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Los 7 Espejos

Description: Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Los 7 Espejos. This work was composed for 6 instruments and electronics. This work is based on the idea of the computer "mirroring" each of the instruments presented in the piece. The composer purposefully makes the instrumental material stray from their traditional sounds, creating a confusing listening experience for the audience.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-

8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's 8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal. This work is part of a series called "recycling" where material from traditional music is brought into the world of electroacoustics and made to fit into that genre of music. This piece specifically uses material from a polka and is played with a willow flute. The recording of the willow flute was made 40 years ago and is the only one of its existence.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

N.A.M.A.: "booty" don't walk

Description: Recording of Harry-Ed Roland's N.A.M.A.: "booty" don't walk. The composer dedicates this work to the memory of Michael Schleiter. The inspiration behind this piece is the experience of the composer living as a person of color and continuing to deal with inequality everywhere he goes. The work is about "creating inequality and its seemingly intrinsic hypocrisy and irrational fears".
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Roland, Harry-Ed

L'albero capovolto

Description: Recording of Michèle Tadini's L'albero capovolto. This piece is an improvisation scheme for the Virtuosi di Nuova Consonanza. Recorded using magnetic tape and live electronics. This piece uses a combination of synthetic sounds and natural instruments.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 9 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Tadini, Michele, 1964-

Ambidecst

Description: Recording of Antonio Ferreira's Ambidecst. This composition is based on rhythmic cells produced using several contrasting concrete and synthetic sound objects. Several episodes are assembled between them in order to create abrupt feelings of running and escaping. This composition was made using Csound, Cecilia and Metasynth and was globally mixed for Ambisonics UHJ stereo compatible. Final mixing and mastering done in Protools LE.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Ferreira, António, 1963-

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

Aquarius

Description: Recording of Anne Scarlett Harris' Aquarius. This work mixes the world of the "great outdoors" and the multifarious sounds of indoor life, using sound materials from different sources of water. The composer states that this piece reflects not only the fluid side of nature, but is also a tribute to the time it was written.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Scarlett Harris, Anne

Aranea

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ruzicka's Aranea. This composition was inspired by the comparison of the spider and the possibilities of the world wide web. The title is Latin for "cobweb" and gives tribute to this concept. The work attempts to express both the characteristics of a spider and the typical features of the modern era amplified by the Internet.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Růžička, Rudolf, 1941-

...at other times, the distances

Description: Recording of James Dashow's ...at other times, the distances. Quadraphonic electronic music. This work is a re-working of the electronic materials from FAR SOUNDS, BROKEN CRIES, for 12 instruments and electronic sounds. With the exception of a single cello note, the sounds were produced by the composer's MUSIC30 language for digital sound synthesis, and subsequently elaborated by additional signal processing.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 25 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-

Attract

Description: Recording of José Miguel Fernández's Attract. This work was composed in 1999 as part of a FONDART project of the Ministry of Education of the Chilean government, on the use of mathematical models (chaotic and stochastic) for musical composition and interaction with the computer. For this work, the composer used two chaotic models (torus and logistic map) for the clarinetist's score and random models (Brownian, 1/f and white noise) for the spatialization of the sound. The samples were made with … more
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Date: 1999
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Fernández, José Miguel, 1973-

Avaricum

Description: Recording of Carlos Cerana's Avaricum. This work refers to the historical continuity of the city Bourges. The composer was inspired by its history and tumultuous past.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Cerana, Carlos

Bastone armonico

Description: Roberto Doati's Bastone armonico. For violin, rainsticks, electronics, and interactive system. This work attempts to realize the idea of a monochromatic surface electronically transforming the impulsive sounds of two ‘palo de lluvia’ (rainsticks). The interactive system settles the relationship between violin gestures and electronic part, adding may differing timbres.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Doati, Roberto

Boreas

Description: Recording of André Ruschkowski's Boreas. This piece was composed as one part of a longer musical program originally created for the Susan Quinn Dance Company. The musical material consists of two levels: (1.) microphone-recorded sounds of everyday human activities, and (2.) musical material, which was produced with different means of electronic sound synthesis. The extensive electronic transformation of these items and their arrangement in larger musical units took place particularly on the bas… more
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Ruschkowski, André

Breaking

Description: Recording of Mathew Adkins' Breaking. This work mixes electronic sounds with those of classic R&B music.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 3 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Adkins, Monty

Breath and the machine

Description: Recording of Paul Koonce's Breath and the machine. This work was composed for 2 or 8 channel tape and is a meditation on the ritual of musical sound. The piece explores the relationship between performer and instrument and the process of turning focused air into sound.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Koonce, Paul C. (Paul Christian), 1956-

Brief Fast Ambrosia

Description: Recording of Eduardo Polonio's Brief Fast Ambrosia. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Polonio, Eduardo, 1941-

By my acoustic vision

Description: Recording of Gyula Pinter's By my acoustic vision. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Pintér, Gyula 1954-

Cacophony

Description: Recording of Hubert Howe's Cacophony. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Howe, Hubert S., Jr., 1942-

Carapaces

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Carapaces. “Found” sound objects, captured in nature or imitated in the studio. “Lost objects” symbols of aggression, exclusion, confinement and withdrawal. “Lost objects” that want to break the shell, seek openness to the world and to others to rediscover childhood, the sensitive listening to sounds and the meaning they can carry.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Centre Bridge (dark river)

Description: Recording of Frances White's Centre Bridge (dark river). This work was commissioned by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for a concert of chamber music by women composers. The tape part is dominated by the recorded sounds of the Delaware River, while the instrumentals play over top. The title of the piece comes from the name of a bridge that crosses the Delaware river.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-

Chronique d'une disparition

Description: Recording of Jean-Louis Poliart's Chronique d'une disparition. This work premiered in Brussels as part of the 6th international acousmatic festival and was composed with the help of the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium - General Directorate of Culture. The composer describes this work as an approach to death in a medieval way.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Poliart, Jean-Louis

Clair de terre

Description: Recording of Robert Normandeau's Clair de terre. This work was dedicated to François Bayle for his 70th birthday. It is a complete rework of the original piece which was composed in 1999. Each of the 12 movements have been modified. The movements are: 1. Cadre étroit (espace clos) [Narrow Frame (Close Space)]; 2. Couleurs primaires et secondaires [Primary and Secondary Colors] ; 3. Mobilité des plans [Camera Mobility]; 4. Montage rythmique [Rhythmic Editing]; 5. Montage métaphorique [Metaphoric… more
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Date: 1999/2003
Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Normandeau, Robert, 1955-

Las claviculas de Salomon

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Las claviculas de Salomon. This work includes sound materials of various origins that are arranged in a form close to 'ABA'. This piece includes sound samples from 3 different pieces by the composer including trumpet and guitar instrumentals. The final section returns to the materials already presented.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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