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La mousson

Description: Recording of Marie-Hélène Bernard's La mousson. This work is meant to represent a Cambodian summer, punctuated by the sounds of rain and children playing outside despite the weather.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Bernard, Marie Hélène

Personal relations

Description: Recording of Milos Betko's Personal relations. This piece is segmented into 9 parts by the composer: 1. just before, 2. micado of mammoths, 3. speech of birds, 4. celestial threats, 5. song 1, 6. up and down, 7. song 2: "How many times it sings...", 8. emotions, 9. trio. It's comprised of background noise, violin, voices of the composer's friends, etc. The piece seems to be a collection of sounds that the composer relates to his personal life and day to day.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Betko, Milos

Aguiro

Description: Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Beyst, Stefan

Musik Dari Jalan

Description: Recording of Jack Body's Musik Dari Jalan. This piece depicts the musical sounds and ever-varied texture of resonances of Indonesian streets. There are street sellers advertising their products and a street musician who accompanies himself with anklung (bamboo resonators which are shaken) and a small gong.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Body, Jack, 1944-2015

Alba

Description: Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Cardi, Mauro

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

Balthasar's Traum

Description: Recording of Frank Corcoran's "Balthasar's Traum" performed at the Electronic Studio of the Berlin Technical University in close cooperation with Folkmar Hein. The work is based on an idea of a short story by Jorge Luis Borge and the Gospel of St. Mark about Balthasar Espinosa, a man who becomes involved with the Gutres people of Pampa and eventually dies by being hanged on a cross by the same people with whom he was so fascinated. It takes place in the great plains of the Pampa where Baltasar… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Corcoran, Frank

Quasi una missa

Description: Recording of Frank Corcoran's Quasi una missa. This work is comprised of 4 movements and was composed as a mass. Sound materials for this piece include English and Irish spoken word.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Corcoran, Frank

Two small boys go shopping

Description: Recording of Peter Cusack's Two small boys go shopping. The piece is a representation of composer Peter Cusack and his son simply shopping together in North London. This trip includes a visit to a toy store and a musical instrument shop where Peter tries out a guitar by playing a few notes from Stairway to Heaven.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 15 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Cusack, Peter

The stairwell

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's The stairwell. For violin, pre-recorded voice, and electronics.
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Date: 1992/1994
Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger

Diamant

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant. This piece was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem.
Date: 1977
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John

La Feria Fantástica

Description: Recording of Igor de Gandarias' La Feria Fantástica. This work was realized at the University of Maryland Electronic Music Studio using a Fairlight Series III station. The sound sources come from live recordings made in 1991 during the celebration of the most important popular feast in Guatemala City, called “Feria de Jocotenago” (Jocotenango’s fair). The feast, dedicated to celebrate the city’s patron anniversary (Virgin of the Assumption), takes place in August every year, enduring the comp… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 8 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Gandarias, Igor de

Le tour du monde en 280 secondes

Description: Recording of Thomas Gerwin's Le tour du monde en 280 secondes. This is a work for electronics that explores sounds around the world. The composer compares it to the concept of travelling into the future: "a nearly imperceptible floating or gliding from one space to another".
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Gerwin, Thomas
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