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The Aeolian Harp

Description: Recording of Heinrich Taube's The Aeolian Harp. This work was created with recorded tape and an aeolian harp, which creates musical sound from air passing through the strings. The composer dedicates this song to their sister, who died of cancer in 1997. The composer says that the piece acts as a reflection of their struggle to come to terms with her death.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 46 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Taube, Heinrich, 1953-

Aerial

Description: Recording of Monty Adkins' Aerial. This is a work for electronics and is included on the album "Mondes Inconnus" by the composer.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Adkins, Monty

Afflux / Reflux

Description: Recording of Colby Leider's Afflux / Reflux. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Leider, Colby

After the summer rain

Description: Recording of Hideko Kawamoto's After the summer rain. This is a composition for amplified piano and two-channel tape. This work is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Asher Peevey and written for his mother Cecilia Peevey. It was inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's poems, (Nos Pleurs) and Before the Summer Rain. The work as a whole is meant to capture the image of a summer forest and uses a note motif that closely spells out the name "Clarence".
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Date: 2000
Duration: 11 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Kawamoto, Hideko

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

Aires Acondicionados

Description: Recording of Lennart Westman's Aires Acondicionados. This is a work for solo-oboe and electronics that consists of recordings of one oboe d'amore and an English horn. This piece was commissioned by Jesper Harryson, a solo oboe player in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart

Akashiya

Description: Recording of Shinchi Morita's Akashiya. This work derivied from collected sounds from the composer's home, these sounds were processed and constructed via computer.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 5 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Morita, Shinchi

Akebi

Description: Recording of Shinichi Morita's Akebi. This is a work for electronics that explores different tones and colors of sound.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Morita, Shinʼichi, 1948-

The Alban Berg Album

Description: Recording of Marcelo Ajubita's The Alban Berg Album. This is a work for electronics that includes train sounds and samples of violin.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Ajubita, Marcelo

Alf Tua (para flauta y soporte digital)

Description: Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Alf Tia (para flauta y soporte digital). Alf Tua is a work for transverse flute and electronics. The electroacoustic part is composed entirely of sounds that we had previously searched for and recorded together with the flutist. In the live version the instrumentalist plays along with the playback of a CD.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 18 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Biffarella, Gonzalo, 1961-

Alizés

Description: Recording of David Fortez' Alizés. The composer describes this work as more of a "recomposition" than an original composition. It was born from the cross between two pieces that the composer had just finished: Giocoso and Bleu Nuit. The composer took the main parts from both this pieces and furthered his abstraction of the sound material. This piece was mixed entirely in stereophony using concrete sounds.
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Date: 2002/2003
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Fortez, David

Allamuchy

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Hoffman's Allamuchy. This work explores moving through and being surrounded by various densities of substance by using a few natural sounds, comb filters, and other techniques.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Hoffman, Elizabeth, 1961-

Allegoriae sonantes

Description: Recording of Konstantinos Karathanasis' Allegoriae sonantes. This piece is based on sounds derived from a grand piano by a small copper bar. The composer felt that this piece held something allegoric to it, something beyond its sonic nature, and attempted to explore that idea through the sound.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Karathanasis, Konstantinos

Allegro Moderabile

Description: Recording of Paolo Besagno's Allegro Moderabile. This work consists of train sounds and the voice of the composer's grandpa, to whom the piece is dedicated. The composer states that this work is a short story of a man who has spent 40 years of his life watching his country through the windows of a train. The title of the work is the combination of musical term, Allegro, and the Italian word, moderabile, which refers to a train's braking system.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 4 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Besagno, Paolo

El alma mula

Description: Recording of Jorge Luis Sad's El alma mula. This is an electroacoustic work for cello. This work is dedicated to argentine Cellist Martín Devoto.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Sad, Jorge, 1959-

Alphamega

Description: Recording of Eric Mulard's Alphamega. This work was produced in 2001 as part of "The Open Work on the Creation of the World", proposed by the IMEB. This work represents the birth of speech by using articulated language to showcase the alphabet.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Mulard, Eric

L'altra dimensione

Description: Recording of Thuridur Jonsdottir's L'altra dimensione. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Þuríður Jónsdóttir

L'altruise de l'épinoche

Description: Recording of Agnés Poisson's L'altruise de l'épinoche. This is a work for electronics and contains various sound samples that are percussive in origin. The composer hopes to convey a deeper meaning through the percussion sounds playing off of each other.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Poisson, Agnès

Amour Sacré

Description: Recording of Joris De Laet's Amour Sacré. This work was created as part of the open project under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs" at the Synthèse festival. The foundation of the sound material in this piece are fragments from a recording of the song "Amour sacré de la patrie" sung by Jean Hotté. From these samples, choirs and amalgamations are formed with the transformed sounds.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 42 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Laet, Joris de, 1947-

analogia e identidad

Description: Recording of Daniel Sergio Cervantes' analogia e identidad. This piece belongs to a group of compositions based on texts of Jorge Luis Borges. This piece is a play that attempts to represent philosophical ideas of the circular character of time, where our acts through it sentence us to repetition.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Cervantes, Daniel Sergio

Anamnesis

Description: Recording of Bradley Decker's Anamnesis. This is a work for electronics that includes tracks for octophonic speakers.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 24 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Decker, Bradley

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-

And I think to myself...

Description: Recording of Rajmil Fischman's And I think to myself.... This is a work for electronics that was inspired by the song "What a Wonderful World". The idea of the piece comes from the idea of taking a virtual "stroll" through a utopia described by Plato in his book, The Republic. There are three central movements that correspond to the realization of wisdom, courage, and temperance.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Fischman, Rajmil, 1956-

Andromeda

Description: Recording of Federico Giraldo's Andromeda. This work was created with an analogue synthesizer with real time processing and a computer. The composer states that this piece is based in "thin sounds that displace freely to convergent points".
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Giraldo, Federico
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