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Solar Wind

Description: Solar Wind is an electronic piece based on synthesized audio representations of bow shock interactions of Saturn and Venus with the solar wind as observed by Voyager, Voyager-2 and the Pioneer-Venus Orbiter. The source tape was generously supplied by the project director of the plasma wave instrument, Fred Scarf, of TRW, for NASA. The plasma wave instrument detects phenomena associated with solar wind interactions in space. The instrument, placed aboard this spacecraft, gathers information and… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi

Solar Wind

Description: Recording of Maggi Payne's Solar Wind. Solar Wind is an electronic piece based on synthesized audio representations of bow shock interactions of Saturn and Venus with the solar wind as observed by Voyager, Voyager-2 and the Pioneer-Venus Orbiter. The source tape was generously supplied by the project director of the plasma wave instrument, Fred Scarf, of TRW, for NASA. The plasma wave instrument detects phenomena associated with solar wind interactions in space. The instrument, placed aboard t… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi

Les Sombres Lamentations d'Attis et Ariadne

Description: The Lamentation of Attio was composed by Vincent McDermott at the Laboratory of Sonology in Utrecht. This multi-media piece is based on classical Latin poetry by C. Valerius Catullus. The text tells the story of Attis who was emasculated to join the worship of Cibelle. When he complains about what he has become, Cibelle sends his lions after him for eternity.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: McDermott, Vincent, 1933-

The Song of Ainur

Description: Recording of Jouko Suonio's The Song of Ainur. Composed at the Experimental Music Studio of Finnish broadcasting Company "Yle."
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Date: 1983
Duration: 16 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Suonio, Jouko

Soundings

Description: Recording of John Michael Clarke's Soundings. This piece is an exploration of the sonic world of the cello hence the title "Soundings". The title relates to "resonances", the tape being a reflection of what the "live" cello is playing. This is because most tape sounds come from recorded cello sounds that were then processed in an electronic music studio. There are also some computer generated sounds in the middle part.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Clarke, Michael, 1956-

Soundings

Description: Recording of John Michael Clarke's Soundings. This piece is an exploration of the sound world of the cello from which the title “Soundings.” The title refers to “resonances,” the tape being a reflection of what the cello plays “live.” Indeed, most of the tape sounds come from recorded cello sounds that were later transformed into an electronic music studio. There is also in the middle part, some sounds produced by computer.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Clarke, John Michael

Spettri

Description: This work is born from the desire to deepen research on harmonic spectra. There is no fixed notes, but almost nothing but timbres.These first appear superimposed before becoming denser before becoming a moving crowd, each time faster. In fact it is impossible to separate the search on the timbre from that of the duration. The first sequence ends with a quiet, perfectly tonal chord (major thirds overlaying each other). Further, the signals are shorter, they appear with oppositing attacks of hard… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 10 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa

Tao, 4ème élément: Métal

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Tao, 4ème élément: Métal. Tao is a four-movement work, inspired by Taoism. The four movements are Eau, Fea, Bois, Métal, and Terre. This recording only contains the fourth movement, Métal, in two different versions. These versions include the original 1983 version with electronics and percussion and the 1984 version with amplified zheng, percussion, and electronics.
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 25 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette

Temazcal

Description: The title of the work comes from a word Nahuatl which literally means "burning water". Piece quickly explores a sound material frequently associated with maracas, harps, bamboos and a guitar. The live sound of the maracas comes from the traditional rhythmic patterns found in most traditional Latin American music, models that the performer is asked to combine with great dexterity to build wider and very complex rhythmic structures. These rhythmic structures are then confronted with passages of t… more
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Date: [1983,1984]
Duration: 50 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Álvarez, Javier, 1956-

Tess In Stonehenge

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Tess In Stonehenge. The piece explores the relationship between fast sound structures and sounds with a longer duration and different types of envelopes. The sound equipment consists of filtered white noise bands, frequency modulated bands, and sound structures obtained by the control voltage technique.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio

Three Spheres

Description: Recording of George Skip Brunner's Three Spheres.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 8 minutes 01 second
Creator: Brunner, George, 1951-

Tigida Pipa

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's Tigida Pipa. Commissioned by Elms Concerts for Singcircle, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Tigida Pipa was composed in Ghent, Belgium, and completed in London in January, 1983, but revised several times until 1989. The text consists of invented words and percussive sounds whose inherent rhythmic structure propels the work at breakneck speed through a rondo of sonic adventures.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen

Time Mark

Description: Within Time Mark (commissioned by percussionist Kathleen Kastner), are specific considerations including a continuum of timbre - thus providing for an integration of electroacoustic and live sounds without the loss of individuality, and spatial disposition - wherein the location from which sounds emanate within the host performance space is also a parameter for composition. Originally realized in 1983 with concrete and modular voltage-controlled synthesis techniques (including much analog tape… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Wyatt, Scott A.

Tinell

Description: Composed for the Tinell Hall, at the Barcelona Royal Castle in the gothic quarter of the city, and the Percussionistes de Barcelona ensemble directed by Xavier Joaquin. Tries to use the space as an element in the composition, taking advantage of the peculiar reverberation of the stone wall hall. Space and electronic music create an appropriate environment which facilitates the reaction of the players, distant of each other; they just follow the signals of the central player surrounded by the pu… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Lewin Richter, Andrés, 1937-

Tioerlanauli

Description: Recording of a fixed media piece by Iván Patachich.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Patachich, Iván, 1922-1993

Towards White

Description: Towards White for amplified bassoon and live-electronics was written in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, in Autumn and Winter 1982. Digital delay was relatively new technology, and this was one of the first pieces to use it in a "live" context. The piece requires considerable virtuosity from the bassoonist and high notes you will not find in any orchestration text.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Sharman, Rodney, 1958-

Triptiek

Description: Recording of Peter Plompen's Triptiek. Includes computer-manipulated concrete sounds.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 25 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Plompen, Peter

Twilights "protokolle für tonband gleichzeitiz gespielt mit window"

Description: Recordings of Gerhard Stäbler's Twilights "protokolle für tonband gleichzeitiz gespielt mit window" (Ewilights "Protocols for tape played simultaneously with window"). Poems were written by Ernestro Cardenal and other texts were taken out of "NEWSWEEK" issues between Auguest 1 and 8, 1983. Produced at the Computer Center of Stanford University/California.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Stäbler, Gerhard

Voyage to California

Description: Recording of Henri Chopin and Larry Wendt's Voyage to California.
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Date: [1983..1985]
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Chopin, Larry, 1922- & Wendt, Larry

Watamolla Red

Description: Recording of Martin Wesley-Smith's Wattamolla Red.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Wesley-Smith, Martin

Wave Edge

Description: Recordings of Barry Truax's Wave Edge for four computer-synthesized soundtracks. Part of a set that includes the piece "Solar Ellipse" (1984-85), focusing of spatial trajectory and related images. Wave Edge was inspired by the I Ching hexagram number 4, Youthful Folly, comprised of the trigrams for water and mountain, which portrays a spring bubbling up at the foot of a mountain.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

What if...

Description: Recording of Kristi Allik's "What if...". The title refers to the composer's most common thought during the creation of the composition; the work was the result of constant questioning and exploration, mainly in the area of timbral synthesis and sound juxtaposition.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Allik, Kristi

Wien Herbst 83

Description: One of his works that face the Viennese reality. A man puts his foot into the Vienna urban region, losing himself in the underground corridors, composing his acoustic impressions to make collages that presents us as transformed images of reality.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Schweiger, Walter

Winter Romantic

Description: Recording of Lárus Halldór Grímsson's Winter Romantic.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Lárus Halldór Grímsson, 1954-
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