete Stollery's Banchory Ears. This work was commissioned by Woodend Arts Association and is a concert version of the music that the composer made to accompany the Banchory Faces photography exhibition in September 2003. The composer collected sonic photographs from various areas of Banchory in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The composer thanks Bertha Forbes, a local historian, for her recollection of sounds and for the use of the interview with her in this piece.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Stollery, Pete

Bellscape

Description: Recording of Mario Verandi's Bellscape. This work was commissioned by the ZKM Institut für Musik und Akustik, Karlsruhe. This piece premiered as part of the European Bell Days Festival 2004. The composer's goal was to explore the spectral and morphological characteristics of bell sounds as well as their manipulation and transformation through the use of computer software. The sound material in this piece consists of bell recordings done by the composer as well as recordings of the Carillon at t… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Verandi, Mario

Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau

Description: Recording of Saur Etienne's Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau. This is a composition that is meant to be used for theatre. The narrative of the play centers on the daydreams of a man stuck in the closed world of his office. The first part of the music for this composition was created by Stéphanos Vasiliadis who passed before completing the work.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Etienne, Saur

Bourdons enjoués

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Bourdons enjoués. This is a work for bagpipes, bombard, and electronic sounds that was created as part of the open project at the Synthèse festival. This piece was inspired by George Sand as well as the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The composer describes it as "the resonances of ancient times [resonating] in modern times".
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne

La bourrée du Comptable Chinois

Description: Recording of Jean Routhier's La bourrée du Comptable Chinois. The sounds used in this work consisted of a Chinese abacus, a Jew's harp, and a musical saw. Each of these materials were meant to represent instruments that create similar sounds. This piece is loosely inspired by the style of the tambourin, a popular dance within the region where George Sand lived.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Routhier, Jean, 1968-

Bouzouki Abstraction

Description: Recording of Colin Black's Bouzouki Abstraction. This work explores the abstract connections between the traditional Greek bouzouki instrument and the constructs of music, heritage, and physical structures displaced in time. This is a bilingual piece that includes text performed in both English and Greek. Musically, this work combines electroacoustic composition, sound art, synthesis, harmonic singing samples, spoken word, and the traditional bouzouki instrument.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Black, Colin

Bruits de couloirs

Description: Recording of Guillaume Pairel's Bruits de couloirs. This piece includes concrete sounds of tubular bells, sounds of cymbals spinning at full speed, and other sonic discoveries. The intermingling of these sounds create a "multi-colored journey".
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Pairel, Guillaume

[Burnt Sienna Trio, Record Hop, Warren Jackson Hearne poster]

Description: Poster advertising a concert by Burnt Sienna Trio, Record Hop, and Warren Jackson Hearne on Thursday, November 18, 2004, at Dan's Silver Leaf, Denton, Texas. Poster features a black line drawing on a cream background of a banjo player wearing a hat, sitting on a bench next to a potted plant, reaching for a bottle. Event details are in black text against a white background across the top of the poster, and white text against a black background across the bottom of the poster.
Date: 2004

Cave Songs (re)mix

Description: Recording of Daniel Matej's Cave Songs (re)mix. This work was concieved mainly as a "next step" from the sound installation, Caves, which the composer had made with Tibor Szemző in 2004. Many of the used and non-used sounds from that installation were used to create this work. The work as a whole contains 5 separate pieces titled: 1. gospel, 2. blues, 3. de profundis, 4. sex, and 5. ho-chi-min. The composer gives thanks to Mr. Richard Sabo for his technical assistance as well as Jan Boleslav Kl… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Matej, Daniel, 1963-

The Cemetery of Lucifer

Description: Recording of Marcelo Ajubita's The Cemetery of Lucifer. This is a work for amplified string quartet, electric violin loops, and percussion. It represents the place of the living dead which the composer describes as "the culture officials of all governments".
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Date: 2004
Duration: 13 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Ajubita, Marcelo

Cenzontle

Description: Recording of Roberto Morales Manzana's Cenzontle. This is an interactive piece in a multiplatform environment, which incorporates music and movement gestures from an improviser. The gestures of the flautist are captured in real time via microphones and a set of sensors detecting proximity, acceleration, and switching. A computer program is then responsible for capturing the gestures and reacting to them in a similar way. This piece has also been created with a visual element in the form of a vi… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Morales-Manzanares, Roberto, 1958-

Chansons françaises n°2

Description: Recording of Miklos Sugar's Chansons françaises n°2. This is a work for electronics that includes the instrumentation of flute, violin, cello, and soprano voice. This piece was inspired by the poetic world of Samuel Beckett and the composer attempts to recreate his themes with short musical movements and motifs.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Sugár, Miklós 1952-

Chaosmos

Description: Recording of Koji Kawai and Rui Ogawa's Chaosmos. This work includes the sounds of white noise and a Japanese traditional melody which wrap the sound image of Sisiodosi. These sounds are repeated and go through a process of self-organizing from chaos to order.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 6 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Kawai, Koji & Ogawa, Rui
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