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Der Frieden

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Der Frieden.
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Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Gargoyles

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Gargoyles.
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Date: 1960/1961
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Gerry Mulligan, Moscow Jam Session, 1967, Part I

Description: The first of two recordings from which selections for Music USA #4618-B were taken, featuring Gerry Mulligan playing a borrowed alto saxophone in a jam session at Moscow's Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café.
Date: July 1967
Duration: 34 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Gerry Mulligan, Moscow Jam Session, 1967, Part II

Description: The second of two recordings from which selections for Music USA #4618-B were taken, featuring Gerry Mulligan playing a borrowed alto saxophone in a jam session at Moscow's Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café.
Date: July 1967
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis

Gueraria repano

Description: Recording of José Vicente Asuar's Gueraria repano
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Date: 1968
Duration: 14 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Asuar, José Vicente, 1933-

Gurges

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ružička's Gurges. The composer calls this piece a "space matrix composition." It was created on the strength of promulgation of international trial electronic and concrete composition "Musica nova." It was composed in Pilsener Electronic Laboratory in November 1969 .
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Date: 1969
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Ružička, Rudolf (composer)

Hydrophonie I

Description: Recording of Werner Kaegi's Hydeophonie I for 4-track tape. It was composed and realized in 1969 in the studios of the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (Holland). The piece is based on the possibilities offered by a generator with a variable function which, at the time, preceded the digital computer. Kaegi's work is based on programmed and descriptive structures. All the musical material was generated in a purely synthetic way, all resembling the "reality" having come only from the musical str… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner
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Interview with Ella Fitzgerald, for Voices of VISTA #127

Description: Willis Conover interviews Ella Fitzgerald for "Voices of VISTA" program number 127. The short programs featured various celebrities and were used, like Treasury broadcasts in decades past, to promote the U.S. government's Volunteers in Service to America program.
Date: May 10, 1968
Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Interview with Gil Evans

Description: An interview with Gil Evans, apparently included in Music USA #4884-B, broadcast May 16, 1968.
Date: March 4, 1968
Duration: 6 minutes 01 second
Creator: Conover, Willis

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque.
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Date: 1969
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Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque. This piece was created for live instruments and stereo tape. It's imagining a situation: in the center of the kiosk, someone is playing the score of their existence. Like any concert in a square, it is disturbed, distorted by external manifestations, foreign to the score. But here, in this particular situation, it is musical actions, taken over by the instrumentalists of Opus 9, which will disturb, prevent or perhaps facilitate the performance of this scor… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

Lekcja

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Lekcja.
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Date: 1965
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz

Lettre à une demoiselle

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Lettre à une demoiselle. This piece uses music written on a newspaper, a sheet, in an attic, in view of an open window on an impassive river, at a flowery table, around two o'clock in the morning, in a low voice, in memory of the companions of the Pleiad. There are three movements: draft, erasures, and post Scriptum. This work also uses sound samples and recorded sound to allow for the poem to reach full expression and character.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

Lire à Lully

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Lire à Lully. This work is the composer's first attempt at electroacoustic music. The sound source used for this piece is the piano which was not mixed but edited in "search of expressiveness".
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Date: 1968
Duration: 5 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

Little Boy

Description: Recording of Jean-Claude Risset's Little Boy computer suite for tape. The piece draws on various sound synthesis experiences that I did between 1964 and 1968, working with Max Mathews at Bell Laboratories. These experiences are described in particular in my 1969 sound catalog, which presents a recording of various synthesized sounds with the synth "scores" of these sounds: these scores are both production recipes and exhaustive descriptions of the sound. microstructure of sounds, just as a scor… more
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Date: 1968
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Risset, Jean-Claude

Marché calme et irrégulier

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Marché calme et irrégulier.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 7 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-

Die Mauer

Description: Recording of Armand Gutheim's Die Mauer. The sight of the former wall, which divided Europe in two, and the feeling that it evoked, was the perfect subject for an electroacoustic piece. Divided into three parts (1. Construction 1961, 2. Checkpoint 1975 and 3. Destruction 1989). Several acoustic instruments, tools and sounds were originally used at the recordings as well as a choir. Nevertheless, they were all processed and adapted into the electroacoustic concept that can be heard. The result b… more
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Date: 1961/1989
Duration: 9 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Gutheim, Armand

Metacycles

Description: Recording of Ramon Zupko's Metacycles
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Date: 1966
Duration: 9 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Zupko, Ramon

Microstructures

Description: Recording of Włodzimierz Kotoński's Microstructures. This piece utilizes sections of fragmented tape to create a montage of sound layers in very dense structures. The composer used the sound of knocking on wood, metal, and glass to form a new sound material and spatialization of sound. These sounds recorded on magnetic tape were cut, melted, and glued randomly into random sequences from which loops of different length were formed and copied onto a layer which finally resulted in this desirable … more
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Date: 1963
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Kotoński, Włodzimierz

Moon over Sandra

Description: This work was made almost exclusively with the voice and Microntage.
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Date: 1966
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Olsson, Justice, 1949-
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Music USA #2149-B, Interview with André Previn

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast November 16, 1960, including tune selections and an interview with André Previn.
Date: September 7, 1960
Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Music USA #2204-B, Interview with Miriam Makeba

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, including an interview with Miriam Makeba, and tune selections from the opera "King Kong," and from the Mal Waldron Trio. This program was broadcast on January 10, 1961, and rebroadcast on July 11 of that year as Music USA #2386-B.
Date: October 21, 1960
Duration: 46 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Music USA #2205-B, South African jazz opera "King Kong"

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, featuring a brief interview with Miriam Makeba, and the South African jazz opera "King Kong." This program was broadcast on January 11, 1961, and rebroadcast as Music USA #2387-B on July 12, 1961.
Date: October 13, 1960
Duration: 45 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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