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Tierra Caliente

Description: Recording of Wlodzimierz Kotonski's Tierre Caliente. For this piece the recorded sonic material was put through a series of digital treatments. The material is based entirely on sounds from nature: whistling of the wind, chirping of crickets, croaking of frogs, the voices of birds, the voices of other living beings, including the thunder of falling stones and even a volcano erupting. The title Tierra Caliente (in Spanish "hot earth") is meant to evoke heat waves in tropical regions, and is the … more
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Date: 1992/1997
Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Kotoński, Włodzimierz

Time chants I. Los Angeles

Description: Recording of Bruce Mahin's Time chants I. Los Angeles. This work is written for Yamaha WX11 wind controller, Macintosh computer, videotape and synthesizers. Written in response to the events leading to and including the Los Angeles riots in the Spring of 1992. Many forces are heard, different hierarchical levels in the public community, violent outbursts, as well as meditative reflection which must accompany any such collective action. Striking chords in quick succession at the beginning of the… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 8 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Mahin, Bruce P.

Traverser les galaxies blessées pour christal et hautbois

Description: Recording of Jean-François Cavro's Traverser les galaxies blessées pour christal et hautbois. Performers must be willing to play 2 instruments (cristal and oboe), sonorities, and different factors. The composer recommends performers work on the virtuosity, the roughness, and the attack of the oboe as related to the timbre of the cristal.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Cavro, Jean François

Treelink

Description: Recording of Otto Laske's Treelink. This work is based on the reading of the composer's poem. The musical concept is supposed to enable the poem to show its fullest expression, assimilating music to its physical body. Few intelligible language fragments are heard. Emphasis is put on the spirit of the poetic text as embodied by its sound, not on its syntactic or formal structure. It was composed with the aid of Capybara and its Kyma language, beta-versioned on a PC, which the composer was helpin… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 14 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Laske, Otto

Trees

Description: Recording of Frances White's Trees. For two violins, viola, and tape. This work is made up of three movements and contains very long, quiet sustained notes in the strings and processed recorded piano sounds in the tape. The initial idea for this piece was to make a composition for tape and string instruments in which the strings would extend the decay portions of the tape sounds. The sound the wind makes in trees, and about the way they exist in time: we tend to think of trees in terms of space… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 26 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: White, Frances

Tuba spheres

Description: Recording of Rainer Bürck's Tuba spheres. It is for tuba and electronics. The tape and tuba communication is a key part of this work, the player has to understand the tape part and play along with it. A good execution is achieved when the playing of the solo with the tape has a musical meaning.
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Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Bürck, Rainer

The Turning of the Tide

Description: Recording of Eduardos Reck Miranda's The Turning of the Tide. The sounds of the piece can be divided into two main groups: continuous sounds and discrete sounds. Continuity is given by the vowel-like sounds, which were digitally synthesized using three synthesis techniques: frequency modulation, wave shaping and formant synthesis. Articulation, on the other hand, is produced by noise-like sounds generated by the violin, samples of the composer's speech, and amplitude modulation using an analogu… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 24 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Miranda, Eduardo Reck, 1963-

Uitotos, sincretismo # 2

Description: Recording of José Halac's Utitos, sincretismo #2. This work is centered around the juxtaposition of music of a live string quartet, computer synthesized and manipulated recorded sounds, and a field recording of a native American group in what is now Colombia, chanting. The various interactions-between live and recorded, ancient and modern, vocal and instrumental, acoustic and electro-acoustic, chant initiator and chant responder-form the main drama of the work.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 10 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Halac, José

Urbis #3 (Alter Ego)

Description: Recording of Michael Rosas Cobian's Urbis #3 (Alter Ego). This work is for electric guitar, live electronics, and tape. This piece is part of a series of works directly related to popular music with sounds of an industrial and popular quality. This is an improvisation and the idea becomes one of moving in and out of what is readily identifiable, into the realm of suggestion. The toying with ideas and perception, and most importantly, allowing for musical freedom of the performers.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Rosas Cobian, Michael, 1953-

Variaciones Americanas

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's Variaciones Americanas.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

Veladuras

Description: Recording of Richardo Nillni's Veladuras. This work is for flute and electronics. The flute part uses varying extended technique and is intergraded into, both the electronics and tape parts.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Nillni, Richardo

Velocity studies III : Rip

Description: Recording of Allen Strange's Velocity studies III : Rip. This work uses traditional electronic technique, piano, and synthesized sounds.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Strange, Allen

La ville machine

Description: Recording of Gilles Gobeil's La ville machine. This work is a realization of ecological sound with electro-acoustic technique. The use of traditional technique allows for the listener to be immersed within different sound environments.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Gobeil, Gilles, 1954-

Visibili

Description: Recording of Alessandro Cipriani's Visibili. This four-part piece is for violin and tape. The creation of this piece is constructed of three techniques: reiteration; multi-track recording and related techniques; and granular synthesis.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 25 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Cipriani, Alessandro

Vocal gan

Description: Recording of Daping Qin's Vocal gan. This piece uses plucked string instruments, samples, percussion, and electronically made sounds.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Qin, Daping, 1957-

Voo

Description: Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, … more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Walks through "Resonant Landscape" Nos. 1-5

Description: Recording of Frances White's Walks through "Resonant Landscape" Nos. 1-5. This work was inspired by walks in the woods around Princeton. An accompanying installation creates an imaginary sonic space. By moving around on a map projected onto a computer screen, a visitor would encounter different sounds and different mixtures of sounds. The tape pieces present a different experience: where Resonant Landscape was concerned with space and exploration, the Walks through "Resonant Landscape" emphasiz… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 16 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-

Waves of refraction

Description: Recording of Jon Christopher Nelson's Waves of reflection. For guitar and tape. This work contains sonically visual illusions of light waves refracted through water. The guitar refracted by the computer-generated tape sounds altered and mutable. At the beginning, the tape replicates the guitar. However, the tape quickly undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming more unusual as the composition unfolds. The guitar also presents material that changes from nervous and disjunct figuration to more lyric li… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Nelson, Jon Christopher

Weeping rocker

Description: Recording of Vivian Adelberg Rudow's Weeping Rocker. This piece utilizes familiarity throughout the whole piece, while creating new soundscapes and blending many sound sources.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Rudow, Vivian Adelberg, 1936-

Whitewash

Description: Recording of Paul Koonce's Whitewash. This work was created using the CMUSIC sound-synthesis language running on a NeXT computer. The source sounds for the work consist of two piano tones (one low, another high) and a contrasting granularly synthesized chord sound. The three sounds form the basis for development that uses successive granular processing to transform and fuse earlier sounds and gestures into incarnations of new character, depth and speed.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Koonce, Paul C. (Paul Christian), 1956-
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