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Aegror

Description: Recording of Alfonso Belfiore's Aegror, a composition for computer made in 12 voices grouped in three channels. Two generating forces are at the basis of the development of the work, where one tends to the stratification (process also identifiable in the structure of the same sound) of the sound materials in massified and crystallized events, the other, contrary presence, tends, in the disintegration of these structures, to the restitution of a perceptible individuality to each layer up to the … more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 57 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Belfiore, Alfonso

Portrait

Description: Recording of Andrew Bentley's Portrait. This work, composed for 3 groups of singers and tape, explores a range of vocal sounds stretching back from the musically familiar and traditional type of vocal production, known as "singing", through voiced and unvoiced sound production of several kings towards an abstract sound palette made possible by interactive combinations of electronic and vocal sounds heard from the tape. Because of the new significance which words take on when "set to music" in a… more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 9 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Bentley, Andrew

Portrait

Description: Recording of Andrew Bentley's Portrait. This work composed for 3 groups of singers and tape, explores a range of vocal sounds stretching back from the musically familiar and traditional type of vocal production, know as "singing", through voiced and unvoiced sound production towards an abstract sound palette made possible by interactive combinations of electronic and vocal sounds heard from the tape. Because of the new significance which words take on when set to music in a traditional way. The… more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 9 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Bentley, Andrew

I Never Knew You Cared

Description: Recording of Paul Berg's I Never Knew You Cared. This piece Cared was programmed in PILE, a language for sound synthesis, and executed on a PDP-15 computer at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht. The program for I Never Knew You Cared can be considered a description of the piece as well as the rules for producing it. When the program is started on the computer, the piece follows in real-time, without any further intervention or manipulation. The synthesis technique is an adaptation of Hohn Chowi… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 13 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Berg, Paul

I Never Knew You Cared

Description: Recording of Paul Berg's I Never Knew You Cared. 1. I Never Knew You Cared was programmed in PILE, a language for sound synthesis, and executed on a PDP-15 computer at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht. The program for I Never Knew You Cared can be considered a description of the piece as well as the rules for producing it. When the program is started on the computer, the piece follows in real-time, without any further intervention or manipulation. The synthesis technique is an adaptation of H… more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 13 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Berg, Paul (Composer)

Schwebungen

Description: Recording of Frank Michael Beyer's Schwebungen. The interference of sounds produces gentle and undulating movements that do not escape attentive hearing. In the moments of coincidence (nodes) of this interference, a "bell" sound pushes the beginning of a new color.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 7 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Beyer, Frank Michael

Schwebungen

Description: Recording of Frank Michaël Beyer's Schwebungen. The interference of sounds produces smooth, undulating movements that do not escape close hearing. In the moments of coincidence (knots) of this interference, a "bell" sound prompts the beginning of a new color.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 7 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Beyer, Frank Michael

Dedicate to you II

Description: Recording of Lars Gunnar Bodin's Dedicate to you II. A text is fragmented by the equipment of the electronic music studio and then processed to form a model of semi-subconscious communication. The voice fragments are then processed and manipulated with electronics to create the granular synthesis like sound.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-

Panta rhei

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger's Panta Rhei. This piece is connected for one female dancer who is connected to a synthesizer via a cable ("Umbilical cord"). "Panta Rhei" ("everything flows") refers to the Greek myth of the Three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos). The cable represents the string of life which the performer can not escape. This dependency forces her to react to the sound events with reach her through the cable.
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Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen, 1956-

Dustiny

Description: Recording of Herbert Brun's Dustiny, an electronic composition.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Brün, Herbert, 1918-2000

Candomblet

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Candomblet. This piece was created through manipulation of the Candomblet record synthesizer. The choice of sound material follows purely musical criteria; there is no nationalist intention. Piece uses music originally made for dance.
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Date: 1978/1981
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo

Curare II

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Curare II. The piece is a revision of a work begun during the course at the GRM in 1975. It was finished in Rio de Janeiro. The piece uses three families of acoustic sounds: guitar and Jew's harp being two of these. Curare is a double-purpose substance used by the Amazonian Indians for combat; it is a deadly poison, and yet it also serves as an effective hallucinogen at feasts. The double aspects, the ambiguous atmosphere of certain passages, the evidence of others… more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 8 minutes
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-

Introdução à Pedra

Description: This is the first in a cycle of pieces made of the same base material: samples taken from recordings made in a kneader and with a flint block.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-

Abominable A

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps,… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

Yeh-Pan Yueh

Description: Recording of Ka Nin Chan's Yeh-Pan Yueh.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 9 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Chan, Ka Nin

Sonett

Description: Recording of Daniel Chorzempa's Sonett.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Chorzempa, Daniel, 1944-

Diastasis 3

Description: Recording of Claude Colon's Diastasis 3.
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Date: 1978
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Colon, Claude
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