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The Acoustic Painter

Description: Like colours, the sounds are composed using a keybord like brush and time like canvas. The work has two parts: first the painter freely paints an abstract subject and second he compose a defined subject. This work was originally composed for voices, bassoon and tape but this is the unique realization. The sounds were generated using additive, frequency modulation, ring modulation synthesis and sampling.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Pedrazzi, Marco, 1959-

Alice

Description: Recording of Thomas Gerwin's Alice. This work is inspired by special and unique personal memories, which cannot be restored later in life. There is pre-recorded audio of everyday sounds and voices and samples, which interrupt these field recordings.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Gerwin, Thomas

Allegory

Description: Allegory (11’52”; 1987) is my second composition in the medium of computer music. It was created at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music on a Sun 3/160 computer, using the Csound synthesis program and Fromp, a music composition program developed by the composer that generates musical fractal structures. All of the sounds heard in this piece, pitched or otherwise, result from a filtering of white noise. The idea behind Allegory takes its inspiration from the music of the duduk, an … more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Arzouman, David, 1955-

American Made

Description: Recording of Anna-Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner's American Made. It is an electroacoustic piece using various English and Japanese sound fragments to recreate the sound of a motorcycle's exhaust.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth

Approcci a petrarca

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Approcci a petrarca. This work is made up of five sections, which are voice and electronics. The piece features many sounds such as voice, electronics, writing with a pencil, and sound effects.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 2 hours 58 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Archaeusin Euphonia

Description: Recording of Nicolae Brînduș's Archaeusin Euphonia. In this work, the electronic-music is a play back for the performance "live" of the musicians. Their involvement in the play is more or less free or proposed by the leader of the group. The recording is a version dedicated to the group "Archaeus" of Bucharest conducted by Liviu D_nceanu.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 20 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Brînduș, Nicolae

Archimedes: Scene II

Description: This second scene begins with Archimedes, now a young man, emerging from the laughter of scene i; he begins to realize that he undertands mathematics, more than undertands it, he can master it, create it, think it, live and breathe it. The music is composed for a wide variety of geometrical images being drawn and animated on the planetarium dome, in synchronization with a live mime who with his gestures, causes the images to appear, to move, to transform and to engulf. The music is designe… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-

Architecture Nuit: Cinq Poèmes

Description: As always the old dilemma: does the music follow the words or does it pursue a concomitant and independent discourse? Here, the text is a source among others (like the timbre of the voice, the alchemical transformations of the sound ...). Source of images, meaning, and especially space: interior space of sensations, emotional calls, silences behind the words and still real, external space, perceived in the text. The music responds, as soon as the recording of the voice, by a set of different sp… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette

Asi el Acero

Description: In Asi el Acero, I tried to marry two very different sound worlds: the steel drum, generally associated with Caribbean music, and the world of electroacoustic music, usually associated with technology, computers and synthesizers. In order to find a coherent ensemble for both, I have done important research in the classical repertoire of steel drum, music by nature very "noisy", very rhythmic and very repetitive. From there came to me the idea of ​​using small rhythmic cells to adapt the fixed i… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier, 1956-

Attracteurs Étranges

Description: Recording of Patrick Fleury's Attracteurs Étranges.
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Date: [1988,1989]
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Fleury, Patrick, 1951-

Attracteurs Étranges

Description: Recording of Jean-Claude Risset's Attracteurs Étranges, performed by Serge Conte, is a computer-produced piece for clarinet and tape. The piece has four sections of unequal lengths: I. Initial (about 7 minutes), the sonorous pitches gravitate above a high B - a point attractor; II. Vocal (about 2 minutes and 35 seconds, A brief encounter between the clarinet and the voice of Daniel Arfib, slowed down, noisy, hybridized with the instrument; III. Vertical (about 5 minutes 20 seconds), the clarine… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 46 minutes 01 second
Creator: Risset, Jean-Claude

Backtrace

Description: Recording of Chris Chafe's Backtrace.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Chafe, Chris

Balkanisation

Description: Historically, Balkanization refers to the nationalistic division of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe into many small, antagonistic states in the years preceding World War I. For this piece, I have taken several very brief excerpts of traditional village music from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, and have separated, put them into various levels of conflict, and have finally tried to reconcile them as much as possible. The tape from which I have taken the excerpts which form the basis of Ba… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.

Below the Walls of Jericho

Description: The title is only a loose reference to the story in the Bible. What interests me about the story is the idea of a large mass of people knocking down a wall through the use of sound. The story gives credence to the notion of music as a catalyst for social change. Beyond the sheer physical impact that a large number of sounds contain, the music is a form of language which is capable of creating thoughts. The power of music lies in the simultaneous physical and intellectual seduction of the listen… more
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Date: [1988,1989]
Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dolden, Paul, 1956-

Boustrophedon ä-e-i III "souple révolution d l'eau"

Description: - Third movement of the suite "Boustrophedon ä'e'i". Order from the city of Marseille for the Bologna Biennial 88. Intrauterine journey of the modern poet whose heavy and unique obsession is to break the jar of the interior in order to discover the Woman. Sounds then the Sacred Noise, the first awakening of the Tectonic Blacksmith: "What is heavy, is low! What is light is high!", First awakening of the Water-the-unfathomable: "Who can imagine the sea before the first rain? What sound was thund… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Alagna, Jan Pascal

Breeding Version 2.01

Description: This is a real-time performance of computer. This piece's "Structure" (changing with time of the density of sounds, distribution of sound-frequency, character of the sound-space, etc) was decided by translation and adaptation of the results of Monte Carlo simulation about the ecological concepts -birth, growth, death, etc-. It's used here to suggest a systematic but multiply stimulated study of materials and their organisation. Many scales and tunings consist of re-construction of the frequenc… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Nemoto, Shinobu

Buleria

Description: Rhythm is a vital characteristic of man and nature around him. We are not always able to perceive every level of rhythm. This often masks a reality that some of us, despite the consistency of some ontological visions, feel like escaping power, love, and the senses. "Buleria" is now a being independent of me although it is me who shows it; it is a fruit of my thought, to which I am no longer the only one to have access. "Buleria" is, from the beginning to the end, an algorithm that takes shape b… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Berenguer, José Manuel

Busk

Description: Busk was commissioned by BRMB Radio as a celebration of Birmingham, and the piece attempts to achieve this using recordings of buskers along with other environmental sounds which we recorded in the city. Rather than direct the listener to recognition of the music we recorded, our interest lay in the possibilities offered in the transformation of these sounds. Whilst such material might easily suggest a narrative or other extra-musical meaning, we didn't aim to explore this. The "journey" which… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 15 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: MacDonald, Alistair, 1962- & Virgo, Nicholas, 1960-

Cage d'escalier

Description: Opening music for a Café-Theater show. The daily observations of a girl prolonged, a woman who still behaves as a young girl! From tea room chatter to a very, very, very… meager delirium.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Billaudeau, Bruno, 1954-

Chalice

Description: The chalice represents a cultural icon of both religious and scientific significance. Renaissance painters used the chalice as an object of study for the newly acquired understanding of perspective. In particular, Dürer's Studies of a Chalice presents the object in progressively rotated angles in a way startlingly similar to many computer graphic presentations. This work attempts an aural analogy to perspective changes. Software written by the composer takes musical material and audits it thro… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Berger, Jonathan

Chroniques

Description: Chronicles comes from certain possibilities offered by the technique of sampling A certain return to concrete music where the spectral content of sounds is particularly rich. The materials used here are mostly instrumental items. The sequence of different movements is treated as a succession of news items belonging to the same heading, without having a systematic relationship between them (literary chronic <-> chronic sound). The score is interpreted with 4 musical objects sampled on AKAI S900 … more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Donzel-Gargand, Bernard, 1945-

A Cidade Eterna

Description: This work belongs to a group of seven works that is not finished yet. This group of works was originally thought to evoke musically the book of Revelation in the New Testament. However its context was somewhat enlarged and turned into a meditation on the meaning of the word "Revelation" itself. The Eternal City uses as text excerpts of the twenty-first and twenty-second chapters of the book of Revelation, in the New Testament, in the latin version. This work was first composed at the Center for… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 31 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Oliveira, João Pedro

Cobra

Description: Cobra (1988) was commissioned through the Danish Art Council by the Randers Art Museum in celebration of the museum's 100th anniversary and realized at DIEM's studio in Aarhus, Denmark. The piece has since been presented at the Rostrum for electronic music in Stockholm, the Bourges festival, the International Computer Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio and as a ballet at the South Bank Centre in London. The work is available on CD on the Da Capo label. The sound material is derived mostly from th… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Siegel, Wayne, 1953-

A(cou)s (Th)matic

Description: A(cou)s (Th)matic is an acousmatic piece with an asthmatic theme. The Dual nature of the title is paralleled by a constant exploration into various polarities such as inhalation and exhalation, comfort and discomfort, internal and external body space. These provided a guiding force to a mainly invisible structure, the most obvious aspect of which is the constant rising and falling of each section, which was inspired, by the rise and fall of a breathing chest. From an aesthetic point of view I s… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Lee, Patrick, 1963-
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