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Painting legs on the snake

Description: Recording of Ron Averill's Painting legs on a snake. This work refers to an exercise in futility, which describes why the composer came to appreciate piano composition. Many literary works of the 19th century deals with the piano reflecting a dissatisfaction linked to the timbre of this instrument, which sparked questions about tonal modes and tone color. Rather than composing a tonal piece on the piano, modified already existing piano works were put through the NEXT computer and organized to c… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Averill, Ron, 1962-

Tasting the crocodile's breath

Description: Recording of Ron Averill's Tasting the crocodile's breath. There are two parts of this recording: the first is the electronic tape with piano accompaniment on top of it, and the second is the electronic tape only.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Averill, Ron, 1962-

This is the sound of my dreams

Description: Recording of Ron Averill's This is the sound of my dreams. Work for percussion, flute, and electronics. This work emphasizes communication between flute and percussion, while exploring differing sound textures with electronic processing and sounds.
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Date: 1994/1995
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Averill, Ron, 1962-

Comunicacones

Description: Recording of Miguel Azguime's Comunicacones. The sound materials in this piece come from concrete sounds from a Lisbon port, communication satellites, and texts in more than 30 different languages, as well as synthetic and instrumental sounds. This work was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 and the concert version premiered at the "Musica em Novembro" festival in Lisbon.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Azguime, Miguel

De l'étant qui le nie

Description: Recording of Miguel Azguime's De l'étant qui le nie. The sound material in this piece was taken from a piano solo piece written by the composer years earlier. Some piano sounds have been modulated to create an electroacoustic counterpart.
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Date: 1997-1998
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Azguime, Miguel & Azguime, Paula

Senza Voci 3

Description: "Senza Voci 3" finishes the series "Senza Voci", three works that over the years have been made with various techniques, but which maintain unaltered some basic characteristics concerning the sound material and musical thought related to it. Especially, "Senza Voci 3" was realized at the CSC of the University of Padua, with the help of Sylviane Sapir on the real-time system that uses Giuseppe Di Giugno's 4I processor, controlled by a PDP 11 computer. The synthesis method is the amplitude modula… more
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Date: 1996?
Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Baggiani, Guido

Darkness

Description: Recording of Curtis Bahn's Darkness. This piece used traditional electronic technique to create a soundscape.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Bahn, Curtis

Dream

Description: Recording of Curtis Bahn's Dream. This work represents dreams with a slowly changing and developing soundscape.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Bahn, Curtis

Meditation

Description: Recording of Curtis Bahn's Meditation. This meditative work takes manipulated flute and combines electronic sounds along with it. The legato feel to this piece and the sounds allow for lots of harmony to naturally occur.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Bahn, Curtis

Vocable Vamp

Description: A recording of Curtis Bahn's Vocable vamp performed by Ron Vincent. This piece is based on the voice of New York jazz drummer Ron Vincent. This composition combines the vocabularies of electroacoustic music and jazz by employing algorithmic compositional procedures to reorder and mix Ron's jazz vocables.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Bahn, Curtis

Dressing old words new

Description: Recording of Christian Banasik's Dressing old words new. For baritone saxophone and tape (version II for bass-clarinet and tape). The structure of the piece is based upon formal characteristics and idiomatic expressions of the 76. Sonnet by William Shakespeare which was analyzed by pitch to midi converter and computer programs. The sound of the recitation was transformed and produced metric-rhythmical patterns and pitches thus generating the material for the composition. The basic patterns are … more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Banasik, Christian

Angustia

Description: Recording of Jean-Christophe Banaszak's Angustia. This work puts emphasis on the relation of space and the composer states that most of the piece has been processed in 3D, putting much of the sound in the background while only a sound resembling a slamming door remains in the foreground.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Banaszak, Jean Christophe

Juste avant le silence

Description: Recording of Jean-Christophe Banaszak's Juste avant le silence. The composer describes this piece as a timeline of mankind and their efforts through history to create a great world while simultaneously destroying it. The end of the piece is the start of a new beginning where humankind finds their future in their roots.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 4 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Banaszak, Jean Christophe

Earth Haze

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Earth Haze. This work journeys through a landscape of dissolving images and events, breaking open enclosed sound-worlds to reveal huge spaces filled with wraith-like figures. It attempts to fuse musical and extra-musical properties of the sound through drawing on the interaction of physical objects, people and the surrounding world.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 14 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Little Animals

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Little Animals. This work is an acousmatic composition. A forest of small creatures begin to transform and interact with their surrounding environment. Slowly, sound fragments lose their acoustic source-bond to leave the bare essence of their expressive content, and gradually unfold an abstract musical discourse. Flow characteristics, both intrinsic to the sound and freely imposed by the listener's own natural sense of time, gradually unfold, leaving an impression… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 13 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Microclimate II: Red snow

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Microclimate II: Red snow. This piece is the second in a series of works titled "microclimates". "Red snow" was inspired by the meteorological and geographical climate changes the composer experienced during their move from England to Norway in January.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 15 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Puzzle wood

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Puzzle wood. The name of the composition comes from "Puzzle Wood" being the name of a small forest nestled within a Medieval iron-ore mining region in the Southwest of England. Although the wood does not covering an expansive area, locals believe many lost souls wander its confused and ambiguous pathways. An alluring aspect of acousmatic music is its ability to indulge in a multi-faceted and paradoxical listing environment. Here, in the composition, the products o… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 13 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Racing unseen

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Racing unseen. Racing unseen is an acousmatic composition in two movements: "Movement one: Racing Wide" and "Movement two: Racing Inside." Text accompanying this piece is as follows: "Racing through, Racing amongst, Into new spaces, Away from old emotions, Racing high, racing low, to escape, to seek, racing into the eddy... racing forever... racing unseen."
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Date: 1996
Duration: 20 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha
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