Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's 4 Poèmes made in a technique for a recording studio of hand-held electronic music. The sound material is based on electronic effects, rustling, instrumental and vocal sounds. Each part is integral, allowing them to present in the order of choice.
Recording of Michael Keane's Ambulator Nemorensis. This piece was put together as a preliminary study for an experimental film by Nicholas Kendall called Tala. While the actual music used in Tala was quite different from Ambulator Nemorensis both are attempts to create an imaginary landscape (or to use Murray Schaefer's term "soundscape").
Recording of David Keane's Ambulator Nemorensis. "Ambulator Nemorensis" was put together as a preliminary study for an experimental film by Nicholas Kendall called Tala. While the actual music used in Tala was quite different from “Ambulator Nemorensis” both are attempts to create an imaginary landscape (or to use Murray Schaefer's term "soundscape"). This piece is an honest attempt to create something beautiful.
Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Ballada. The title of the work relates above all to the epic character of the musical narrative. All the main thematic subjects and the materials of this composition are present in a brief entry. Apart from this entry and the conclusion we can find three different parts, but this division does not in any way interfere with the continuity of the work.
Recording of Daniel Starr's Barriers. Barriers is a quadraphonic electronic composition, which was composed in the interval May-June of 1976 in the Yale Electronic Music Studio, using both classical and control-voltage technique. It comprises 30 brief sections lasting 8 to 45 second each, which are in turn divided into two larger sequences of 15 sections, separated from each other by several seconds of dead silence in the center of the piece. Each section on either side of the piece explores a unique combination of sound-points, short, long and continuous tones. The piece is thus loosely organized according to a durational scheme. The opening consists of only short tones, the ending only of long tones; the first half ends only with sustained tones and after the silence, the second half begins with “points” alone. The composition deals specifically with the development and dramatic aspects of those elements, which are carried over from one section to the next, and with the introduction and phasing out of the different kinds of material. Most of the sounds used in the work are pure in character, which is to say that they have a single clear pitch despite the fact that they may have been modulated reverberated or manipulated timbrally in some way. Extensive use is made of high-speed electronic panning, in which a tone or chord shuttles back and forth rapidly from one location to another or moves in circles or a helix in quadraphonic space.
Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Childish Dreams. These “Childish Dreams” were written from an idea suggested to me by Jadwiga Mackiewicz and on an order I contracted with the Polish Radio’s Programme. It was the ambition both of the composer that the work should have more than a musical value; that is should possess a visible didactic function. It has been our assumption that electronic music can attract a child’s attention and direct it toward the beauty of the sound world which surrounds him throughout every day: the specific attractiveness, the sound of machines, nature, the street. In making a child susceptible to this specific beauty of sound, his sensual world and his feeling for beauty are enriched. “Childish Dreams” are my first step in such matters. In effect, it is a group of five short works with clearly defined content and titles: Lullaby, Train, In the Land of Ice, Dance of the Cats, Clock Talk. The sound material climate, the manner of the musical narration and the sound material I employed in the various parts correspond with the theme of each sound tale, each “dream,” to a great or smaller extent. Though the music carries programme-type features, I feel I have successfully avoided being too literal and, in result, I am closer to the ultimate purpose I set myself in this work – to make children more aware of the beauty of sound and music.
Recording of Gabriel Berncic's "Chile Fertil Provincia..." Electronic and instrumental sounds, recorded and processed onto four tracks, make up an autonomous flow. To this are added percussion, viola, double bass, tumbadoras and voices, these instruments-persons bringing new visions to the ensemble through the free creation of sequences and/or parallel discourses. "Chile fertil provincia" is the opening line in Alonso de Ercilla y Zœ–iga's La Araucana, the long epic poem which was the first to tell of the conquest of this remote West Indies country in Spanish American literature. It is an allegory about the motherland in ancient and recent times: Latin America told through scenes whose chronology does not obey any absolute historical time. Beginning with a futuristic ancestor and passing through different vassalages, a synthesis forms which evokes the oldest of traditions and aspires to be a binding hymn of the peoples. The titles of this staging music are, in order of performance, as follows: The Woods of Our Ancestors and of Those Yet to Come, The Conqueror's Cross of the South, The Piano of the Inquisition, La Moneda del Valle de Yuro, Jail and Disappearance, The Broad Boulevards Will Open Up. This work, revised several times and finally presented publicly in Barcelona and London, found its final form in 1983. The piece won first prize in the 1984 edition of the Group de Musique electroacoustic contest of Bourges.
Recording of Jacques Diennet's Création mondiale. This piece is a synthetic prelude with a classic form. The composer used wide sound tracks/slides to spread concrete and electronic sound plates.
Recording of Arthur Kreiger's Dance for Sarah. This piece explores a rich palette of electronic sounds - sounds whose timbral elements are in a constant state of flux in contrast to those which appear in a more steady - state fashion - sounds that utilize the upper registers of the spectrum set against those giving emphasis to the bass tessitura - sounds played in the most delicate pianissimo opposing those of a loud and raucous character. The form of "Dance for Sarah" is a modified ternary structure. The middle section closes with a crashing glissando that is followed by silence. A quiet high-pitched envelope emerges from this silence opening the final section of the piece while creating an aural reference to the beginning gesture of the composition. The final section contains a noisy, flamboyant climax. The energy of this climax is soon spent ant the piece gently fades.
Recording of Denis Smalley's Darkness after Time's Colours. The piece can be looked on as a vocal journey which passes through various 'ordeals' and encounters, hence the title's allusion to the journey down into Classical underworld. The sound material of this piece grew out of live electroacoustic work Pneuma whose five vocalists elaborate a language of air sounds, unvoiced consonants and vocal harmonics, and play talking drums from India and Ghana, tuning forks, Chinese gongs and tam-tam. Many of these sounds formed a starting point for this piece - gong strokes, vocal air sounds, air blown on the skins of drums, rotations around drum skins, unvoiced consonants, and tuning fork pulsations - but have often been altered in shape and substance by electroacoustic transformation. New sounds extend, imitate, and penetrate the source sounds elaborating an ambiguous sound symbolism.
Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Drive. Its glow is soft - silver. It becomes denser - and as the stuff of which it's made grows closer, it becomes harder and harder to keep it round, shining, glowing. Fatigue builds. Will is not enough. Finally, the question of why enters and the blows weaken, are fewer. The center holds itself for a while. To fail means death. The center then comes apart. Bursting or oozing. Back again to the periphery. A counterattack is mustered by the powers of will. A new pounding. A second glowing. But then a greater final fatigue enters. It ends. There isn't anything left. Why is left unanswered, unheard. - Thaddeus Kostrubala, M.D.D, The Joy of Running
Recording of Denis Lorrain's Droite, hommage à Le Corbusier. This piece uses ten basic materials whose durations are fixed in the range of 5-30 seconds and marked by percussive strikes. There are two free sequences that incorporate trombone and vibraphone. The piece is elaborated on by simple instrumental sounds and reading of texts.
Recording of Francis Dhomont's Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel. This piece begins with the poet himself (Jean Tortel) reading his poem aloud and then exchanging verses with a female speaker. Instrumental sections of music fill in the gaps between the speakers or play softly beneath the spoken voice.
Recording of Frank Royon Le Mée's Guimauve. Band concert version of a musical theater for: 3 readers 2 dancers 1 walk-on actor and tape recorder As a result of a month's stay in a psychiatric hospital, in all that sick "I succeeded?" After several attempts, gathering memories, various notes to paint a picture of tension, pain, laugh, forces, splinters, implosion, imbalance… Guimauve 4 parts of atmosphere
Recording of Mark Schubert's As I sit (with a prelude). This piece uses a synthesizer in conjunction with a probability controller to control a pulse wave and two filters. The composer also used tape manipulations, mostly splicing, some reversing of tape, and varispeed.
Letter from Dr. P.V.S. Rao to The Chairman of University Grants Commission providing a recommendation for Padma Rangachari to receive a Senior Fellowship to pursue a Ph.D.
Recording of John Winiarz's Metamorphosis III. This piece is the last and most concise work from a series begun in 1974. The idea was inspired by an experimental film made by an artist friend in which the beautiful figure of a greyhound dog in flight is transformed into a kaleidoscope of colors and nebulous shapes. An intense aural experience is achieved by a sharp juxtaposition of the humorous and the serious. The piece is composed using a mixture of concrete and electronic material. Tape loops, speed changes, splicing, and filtering techniques were used. Equipment included three stereo tape recorders, a mixer, EMS synthesizer, and a Burwin filter.
Recording of Francis Dhomont's Métonymie ou le corps impossible. Two possible readings: 1) "Metonymy", figure of rhetoric; "An object is designated by the no of a similar object". Uses 4 families of sound sources: musical instruments, voices, concert and electronic sounds. Most sound objects are "diverted" from their context; in this lies metonymy. Each family offers collections of objects cutting the duration in pulsed time/smooth time by contrasts, oppositions, slips ... It is also a discourse by associations (one sound calls another). The voice neglects the "discrete units" of language to retain only the prosodic features. 2) Impossible route of a "body" (figured by vocal fragments) locked up, dissolved (murdered?). In another body/place, which unceasingly defeats, tears, covers it. The voice is always spoken out of meaning in a kind of primary glossolalic act. Drift impulse momentum engulfed after multiple attempts of emergence. 4 Parts: 1 - 1'45 Instrumental / vocal / concrete / Electronic 2 - 6'27 Pulses / iterations / cells / groups + 2 'rests' 3 - 4'17 Large notes + mixed variations 4 - 5'02 Frames + coda
Recording of Paul Pignon's Microhabitat. This piece makes use of highly complex patches on the Synthi 100 synthesizer. The music reflects the microbial levels of soil, exhibiting the organic and inorganic forms and ecological relationships at the microscopic level.
Recording of Marcelle Deschênes's Moll (opéra-lilliput pour 6 roches molles). An open composition, MOLL (“Soft”) is presented in its full version as an outdoor show and "plain-breath" in 60 beaches, known for: 1) mimes or dancers 2) mobile and sound decors, and floors with sound 3) wind, blast, white noise 4) acoustic instruments (vibrating air, percussion) 5) live electronic instruments 6) magnetic tape (concrete sounds not transformed: insects, water, birds, boat, etc.) electronic sounds, musical quotes (Debussy, Berg, Wagner, Mozart etc.), manipulated sounds 7) sounds of mouth (partial or total live transformation) 8) a child (toys of children). This piece serves as a large group of associations from different levels of human experience. Of a plural nature and structure, this piece constitutes a mosaic made up of the juxtaposition of polymorphic and heterogeneous elements borrowed from models and systems of formation and transformation (cosmogonic, mythological, symbolic, atmospheric, oceanographic, astronomical, geological, musical, etc.) which, by association, can be put in relation with the rocks and their environment.
Recording of László Dubrovay's Mouvement éternels. The work is part of a series comprising 3 pieces. The musical material of the three works is the same, drawing its origins in the coding of 4 numbers. It includes 8 layers. Each layer has another tempo in the internal movements/repetition/modulations of the timbre and movements of spaces of the sounds in the version 4 tracks. Modulations were made by Synthi AKS at EMS. Work done at the electronics studio of Magyar Radio Budapest.
Recording of Benno Ammann's Mouvements. Realized at the Ipem Studio in November 1976. Two main structures, computer-controlled (and partly alienated and distorted), form the basic material of the piece, and are mixed, varied and transformed into new sound formations in an aleatoric process by means of high-low filters, tempophones and feedback subjected to variable time. Contrasting sound elements (more figurative characters), produced on the apparatuses DATAPULSE and WAVETEK of Ipem’s studio, accompany the main sections parties principally by variation and increasing movement in ever changing time.
Recording of Günther Rabl's Mugl Entsteigt. This piece awakens the ear with new and expressive sounds: dazzling lines, clusters of Argentinian sounds, a kind of organ with soft shapes, an ostinato with colors and tasty traces, all this intertwines with humor and vivacity in real tests of symphonic development where electro-acoustic musicians rarely succeed. The work reveals a temperament, which is rare, here as well as elsewhere.
The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, and the second of seven programs in memory of Johnny Mercer, including excerpts from an interview with Mercer conducted on January 30, 1970.
The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, and the last of seven programs in memory of Johnny Mercer, including excerpts from an interview with Mercer conducted on January 30, 1970.
Recording of Hugh Davies's Natural Images. This is the first of two compositions related to the sounds of the animal kingdom (two more are planned), and it was originally composed for a dance group. The different sections of the piece evoke but do not exactly imitate various sound-worlds from nature.
Recording of Ryszard Klisowski's La nature morte. This piece was composed for either tuba and tape or tape only. It was realized in 1976 at the Institute for Electroacoustic and Experimental Music, University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria.
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