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Mimoyecques

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concep… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-

Bouzouki Abstraction

Description: Recording of Colin Black's Bouzouki Abstraction. This work explores the abstract connections between the traditional Greek bouzouki instrument and the constructs of music, heritage, and physical structures displaced in time. This is a bilingual piece that includes text performed in both English and Greek. Musically, this work combines electroacoustic composition, sound art, synthesis, harmonic singing samples, spoken word, and the traditional bouzouki instrument.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Black, Colin

Thalis

Description: Recording of Paul Dibley's Thalis. This work is based on the Greek philosophy by Thalis, that water is the basis of all life. The composition includes three elements: water, the voice, and pitch. The vocal component takes the form of Greek text about the philosopher, Thalis. While the pitched element takes the form of sung notes and the manipulated sounds of pitched instruments.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Dibley, Paul

At night they call the dragons

Description: Recording of Spyros Faros' At night they call the dragons. This piece is inspired by rock music. There is also samples which have been utilized to give the piece direction and stability such as the train signal and speech heard throughout the piece.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Faros, Spyros

Fawn

Description: Recording of Lorenzo Ferrero's Fawn. "Fawn" has a number of very contradictory meanings in English; perhaps this is why it is a good title for a work on love that uses two extracts from Sappho as its text. The letters of this word are even the initials of a dedication that has meaning only for the author. It creates a relationship (Aristotelian?) between an esoteric (for oneself) and esoteric (for the public) that reproduces even romantic attitudes. This work can be performed live without any m… more
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Date: 1972
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Ferrero, Lorenzo

Chaotic Lucidity

Description: Recording of Stelios Giannoulakis' Chaotic Lucidity. The concept behind this work is taking abstract ideas and containing them in something simple and easily understood. The composer states that this piece is about "free association".
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Date: 2001
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Giannoulakis, Stelios

Nectariou 5

Description: Recording of Stelios Giannoulakis' Nectariou 5. This is an electroacoustic work about family and distance. It is about memory and connection as articulated by long distance telephone communication and traveling.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Giannoulakis, Stelios

Dreampaths, A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90

Description: Recording of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90. This is a single movement work for soprano solo, two sopranos, two altos, and computer generated tape. In the text of the Canto, Pound incorporates Latin, English, Chinese and Greek, in order to describe the visual imagery of the poem which begins with a quote from Richard of St Victor. The computer-generated portion of the work is composed of both synthesized sounds and sampled, processed sounds from a collection of Chine… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn, 1953-

Aï∂a ∂omi

Description: Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper a… more
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Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-

Burning River

Description: Recording of Wayne Siegel's Burning River. This is a work for four channel tape and was commissioned by the New Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum with financial support from the Danish Arts Foundation. The composition was inspired by a section in The Iliad by Homer: Achilles running amok against the Trojans. The composer states his attraction to this section was due to the many references of sound within the passage and he attempts to emulate those in the composition.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Siegel, Wayne, 1953-
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