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Conditional Assemblies

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Conditional Assemblies, quadrophonic work. Conditional Assemblies is based on three groups of five pitches, each group having one pitch in common with the other two. At the beginning of the piece each group is given a characteristic timbre and textural treatment, and the rest of the work develops, mixes and transforms the pitch- timbre-procedure relationships. The work is in two major sections each of which consists of two overlapping subsections. Conditional Assem… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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Eq

Description: Recording of Jonty Harrison's Eq for live saxophone and tape. It is the third in a series of works that features saxophones. This piece like the others, is also concerned with 'cu' (here made manifest by the interaction of live saxophone and recorded sounds on tape), 'Q' (a filter is used to sweet the producing melodic material out of static harmony) and spatial articulation. 'EQ' is studio slang for 'equalization - a more sophisticated version of the treble and bass controls on a domestic hi-f… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Harrison, Jonty, 1952-
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Err / and branching

Description: Recording of Jean Charles François's Err / and branching. This is the first of two pieces for tape made from sound material worked on at IRCAM during my stay in Paris, using Music 10. The final production was made at the Center for Music Experiment in November 1980. The 2 nd piece is in progress. The digital sounds produced at IRCAM are part of a large repertoire of tapes used in the context of the KIVA group's instrumental improvisation through amplified acoustic instruments.
Date: 1980
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: François, Jean Charles
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Estallido Breve

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Estallido Breve. The piece tries to develop in a progressive yet minimalistic way the repetition of a percussion sound, of which the tiniest variations are in the first few milliseconds of the attack. This attack always follows a long extinction, which is also affected by minute changes. The addition of a second kind of sound material, a perpetual crescendo/accelerando, contributes to the accentuation of the dramatic character of this ostinato. The ostinato ends… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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Études 1 et 2

Description: Recording of Þorsteinn Hauksson's Études 1 et 2.The two etudes are the first works based on research carried out at the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music in Paris for more than a year on the techniques of organization of harmonics in composition. The goal was to find a coherence of composition between micro structure (harmonic structure) and macro structure. The pieces are the first text of using computer programs as a result of the study.
Date: 1980
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Þorsteinn Hauksson, 1949-
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Fabulas, II Parte

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's "Fabulas, II Parte" ("Fables, second part"). The sound material is made up of both concrete and electronic sounds, often processed. There are two distinct sections to the piece, marked by differences in tempo, rhythmic character, and differences of size. This work is the continuation of the "Fabulas" piece, composed at the IPEM studio in 1979. It was composed and realized at the studio of the Technical University of Berlin in 1980 with technical collaboration by… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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For String Quartet and Tape

Description: For String Quartet and Tape explores the Relationship between the nuances that exist in the acoustic and electronic sound world. Throughout the work, the integration of electronic sounds into the acoustic domain of the string quartet creates an illusion that is often hard to define. In the end, they become one integrated ensemble.
Date: 1980
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Bianchi, Frederick W.
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From Ipem with Love

Description: Recording of Frank Nuyts's From Ipem with Love for tape. The piece consists of three movements: the first movement acts as a game between articulated/static sound and silence; the second movement, a transition, uses silences that are evoked by sounding layers of sound; the third movement is an evocation of a carillon, in which silence and noise dominate more and more. It was realized in 1980 at the Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music studio using Synthi 100.
Date: 1980
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Nuyts, Frank, 1957-
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From the Tripod

Description: Recording of Ton Bruynèl's From the Tripod. This program music musically retraces a kind of history of the West commented by a group of women, from Greece to American society. Charles Baudelaire's quote "Give me the strength and courage to contemplate this world without disgust," is heard at the end of Bruynel's work as a mechanical bird passes by and bells are ringing. From the Tripod is a piece for speakers, women and listeners.
Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton
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Fusion

Description: Recording of Serge Perron's Fusion. This piece was composed while Perron was studying electronic music with Alcides Lanza and Mariano Etkin at McGill University's electronic music studio. The tape part was entirely derived from ten piano sounds which were modified in various ways using "classical" electronic music studio techniques: loops, speed variation, equalization, playing backwards, and editing. The piano part calls for a new kind of virtuosity - that of staying tightly synchronized with … more
Date: 1980
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Perron, Serge, 1954-
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A Garden for Orpheus

Description: Recording of Paul Wieneke's A Garden for Orpheus. This piece is a study in musical applications of the critical band phenomenon, which is a means of evaluating acoustic dissonance between tones. Its use in this composition effects both harmonic and melodic considerations. Rhythm is largely defined by either simple "Fibonacci" relationships or complex patterns arising from several voices pulsing at various rates. The title is from a painting by Paul Klee much admired by the composer.
Date: 1980
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Wieneke, Paul
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The genesis of Kazan

Description: Recording of Pekka Sirén's "The genesis of Kazan" for voice and tape. The composition is based on the Finnish text of an old poem of the Mordovian people. It is a mythological folk tale from that culture. After encountering the tapestry collection of A. O. Heikel which portrayed the Cheremis and Mordove peoples, Sirén was inspired to think of a new musical notation and to set one of these tapestries to music. He chose the poem "The Founding of Kazan" from the "Heimokanne" collection published i… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 24 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka
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Gioco di velocità

Description: Recording of Roberto Doati's Gioco di velocità. All sound material in the piece was syntheitically created by Doati. The macrostructure of the piece is made up by seven different curves which correspond to the graphic representation on a two-dimensional space with frequency as the ordinate and time as the abscissa, of the variations of as many circumference arcs. This macrostructure determines the formal parameters (repetition series, action time, duration, number of voices, movement in the tim… more
Date: 1980/1981
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Doati, Roberto
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Go

Description: Recording of Alejandro Vinao's Go. The text used in "Go" was written by Ian Cross. It consists of 10 phonemes that as a set may form interrelationships analogous to those implicit in the 10 chords of chorale on which the piece based. The most prominent phoneme is the one, which gives the tittle to the piece, and the idea of the piece is to convey the concept of action as an absolute phenomenon in itself, without subject or object.
Date: 1980
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Viñao, Alejandro, 1951-
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Gwendolyne descendue !

Description: Recording of Bernard Gagnon's "Gwendolyne descendue !" for tape. Gwendolyne is an underground comic character from the 1940s. Read first glance, her adventures only seem to be excuses for exploring the possibilities of bondage, but the unity of style pervading even the smallest symbols and the obstinate repetition within the strict limits of a closed world gives them an esoteric aspect that inspired the piece. It tells the story of the forced disappearance of the heroine. The piece is dedicated… more
Date: 1980/1981
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Gagnon, Bernard, 1953-
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Harmonion

Description: Recording of David Keane's Harmonion. The system employed was a hybrid system comprised of a large modular Buchla synthesizer and an Arp 2500 under the control of a PDP 11-03 micro-processor. The latter was used almost exclusively for precise control information for the amplitude of analog filters (octave, low-pass and band-pass) which processed information derived from 12 to 18 oscillators which were themselves under both manual and analog-program control. "Harmonion" (loosely "that which has … more
Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
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The harvest of sorrow and loneliness

Description: Recording of Robin Julian Heifetz's The harvest of sorrow and loneliness. This work is elegiac in character and is best summed up in the following poetic passage from Thoms Wolfe's "From Death to Morning": "There has been... loneliness enough... to crust (my) lips with its hard and acrid texte of desolation... (For I had) heard the... music... crying and singing a strange and bitter prophecy of love and death... (and I had seen) my brother... die in the dark in the dark mid-watches of the night… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Heifetz, Robin Julian, 1951-
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Ice breaker

Description: Recording of Kevin Jones's Ice breaker. Jones had just traveled from Helsinki to Stockholm by boat across the frozen Baltic Sea, which had been made more difficult due to a strike of icebreaker crews. During the crossing, the magical and mysterious sight of distant plains of ice reflecting the ship's searchlights contrasted strongly with the occasional violent thrusts of the bows ramming into thickly packed ice. The "ice breaker" concept also extends into the interpretation of breaking ice in s… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Jones, Kevin
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Impossible a la x

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana Mejia's "Impossible a la x" ("Impossible to the X"). The piece raises the sonorous vision of a spiritual and violent situation, in which the primitive flows and their purity as a mimetic being and the "being children: are involved in clearly antithetical situations.
Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
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