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Metallic

Description: Recording of Abdul Wahid Hasnizam's Metallic. The idea for this piece came from listening to sounds of a music stand and was accidently recorded in a concert hall while the composer was working on a piece. Various techniques were used to play with the music stand, including plucking it and striking it with a pen and sometimes playing it as if it were a string instrument.
Date: 2003
Duration: 11 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Hasnizam, Abdul Wahid
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Treno in corsa

Description: Recording of Michele Biasutti's Treno in corsa. This work is a real time performance with digital elaboration of the sound of noisers (intonarumori), the noise machines built by Luigi Russolo. This piece was inspired by Russolo's painting, "Treno in corsa nella notte" made in 1911 and is based on some perceptive phenomena studied in the field of psychology of music such as masking, space-time perception, and some perceptive illusions on rhythm.
Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
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Ochlophoinc Study # 2 : Hong Kong

Description: Recording of John Levack Drever's Ochlophoinc Study # 2 : Hong Kong. This piece is the second in a series of studies investigating crowd sounds. Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, but is also interspersed with green open spaces and sites of reflection and introspection. The sound material includes edited field recordings that aim to celebrate the sheer intensity of continuous human activity that is Hong Kong.
Date: 2005
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Drever, John Levack
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Motion and Glitch Study

Description: Recording of Shintaro Imai's Motion and Glitch Study. This is a work for dance, visual image processing, and electronic sound. It was commissioned by Inventionen 2004 and was a collaborative work with Kazue Ikeda (dance improvisation). The main purpose of the piece is to experiment with the relationship between the gradual/sudden transformation of a dancer's motion, electronic glitch sounds, and visual textures as a result of modulation.
Date: 2004
Duration: 15 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Imai, Shintaro, 1974-
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Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau

Description: Recording of Saur Etienne's Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau. This is a composition that is meant to be used for theatre. The narrative of the play centers on the daydreams of a man stuck in the closed world of his office. The first part of the music for this composition was created by Stéphanos Vasiliadis who passed before completing the work.
Date: 2004
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Etienne, Saur
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Donnie's Room

Description: Recording of John Mallia's Donnie's Room. This work is a mixed media installation with animated projection, television monitors, spatialized sound, and objects. This work is an homage to the composer's distant cousin, Donnie. This work attempts to reflect the scale at which a person living in a debilitating condition might experience moments of peace despite their otherwise unconquerable physical and/or mental constraints. The sounds, images and objects used in the installation represent gifts … more
Date: 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Mallia, John
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Interleaved tracks

Description: Recording of Nicolas Vérin's Interleaved tracks. This is a work for clarinet and electronics that was dedicated to Louis Sclavis. The electroacoustics of this piece include pre-recorded sounds, some of which were chosen by the musician and others that are transformed sounds of the clarinet. This piece is based on the work done within the Daroux/Sclavis/Vérin trio.
Date: 2005
Duration: 17 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas
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Modul B

Description: Recording of Jos Janssen's Modul B. This work is a "symbiosis of electroacoustic and kinetic-digital elements". The composer states that in general this composition was created from material in their musical diary and includes some trumpet and string quartet material. This recording was also made to be accompanied by shadow images created by Constantin Jaxy.
Date: 2005
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Janssen, Jos
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Yamaha PS 380

Description: Recording of Phil Archer's Yamaha PS 380. This work is a recording of an improvisation performed solely on a Yamaha Portasound PSS-380 keyboard. The keyboard is played inverted, with the keys resting on the performer's lap and the underside casing removed to expose the circuit-board inside. A length of insulated wire, stripped at both ends, is used to create temporary short-circuits. This method creates some degree of unpredictability in the performer's playing.
Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Archer, Phil
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Schlachthof fünf

Description: Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Schlachthof fünf. This is a work for percussion quartet and tape. This piece is a study on metal timbres' typology and the starting material consists of a sound produced by metal objects. The formal course of the composition results from the combination of each typology's interaction.
Date: 2005
Duration: 30 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
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Sattva

Description: Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Sattva. This is a work for prepared piano and tape. The piano is prepared using metal objects, cymbals, and crotales. The composition is based on the relation between textures, derived from cycles of impulses and the gestural energy of complex sound events. The title comes from a term in Samkhya philosophy; Sattva is one of three energies which constitutes the Prakriti.
Date: 2003
Duration: 17 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
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Digits

Description: Recording of Neil Rolnick's Digits. This work was inspired by the use of "digits", as in fingers, to both play the piano and operate a computer. This is a composition for solo piano and digital processing in which the computer only plays sounds which originate from the piano. There can also be a video component to this piece of live images of the pianist's fingers as they play. The overall effect of the piece is of a classical, virtuoso piano sonata, in which the piano itself has been bent slig… more
Date: 2005
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.
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Shadow Quartet

Description: Recording of Neil Rolnick's Shadow Quartet. This is a work for string quartet and computer that consists of 3 untitled tracks. This piece was created to celebrate the life of the composer's late father. The quartet performs while surrounded by four loud speakers, each serving as a shadow of the player in front of it. Each player controls the volume, sampling, and processing of their shadow sound.
Date: 2003
Duration: 15 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.
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Hemlanden

Description: Recording of Love Mangs' Hemlanden. This composition is a suite with 3 pieces inspired the dynamics of the seasons in Scandinavia and the sentiments that go with it. Sound materials include the sounds of icicles and tensions in the ice surface.
Date: 2000/2003
Duration: 23 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Mangs, Love, 1966-
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prayer of a king

Description: Recording of Stefan Klaverdal's prayer of a king. This is a work for saxophone and computer that was extracted from the suite "On Being". It is thematically derived from the classical play of Hamlet, and was originally composed to a dance performance on the play. The notation is quite open, allowing the players to freely choose several aspects of interpretation, such as some rhythms, tempo, etc. for both of the musicians, both saxophone and computer.
Date: 2004
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Klaverdal, Stefan
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Ying yang

Description: Recording of Yu-Chang Tseng's Ying yang. This is a work for electronics that includes the sound material of piano.
Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Tseng, Yu-Chung, 1960-
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Obscuritas Luminosa

Description: Recording of Konstantinos Karathanasis' Obscuritas Luminosa. This work revolves around one note, B, where the instruments and electronics act like lenses and prisms that slowly change the color of this single B and magnify it to the neighboring pitch areas. The role of the electronics is to unify the instrumental fragments and provide coherence throughout the piece.
Date: 2005
Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Karathanasis, Konstantinos
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Klangräume 2

Description: Recording of Gerald Eckert's Klangräume 2. This is a work for piccolo and tape that examines both the instruments and electronics as well as the combination of graphics and sound/timbre. The aim was to create a relationship between graphical constructions and sound.
Date: 1991/2000
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Eckert, Gerald
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Cyclic Math Shred

Description: Recording of Chapman Welch's Cyclic Math Shred. This work is a controlled improvisation in 4 parts that incorporates two vernacular styles: heavy metal and psychedelic rock and roll. This piece is neither a caricature nor an homage to these styles, but rather an exploration of music that cannot be traced back to its origins. The sound material in this work includes samples of electric guitar.
Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Welch, Chapman, 1973-
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Friction

Description: Recording of Jason Bolte's Friction. This work explores the sounds and structures that are produced when a secondary force is applied to an object in physical contact with another. This work is focused on the buildup and ultimate release of energy as the force of friction is exceeded. The sonic material in this work is based on real-world sounds.
Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bolte, Jason, 1976-
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