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Stanford (a mi padre)

Description: Recording of Guillermo Pozzati's Stanford (a mi parde). This piece uses traditional electronic techniques while incorporating orchestral instruments and samples. The software used are common Lisp music (CLM) and common music (CM), which are being processed through a next machine.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 51 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Pozzati, Guillermo D.

Tranqulandia...

Description: Recording of Alvaro Moreno Hoffman's Tranqulandia... For electronics and pre-recorded speech fragments.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Moreno-Hoffman, Alvaro

Malebolge

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Malebolge.
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Date: 1972
Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-

Cuauhtémoc

Description: Recording of Antonio Mastrogiovanni's Cuauhtémoc. The work "Cuauhtémoc" is dedicated to this young Aztec king, who defended the city of Mexico against the Spanish conquerors commanded by Hernan Cortes. During the siege of this city, nine-tenths of the Aztec population was exterminated, and Cuauhtémoc himself was tortured and assassinated by Hernan Cortes. Three fragments of indigenous texts are used in the work: The first text is the one recited on the occasion of the birth of a Mexican child, … more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Mastrogiovanni, Antonio

Los proverbios

Description: Recording of Gerardo Gandini's Los Proverbios. It contains the sounds of human voices only in a fairly simple and straightforward structure. The piece was the composer's first purely electroacoustic composition.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Gandini, Gerardo, 1936-2013

Tramos

Description: Recording of Eduardo Bértola's Tramos for tape. The piece was made from two sound sources: radio broadcasts and direct recordings of popular events. These materials were structured by simple juxtaposition excluding the mixes and any kind of development of the original sound. It is therefor a purely horizontal structure in which we note the union of fragments of hard edge, perfectly delimited, similar to that used in some works of North American Pop Art. In this way, Bértola expresses his own po… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Bértola, Eduardo, 1939-1996
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11 september

Description: Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis m… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl

Echoes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's "Echos" with vocals by Mercedes Cornu. The piece was made from the "destructuration" of four Latin American songs: two Argentinian and two Brazilian. Cornu uses a variety of vocal sounds (long and short sounds, breaths, coughs, etc.).
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-

Ekphonesis V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Impossible a la x

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana Mejia's "Impossible a la x" ("Impossible to the X"). The piece raises the sonorous vision of a spiritual and violent situation, in which the primitive flows and their purity as a mimetic being and the "being children: are involved in clearly antithetical situations.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-

Poema Reiterado

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Poema Reiterado using the voice of Leonardo Martinez reciting Mandolini's own poem "Palabras" in an electro-acoustic composition. All sound material are disengaged from the speech of the spoken text (Sprachkomposition) which embodies the idea of the ancient synthesis between text and music. Realized at the Studio of the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany in 1983.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-

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

Chicarra's

Description: "Chicharra's" is an ode to the Spanish landscape and the men populating this landscape. Sounds of nature such as the breath of the wind, the rushing of the rain, the rustling of the sea carry life in themselves. Thus the rustling of "Chicharra's", the cicadas, their singing narrative was recorded as a set of precious voices. These voices were sent electronically to the strings and then turned into new sounds. This process is comparable to that of instrumental music where the violin bow is coate… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton

Hommage à Milanés

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton's Hommage à Milanés. This short work of 5:OO is based on a phrase from a song "si el poeta eres tu ..." composed and sung by the great Cuban artist Pablo Milanés. This sentence appears in the middle of the work. The text is used with different reciters and with the original musical arrangements that convey in a variety of time and places that this song evokes to the composer. This work also suggests various political interpretations, none of which are desired by the co… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon

Take me away

Description: Recording of Eduardo Pérez Maseda's Take me away. The axis of this work is a text by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino. This text was taken from the novel, "Il barone rampante", and includes both English and Spanish.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Pérez Maseda, Eduardo 1953-

Voces de la Electricidad

Description: Recording of Pedro Guajardo's, Voces de le Electricidad. Originally conceived for a dance performance with the subtitle "lesvos" as the island in Greece. The sound source in this piece is mostly a classical guitar played in different ways and manipulated in the studio, and a feminine voice reciting a poem. The composer's goal in this work is to be able to hear the music within the music, a line or layer that comes out in magic voices from transforming and filtering the acoustic material through… more
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Date: 1988
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Guajardo, Pedro

1789-1989

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lament… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

Geodesic Life

Description: Recording of Pedro Guajardo's Geodesic Life. This piece is of 6 dancers and one musician. The sound sources for this piece have been sampled from ethnic percussion instruments and voices, one feminine, and the other from a two year old child. All the sequences are repeated 13 times and the the tempo also increases 13 times. The dancers explore hitting sound sculptures on a geodesic done that is amplified. The musician playing a MIDI wind controller, while the tape plays back recorded acoustic s… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Guajardo, Pedro, 1928-

Metropolis - Buenos Aires

Description: Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Metropolis - Buenos Aires. This piece takes you on a sonic journey through the streets as a sound collage of Buenos Aires.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Kröpfl, Francisco, 1931-
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