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Acousmaclarine

Description: Recording of Jean-Louis Poliart's Acousmaclarine. This work consists of two recordings: one of the electronic tape only, the other of the electronic tape and bass clarinet performance on top. This work is a counterpart to the 1980's piece "Contrephase" and has an opposite approach to the relationship between the electroacoustic montage and clarinetist.
Date: 1998/1999
Duration: 25 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Poliart, Jean-Louis

Ad vitam aeternam

Description: Recording of Michel Tetreault's Ad vitam aeternam. This work is for electronics and pre-recorded sound. By using traditional electro-acoustic technique certain effects have allowed for pre-recorded sound fragments to transforms and change throughout the piece. While listening to these sound, fields recording of differing sonic environments are playing.
Date: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Tétreault, Michel, 1954-

El Adios

Description: A very short but important piece. It was the last composition produced in our old studio (the one offered by the Di Tella Institute that you visited at CICMAT in 1974). The pointillistic piece and its editing is done exclusively by means of tape bonding and sounds from the Arpe 2600. Pozzati, in my opinion, is our best talent. He made his song as a farewell to the old studio which is now replaced by two NeXT machines. He is now one of the people working with the new programs at LISP, in use wit… more
Date: 1990
Duration: 52 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Pozzati, Guillermo D.

Adventus

Description: Recording of Milan Slavicky's Adventus. The main source of inspiration for this composition was a Czech liturgical tune from Renaissance times which used to be sung during Advent. Its unusual melodic form and great poetic quality inspired a bow-formed composition which uses mostly different vocal phrases of this song, an imitation of an organ sound and finally a tower bell transposed into lower and lower register.
Date: 1992
Duration: 11 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Slavický, Milan, 1947-2009

Aeolian confluence

Description: Recording of Maggi Payne's Aeolian Confluence. In this work, distortion is utilized in many technical ways. This piece is a soundscape, which results from using electro-acoustic technique such as: real time mixing on the Ling seismographic filter, intermodulation distortion, heterodyning, and time delay.
Date: 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi

Affirmation

Description: Recording of Anna Elizabeth Hinkle Turner's Affirmation. This work uses pre-recorded sounds and electroacoustic technique to find new sound possibilities. The composer's utilized; ProTools, SoundEdit 16, StudioVision Pro and SoundHack for the generation and mixing of all sound files.
Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth

Affranchi

Description: Recording of Alain Basso's Affranchi. This piece involves discourse between two sets of sounds, all of which are from sound recordings. The first set of sounds is comprised of aggressive tool and machine sounds, while the second set of sounds comes from soundscapes with more peaceful elements. As the composition progresses, the two sets of sounds mingle in a violent unison, while gradually a third element comes to weaken this turbulence: human breathing, calm and deep, described as a reminder … more
Date: 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Basso, Alain

African Procession

Description: Recording of Ari Taskinen's African Procession. This piece is based on recordings of wildlife the composer took in East Africa. He also played certain phrases with various percussion. The composer separates the track into two parts: the first represents the nighttime and the second represents the day. The end of the track uses primarily synthesized sounds and creates a sense of a never-ending cycle of life.
Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Taskinen, Ari

The afterbirth of apollo

Description: Recording of Eric Lyon's The afterbirth of appollo. This work is for electronics and has a lot of noise elements. The synthetic sounds are harsh and posses an analog sound. This sound feels continuous and even though there is movement in the sound, the construction continues to stay the same. There is a true representation of electronic sound in this work, instead of shying away from the noise, this work embraces it and explores the importance of balance and musical transitions.
Date: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lyon, Eric, 1962-

Agitato (Ergo Sum)

Description: Recording of John Duesenberry's Agitato (Ergo Sum). The piece is comprised of six sections, each around the same length. This electronic piece uses a "hyper-flute" sound, trying to accurately mimic the sound of an acoustic flute while also exceeding it in its physical capabilities.
Date: 1990
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Duesenberry, John, 1950-

Agnaby

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Agnaby. Realized at the Sheffield University Sound Studio (UK). Agnaby is an electroacoustic drama freely inspired by the novel "L'Etranger" by Albert Camus. It is also an attempt to get in touch, from a musical point of view, with Arab culture and language. The material is derived from a) environmental sounds of the Arab urban life and culture; b) fragments from Arab traditional music and texts; c) excerpts from the French text of the book read by Daniel Arfib. T… more
Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-

Aï∂a ∂omi

Description: Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper a… more
Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-

Les ailes du pamplemousse

Description: Recording of Eric Mulard's Les ailes du pamplemousse. For electronics and pre-recorded sound. The composer wrote: "Cinema for the ear , theater of sounds , dramaturgy of sound....! Bouquets of moments of life to hear, seized over the course of real and fictitious wanderings. Combined sound images , telescoped into memory , episodes from the lives of sounds attracting and repelling each other like electrons according to my imagination."
Date: 1995
Duration: 15 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Mulard, Eric

Air

Description: Recording of Zlatko Tanodi's Air. This piece was composed for bass clarinet and tape in 1997, and was first performed at the Music Biennale Zagreb festival in 1997 (the soloist for that performance was Ratko Vojtek). The composer's inspiration was the polysemy of the word air (air, atmosphere, area, aria, song with accompaniment). The motto of the whole work is a paraphrase of the concept of “air you were, air you are, and into air you shall return;” sound is treated as a special physical condi… more
Date: 1997
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Tanodi, Zlatko, 1953-

Air to Air

Description: Recording of Roderik de Man's Air to Air. This work was composed at the request of the European Wind Ensemble and was dedicated to them. It premiered in Ysbreker, Amsterdam. Almost all the sounds on the tape were derived from flute, trumpet, and clarinet sounds. The work was meant to be a dialogue between the tape recording and the live performers.
Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de 1941-

Aire

Description: Recording of Germán Toro Perez's Aire. This recording consists of two movements for tape: I. Aliento and II. Humedad. The composer used material from the piece "Stichwörter" by Georg Riedl, which consists of live bass clarinet and electronics. The main interest was to explore the transitions between noisy and harmonic sound.
Date: 1997/1998
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Toro, Germán, 1964-

Ajikan

Description: Recording of Atsushi Yamaji's Ajikan. This piece is music for a funeral. Its ceremonial landscape is on a method for deep meditation in native religion and for harmonizing with universal nature. Therefore, it is a requiem for a soul after death and a periodic divine providence of nature.
Date: 1993
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Yamaji, Atsushi, 1968-

Alap-jor-jhala-gat

Description: Recording of João Pedro Oliveira's Alap-jor-jhala-gat. This piece is part 2 of the larger work: The Journey of Sounds, and is based on the traditions of India. This recording is separated into two versions, one with violin and viola and one without. It was commissioned for the festivities of the 500th anniversary of the Portuguese discoveries.
Date: 1998
Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Oliveira, João Pedro
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