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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

Abominable A

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps,… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

Aguiro

Description: Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Beyst, Stefan

Alba

Description: Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Cardi, Mauro

Amarcord - Chilhood (l'enfance)

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Chilhood (l'enfance). This piece is the third movement of the work "Amarcord" that the composer describes as a trilogy of sonorous memories. This work was conceived as a combination of electronic, electroacoustic, and ambient instrumental recordings that were all produced in the years from 1976 to 1996.
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor

Angels and devils

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Angels and devils. This piece is one of two shorter acousmatic works underlying a theatre creation called "Agora". This recording is meant to explore the psychology of good versus evil and includes fragments from an old Norse poem: Volundkvadet.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

En Babel éclatée

Description: Recording of Michel Karsky's En Babel éclatée. Mourning waltzes around Besieged Babels. The man is in the world. And the creator is not exempted from being in the world with the full enjoyment of his faculties of intelligence and sensitivity of intimate and collective memory, echo of history and art. In addition, when he is a musician, the sense of dance works on his sound material until he imprints an irresistible program on him. How can a frail waltz subject become a song of mercy for a wound… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 34 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Karsky, Michel, 1936-

Balthasar's Traum

Description: Recording of Frank Corcoran's "Balthasar's Traum" performed at the Electronic Studio of the Berlin Technical University in close cooperation with Folkmar Hein. The work is based on an idea of a short story by Jorge Luis Borge and the Gospel of St. Mark about Balthasar Espinosa, a man who becomes involved with the Gutres people of Pampa and eventually dies by being hanged on a cross by the same people with whom he was so fascinated. It takes place in the great plains of the Pampa where Baltasar… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Corcoran, Frank

Bitter Orchids

Description: Recording of Steven Naylor's Bitter Orchids. This work was created with the support of the Nova Scotia Arts Council. The sound materials in this piece were recorded in northern Thailand and have been transformed to create a sonic fabric of memory and consciousness.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Naylor, Steven, 1956-

Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover

Description: Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover in conjunction with the program Dobro Utro (Good Morning). The program features interviews with passersby on the street, as well as Jordan Rupchev, along with extensive footage of Conover inside VOA studios, performance footage from Milcho Leviev, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Other topics continue at the 17:50 mark, concluding with the video of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green for the movie S… more
Date: 1990~
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds

Cantata dialetica

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Cantata dialetica.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín

Cantos Rituales

Description: Recording of Manuel Rocha Iturbide's Cantos Rituales. The main idea behind this work was to search for different kinds of field sound recordings based in prayers and ritual singing from all around the world. These recordings were then processed through a computer and combined in order to make this composition. The composer describes this piece as a hymn dedicated to all humankind, where they are seeking a spiritual unity common to all, regardless of their culture and beliefs.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Iturbide, Manuel Rocha, 1963-

Catchwave 71

Description: Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's Catchwave 71.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 17 minutes
Creator: Kosugi, Takehisa

Chimera in Kosovo

Description: Recording of Pekka Sirén and Agnieszka Waligórska's Chimera in Kosovo. This work represents the suffering of Kosovo refugees during wartime and utilizes radio mediums to further give the impression of the horrors and fears experienced by the victims. The piece uses radio voices and imaginary female cries as well as looped international newscaster voices.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka & Waligórska, Agnieszka

Comunicacones

Description: Recording of Miguel Azguime's Comunicacones. The sound materials in this piece come from concrete sounds from a Lisbon port, communication satellites, and texts in more than 30 different languages, as well as synthetic and instrumental sounds. This work was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 and the concert version premiered at the "Musica em Novembro" festival in Lisbon.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Azguime, Miguel

Diamant

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant. This piece was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem.
Date: 1977
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John
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