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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
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Aubade

Description: Recording of Sandra L. Tjepkema's Aubade. This aubade, a serenade whispered into a lover’s ear, just before dawn: It is meant, of course, as a type of erotic poem; but it is not the text alone but the finished product which constitutes the poem. The words (in English) along with complementary phonetic signs and tremulous sighs, seek out the familiar images of love poetry. Phonetic variations on the vocabulary and the breathing of sleeping, dream-talking lovers, the more literal interpretation o… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Tjepkema, Sandra L.
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Sweet Jesus and the Honkies

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Sweet Jesus and the Honkies. “Sweet Jesus and the Honkies” is ideally meant to be listened to several times in a non-reverberant environment. The piece makes use of recording techniques which enhance the sound, giving it a feeling of depth and spaciousness. By design, these techniques also reduce the intelligibility of the spoken word. Much of the spoken source material for this piece was only moderately intelligible to begin with. The words as they now stand be… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold
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Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks)

Description: Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks). Whisper Study is based on the sentence "When there is no sound, hearing is most alert" (a quote from the Indian mystic Kirpal Singh. Except for the distant horns, all sounds were derived from the composer's voice, whispering the above sentence and the word "silence." Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape techniques in the analog studio of the 70s and using the whispered voice as… more
Date: 1975/1979
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Westerkamp, Hildegard
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