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Caterina

Description: Recording of Patrick Portella's Caterina. This is a work for electronics that is meant to represent sensuality as well as the violence of sound. It premiered at the Futura 96 ​​Festival in Crest.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Portella, Patrick

Recordare

Description: Recording of Nicola Bernardini's Recordare. The text in this work was written by the composer's father in which he reflects on the shock he felt at the situation in Bosnia. The composer hoped to create a comment on a complex issue without losing the impact of the event in question.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Bernardini, Nicola, 1956-

I hear you think

Description: Recording of Johannes S. Sistermanns' I hear you think. This work consists of various concrete sounds as well as spoken text written by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Schmidt-Sistermanns, Johannes, 1955-

Giovanni e gli alfabeti

Description: Recording of Stefano Giannotti's Giovanni e gli alfabeti. This work is based on the theme of language sound richness and includes various alphabet phonetics from different languages. The main focus of the piece, however, is the singing of Giovanni, who performs a song in his dialect and tells stories about his youth. The piece is available on CD.
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Date: 1994/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Giannotti, Stefano, 1963-

Il mondo assurdo del signor B.

Description: Recording of Jarmo Sermilä's Il mondo assurdo del signor B. For voice, electronics, strings, and percussion.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Sermilä, Jarmo, 1939-

Padova tace from "I viaggi in tasca - 20 luoghi mentali"

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Padova tace from "I viaggi in tasca - 20 luoghi mentali". This work is comprised of various sampled sounds and voice, performed by Giovanna Mori. It is based on text written by Valerio Magrelli and was commissioned by RadioRAI. The piece had its first radio broadcast in 1995 through RAI Radiotre.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

Tupac Amaru

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Tupac Amaru. The composer describes this work as a musical opera based on a text by Gianni Toti with all vocal parts attributed to the voice of Giovanna Mori. This work was premiered at "Europa Festival" in Ferentino, Italy. The original pre-recorded tape is divided into 8 tracks (ADAT format).
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Date: 1997
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

Even event - Odd event

Description: Recording of Andréa Libretti's Even event - Odd event. This is a work for electronics that includes various vocalizations.
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Date: 1999/2000
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Libretti, Andréa

La Sera di Benevento

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's La Sera di Benevento. This work is a soundscape composition based on environmental sounds from the town of Benevento, Italy. These sounds are mixed with the reciting of a lyric poem by the 14th century poet Giovanni Boccaccio. This work was recorded on an 8-track digital tape.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 10 minutes 01 second
Creator: Truax, Barry

Radiodays

Description: Recording of Marco Ligabue's Radiodays. This recording is a "radio" soundscape of some moments from the 20th century.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Ligabue, Marco, 1958-

L'ouest du palmarès

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's L'ouest du palmarès. The composer describes this work as a live improvisation from a sample percussionists and speaker. The instrumentation was created by Yamaha drums and a Yamaha sampler.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert

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

Menu

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Menu. This work is a radiophonic soundscape of the "kitchen". It includes three different types of sound: keynotes (background sounds from the kitchen), sound signals (sound and gestures in the foreground), and markers (specific sounds which have a specific meaning for people who work in the environment). The structure is outlined by spoken phrases taken from the real menu of the restaurant.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-

Aracne

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Aracne. This work is based off of a text by Guido Barbieri and was written as a radio play. This piece was produced and created in Rome at the CRM - Centro Ricerche Musicali and at Edison Studio. It was staged for the first time at the Roman Aquarium in June 1996.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

Après les grands tours

Description: Recording of Johannes Goebel's Après les grands tours. This piece is a reference to tours that have crossed the Alps with the use of walking sounds and spoken word taken from "Germania" by P. Cornelius Tacitus.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Goebel, Johannes, 1949-

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-

Arrisi

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Arrisi.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-

Movimento quietudine

Description: Recording of Elio Martusciello's Movimento quietudine. The acoustic nature of this composition is made up of sounds obtained with the Esterafono, a "self-built" instrument that the composer uses for improvised music concerts. Here he wanted to materialize, in accomplished forms, often evanescent and fleeting sound events. From the irreversibility of time, during instrumental improvisation, to the reversibility of time in "the art of fixed sounds," is born the encounter with the dominant subject… more
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Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Martusciello, Elio

Voo

Description: Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, … more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Die Unsichtbare front

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Die Unsichtbare front. The composer notes the following: The spatial installation of this work was designed and realized for the highest space in the building of the Technical Collections of the city of Dresden. This place just below the dome of the tower with its exceptional view of the city and the nearby radio tower is part of the work. The composition itself consists of 16 minutes of music on magnetic tape, constantly looped, spatialized and broadcast through the … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 16 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-

I suoni che distilli

Description: Recording of Riccardo Dapelo's I suoni che distilli. Derived from the poetry of Eugenio Montale (specifically, "Resta lontano...") and utilizes high voice readings of poetry alongside sung portions in overlapping and edited forms. The text of the poetry was initially read - with only sparse, significant words being sung - by the soprano Daniela Aimale. Like the title "I suoni che distilli" (translated as "the sounds that you distill") explains, the attempt of this composition is to extract the … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 10 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Dapelo, Riccardo

Chiusi nel sogno

Description: Recording of Diego Dall'Osto's Chiusi nel sogno. The composer writes about this piece as such: These five fragments, essential marks of inner activity, are interpreted and fixed in some of the infinite possible proposals within the ephemeral and utopic musical space. They are divining signs of sounds/sense, participating and singing in an invincible conflict, between understandable shape and an uncontrollable flux. "Chiusi nel sogno intatto di uscirne, chissà come, immuni..." ("Closed in the un… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Dall'Osto, Diego, 1961-

Radio-Vaggio

Description: Recording of Gianantonio Patella's Radio-Vaggio. This work uses radio gragments that are modified in many ways with ring modulation, filtering, and the changing of time waveforms with tabular synthesis. The Karplus-Strong synthesis technique was used.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 12 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Patella, Gianantonio

Your heart is a red train

Description: Recording of Francesco Boschetto's Your heart is a red train. The concrete material is prevalent as the main sound source and it is derived from life in the city of Stockholm. It is based on three poems, mainly on "Ditt Hjarta Ar Ett Rott Tag", by the Swedish writer Rold Aggestam and on two sonnets by Lorenzo "il Magnifico". The composer's personal experience seeps troughout the course of the piece: the sound of trains, people in subway stations and streets, solitude in the crowd; it is an itin… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Boschetto, Francesco, 1970-
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