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Emotions de guerre

Description: Recording of Bruno Bernard's Emotions de guerre. This work is a sound representation of what the composer imagines could have happened in an underground military shelter during WWII. The various sound materials explore different aspects of the situation, both above ground and under it.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 26 minutes
Creator: Bernard, Bruno, 1960-
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Je ne suis pas d'ici, je suis de passage

Description: Recording of Mario Verandi's Je ne suis pas d'ici, je suis de passage. This work was commissioned by Césaré Studio de Creation Reims and premiered at the Passage Subé, Reims, France. This piece consists of recordings of passerby's answering the question "où se trouve le passage subé?" and explores issues such as orientation and disorientation. The composer also wrote this to encourage the citizens of Reims to experience their own city from a different perspective.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Verandi, Mario
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En chemin

Description: Recording of Vincent Laubeuf's En chemin. This work explores the relationship between the music and the spoken text, creating a confrontation between a physically present reader and music broadcast by loudspeakers.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Laubeuf, Vincent, 1974-
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Homo Mutus

Description: Recording of Gabriel Poulard's Homo Mutus. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds. When discussing this work, the composer references the difficulty of communication.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 6 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Poulard, Gabriel
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Ancienne Etude - Introduction

Description: Recording of Catalina Peralta's Ancienne Etude - Introduction. This work is dedicated to the baritone, Guido Ebi, and acts as a reflection on the book "Igitur ou la Folie d'Elbehnon" by Stéphane Mallarmé. This work was commissioned by the Culture Ministry of Colombia.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 7 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Peralta, Catalina, 1963-
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Raréfaction sur un texte d'Hervé Bauer

Description: Recording of Vincent Laubeuf's Raréfaction sur un texte d'Hervé Bauer. For voice, pre-recorded manipulated sound, and electronics. Here are some elements which guided, starting from the text of Hervé Bauer, to the composition of this music: a work in sequence, like flashes of sensations, of meaning, a static aspect, where the domains taken by the senses are both always the same and always different.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Laubeuf, Vincent, 1974-
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Paysmusique symphonie

Description: Recording of Pierre Mariétan's Paysmusique symphonie. This work is for large ensemble and tape. It includes sections of a large crowd talking all at once and sections of a symphony orchestra performing a work.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 3 hours 8 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-
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Les dits de nobuyo

Description: Recording of Pierre Mariétan's Les dits de nobuyo. The composer states: "The "reality show" is that of the sound, of its own story implemented here in the relationship of the voices to each other with the noises captured, all of this inscribed in the silence of the composition. What these sounds, the voices, the story say, is to be interpreted by the listener according to his feelings, the awareness of what he perceives. The reality show does not want to be, like on television, the alibi of a u… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-
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Improvviso

Description: Recording of Claudio Gabbiani's Improvviso. The goal of this work was to explore the idea of a new way of listening through a different perceptive space. The composer explores the common parameters between traditional music and computer music.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Gabbiani, Claudio
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Longue est la course du soleil

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Longue est la course du soleil. This work was created as part of the open work at the Bourges Festival, "Synthse", whose theme was the seasons. This piece is based specifically on summer and includes fragments of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Summer.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
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Le Cheval

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Le Cheval. This work was created for the retirement of the composers teacher, Pierre Boeswillwald. The composition was an exercise given by his instructor to new students and consisted of cutting and editing snippets of spoken text to create an original phrase or concept.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
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Qui à côté de moi aujourd'hui

Description: Recording of Jean-Michel Deliers' Qui à côté de moi aujourd'hui. The composer wrote this with the idea of "absence" or "to lack" in mind and was influenced by the writer, Samuel Beckett in which many of his works included those themes. The only sound source in this piece is the human voice.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Deliers, Jean Michel
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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
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Pama

Description: Recording of Jean-Marc Weber's Pama. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of French spoken word and distorted voices.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 6 minutes
Creator: Weber, Jean-Marc
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Bouclettes

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Bouclettes. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
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Toto-Valse

Description: Recording of Christian Zanesi's Toto-Valse. This is a work for electronics and contains samples of French spoken word.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Zanési, Christian
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Du libe tu

Description: Recording of Elsa Justel's Du libe tu. This is a work for electronics and acts as an homage to the life of Pierre Schaeffer.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Justel, Elsa
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Rappel à l'ordre

Description: Recording of Roland Cahen's Rappel à l'ordre. This is a work for electronics and includes the story of a deep-sea diver spoken in both English and French.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: Cahen, Roland, 1958-
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Pierre

Description: Recording of François Bayle's Pierre. This is a work for electronics that was written as an homage to Pierre Schaeffer.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Bayle, François, 1932-
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La mère, le matin etc...

Description: Recording of Philippe Moënne Loccoz's La mère, le matin etc.... This work was created as part of the Institute of Bourges on the theme: "Le Pére, La Mére". It includes sound materials from family interactions, primarily children.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Moënne Loccoz, Philippe
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Contr'gris

Description: Recording of Michel Karsky's Contr'gris. This work was created for the Autumn Music Festival in Moscow and includes spoken Japanese and French text. The word "grisaille" is repeated several times and this composition plays on the notion of "grisaille". The title was recommended to the composer by a Russian musicologist who emphasized the importance of an accent when speaking it.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Karsky, Michel, 1936-
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Un peu de surprise et d'amour

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Un peu de surprise et d'amour. This composition is a sonic tribute to the work of painter, Max Ernst. The sound materials used in this work represent different motifs in various paintings by Ernst. The voices used in this piece are 4th graders from Auriol College.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: Hermitte, Claude
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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
Partner: UNT Music Library
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