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Calcululations

Description: Recording of Alden Jenks' Calcululations. It was made in the composer's home studio, using a Yamaha TX802 synthesizer controlled by a Macintosh Plus computer. The computer was running the Opcode sequencer "Vision". It is is dedicated to the composer John McGuire.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Jenks, Jonathan Alden, 1954-

Canons / chaos

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Canons / chaos. This composition is based on canonical imitation that was take to extremes through digital developments. A total of 144 sounds are used. Augmentation is the main form of canonical imitation.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-

Canto

Description: A recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Canto. Canto is the last of a series of 3 pieces which have as a source and subject flint. Spatial trajectories and displacements are obtained by manipulation of phases and loops.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-

The christo variations

Description: Recording of Frederick Bianchi's The christo variations. The piece explores the possibilities of the orchestral sound mass. The tape is used to inner-modulate and energize the orchestra and intended to exist as a soloistic component. Throughout the work the orchestra moves as one mass of sound that contains a varied and rich micro-world of musical gesture.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 16 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Bianchi, Frederick W.

Chronique

Description: Along it seven sections this piece refers to or uses literally, sound materials and structural devices of works produced by the author since 1985. It is also the account of the exploration, during the last two years of possible interplays betwean different equal tampered scales. In Cronique, this exploration is centered on the integration of two equaly tempered systems : the half tone scale and the quarter tone scale, oriented to obtain through their interaction neet qualities (simulation of ac… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 20 minutes
Creator: Kröpfl, Francisco, 1931-

Compost sonore

Description: Recording Michel Tetreault's Compost sonore. The inspiration from this piece is "Compost", a word which, in the dictionary, comes after "composition" and which, for transposition, can mean: recovery of sound debris, musical materials, scraps of old pieces, used as fertilizer for a new musical piece. Almost all sounds in this work are "concrete" in nature. The sound of water is barely transformed to avoid losing their "natural" reference. These must have been used without much transformation, wh… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Tétreault, Michel, 1954-

Concertino for piano and tape

Description: Recording of László Dubrovay's Concertino for piano and tape. The work has a special tuning system (36V2; 1/6 tone). In this version, the piano uses three differently tuned strings for one note. The digital orchestration is produced by a Yamaha DX II FD synthesizer under the control of a Macintosh computer. The piece consists of three movements, like a traditional concerto. All chords are precisely determined. The novelty in this piece is the particular harmony and the principle of the melody w… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Dubrovay, László, 1943-

Concertino für digital klavier und digitales orchester

Description: Recording of László Dubrovay's Concertino für digital klavier und digitales orchester. This Concertino for piano and tape uses a special tuning system (36V2; 1/6 tone). In this version, the piano uses three differently tuned strings for one note. The orchestration is produced by a Yamaha DX II FD synthesizer under the control of a Macintosh computer. The piece consists of three movements, like a traditional concerto. All chords are precisely determined.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Dubrovay, László, 1943-

Conte Sous La Lune

Description: Recording of Marc Tremblay's Conte Sous La Lune.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Tremblay, Marc, 1960-

Cristaux liquides

Description: Sound poetry around two different states, the solid and the liquid. The spontaneous and slow movement evokes the reactions of the liquid crystals.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Rodrigue, Mario, 1959-

Crosscurrents

Description: Recording of Mike Vaughan's Crosscurrents. Fragments of a recording of this work were subsequently used as source materials, materials which are paired with harpsichord and tape. Crosscurrents uses the idea of a concerto as a model with the tape providing extensions of the harpsichord material, using different combinations of synthesized and recorded sounds. These were created using techniques of sound generation and manipulation including computer synthesis, MIDI, and the traditional technique… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Vaughan, Mike, 1954-

Dan No Ura

Description: Recording of Bertand Merlier's Dan No Ura. There are five movements: Ouverture, La baie de Dan; Rivalités, Tension, Le combat, and Les bulles d'eau; Elégie. This piece is for for tape, electric guitar and digital effects. Throughout the differing tracks these element would utilized in different ways creating different musical environments.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 18 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Merlier, Bertrand

Dedicaces

Description: Recording of Stéphan Iliev's Dedicaces.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Iliev, Stéphan, 1946-

El Destino de las Cosas

Description: "..... it is not about representing things (they represent themselves), but the destiny of things." This text, extracted from one of the articles by Felix de Azua (Writer, Barcelona 1944) included in his book "The Learning of Deception" (1989), is a true mystery to me; The attraction for what we don't understand has made me write down these words on my agenda, who knows if one day...
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Date: 1990
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Palaudarias, Arturo

Diálogo con mi Anciano

Description: I composed this work during 1988/89 at the L.I.P.M in Buenos Aires. The electroacoustic material was mainly generated and processed with an ARP 2600 synthesizer and other analogues devices, that's why its title. The guitar part -five little pieces- belongs to a largest piece for guitar alone (Dobles A, 1988). The formal organisation keeps the articulation in five parts but, four interludes and a finale -with only electronics sounds- were intercalated and superposed, producing different kinds of… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Liscia, Pablo di, 1955-

Dieu est absent des champs de bataille

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Dieu est absent des champs de bataille. For electronics. "God is Absent from the Battlefields" (incidental music, for theater) taken from "La main coupé" by Blaise Cendras, interspersed with poems by Guillaume Apollinaire. The subject is the 14-18 war and the atrocity that accompanies it.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 13 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne

Dizkus III

Description: Diskus is composed at EMS in Stockholm. Dizkus I is for wind-guintet and tape, while Dizkus II is for Wind Quintet alone. On layer of the Dizkus I - tape is a kind of "pace-maker", whose role is primarily to indicate tempi and to give clues of orientation to the musicians. The pace maker is entirely based on the Karjelus-Strong plucked string algorithm and the actual sounds used in the piece have been generated on the VAX 11 computer at EMS. The pace maker put of Dizkus I - tape turned out to b… more
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Date: 1990?
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-

Domestic Blitz

Description: Recording of Nicholas Virgo's Domestic Blitz.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Virgo, Nicholas, 1960-
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