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Beginnings

Description: Recording of Ewan Stefani's Beginnings. The inspiration for this piece is the concept of denial and avoiding conclusions; rather than confronting, the focus here is upon description and observation. The voice guides the audience through a series of false beginnings that lead to another introduction, rather than a meaningful programmatic development. This piece was designed to represent discrete narrative or musical "voices" using speakers in the performance space. The pitched material is based … more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Stefani, Ewan

City of Fountains

Description: Recording of Mark Horrocks' City of Fountains. This is a work for electronics that includes English spoken word. The primary subject of the text being spoken is various airline announcements.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Horrocks, Mark

Fantaisie Urbaine

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Fantaisie Urbaine. This is a work for vocals and electroacoustic sounds. The composer describes this piece as telling a story of different people walking through a city, meeting and discovering new things. Various sounds illustrate the suspense and intrigue.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 17 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne

Les fascistes de santé

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's Les fascistes de santé. This is a work for electronics that includes English spoken word and distorted voices.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 6 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

Hommage à Parmerud

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Hommage à Parmerud. This work acts as an homage to composer, Ake Parmerud. The two composers undertook a project where they swapped basic sound materials and composed new works based on each other's offerings. This piece is the product of that and gave Barrett the chance to compose her first homage to one of the many composers that have influenced students and professionals worldwide.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Mobilis in Mobili

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Mobilis in Mobili. This work is the central axis of the larger electroacoustic work "Trade Winds" which was inspired by the vast expanse of sea. The title of the work comes from a novel by Jules Verne. This piece was commissioned by NoTAM with funds from the Norwegian Cultural Council and the Norwegian Composers' Fund. This work includes an excerpt from a sea shanty performed by the Storm Weather Shanty Choir.
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Date: 2005/2006
Duration: 8 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Tres paradigmas

Description: Recording of Matías Giuliani's Tres paradigmas. This is a work for electronics that includes a sound sample of Frank Sinatra's song 'New York, New York'.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Giuliani, Matías

The wonderful adventures of Dr Olyd and her time-shaping machine

Description: Recording of Olle Aberg's The wonderful adventures of Dr Olyd and her time-shaping machine. This is a work for electronics that tells the story of a scientist working on a machine that will alter space-time. The composer feels the title suggests a feeling of childhood adventures where anything could happen, which is reflected in the story. The piece has several layers and connotations, and the music amplifies the whole feeling.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Aberg, Olle

Banchory Ears

Description: Recording of Pete Stollery's Banchory Ears. This work was commissioned by Woodend Arts Association and is a concert version of the music that the composer made to accompany the Banchory Faces photography exhibition in September 2003. The composer collected sonic photographs from various areas of Banchory in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The composer thanks Bertha Forbes, a local historian, for her recollection of sounds and for the use of the interview with her in this piece.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Stollery, Pete

Bouzouki Abstraction

Description: Recording of Colin Black's Bouzouki Abstraction. This work explores the abstract connections between the traditional Greek bouzouki instrument and the constructs of music, heritage, and physical structures displaced in time. This is a bilingual piece that includes text performed in both English and Greek. Musically, this work combines electroacoustic composition, sound art, synthesis, harmonic singing samples, spoken word, and the traditional bouzouki instrument.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Black, Colin

Cave Songs (re)mix

Description: Recording of Daniel Matej's Cave Songs (re)mix. This work was concieved mainly as a "next step" from the sound installation, Caves, which the composer had made with Tibor Szemző in 2004. Many of the used and non-used sounds from that installation were used to create this work. The work as a whole contains 5 separate pieces titled: 1. gospel, 2. blues, 3. de profundis, 4. sex, and 5. ho-chi-min. The composer gives thanks to Mr. Richard Sabo for his technical assistance as well as Jan Boleslav Kl… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 12 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Matej, Daniel, 1963-

Un grand ensemble

Description: Recording of Sébastien Roux's Un grand ensemble. This is a work for electronics that includes English and French spoken word.
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Date: 2004/2005
Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Roux, Sébastien

In memoriam George Sand

Description: Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's In memoriam George Sand. This work pays homage to George Sand whose combination of acute social conscience and intense artistic sensibility are rare in today's world. This piece speaks on the outcomes of the Industrial Revolution and the first demand of socialism. The material in this piece includes texts by George Sand, fragments of a 19th century folk song, and Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude".
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-

The old rose reader

Description: Recording of Frances White's The old rose reader. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and flute performance. This recording includes two tracks, one for tape only and one with tape and flute.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-

Todos os Cantos

Description: Recording of Florivaldo Menezes' Todos os Cantos. This is a work for electronics that includes sound samples of spoken word and voice. There is a small sample of the aria "Queen of the Night" by Mozart.
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Date: 2004/2005
Duration: 15 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Menezes Filho, Florivaldo, 1962-

A une passange

Description: Recording of Lars Hojerdahl's A une passange. This work is for electronics and is based on a poem by the same name. The composer wove the text into their own musical structure and created this work as a piece of music where moods and rhythms leave traces of the original material.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Hojerdahl, Lars

Zapping Zappa

Description: Recording of Felipe Otondo's Zapping Zappa. This work was created as a humoristic tribute to the composer Frank Zappa. The composer uses different types of samples from the music of Zappa. Within this piece there is a development in terms of timbral rhythmic layers that evolve gradually, changing in sonorities.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 7 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Otondo, Felipe, 1972-

Artillerie lourde

Description: Recording of Candy Trash's Artillerie lourde. The composer wrote this piece with the idea of parenting in mind and separates the work into two parts that represent "father" and "mother" respectively. This piece showcases both the heavy weight of responsibility that falls on parents as well as the joy and support of family. The work has been segmented into 5 separate tracks.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 6 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Candy, Trash

Nectariou 5

Description: Recording of Stelios Giannoulakis' Nectariou 5. This is an electroacoustic work about family and distance. It is about memory and connection as articulated by long distance telephone communication and traveling.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Giannoulakis, Stelios

Rumi

Description: Recording of Kyong Mee Choi's Rumi. This is a work for electronics and includes spoken word of the text, "A Community of the Spirit" written by Jelaluddin Rumi.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Choi, Kyong Mee

Speaking...again

Description: Recording of Elainie Lillios' Speaking...again. This is a radiophonic composition based on interviews with Don, a long-time friend of the composer. Don experienced a profound and life-changing challenge in his early 50's and set an example for how we should all approach living through his outlook and determination. Don teaches us not to take the simple things for granted. This work was commissioned by La Muse en circuit and premiered at the Péniche Adélaïde for the radiophonic art prizewinners … more
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Date: 2003
Duration: 11 minutes
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-

The weasel is living on the lofts now

Description: Recording of Dirk Veulemans' The weasel is living on the lofts now. This work is a composition for flute with digital processing and 8-track tape. This piece is inspired by our present cosmopolitan, informative, and communicative life environment. The tape version is made from several life recordings.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Veulemans, Dirk

Eleventh of the ninth, two thousand and one

Description: Recording of Robert Andrew Mackay's Eleventh of the ninth, two thousand and one. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word as well as environmental sounds that reflect the tragedy of 9/11. There are also samples of the piece "O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)" by Carl Orff.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 12 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Mackay, Andrew, 1967-

Joyces vision

Description: Recording of Robert Andrew Mackay's Joyces vision. This is a work for electronics that includes English spoken word and distorted voices.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 4 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Mackay, Robert Andrew, 1973-
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