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Intensidad y altura

Description: Recording of César Bolaños' Intensidad y altura. This work is based on a poem by the same name by Cesar Vallejo and uses sound material from the read poem. Other acoustic materials were modified later with the usual procedures for Tape Music. This piece was the first electroacoustic piece composed at CLAEM.
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Date: 1964
Duration: 5 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Bolaños, César

A study for Electronics Sounds

Description: Recording of Igor Štuhec's A study for Electronics Sounds. This is a work for electronics that premiered at a concert in the Modern Gallery in Ljubljana.
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Date: 1965
Duration: 4 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Štuhec, Igor, 1932-

Oscillations

Description: Recording of Janez Matičič's Oscillations. This work represents the composer's first electroacoustic composition which was produced as four-channel sound. Motions of sound, specifically from the phenomenon of gravitation, feature prominently in this composition. This work was created using concrete sounds only.
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Date: 1966
Duration: 5 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Matičič, Janez

Lire à Lully

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Lire à Lully. This work is the composer's first attempt at electroacoustic music. The sound source used for this piece is the piano which was not mixed but edited in "search of expressiveness".
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Date: 1968
Duration: 5 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

Musica Para Danza

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's Musica Para Danza. This is the composer's first work for electroacoustic tape and was created using an oscillator and tape recorders.
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Date: 1961
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

Piano Concerto No. 2 - "Aux fins de quelques siècles"

Description: Recording of Clarence Barlow's Piano Concerto No. 2 - "Aux fins de quelques siècles". This work started as the second movement of the composers Piano Concerto No. 1 in D and as years past and music changed, the piece changed as well. The composer notes the musical differences throughout the progression of the piece as a reflection of the decade it was written. It was premiered as an orchestral piece in Reykjavik with soloist Deborah Richards and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
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Date: 1961/1998
Duration: 15 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Barlow, Klarenz, 1945-

Batucadas

Description: Recording of Gabriel 's Batucadas. This is a piece entirely composed with electronic sounds. It is an elaboration based on pulsations that occur at different speeds leaning towards density accumulation. Static, shrill and strongly aggressive material that overflows the interrupted background of pulsations. The work was composed in 1973, during the last year of existence of the Laboratory of the Latin-American Center of High Music Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-

Shozyg 1 et 2,2

Description: Recording of Hugh Davies' Shozyg 1 et 2,2. This work was created by reconstructing and modifying 4 instruments (an egg slicer, Aeolian harp, guitar string, and various springs) whose sound progresses from monophonic into stereophonic. The composer intends the piece to be performed with 4 speakers.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Davies, Hugh, 1943-2005

Don't hesitate, do it right now

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's Don't hesitate, do it right now. This work consists of 4 separate pieces: 'Che', 'The Glorious Desertion', 'Don't hesitate, do it right now', and 'Revolution'. This collection of pieces were inspired by the ADC (American Deserters Committee), a group of American soldiers that found sanctuary in Sweden after deserting the American army during the Vietnam war. The spoken text in this piece is sampled from a speech given by Che Guevara, a public figure who took part in C… more
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Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

Studies 3

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Studies 3. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1962
Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Studie 2

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Studie 2. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1962
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Studie 5

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Studie 5. This is a work for tape with mixed electronic and concrete sounds. These different materials play off of each other in what the composer describes as a "question and answer" type of dialogue, while being modulated and transformed in various ways.
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Date: 1964
Duration: 6 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Cellotape

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Cellotape. The electroacoustic part of this work was produced in three versions: one-track, two-track, and four-track tapes. It is meant to be played with two performers, a cellist and pianist who become responsible for the synchronicity of the piece. The piece premiered in Brussels with cellist, Herman Sabbe and pianist, Pierre Bartholomé.
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Date: 1964
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Der Frieden

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Der Frieden.
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Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Die Mauer

Description: Recording of Armand Gutheim's Die Mauer. The sight of the former wall, which divided Europe in two, and the feeling that it evoked, was the perfect subject for an electroacoustic piece. Divided into three parts (1. Construction 1961, 2. Checkpoint 1975 and 3. Destruction 1989). Several acoustic instruments, tools and sounds were originally used at the recordings as well as a choir. Nevertheless, they were all processed and adapted into the electroacoustic concept that can be heard. The result b… more
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Date: 1961/1989
Duration: 9 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Gutheim, Armand

Dialogos 1

Description: Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Dialogos 1. This work uses complexes of short of electronic sounds with long reverberations of the round 10 seconds each, thanks to the natural reverberation chamber build at the studio at that time. The name of the piece relates to the "dialog" between the long transparent sounds obtained through the aforementioned procedure and the original electronic pulses.
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Date: 1964
Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Kropfl, Francisco

Neutron star

Description: Recording of Jan W. Morthenson's Neutron star. This work is based on thermodynamics. The sensation of gravity and compression is represented by acoustic means. The whole sound mass breaks up into glissandos and is dissolved in an echo giving an illusion that the imaginary event has taken place in space. The great quantity of impulses and the focal point in "Neutron Star" necessitated the use of a computer (SAAB D-21), which has itself produced the electronic impulses (with frequencies chosen by… more
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Date: 1967
Duration: 7 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Morthenson, Jan W., 1940-

Doppelrohr II

Description: Recording of Bengt Hambraeus' Doppelroho II. The title indicates that Hambraeus has used as his basic material the range of tones produced by an organ. In this work timbral manipulation becomes a new compositional element. The importance of the organ is immediately established not only in its exclusive use, but as one of the most effective timbral fillers of the gap between live and electronic music.
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Date: 1966
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000

Lettre à une demoiselle

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Lettre à une demoiselle. This piece uses music written on a newspaper, a sheet, in an attic, in view of an open window on an impassive river, at a flowery table, around two o'clock in the morning, in a low voice, in memory of the companions of the Pleiad. There are three movements: draft, erasures, and post Scriptum. This work also uses sound samples and recorded sound to allow for the poem to reach full expression and character.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

La Promenade du Dimanche

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La Promenade du Dimanche.
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Date: 1968
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-

Cadenza

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals Cadenza. This composition is part of a work for orchestra and electroacoustic music. It is a solo for tape recorder, placed in the middle of the work. The basic material is electronic sounds and concert sounds (instrumental sounds). The overall shape is the result of superimposing a large number of fairly simple sound layers.
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Date: 1963
Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Chef d'Oeuvre

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton's Chef d'oeuvre.
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Date: 1967
Duration: 2 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon H., 1939-2022

Times Square Times Ten

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton's Times Square Times Ten.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon H., 1939-2022

Symphonie

Description: Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Symphonie. Both in its original conception and in its accomplishment, of which a considerable part of the credit goes to Mr. Bohdan Mazurek, sound engineer of a remarkable creative experience, the Symphony comprising four parts, presented, in accordance with the idea of ​​the composer, of the structural arrangements, techniques, transposition processes, time relationships and aesthetic and auditory principles which vary from part to part. The work in the studio … more
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Date: 1967
Duration: 17 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław
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