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Ka-Boom !

Description: Recording of Aki Pasoulas' Ka-Boom !. This work is based on a recording the composer made of a fireworks display. The composition employs recorded voice that imitates fireworks and the text that was compiled is a combination of onomatopoeia, made-up language and words used in comic books. The structuring of the composition attempts to parallel the human brain's process, while at the same time puts all the information in the time frame of a real-life event.
Date: 2004
Duration: 14 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Pasoulas, Aki
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L

Description: Recording of Elsa Justel's L. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and sounds of a string instrument. The inspiration for this piece comes from Epicurean concepts which were put into poetry by Lucretius.
Date: 2006
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Justel, Elsa
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La terrible presencia

Description: Recording of Costas Mantzoros' La terrible presencia. This is a work for female voice and tape that is part of a collection of short works on Lorca's poems. The poem used for this piece is "El divan del Tamarit" by Federico Garcia.
Date: 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Mantzoros, Costas
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Epoque

Description: Recording of Jacky Mérit's Epoque. The composer describes this work as an electroacoustic triptych in three movements. This work is meant to explore how sounds effect the internal person through different combinations and articulations of sound layers.
Date: 2003/2005
Duration: 14 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Mérit, Jacky
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Fantaisie Urbaine

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Fantaisie Urbaine. This is a work for vocals and electroacoustic sounds. The composer describes this piece as telling a story of different people walking through a city, meeting and discovering new things. Various sounds illustrate the suspense and intrigue.
Date: 2005
Duration: 17 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne
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Tabula irrasa

Description: Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Tabula irrasa. This is a work for tape that was inspired by the composer's experiences on trains crossing the Po Valley. While travelling, the composer found himself focusing on the landscape and drew inspiration from the fields, farmsteads, hedges, etc. The materials that have been used are based on the sounds of the language spoken by the river. The composer thanks Italo Formigoni and Wainer Melli for their helpfulness as well as the Istituto Mantovano di Storia… more
Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
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fA1LiN(n)G

Description: Recording of Juan Parra Cancino's fA1LiN(n)G. This is a work for harpsichord and live electronics that was dedicated to Anne Faulborn. This piece aims primarily to create a symbiotic instrument between the mechanical and the electronic sound producers, the properties of the mechanisms of the harpsichord, and its sonic qualities as well as the use of the computer as an enhancer of these properties. Using a limited set of musical gestures, the time structure of the piece is a journey between diff… more
Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Parra Cancino, Juan, 1979-
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Shatter Cone

Description: Recording of Panayiotis Kokoras' Shatter Cone. This is a work for violin and electronics and was commissioned by the MATA Festival 2004 to be performed by Mari Kimura. The title refers to the way the sound of the violin is formed into sonic structures from the impact of the bow's pressure, speed, and position on the strings in combination with their register. The pre-recorded material comes only from violin sounds, transformed to keep the gestural and spectral data of the original sound while l… more
Date: 2004
Duration: 10 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Kokoras, Panayiotis, 1974-
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Multiplication virtuelle

Description: Recording of Mei-Fang Lin's Multiplication virtuelle. This is a work for solo percussionist performing on a wide array of pitched and non-pitched acoustic instruments. Audio signals taken from microphones placed in close proximity to each instrument are used to control a real-time computer-based electro-acoustic component. This piece is dedicated to the French percussionist Jean Geoffroy, who premiered the piece on Oct. 14, 2004 at l'Espace de Projection at IRCAM in Paris during the Resonances … more
Date: 2004
Duration: 12 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Lin, Mei-Fang, 1973-
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Targilim be'ivrit shimushit

Description: Recording of Rajmil Fischman's Targilim be'ivrit shimushit. This work was created with a text by Israeli poet, Dan Pagis, in mind. This music explores the phonetic aspects of modern Hebrew as well as semantic meaning. This piece focuses on points of contact between the live performer and the more abstract sonic dimension embodied in the electronic part. The electronics were created using digital techniques to process a reading of Pagis' poem by the singer, Eti Ben-Zaken, for whom this work was … more
Date: 2003
Duration: 23 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Fischman, Rajmil, 1956-
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Libellune

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Libellune. The composer describes this work as the sound journey of a dragonfly and says that this is the perfect time for reflection. This piece is structured in eight stages titled: Métamorphose, départ, Orient, Afrique, Tropiques, Amérique, Europe, and Espace. This work includes processed recordings of human voices and various musical instruments. The integration of musical instruments from different cultures serves to illustrate the journey of the dragonfly.
Date: 2002
Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne
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Critical band

Description: Recording of Michele Biasutti's Critical band. This is an electroacoustic work for flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar, piano, and signal processing. This work was inspired by a perceptive phenomenon studied in the field of psychology of music. The general aim of this piece is to apply in music composition the results of the research in frequency-ratios, experimenting new formal developments. Formally, the piece is based on an ascending semi-tone interval, using 'E' as a tonal center.
Date: 2003
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
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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.
Date: 2004
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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Quintuple Escapement

Description: Recording of William Kleinsasser's Quintuple Escapement. This is a work for interactive software instrument that was composed for Daniel Koppelman. This composition presents five short pieces that explore what might be idiomatic music for this new instrumental paradigm. The pieces grow out of two principal ideas: pieces that are compressed and nearly rarified character pieces as well as each movement building up from juxtaposed and inter-related musical statements.
Date: 2003
Duration: 42 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Kleinsasser, William, 1961-
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Earth-Star Songs

Description: Recording of Leif Brush's Earth-Star Songs. This work is considered a "stitching" of sounds and recordings taken from an array of the composer's analogue constructs and terrain instruments. These recordings have been paired with recordings produced by Jerry Chamkis' Kosmophone. The result is an inexhaustibly complex amalgamation of hard-edged terrestrial and tactile phenomena contrasted by cosmically sourced retro-futuristic synth interjections.
Date: 2004/2005
Duration: 46 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Brush, Leif
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Digiroom

Description: Recording of Per Samuelsson's Digiroom. This work was created using the concept of a "room" as an important component. This work was composed and mixed for 8 channel surround sound. The four walls of the "room" keeps sounds together and groups them together in clusters which forms new sounds. This composition can in many ways be compared to the course of events of a room during a certain space of time.
Date: 2003
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Samuelsson, Per, 1955-
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Comédie à toute vitesse

Description: Recording of David Behar's Comédie à toute vitesse. This is a composition that was created for classes of young children at the Perpignan conservatory. The intention of this piece was to offer pleasure, imagination, and avoid pure abstraction; moving towards a more figurative narration.
Date: 2003
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Behar, David, 1973-
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Hommage à Parmerud

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Hommage à Parmerud. This work acts as an homage to composer, Ake Parmerud. The two composers undertook a project where they swapped basic sound materials and composed new works based on each other's offerings. This piece is the product of that and gave Barrett the chance to compose her first homage to one of the many composers that have influenced students and professionals worldwide.
Date: 2005
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha
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Invito

Description: Recording of Per Samuelsson's Invito. The composer describes this piece as inviting the listener to "crawl under the skin of string instruments and let them sound in a way we are normally not used to". The fact that other sounds naturally fit into this piece proves that not just ordinary musical instruments find it's spot on the musical map.
Date: 2005
Duration: 10 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Samuelsson, Per, 1971-
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Hastening toward the Half Moon

Description: Recording of Elainie Lillios' Hastening toward the Half Moon. This work strings together a series of vignettes on life's eternal mysteries; murmuring, wandering, yearning amongst the drifting tides of the unknown. This piece was commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art and premiered during the Octophonic Concert of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art on Toronto Island, Canada.
Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-
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Speaking...again

Description: Recording of Elainie Lillios' Speaking...again. This is a radiophonic composition based on interviews with Don, a long-time friend of the composer. Don experienced a profound and life-changing challenge in his early 50's and set an example for how we should all approach living through his outlook and determination. Don teaches us not to take the simple things for granted. This work was commissioned by La Muse en circuit and premiered at the Péniche Adélaïde for the radiophonic art prizewinners … more
Date: 2003
Duration: 11 minutes
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-
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Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil

Description: Recording of Philippe Gonin's Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil. This piece was built in two sections. The first section sets up a strange atmosphere that includes noises and distorted voices that emerge little by little. The second section introduces the poetic text. The work ends suddenly and only slight sounds of rain and music remain. This piece is part of a cycle titled "Musiques Écouter dans le Noir", a collection devoted to dreams.
Date: 2002/2004
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Gonin, Philippe
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