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Rag, Rag, Rag

Description: Recordings of Marek Choloniewski's "Rag, Rag, Rag" (includes five recordings, the last of which is a reduction). The piece is a transcription of the constructions of instrumental music with added electronic improvisation. Traditions of contemporary music meet those of jazz and rock, giving the piece a three part structure.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Chołoniewski, Marek, 1953-

Mu Song

Description: Recording of Richard Karpen's Mu Song. Karpen used the programs "Music II" sound synthesis language and "Score II" not list preprocessor in the composition of this piece. It was realized at the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Karpen, Richard, 1957-

Pax

Description: Recording of Gottfried Martin's Pax for tape. Includes electronic and natural sounds, including voice, news recordings, and recordings of war sounds.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Martin, Gottfried

Sensors IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Sensors IV performed in 1984 by the McGill Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Reynolds. The tape was realized at the Composer's studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS in Montreal, QC, Canada. The piece explores different techniques of vocal wiring, especially the relationship of semantics, languages, and memory. The word "Memory" constitutes the entire text for the piece - using letter sound, recombinations of the word, and adding syllables from other… more
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

The Song of Ainur

Description: Recording of Jouko Suonio's The Song of Ainur. Composed at the Experimental Music Studio of Finnish broadcasting Company "Yle."
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Date: 1983
Duration: 16 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Suonio, Jouko

Brumes

Description: Recording of Roland Yvanez's "Brumes" for solo magnetic tape. The title translates to "Mists." The piece evokes the relationship between water and air on the surface of the ocean.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Yvanez, Roland

Des nombres et des mots

Description: Recording of Louis Chretiennot's "Des nombres et des mots." The piece begins with a man reciting numbers 1-10 in French; after the first reading, electronic manipulation is added.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Chrétiennot, Louis 1954-

Métabole n° 1

Description: Recording of Roland Cahen's Métabole n° 1. The atmosphere of the piece is that of a place of "dark clouds like the sky of Flanders." It was realized at the IPEM of Ghent in Belgium headed by Lucien Goethals. The piece is one of Cahen's first musical compositions.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 7 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Cahen, Roland 1958-

Forty-three (43)

Description: Recording of Pril Smiley's Forty-three (43). The sounds of this piece are structured in complicated layers that induce a kind of "x-ray hearing," focusing on different events within the texture.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 12 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Smiley, Pril, 1943-

Ambiversion

Description: Recording of Tera de Marez Oyen's Ambiversion performed by Harry Sparnaay, bass clarinetist.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 15 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Marez Oyens, Tera de 1932-1996

Shift of Emphasis

Description: Recording of Maria Luisa Bon's Shift of Emphasis. The piece was composed at the Computational Sonoma Center of the University of Padua. It is based on 21 complex sound blocks, each having a different structure and origin.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Bon, Maria Luisa

Wave Edge

Description: Recordings of Barry Truax's Wave Edge for four computer-synthesized soundtracks. Part of a set that includes the piece "Solar Ellipse" (1984-85), focusing of spatial trajectory and related images. Wave Edge was inspired by the I Ching hexagram number 4, Youthful Folly, comprised of the trigrams for water and mountain, which portrays a spring bubbling up at the foot of a mountain.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 37 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

Triptiek

Description: Recording of Peter Plompen's Triptiek. Includes computer-manipulated concrete sounds.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 25 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Plompen, Peter

In a World

Description: Recording of Chris Chafe's "In a World" for cello and computer sound. Computer sounds were realized at Stanford University's Center of Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Software was created to control legato phrasing of singing voice models, and to perturb them in direction of other instrumental sounds,
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Chafe, Chris

Carousel

Description: Recording of Reed Holmes's Carousel for choir and tape. The two movements represent a different aspect in the cycle of life: movement 1 "The Whispering Wind" is from the point of view of the Elder, introspective and thoughtful, and movement 2 "Carousel" is from the point of view of the Younger, rhythmic, aggressive, spontaneous, and freely melodic. The choir adds heterophonic elaborations of the pattern to the second movement.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Holmes, Reed

Huellas

Description: Recording of Juan Marcos Blanco's Huellas.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 20 minutes 01 second
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

La Materia e sorda

Description: Recording of Roberto Doati, Gianantonio Patella, and Daniele Torresan's "La materia è sorda" performed by Lorenzo Rizzato (speaker) and electronically realized by Granziano Tisato.
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Doati, Roberto; Patella, Gianantonio & Torresan, Daniele

Twilights "protokolle für tonband gleichzeitiz gespielt mit window"

Description: Recordings of Gerhard Stäbler's Twilights "protokolle für tonband gleichzeitiz gespielt mit window" (Ewilights "Protocols for tape played simultaneously with window"). Poems were written by Ernestro Cardenal and other texts were taken out of "NEWSWEEK" issues between Auguest 1 and 8, 1983. Produced at the Computer Center of Stanford University/California.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Stäbler, Gerhard

What if...

Description: Recording of Kristi Allik's "What if...". The title refers to the composer's most common thought during the creation of the composition; the work was the result of constant questioning and exploration, mainly in the area of timbral synthesis and sound juxtaposition.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Allik, Kristi

Impact

Description: Recording of Douglas Doherty's Impact. The sounds and structure of the work evolve through powerful and complex impact resonances.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Doherty, Douglas

Les insectes

Description: Recording of Peter Martincek's Les insectes. Incorporates the sounds of insects into a electronic piece of music.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Martinček, Peter, 1962-

Edit for Pauline

Description: Recording of John Cousins's "Edit for Pauline" for tape.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Cousins, John, 1943-
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