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Cithare

Description: Recording of Claude Jordan's Cithare. Work made up of 3 movements, whose basic material is fragments, samples taken from a traditional instrument frequently used in German-speaking Switzerland: the "Hackbret" or "Citre". Much of the sound processing has been done around transposition and reverse playback bringing an unusually resonant and percussive aspect of the original instrument.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Jordan, Claude, 1954-
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Metropolis - Buenos Aires

Description: Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Metropolis - Buenos Aires. This piece takes you on a sonic journey through the streets as a sound collage of Buenos Aires.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Kröpfl, Francisco, 1931-
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Ambon-Ulan-Alon

Description: Recording of Marie Pauline Esguerra's Abmon-Ulan-Alon. The title of this piece (Rain-rain-waves) reflects what is to be perceived as aquatic quality. Water and rain is the majority of sound material used in the piece, primarily in the way gestural sound objects, when iterated and developed in different ways, create larger, textural events, which continually shift the listener's focus.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Esguerra, Marie Pauline
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Hommage à Winston Smith

Description: Recording of Jukka Ruohomaki's Hommage à Winston Smith. This work is a recomposition of old sound materials made for am experimental short film. The film celebrates the year 1984, and it develops further the basic ideas of G. Orwell's novel: human beings are produced, exploited and destroyed according to the needs of society. The sounds have here undergone manifold processes, male voices being the main material.
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Date: 1983/1998
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Ruohomäki, Jukka, 1947-
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Left to his own devices (To Milton Babbitt at 80)

Description: Recording of Eric Chasalow's Left to his own devices (To Milton Babbitt at 80). In this work, the composer combined archival interviews with Milton Babbitt with a virtual RCA synthesizer. This music draws on quotations from Babbitt’s instrumental music performed by the sounds of the RCA. The text composited of phrases that Milton has spoken many times over the years. The composer has tried to intensify these phrases by building a dramatic, musical structure both from them and around them.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Chasalow, Eric, 1955-
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Pianocentrix

Description: Recording of David Keane's Pianocentrix. Pianocentrix was composed in the summer of 1988, using facilities from the composer's analog electroacoustic music studio in Scarborough, Ontario. The work was commissioned by David Olds for Radio CKLN-FM in Toronto (Ontario) with the help of a grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Pianocentrix premiered on radio on September 26, 1988 as part of David Olds' contemporary music program, "Transfigured Night."
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Date: 1988
Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
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Symphonia

Description: Recording of László Dubrovay's Symphonia. The composition was produced in 1984-85 in West Berlin at the Technical University under the direction of Folkmar Hein. It was made with a "Synclavier II" digital system and a "Synlab" analog system. The process of composition went as follows: all the notes are composed exactly, programmed step by step into the memory of Synclavier II; this program controlled the instrumentation and all of the musical and sound transformation processes. This material wa… more
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Date: 1984/1985
Duration: 24 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Dubrovay, László, 1943-
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Charon's gift

Description: Recording of Tera De Marez Oyen's Charon's gift. For piano and tape.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: De Marez Oyen, Tera
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Shapes (Formes)

Description: Recording of Miklós Sugár's Shapes (Formes). Originally for cello solo. But in this aspect, "Formes" was never played again, because the composer and musician realized that the original instrument could be electronically modulated. Since then it has been played that way. In this work, the electronic modulations of the timbre and the different superpositions of the piece project into each other. The individual repetitions are also electronically generated. "Forms" is made up of four movements an… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 28 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Sugár, Miklós, 1952-
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Des Etres

Description: Recording of Gabriel Brnčić's Des Etres. This work is dedicated to the memory of Oscar Masotta, a specialist in psychoanalysis and semiology. This is music that recalls the atmosphere of the first montages of the imaginary theater that Oscar Masotta created in the 60s in Buenos Aires and to which I collaborated by producing infinite quantities of sound. Now, a viol and a computer, in eight-voice polyphony, constitute this absence of being, constantly speaking of its presence.
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Date: 1986/1993
Duration: 12 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-
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Klagovisor

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Klagovisor. This work is written in memory of the composer's mother. The use of an old dried-out zither is used within the piece. There are also sounds of strings and crying, wailing vocal fragments from Hungarian folk music groups. The piece consists of thirteen short movements that blend into each other. Text by Isabel Thomson, was heavily inspired by Ákos Rózmann.
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Date: 1987
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos
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1789-1989

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lament… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008
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Upon the Ruins of Ophra

Description: Recording of Arie Shapria's Upon the Ruin of Ophra. This work uses eight different recorders which sonically consist of old Israelite songs, treated by an analogous technique, using noise gates, a vocoder, and the pitch to voltage of a synthesizer.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 51 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Shapira, Arie
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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
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Date: 1989/1995
Duration: 16 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-
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Pulsations

Description: Recording of Simo Lazarov's Pulsations. Described as "Pulsations of the Space" by the composer.
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Date: 1985/1993
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-
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Espaces - Paradoxes

Description: Recording of Patrick Ascione's Espaces - Paradoxes. This work is made up of six movements: Couleur Split; póles inverse; Ecran de fossiles; chansons sphérique; tessons bleu; and damse monochrome. The alternation of spatial imagined situations that oppose each other, respond to or overlap each other; in return, giving meaning and life to the sound form themselves. Thus, a specific form of speech is dependent on the simultaneous and successive perception of all these planes, trajectories and cent… more
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Date: 1989/1990
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Ascione, Patrick, 1953-
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Nous

Description: Recording of Marcelle Deschenes' Nous. Electroacoustic composition utilizing various voices (including human and robotic variations of deeper- and higher-pitched voices) in both English and French alongside percussion, electronic noises, and ambient environmental sounds.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 30 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Deschênes, Marcelle, 1939-
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Alice

Description: Recording of Thomas Gerwin's Alice. This work is inspired by special and unique personal memories, which cannot be restored later in life. There is pre-recorded audio of everyday sounds and voices and samples, which interrupt these field recordings.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Gerwin, Thomas
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3 divertissements numériques (1 franchir le rubicon, 2 fission, 3 mange ta télévision)

Description: Recording of Jean-François Cavro's 3 divertissements numériques (1 franchir le rubicon, 2 fission, 3 mange ta télévision). This work is created with electronics and uses traditional electronic technique. There is present noise elements within this work's texture, which establish a good balance within the orchestration of sound. By working with electronic sound effects and pre-recorded sounds of many qualities or frequencies, balance is found.
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Date: 1989/1993
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Cavro, Jean-François
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Rummet

Description: Recording of Pär Lindgren's Rummet. This piece is for electronics. The sounds are pre-recorded sound which have been manipulated and usually are present in communicative patterns. There is a constant sound happening in the background which acts like a drone and develops an eerie familiarity.
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Date: 1981
Duration: 9 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lindgren, Pär, 1952-
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Sotto pressione

Description: Recording of Wolfgang Motz's Sotto pressione. It is for two oboes and computer sounds. There is the use of multiphonics and unusual tone colors, which requires different fingerings to produce the same pitches. Combining oboe and FM synthesis with the sue of a common pitch system allowed for the generation of three different oboes timbres. AM synthesis is also utilized towards the end of the piece for the notes A, B flat, and b; which are sustained.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Motz, Wolfgang, 1952-
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In tenebris

Description: Recording of John Melby's In tenebris. This work is for piano and computer-synthesized tape. The title means "In darkness", and is taken from a poem by Thomas Hardy.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Melby, John, 1941-
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Action/Passion

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Action/Passion. It is the result of a close collaboration where choreography and music were designed in interaction. The work is inspired by inner energy and its manifestation: movement. During the show, the dynamic movements of the sounds unfold in the space thanks to a spatialized interpretation. Music and dance play on very contrasting energies such as breaths, fluids, attack/immobility, attack/movement, rebounds, journeys, falls, crushing, rotations, oscil… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 38 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette
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