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El cuaderno del alquimista

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's El cuaderno del alquimista. This work utilizes the human voice in several ways as well as pauses. These pauses act more as a way to articulate than to separate the various events. This piece is originally stereophonic and creates a line of composition close to program music.
Date: 1979
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-

Sonic Landscape No. 3

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Sonic Landscape No. 3. This work was created for four computer-synthesized soundtracks. This piece is intended to create a sound environment that surrounds the listener and envelopes them in an acoustic space of changing dimensions. Most of the sound structures used in this composition are synthesized with the P0D7 program for non-real-time synthesis.
Date: 1975
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

Presque rien n°2

Description: Recording of Luc Ferrari's Presque rien n°2. The composer describes this piece as a narration but without storytelling; instead, insinuating the passing of time through events. The intention to tell a story is there, but remains vague.
Date: 1977
Duration: 21 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Ferrari, Luc

Stars II for electronic sounds

Description: Recording of Jakob Jež's Stars II for electronic sounds. This is a work for electronics that includes the sound of highly manipulated vocals. This piece was created as a continuation of the composer's vocal/instrumental work "Stars' Look". The composer strove to find new nuances with the help of electronic procedures unattainable by traditional means.
Date: 1974
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Jež, Jakob

USA

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's USA. This is a work for electronics that includes an out of tune string instrument as well as an assortment of various distorted instrumentals.
Date: 1970
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

Même

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Même. This is a work for electronics that includes distorted voices.
Date: 1970
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

Peregrine

Description: Recording of Eduard Artemiev's Peregrine. The composer wrote this work under the theme of "pilgrims" and attempted to combine electroacoustic music with the energy and instruments of rock music. The main sounds in this piece are electronic as well as a soprano voice.
Date: 1975/1999
Duration: 8 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Artemʹev, Ėduard

Transformationen

Description: Recording of Klaus Stahmer's Transformationen. This is a work for electronics and instrumentals. It consists of 4 movements: Meditation, Um Den Kreis, Gewalt, Ozeanisch. This work was commissioned by Sonoton.
Date: 1972
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Stahmer, Klaus

Buoyant charm

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Buoyant charm. This work is for electroacoustics and mixed ensemble and explores the relationship of instrumental timbre and acousmatic sounds. The composer discusses the importance of spatialisation and notes that the number of performers and the size of their instruments resulted in a relatively large spatial occupation.
Date: 1977
Duration: 17 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Un Tiempo, Un Lugar

Description: Recording of Jorge Rapp's Un Tiempo, Un Lugar. This piece was composed in the composer's studio and CICMAT. This work reflects dramatic moments of the Argentine history during the decade of the 70's. It was composed from electronic sounds and acoustic sounds of instrumental origin and social environment, processed in the laboratory of the CICMAT and in own studio. The acoustic sounds inhabit with melodic rhythmic impulses of electronic origin, fusing or contrasting between them. It consists … more
Date: 1975
Duration: 29 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Rapp, Jorge

It always takes a short time

Description: Recording of Peter Beyls' It always takes a short time. The work combines tape music and spoken words live with electronic transformation of vocal material. This work is a version for tape alone. The electronic sound material as well as the original sounds were used and structured on 4 tracks. The vocal material, spoken by Herman Sabbe, consists of a textual structure by the Belgian artist Yves Desmet. This material has been intensively manipulated, with particular attention to the purely sonic… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Beyls, P. (Peter), 1950-

Impulsioni I-III

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Impulsioni I-III. Impulsioni I-III was realized at the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm. The three etudes are built on synthetic sound material. There is a strong influence from The Basilica di san Clemente in Rome and a sense of Good and Evil, a theme that was to remain important all through Rózmann’s life.
Date: 1973/1974
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos

Difonium

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Difonium. This is a work for bass clarinet and electronic tape. The relationship between the two sound materials highlights the instrumental virtuosity, with the nature of the tape forcing the instrumentalist to constantly have an extremely dynamic response.
Date: 1974
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Tres momentos musicales

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Tres momentos musicales. This work was composed for the Belgian violinist Walter Lievens. A violin is meant to play counterpoint to each of the three pieces within the work. The electroacoustic track was created with the Synthi 100 and synthesized violin sounds.
Date: 1977
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Spectacle pour un instant

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's Spectacle pour un instant. For saxophone and tape. Condensed times and spaces which bear musically dense structures with no more audible phonic details or intervals between sounds, offering only a global configuration of the sonorous compression. In this case, seven independent pieces of music get the aspect of some fulgurations, seeming to represent segments of big amounts of acoustic energy. Energies of melodic profiles revealed by the music progress may be lib… more
Date: 1974
Duration: 8 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

Senza Voci 2

Description: Recording of Guido Baggiani's Senza Voci 2. This work is a piece in three parts. From a base material consisting of four sine waves, three groups of sine waves were derived. The frequency spectrum results from a process of amplitude modulation. There are two different levels of the same process. First level: frequencies belonging to the same group modulate each other. Such reports generate, for each group, four different "Group States". Second level: frequencies belonging to one group modulate … more
Date: 1979
Duration: 6 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Baggiani, Guido

Directions

Description: Recording of Rolf Enstrom's Directions. For computer and electronic sound. Most of the sound material was produced at EMS' electroacoustic music studio as well as its analog studio. Following the composers instructions, the computer gives some musical objects, to the performer. That are needed and that the composer or creator can work on in the analog studio. Another objective was to work in an instrumental way with electronic material.
Date: 1979
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Enström, Rolf, 1951-

Nocturno

Description: Recording of Francisco Kröpfl's Nocturno. The intention of this work is to produce a piece for work without great contrasts. Comprised of three sections: the first of slow evolution is the slow and constant in one harmonic patern. In the second section this material is re-elaborated obtaining irruptive sounds, similar to sleigh bells. Oriented movement is detained in the third section by a group of consonant related eight sounds of fixed pitch derived from the harmonic structure of the first se… more
Date: 1970
Duration: 25 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Kröpfl, Francisco, 1931-

Images of the dream and death

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Images of the dream and death. The intention of this piece is to musically portray good and evil. Rózmann worked with musical motives resembling sounds and phenomena in our environment that represent forces and feelings, composing according to traditional Western style (i.e. the dialectic form of the sonata or the repetition and change of the variation).
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos

Miroirs

Description: Recording of Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux's Miroirs. This work identifies the problem of togetherness with the coexistence of the two sound sources, mainly using as basic material a harpsichord score previously recorded and subsequently subjected to various electroacoustic treatments. Concrete sounds and modulated sounds (EMS synthesizer) are used, to which are added some electronic sounds recorded directly in the studio. The final cut of the magnetic tape then served as the basic material … more
Date: 1975/1976
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Micheline, 1938-1985

Simple y Hueco

Description: Recording of Jorge Naparstek's Simple y Hueco. This piece uses only sounds from a Shakuhachi flute, which was recorded by the composer. The spirit of the piece reflects the introspective and intimate character of the composer.
Date: 1972
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Naparstek, Jorge, 1953-

Sister kate, S. HZ

Description: Recording of Anthony Holland's Sister kate, S. HZ. Originally written for clarinettist Jeffrey C. West, this work is intended as an abstrack work for clarinet and tape. The work recounts some of the sounds heard by two young "bohemian" musicians on their first trip to Paris, France around 1978. It also references a missed appointment with Nadia Boulanger.
Date: 1979
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Holland, Anthony G.
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