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Le grand silence d'un seul oiseau

Description: Recording of Will Eisma's "Le grand silence d'un seul oiseau" ("The great silence of a single bird") for tape. During World War II, a network of 40,000 km of trenches crossed South Flanders and the North of France. Still today, there remains part of these trenches as a long underground tunnel somewhere around Metz and Verdun. The composition represents an imaginary underground journey from Calais to the Swiss border, through the infernal moles, in the gloomy and frightening obscurity of this ab… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Eisma, Will, 1929-

Play bach

Description: Recording of Mayako Kubo's Play bach for eight channel tape. Play Bach is mainly based on two elements: first, there is no fixed form and no fixed duration because the composition consists in a mobile-system; second, the sound material uses only the tones B (Si-flat), A (La), C (Do), and H (Si) in different octaves performed by three instruments and with the letters B, A, C, and H spoken with human voice. Because the eight tracks are combined using a mobile system, each performance presents dif… more
Date: 1980/1981
Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Kubo, Mayako

Son recif

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's "Son recif" for voice and tape. This piece comes from a work on the myth of the sirens and includes texts written on this theme in their original languages. As the singer/speaker repeats the story, it is crossed by the sounds of these languages, by songs that cannot continue, as well as successive states of emotion. The electroacoustic tape plays a constant dramatic role: sometimes worrisome, sometimes reassuring, sometimes enveloping presences, it continually i… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline

Pax

Description: Recording of Gottfried Martin's Pax for tape. Includes electronic and natural sounds, including voice, news recordings, and recordings of war sounds.
Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Martin, Gottfried

Maa'ts

Description: Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Maa'ts for tape (4-lane). The composition if a collage for voices and electronics. The choir sings in harmonically exact microcompositions.The piece was produced in February 1981 in the studio of the Technical University Berlin.
Date: February 1981
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław

Twilights "protokolle für tonband gleichzeitiz gespielt mit window"

Description: Recordings of Gerhard Stäbler's Twilights "protokolle für tonband gleichzeitiz gespielt mit window" (Ewilights "Protocols for tape played simultaneously with window"). Poems were written by Ernestro Cardenal and other texts were taken out of "NEWSWEEK" issues between Auguest 1 and 8, 1983. Produced at the Computer Center of Stanford University/California.
Date: 1983
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Stäbler, Gerhard

La Confession

Description: This work was created from a story entitled "The Confession" that I wrote in 1989. In Spanish originally, it was translated into Hebrew, French, English and German. Some of these texts in different languages have been integrated into the work. "Confession" records the psychological oscillations - from mental stability to madness or vice versa - that the protagonist goes through. "The Confession" of the human voice, the electronic instruments (synclaiver), the acoustic instruments (harp, tromb… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Schmilovich, Sergio

Teilstrategien

Description: Recording of Klaus Martin Kopitz's Teilstrategien. The piece's subtitle is "10 variations about the sound of a language". There are recorded improvisations of bass clarinet and piano, which were stacked up to 12 tracks with electronic effects. The 7th Variation is only made up of speech and incorporates nature recording.
Date: 1989
Duration: 10 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Kopitz, Klaus Martin

Approcci a petrarca

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Approcci a petrarca. This work is made up of five sections, which are voice and electronics. The piece features many sounds such as voice, electronics, writing with a pencil, and sound effects.
Date: 1988
Duration: 2 hours 58 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Flurstück

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Flurstück. The composer denotes "Flurstück" as meaning a piece of countryside, a rural landscape (Flur), which is private property; this is important to a central theme of ownership and its interactions with natural environments vs more "technical" atmospheres. It is described as such: The background of the piece is the dismemberment of the landscape, the subdivided land. From this are born the images. Fields, travel, property, appropriation and expropriation, the bat… more
Date: 1989/1995
Duration: 16 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-
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