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Odissey

Description: Recording of Jean-Louis Belmonte's Odissey. This work was part of the "Synthese" Festival in Bourges.
Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Belmonte, Jean Louis

Steel II

Description: Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Steel II. This work celebrates and mourns the failure of the Modernist dream represented by poet, Geoffrey Bridson's, 1937 broadcast: "Steel: An Industrial Symphony". It also captures the sound of an optimistic, heroic Modernist in the 21st century and how the new century would sound in contrast to the last.
Date: 2000
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy

Kung Fu

Description: Recording of Phil Archer's Kung Fu. This piece is composed entirely of source sounds taken from Chinese Kung Fu films and adopts the values and characteristics associated with these films. The composer's goal while writing this work was, while incorporating technique and valves commonly associated with electroacoustic music, to avoid or subvert obvious clichés of the genre.
Date: 1999
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Archer, Phil

Butterfly lovers

Description: Recording of John Levack Drever's Butterfly Lovers. The title represents a traditional Chinese story presented in Cantonese. Sonic material generated from the grain (i.e. internal rhythm and timbre) of the recording of Wing Man Kwok's voice and two passages for flute. The work can be experienced on a phenomenological level with its emphasis on the sonic; equally and mutually it can be approached by the listener from a programmatic perspective (i.e. cinema for the ears).
Date: 1996
Duration: 14 minutes
Creator: Drever, John Levack

Dreampaths, A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90

Description: Recording of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's A Walk Through Ezra Pound's Canto 90. This is a single movement work for soprano solo, two sopranos, two altos, and computer generated tape. In the text of the Canto, Pound incorporates Latin, English, Chinese and Greek, in order to describe the visual imagery of the poem which begins with a quote from Richard of St Victor. The computer-generated portion of the work is composed of both synthesized sounds and sampled, processed sounds from a collection of Chine… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn, 1953-

Ofaniel (angel de la luna)

Description: Recording of Felipe Perez Santiago's Ofaniel (angel de la luna). This work is dedicated to Agustin and Maitha Perez Frias. It is separated into 3 movements that tell the story of a girl obsessed with flying who sells her soul to technology in order to fly above the city.
Date: 2000
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Pérez Santiago, Felipe 1973-
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