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2, rue Charles Dubois

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's 2, rue Charles Dubois. The title of this piece is the address of the house where Jules Verne lived in Amiens. This work is comprised of 3 movements inspired by one of Verne's novels and was created as part of the open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composer wrote this piece to explore Verne's fascination with the speed of means of communication.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 6 minutes 01 second
Creator: Saur, Etienne

20 000 lieux around il centro del Welt

Description: Recording of Jadel Andreetto's 20 000 lieux around il centro del Welt. This work was inspired by Jules Verne. During a sleepless night, the composer read a variety of chapters from Verne's books and began playing basses, guitars, and their laptop. These improvisations created the framework of the finished piece.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 6 minutes
Creator: Andreetto, Jadel

Acousmatek

Description: Recording of Didier Simione's Acousmatek. This is a work about the distribution of U.S.T. over time and across different spaces and includes 3 parts: 1. deep space, 2. near space, 3. return to the initial space. The composer attempts to prioritize the emotional aspect over the intellectual aspect of the music.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Simione, Didier

Ad Nilo

Description: Recording of José Manrique's Ad Nilo. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Manrique, José, 1962-

Anamnesis

Description: Recording of Bradley Decker's Anamnesis. This is a work for electronics that includes tracks for octophonic speakers.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 24 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Decker, Bradley

Armonia delle sfere nei silenzi siderali (viaggio al centro del suono celeste)

Description: Recording of Marilinda Santi's Armonia delle sfere nei silenzi siderali (viaggio al centro del suono celeste). This is a work for electronics. When describing the piece, the composer quotes Cicero and his writing of The Dream of Scipio.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Santi, Marilinda

Arquitectonica: automata 6''

Description: Recording of Guillermo Rizzotto's Arquitectonica: automata 6''. This piece is the sixth section of a larger work that explores the automata motion and a machine developing music. It includes rhythm insinuations, motion melodies, and sound material recycled with a lot of returning patterns.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Rizzotto, Guillermo

Auto-Domestikalia

Description: Recording of Paolo Besagno's Auto-Domestikalia. This work is based on an old study that the composer made years before and is dedicated to his mother. The inspiration for this work is his house and the sounds it makes due to changes in the environment.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Besagno, Paolo

Automaticamente

Description: Recording of Riccardo Santoboni's Automaticamente. This is a work for synthetic and concrete sounds that revisits the composer's memories about Jules Verne's worlds. Most sounds in this work belong from pulsar electromagnetic fields, water, voice, bells, and some acoustic instruments of Western tradition. A sample of Bach's Cello Suite no. 1 can be heard.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Santoboni, Riccardo, 1964-

Balloonarticularity 80

Description: Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Balloonarticularity 80. This work was inspired by Jules Verne and his novel, "Around the World In 80 Days". This piece plays with the possibility of that book being a futuristic novel, rather than a piece of 19th century literature. In this piece, a Victorian traveler journeys into the future of the present, listening for differences in an increasingly homogeneous world. This work for electronics includes balloon sounds the and sounds of counting numbers in French. more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy

Beginnings

Description: Recording of Ewan Stefani's Beginnings. The inspiration for this piece is the concept of denial and avoiding conclusions; rather than confronting, the focus here is upon description and observation. The voice guides the audience through a series of false beginnings that lead to another introduction, rather than a meaningful programmatic development. This piece was designed to represent discrete narrative or musical "voices" using speakers in the performance space. The pitched material is based … more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Stefani, Ewan

La bottega delle idee

Description: Recording of Maurizio Alfonsi's La bottega delle idee. This is an electronic work that was created for magnetic tape. The inspiration for this piece was wanting to use concrete and electronic sounds to create a virtual laboratory where the construction of intellectual works comes to life.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Alfonsi, Maurizio

Broken Nerve

Description: Recording of Diana Simpson's Broken Nerve. This is a work for electronics that the composer considers a soundscape. The inspiration for this work came from electricity and the fact that it can be perceived and experienced in so many different forms. The composer wanted to create a piece which presented electricity as an animate presence. This piece explores the notion of "flux" associated with electricity. The composer gives thanks to the technical department of the RSAMD, Glasgow for their hel… more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Simpson, Diana (composer)

Captain Nemo's organ music

Description: Recording of Göran Lindsjö's Captain Nemo's organ music. This work was inspired by one of Jules Verne's books titled, "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers”. This book tells the story of Captain Nemo who comforts himself by playing organ. The composer finds a similarity between the isolation that Captain Nemo felt and future humans exploring deep space.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Lindsjö, Göran

Carnets

Description: Recording of Jean-François Minjard's Carnets. This work is an homage to the visionary spirit of Jules Verne. The composer describes this piece as being a small notebook, much like the title says, that brings ideas together and fights against forgetting.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 6 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Minjard, Jean François

A child's dream at "cours 50-Otages

Description: Recording of Dante Cucurullo's A child's dream at "cours 50-Otages. This is a work for electronics that includes static sounds.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Cucurullo, Dante

Chronique composite

Description: Recording of Jean-Michel Deliers' Chronique composite. This is a work for elecronics that includes the sounds of a motor and talking doll. The composer describes this work as an "awakening of the machines".
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Deliers, Jean-Michel

City of Fountains

Description: Recording of Mark Horrocks' City of Fountains. This is a work for electronics that includes English spoken word. The primary subject of the text being spoken is various airline announcements.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Horrocks, Mark

La complainte du progrès

Description: Recording of Frédéric Kahn's La complainte du progrès. This is a work for electronics that expresses a worried look at the future. It intimates sound and resonant climates, both dark and uncertain, an immense laboratory of twilight where our various certainties slowly disappear. Overall, the work projects the idea of progress.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Kahn, Frédéric, 1966-

Cyclic Math Shred

Description: Recording of Chapman Welch's Cyclic Math Shred. This work is a controlled improvisation in 4 parts that incorporates two vernacular styles: heavy metal and psychedelic rock and roll. This piece is neither a caricature nor an homage to these styles, but rather an exploration of music that cannot be traced back to its origins. The sound material in this work includes samples of electric guitar.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Welch, Chapman, 1973-

Déplacements

Description: Recording of Xavier Gipulo's Déplacements. This is a work for electronics that includes sound samples of a band.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Gipulo, Xavier

Digits

Description: Recording of Neil Rolnick's Digits. This work was inspired by the use of "digits", as in fingers, to both play the piano and operate a computer. This is a composition for solo piano and digital processing in which the computer only plays sounds which originate from the piano. There can also be a video component to this piece of live images of the pianist's fingers as they play. The overall effect of the piece is of a classical, virtuoso piano sonata, in which the piano itself has been bent slig… more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.

Donnie's Room

Description: Recording of John Mallia's Donnie's Room. This work is a mixed media installation with animated projection, television monitors, spatialized sound, and objects. This work is an homage to the composer's distant cousin, Donnie. This work attempts to reflect the scale at which a person living in a debilitating condition might experience moments of peace despite their otherwise unconquerable physical and/or mental constraints. The sounds, images and objects used in the installation represent gifts … more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Mallia, John

The downs

Description: Recording of Juhee Chung's The downs. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Chung, Juhee
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