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Agora

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Agora. This work is an installation and a performance involving electroacoustic music, theatre, and the structural use of space. The theatre version of "Agora" is an event where spatial-music is the structural and theatrical driving force. There is one soprano performer but no "acting out". The work extends the aesthetic of the music theatre of Kagel and the consideration of delineated space defined in Oscar Schlemmer's theory of performance.
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Date: 2000/2003
Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Cloy

Description: Recording of Silvia Matheus' Cloy. This work was inspired by the sounds people make that can create judgement from others. The foreground of the composition is the sound of laughter from a woman to bring forward the issues of desire, irony, and female agency to the attention of the listener. The composer took inspiration from the philosophers Aristotle and George Lewis.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Matheus, Silvia

Desde el Jardín del Tiempo

Description: Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel's Desde el Jardín del Tiempo. This work was created as an homage to John Lennon and the mark that his music has left on more than a generation of young people. It was created from samples of piano by digital sound editing and processing. It premiered at the "VIII Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica Primavera en La Habana".
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén

Aqua Salutaris auditur part 2

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur part 2. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor

Aqua Salutaris auditur

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 24 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor

Ancestral Voices

Description: Recording of John Rimmer's Ancestral Voices. The idea for this composition came from the composers fascination with family history and genealogy, specifically the names of his eight great-grandparents. The composer associated the sounds of eight instruments with each ancestor beginning with New Zealand instruments and moving to other countries around the world. Throughout the work the sound of a women's choir singing the fifth century hymn, Caeli Deus Sanctissime, heightens the sense of ancestr… more
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Date: 2000/2001
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Rimmer, John, 1939-

(b)contained

Description: Recording of Katharine Norman's (b)contained. This is a work for solo clarinet and digital fixed sound and was commissioned by Jane O'Leary/Concorde for Paul Roe to play at the Galway Arts Festival. The electronic material in this piece was created from an initial recording of the note 'b', played by clarinet, while the actual player doesn't get to play a 'b' until the final section of the piece. The composer states that this sound provides a sonic container for the live performer.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Norman, Katharine

Triptico: Oceania, mondo sin angulos; Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Triptico: Oceania, mondo sin angulos; Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola. This work consists of two pieces: "Oceania, mondo sin angulos" and "Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola". The first of which includes highly transformed concrete sounds while alluding to the idea of duality. The second piece draws inspiration from several games whose sounds are known to the public (tennis, ping-pong, pinball machines, etc.).
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Date: 2000/2002
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-

Eight Directions

Description: Recording of Sylvi MacCormac's Eight Directions. This work includes instrumentation from congas, violin, flute, bouzouki, marimba, gong, penny whistle, and bagpipe. The sounds of thunder, rain, and birds are also included and were recorded in Italy.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: MacCormac, Sylvi

Sin descanso

Description: Recording of Roderik de Man's Sin descanso. This work was composed for Blockflutes and tape and was commissioned by the Amsterdam Fund for Arts on request by Jorge Isaac, to whom the work is dedicated. This piece can be seen as a journey through a landscape which has been formed by Sopranino, Tenor, Basset, and Paetzold Bass. The title of this work, which translates to "without rest", represents Jorge Isaac as a musician who tirelessly searches for new possibilities in the instrumental domain.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de 1941-

Rebicycling

Description: Recording of Manuel Rocha Iturbide's Rebicycling. The idea for this work was inspired by the observance of the thousands of bicycles that are used and abandoned within cities, specifically Tokyo, Japan. The composer makes a statement regarding first-world countries and their habit of consuming in excess and throwing things away that would be reused or fixed in less developed countries. This work was originally developed as a sound installation in SURGE gallery but has been converted to somethin… more
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Date: 2000
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Iturbide, Manuel Rocha, 1963-

The secret of P.P.P.

Description: Recording of Sibylle Pomorin's The secret of P.P.P.. A major theme in this composers' works has been "the voice" as well as "language" and it's intellectual uses. This piece uses that theme while branching into abstract electroacoustics. The composer created this work with the team from NPS, who made the appropriate equipment available to them. The singing of Dutch soprano, Jannie Pranger, provided the building blocks for this arrangement.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 18 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Pomorin, Sibylle

A veil barely seen (for viola and tape)

Description: Recording of Frances White's A veil barely seen (for viola and tape). This piece was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, violist Liuh-Wen Ting. It was premiered in New York in April of 2001, at Merkin Hall. This piece was commissioned to be one of five pieces that would represent one of the five Chinese elements; this piece represents water. The sound materials of this piece consist of recordings of water as well as the viola.
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Date: 2000/2001
Duration: 54 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-

Version IV ou Temps/Matière

Description: Recording of Gabriel Poulard's Version IV ou Temps/Matière. This is a work for electronics and explores the impact of air and silence. The composer references the "Nuraghé" when discussing the presence of the piece.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Poulard, Gabriel

Beton

Description: Recording of Katharina Klement's Beton. This is a sound installation for 10 loudspeakers that includes 13 tracks. The sound material for this work was collected during several visits to building sites where the sounds of tools and working with concrete was unavoidable. The theme of the work is that of 'concrete' and explores acoustically breaking up the already solidified mass.
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Date: 2000/2002
Duration: 46 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Klement, Katharina, 1963-

Kagula

Description: Recording of Yasuhiro Takenaka's Kagula. This work was inspired by "Kagura", a sacred music and dance that is performed as traditional art in parts of Japan. The composer's intent of creating this piece is for the listener to gain a sense of joy or bliss from listening, much like those did who partook in Kagura.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Takenaka, Yasuhiro

Ciudades desiertas

Description: Recording of Edgardo Hugo Martinez's Ciudades desiertas. The title of this work translates to "Deserted cities" and is a sonic image that reflects the solitude of what could be habitants of a future city.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Martinez, Edgardo Hugo

Peut-être

Description: Recording of Agnés Poisson's Peut-être. This is a work for electronics. The composer describes this work in an interpretive way and speaks on the space between doubt and possibility.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Poisson, Agnès

Spiral

Description: Recording of Violeta Andreu's Spiral. This work represents the composer's reflections on the upcoming millennium as well as the vastness of space. The sound material in this piece is made up of the composer's voice speaking several words in relation to the cosmos, however they have been modified to the point of being unintelligible.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Andreu, Violeta

Musica desde la Imagen

Description: Recording of Adolfo Núñez's Musica desde la Imagen. This piece was composed by translating the gestures of paintings by Eduardo Bonati. These gestures were applied to a rough sound material and to several fragments of the composers work "Jurel".
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Date: 2000
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Núñez, Adolfo 1954-

Sonneries de la forêt

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Sonneries de la forêt. This work consists of modified sound materials from "Dance with the Devil" by Günter Schwab and explores the importance of nature to mankind.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Fix Focus

Description: Recording of Pavel Kopecký's Fix Focus. This work is a suite for electroacoustic sound and includes three short musical movements: fugato, dance, and final. The composer also separates the work into two sections: 1. Misterioso con affetto and 2. Presto inkalzando, Ben ritmico, Poco agitato.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Kopecký, Pavel, 1949-

Some sounds and songs of a new world

Description: Recording of Wittwulf Y. Malik's Some sounds and songs of a new world. This is a work that includes a combination of concrete and electronic sounds.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 6 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Malik, Wittwulf Y.
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