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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

Ocellots

Description: It was premiered at the Concerts Phonos, Miro Foundation, Barcelona. Follow the line of the author's instrumental works at this time.
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Date: 1990?
Duration: 10 minutes 01 second
Creator: Russinyol, Jordi

Ohtzalan

Description: Recording of Antonio Russek's Ohtzalan. This piece is for soloist and synthesizer controlled by MIDI. The overall aesthetic of the piece often changes in speed, intensity, and overall pitch.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Russek, Antonio, 1954-

L'oiseau rouge

Description: Recording of Denis Saindon's L'oiseau rouge. This electroacoustic music is played entirely live, using no magnetic tape or other media. All the sounds heard come from a sampler which is controlled live by the performer.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Saindon, Denis, 1958-

Pacific Dragon

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Pacific Dragon, The source materials are recordings of Canadian West Coast environmental sound, namely the Dragon Dance in Vancouver's Chinatown celebrating the Chinese New Year. All sounds are heard at their original pitch. The work was realized using the composer's PODX system which incorporates the DMX-1000 Digital Signal Processor controlled by a PDP Micro-11 computer. The principal signal processing technique involves time stretching of the sampled environmental … more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

Pagina Blanca

Description: Recording of Antonio Moliterni's Pagina Blanca. This work was inspired by 1970s rock. Every sound was created by the Kawai K5 synthesizer, with an additive synthesis generated and two oscillators in the differing techniques. The first one, in parallel (64 harmonics for each osc) and the second one, series (128 partials for each oscillation).
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Date: 1990
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Moliterni, Antonio

Panagia

Description: Recording of John Kefala-Kerr Panagia. There is violin, voice, clapping, cello, clarinet, and percussion. Throughout this piece there is a drone which is held while the violins melodic movement interacts with this drone, creating harmony. Eventually, body percussion is added, along with cello, and clarinet. There is a folk feel during this section, eventually, going into a almost legato section with synthesizer.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 16 minutes 01 second
Creator: Kefala-Kerr, John, 1958-

Peine à la peine n'ajoute pas

Description: "Pain does not add" Creation in Bourges at the "Synthèse 91" festival and in Paris at the "Son-Mu" festival 1992, (I.N.A.- G.R.M., Maison de la Radio, Paris) We can say that it is a "short electroacoustic poem"
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Date: 1990
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Hamadache, Kamal, 1962-

Le petit tour du monde

Description: Recording of Xavier Garcia's Le petit tour du monde. This piece uses manipulated voice recordings to create chords, melodies, percussion, and sound effects. The sound sources all come from the voice and are edited and mixing in such a away to almost act similar to an orchestra.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Xavier, 1959-

Philately

Description: "Philately" is about role reversal. The work, based on the following poem by Yehuda Amichai studies the distancing and convolution of materials between two performers. The computer and live performer interact to create an intertwined situation of invertible counterpont. "Philately" employs real time interaction between the oboe and the computer. The computer sounds combine synthesis and digital filtering techniques that are all rooted in two digitally recorded oboe tones (one a long D4 with cr… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Berger, Jonathan, 1954-

Prémonition 2

Description: Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Prémonition 2.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-

S. Q.

Description: Recording of Consuelo Diez's S. Q. S. Q. is the result of a commission from the CDMC and the Instituto Nacional de Artes Escenicas y de la Musica (INAEM) for the opening concerts of the LIEM during the VI International Contemporary Music Festival in Alicante, Spain, in 1990. It was composed at the LIEM and finished during the summer of 1990. It is a subjective representation, sometimes a metaphor, of the sounds that surrounded the composer on a given day at that time. It is divided into four… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Diez, Consuelo, 1958-

Rain Stick

Description: Rain Stick, a piece for live-electronic keyboard, tape, and dance, uses light sensitive continuous controllers in the performance of the live electronic parts of this piece. The choreographic aspects of the dance were influenced by the images from the poem Gallisted Campfire by Stuart Heady: A hushed whipser hangs in the air; Ancient rock trembles to life as if to answer. Soft is the spirit, and its traces are in the tissue of time. Here before, here before, hands touch- though a millenium apar… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Kim, Haeyon

Requiem in Memoria Salvador Dalí

Description: This piece was composed in honour of the death of Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, who shares my birthday. The piece attempts to musically interpret and transliterate the techniques and aesthetic of surrealism. Digital "samples" (analogous to photo realistic images in painting) are taker out of context and modified or "warped". Use of the traditional Latin requiem text reflects Dali's use of religious imagery. All sounds on this piece are produced by voices, human and animal; including Da… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 13 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Clark, Steven (Musician)

Rhapsodie parisienne

Description: Recording of Nicolas Vérin's Rhapsodie parisienne. This work uses texts taken from "Spleen de Paris" by Charles Baudelaire. The reciter is the guide is the base of the piece and the speech: is hammered, stretched, stopped by rhythms based on a pulsation, and synthetic sounds. Translated antagonisms reflect contrast: presence/absence, natural/artificial, melodic/noise, near/distant, as well as by contrasts of style.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 21 minutes
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas

Riding the Bull

Description: Recording of Michael Pelz-Sherman's Riding the Bull.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Pelz-Sherman, Michael
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