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Soft Song

Description: Recording of Ton Bruynèl's Soft Song.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 8 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton

Overfall

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Overfall. Transformed piano sounds and sound structures realized by means of voltage control make up the sound material of the piece.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio

Jabara

Description: Recording of Martin Brinkerhoff's Jabara. Sound material consists of percussion sounds that have been manipulated by concrete methods: pitch and duration transposition, inversion, and mixing. The work is dedicated to percussionist Martin Jabara, who provided the basic sounds. The piece was realized at the Center for Music Experiment at California San Diego University.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: Brinkerhoff, Martin (Composer)

Suiana Wanka

Description: Recording of Fernando Condon-Garcia's Suiana Wanka for tape. This work collects and develops independently the materials of a music scene for Peter Shafer work "The Royal Hunt of the Sun". It is based exclusively on sound recordings of various Latin American instruments such as the Indian flute, pincuyos, sicus, tarkas, mohecenos, various kinds of percussion, etc., to which are added, during some passages, instruments from European culture (organ, flute, bass). The original sound was made in a … more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Condon, Fernando, 1955-

Le mythe de la machine

Description: Recording of Wilfried Jentzsch's "Le mythe de la machine" for piano and tape. The design is based on various calculations of chance. The tape was made in collaboration between the electroacoustic studio of the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Center for Studies of Mathematics and Musical Automatics (C E M A M u) in Paris.
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Date: 1975/1978
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Jentzsch, Wilfried

Troisième doxologie Saint Sébastien

Description: Recording of Frank Royon Le Mée's "Troisième doxologie Saint Sébastien" ("Third Doxology Saint Sebastian"). The piece is an electronic postlude in three stanzas.
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Date: 1981
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Royon Le Mée, Frank, 1953-1993

Poliritmica

Description: Recording of Peter Kolman's Poliritmica. The framework of the work - the beginning and the end - form multi-layered rhythmic structures that complement each other to produce a regular pulsating movement. The whole composition represents a correlation between rhythmically regular, rhythmically irregular and rhythmically not articulated (thus continuously fluid) structures.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 8 minutes 01 second
Creator: Kolman, Peter

Humanofonia

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Humanofonia
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Date: 1971
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-

Sch No. 2

Description: Recording of György Kurtág's Sch No. 2. The title applies to a series of works written for the electronic guitar. Second in the series, this piece uses very simple technical means: fuzz, wah-wah, feedback on the bass guitar. Kurtag's intention is to exploit the acoustic possibilities of the bass guitar. Recording made in the electronic studios of Radio Hungarian (1977).
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Date: 1977
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Kurtág, György

Austera

Description: Recording of Oscar Bazán's Austera.
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Date: 1973
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Bazán, Oscar, 1936-2005

Dialogue

Description: Recording of James Tenney's Dialogue
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Date: unknown
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Tenney, James

Response II

Description: Recording of John Celona's Response II.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Celona, John, 1947-

The pulses of time

Description: Recording of Denis Smalley's The pulses of time. The piece reflects the varied behavior of pulses: the regular pulses of meter, the much slower pulses which pace sections of music, and pulses which form the interior character of sounds - the accelerating pulses of a bouncing sound, and the fast pulses creating the "grain" in sound textures. The different atmospheres in the work are generated by the major sound sources: the electronic bounced family of sounds, metallic harmonies which expand the… more
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Date: 1979/1980
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Smalley, Denis, 1946-

Diastasis

Description: Recording of Claude Colon's Diastasis. Diastasis means separation. Separation between an instrumental play and a set of sounds obtained with a generator. Dialogue. Osmosis. Separation.
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Date: 1973
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Colon, Claude

Ekphonesis IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis IV.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Pashanti (Les 9 Milliards de Noms de Dieu)

Description: Recording of David Evan Jones's "Pashanti (Les 9 Milliards de Noms de Dieu)." "Pashanti" is a Sanskrit word that refers to the level of thought that immediately predicts the recognition of speech as sound. This composition uses a hybrid computer musical system to filter vowel sound sources and vowel-like sounds. The text consists of the vowels i / a / u / e / i in sequence with particular transition velocities form the word "Yaweh" (the name of the Hebrew god). This series of vowels is continuo… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Jones, David Evan

Un-X-2

Description: Recording of José Maria Neves's Un-X-2. This piece proposes formal breaks and shows rich expressive possibilities in a non-Eurocentric posture through the use of all natural sounds.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 8 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Neves, José Maria

Juego de magos y gonilas

Description: Recording of David de Gandarias's "Juego de magos y gonilas" ("Game of Magicians and Gorillas"). Uses percussion instruments as sources of sound.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 16 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Gandarias, David de, 1951-

Version n° 2

Description: Recording of Máté Victor's Version n° 2. It was realized at the Studio of Radio in Budapest. The piece is constructed in five movements - movements 1, 3, and 5 contain the same material. It was composed at the Electronic Studio of Mayar Radio in Budapest.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 9 minutes 01 second
Creator: Victor, Máté, 1945-

Invocation

Description: Recording of Hugh Le Caine's Invocation. The piece opens with a trio of three recorded sounds: a glass that is broken with a hammer, a ping-pong ball hitting a racket, and a drop of water. These sounds are the "instruments" used throughout the piece. Drips are configured as fast ascending and descending glissandi. A series of chords is constructed from a sustained movement of glass stamps. The sound of the ping-pong ball - from the left to the right - gradually accelerates. Severe rumbling and … more
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Date: 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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