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Marienbad

Description: Recording of Chris Chafe's "Marienbad" performed by Ann Witherall, Daniel Kobialka, and Willy Winant. The movie "Last Year at Marienbad", a 1961 French-Italian film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, influenced the composition of Chafe's "Marienbad" in several ways. The most crucial connection between the two works is the feeling of "mental time" as described by A. Robbe-Grillet in his screenplay: "...it skips certain passages, it preserves an exact record of c… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Chafe, Chris
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Sous le regard d'un soleil noir

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sec… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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microvariation

Description: Recording of Graham Hair's microvariation.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Hair, Graham
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A Grandmother's Song

Description: Recording of Brenda Hutchinson's A Grandmother's Song for tape, in 5 parts: I. The Reunion II. The Peach III. Father IV. I Forgot V. Brother Day. This work was created at the Center for Music Experiment at the University of California in San Diego.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Hutchinson, Brenda
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Le soi, le choix et les autres

Description: Recording of Dimitrios Iatropoulos's "Le soi, le choix et les autres" ("The self, the choice and the others"), five songs composed on the voice of Tibby Sachet. Iatropoulos calls this work a "composition psychoacoustique" ("psychoacoustic composition"). It is a study on the expansion and travesty of the voice that corresponds to the continual contradiction between the self and the choice of the woman. The choices the woman is faced with it that of active/passive, dad/mom, woman/girl, self/other… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Iatropoulos, Dimitrios
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Ekphonesis V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Six dark questions

Description: Recording of Dexter Morrill's Six dark questions performed by Neva Pilgrim, soprano. The piece is designed for soprano and a single electronic speaker. It is a voice drama in which the questions form an inquiry into the structure of the personality. At the outset of the piece, both singer and electronic device are defined in lifeless, mechanical terms; but as the questions are put forward one by one, more and more is revealed about the well hidden emotions in the individual. At first, the singe… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Morrill, Dexter
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The medium is the matter

Description: Recording of Hans Poort's "The medium is the matter." The music is made of repeated results of electronic sound circuits, presented as dynamic musical processes. By teaching on tape, the material aspect of the "here and now" of poetry, both music and words are emphasized. Poort attempted to keep the time and space of the present sound - poetry and music - by leaving both of them autonomous.
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Date: 1979/1980
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Poort, Hans
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Songes

Description: Recording of Jean-Claude Risset's Songes. Songes was produced at IRCAM with a variation of the MUSIC V program. The original program, designed by Max Mathews was extended by John Gardner and Jean-Louis Richer so that it can process digitized sounds as well as synthesize sounds. The piece uses some sound materials from Mirages, a piece for 16 instruments and tape commissioned by the Donnaueschingen Festival (1978). The title suggests the dreamlike nature of adventures set on another scene: adven… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 37 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Risset, Jean-Claude
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Moulin diabolique

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Moulin Diabolique" ("Devilish Mill"). The work consists of six sequence that have their own dramatic, musical, and architectural meaning independent of the piece as a whole. The piece is based on military orders in different languages, as well as the sounds emitted by human groups (soldiers), which constitute the answer itself or accompany the answer that is required. The composer processes the sounds of the orders to deepen the grotesque and lugubrious character… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz
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Rapsodie pour la mort d'un république

Description: Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's "Rapsodie pour la mort d'une république" ("Rhapsody for the Death of a Republic"). The world premiere was during a fragment of the ballet "Agranissement" at the Warsaw Chamber Opera in 1979.
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Date: 1979/1980
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
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The waste land

Description: Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's The waste land, for fixed media. The piece is a journey through time and spaces. The present is mixed with the past, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream with reality. The work was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio and was realized in October 1979. The text comes from T. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land."
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Date: 1979
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
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Brad Stroud, cassette sent to Leon Breeden

Description: Audio recording sent by pianist and trombonist Brad Stroud to Leon Breeden following a visit to North Texas. The recording includes spoken segments from Stroud, as well as recordings of his performances, including Stroud's composition ("Listen to My Father") introduced by Kenton and played by Kenton's band, and a performance from one of Kenton's band clinics. The reference to Steve Wilkerson winning on the Gong Show dates the recording to around 1979.
Date: 1979~
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Stroud, Brad
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