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Les Kremlins

Description: This music piece reflects an evaluation of the Russian history on example of kremlin. Part 1: before 1917 Part 2: 1917 to 1954 Part 3: later of now
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Date: 1990
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Rodionov, Andrew, 1954-

Larmes du ciel

Description: Recording of Bernard Vallée's Larmes du ciel. This is a 3 part work.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Vallée, Bernard

The Lead Plates of the Rom Press

Description: The Rom Press was a publishing house in Poland known for its editions of Yiddish poetry and Talmudic tracts. During the Nazi occupation members of the Resistance attempted to melt down the plates of these great literary works and religious tracts in order to produce ammunition. The work employs real time interaction between the cellist and the computer. The computer sounds combine synthesis and digital filtering techniques that are all rotted in a digitally recorded .25 second guiro scrape. Sof… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 14 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Berger, Jonathan, 1954-

Lithophanie

Description: "Lithophany" is a journey through different natural models made electronically and "sculpted / spatialised" in real time. The instrument that dialogues with this environment is itself transformed at certain times and spatialized. A 4-track band presents to the dynamic spatialization system, a continuum of electronic material, without articulation or form, it is the system that will in real time give shape and life to this material realizing the different stylized images of the suggested model… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 20 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lenfant, Patrick, 1945-

La Lueur de la fumée

Description: Recording of Nicolas Verin's La Lueur de la fumée. The title of this piece translates to "The glow of the smoke." There is a wide variety of sound, including voice. The sounds are electronically manipulated and with different techniques.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 18 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas

Lunar New Year

Description: The term "lunar" refers to: taking on or relating to the moon. We all conjure (up) different images when we think of the moon. The moon has been described in literature in many ways, some examples are "the landscape of a great glacier" (John Hunt's Conception) and "shadows on the sand" (Kathleen Raine). Although men have walked on the moon and undoubtedly discovered many things, I often wonder what unreported mysteries it holds. The vast black blanket of space sometimes robs our view of the st… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 51 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Browning, Steven, 1968-

The lyre of the west wind

Description: Recording of Andrew Lovett's The lyre of the west wind. The title of this piece is from the poem Shelley, Ode to the West Wind. This piece reflects ideas from the poem on at least two levels : the quality of movement is suggested by the use of tempo cures, which vary dramatically during the course of the piece and the notion of cleansing. The sounds are restricted to pitched bowing and pizzicato samples from a cello, which are processed with the help of an alesis quadraverb.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 11 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Lovett, Andrew

Marche sonore I (Le matin du monde)

Description: Recording of Claude Schryer's Marche sonore I (Le matin du monde). The title translates to "Soundwalk I (The Morning of the World)." This piece is a radio fantasy based on the testimony of 25 people discussing their acoustic environments. The answers were orchesrated intp an electroacoustic soundwalk in six movements: Allô, Grenouilles, Auto-ville, Couches, Souffle de la terre, and Argument Electoral.
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Date: 1990/1992
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Schryer, Claude, 1959-

Mein 1989

Description: In 1989, we celebrated the Bicentenary of the Great French Revolution. On this occasion, I composed a radio play "Mon 1989". It was a collage of electroacoustic music and documents that I recited myself. After the "little German revolution", the idea came to me, by association, to compose the current correspondent: "Mein 1989", using my voice and this time, documents recorded on magnetic tape. It is a look back on our destiny which, in East Germany, begins with the terrible legacy of Nazism. At… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Katzer, Georg, 1935-

La memoria dei minerali

Description: Composition about mineral's world. Sound are linked and harmonized together following the idea of talking minerals. Sounds synthesized on a YamahaTX81Z. Technical notes: Languages: Basic, Machine language 6510 Programs: C-Lab notator, Digidesign Softsynth, Turbosynth, Steinberg Cubase Midi controllers: Steinberg, Yamaha YME8 Computers: Commodore 64, Atari ST 1040 Tape machines: Revox A77, Teac A1230, Teac A3440 Mixer: Roland M160 Analog signal processors: Cabre AF34 stereo equalizer, Dynacord … more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Pedrazzi, Marco, 1959-

Memories of the Universe

Description: Eternity, which can be perceived at every moment, divine capacity embracing everything. I had set my foot in the most basic realms of human existence, on a journey to search for the true significance of living. During my journey, I had always felt in touch with something divine. Because I made my music through divine influence itself, I can say that the actual composer of this work is a divine power. I was lived and breathed by its existence. “Memories of the Universe” — we can cons… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Takenaka, Yasuhiro

Minisérie

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Minisérie. The recording consists of three small scenarios without words or images. Its sonic environment is inspired by the work of directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg. It was written in Montreal in July 1990 with the aid of Quebec's Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 3 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne

Modharp

Description: This piece wants to expand the soft lyric and dripping serenity of the harp, with the help of the computer introducing into the micro-world the senses of the harp and modulated these senses by the electro-acoustic means. The composition is composed of three musical layers, on the one hand harp senses modulated by the electro-acoustic means, on the other hand, synthetic senses controlled by the harp and finally the sense of the harp without any modulation. live part / In the course of this stere… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Patachich, Iván

Music Box Music

Description: Recording of John Winiarz's Music Box Music. Much of the thematic material used is derived from a little bit of music the composer previously composed. The tape is fabricated from the sounds of musical boxes, baby rattles and various noise making toys, as well as a synthesizer.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 12 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Winiarz, John, 1952-

Music for harp and tape

Description: A recording of Cort Lippe's Music for Harp and Tape performed by Masumi Nagasawa. The piece was commissioned by and written for the harpist Masumi Nagasawa. The tape part is made up entirely of digitally transformed and processed harp sounds which are derived from the composed instrumental part. The tape part was realized in the composer's personal studio and was created using the program MLY. The digital mix of the final tape version, as well as the compact disc master, were done at IRCAM, Par… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 16 minutes
Creator: Lippe, Cort, 1953-

My Native Land

Description: Recording of Dmitri Pavlov's My Native Land.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Pavlov, Dmitri, 1959-

Nahual II

Description: Nahual II is a piece for Chamula Harp, computer and Yamaha SY77 synthesizer. The Chamula harp is an instrument from southeast Mexico used by the Chamula Indian communities for religious ceremonies. The instrument as well as the tuning keys is made of very lightwood and tuned by hand. The strings are made of steel. Its lightwood allows the performer to make glissandos by pressing the resonant top. Due its characteristics, the tuning is not stable so its acoustic evolution during the perform… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Morales-Manzanares, Roberto, 1958-

Naïves

Description: Recording of Serge Morand's Naïves.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Morand, Serge, 1969-

Niemandslandverschmelzung

Description: Recording of Johannes Kretz's Niemandslandverschmelzung. The title of the piece translates to Fusion of No-men's-land. The piece is for trumpet and band and is inspired by the sounds of a canyon.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kretz, Johannes, 1968-

Night-Flowering… Not even sand II

Description: The title comes from fragments of poetry by Thomas Merton. The music is inspired by a visit to the Arabian Desert. The sounds were all generated digitally using "Csound"; with the score created by a family of programs using a non-linear "Chaotic" function.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Harley, James, 1959-

Nocturnal

Description: Recording of Pierre Sainte-Marie's Nocturnal. It is a work dedicated to the night and also refers to the various religious rights where sacrifices were offered to the gods of the night.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Sainte-Marie, Pierre

Nocturne

Description: The original version of this music is provided for eight speakers located at the top of a cube, the listener is located inside. A luminous device allows to play in real time forty-eight diodes distributed in space. Each musical moment includes a different game to "enlighten" the musical score. It is therefore a reduced version in four tracks and blind music.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Laubier, Serge de 1957-

Un Nom A Quoi?

Description: Recording of Eric Cordier's Un Nom A Quoi? There is speech throughout this piece and lying underneath is where the electronics create a layer of sound adding complexity and texture to the overall piece.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Cordier, Eric
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