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Le Grain de Bruxelles

Description: Recording of Theodoros Lotis' Le Grain de Bruxelles. This composition is based on sudden changes of dynamics and acts as a symbolic description of everyday life in Brussels. Different planes and images are represented by different sonic spaces and dynamics. Sounds of the city as well as a string quartet were recorded and transformed to create different spatial planes. This work was commissioned by Musiques et Recherches.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Lotis, Theodoros, 1967-

Son-Frissons

Description: Recording of Michel Redolfi's Son-Frissons. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds as well as French spoken word. This piece consists of 5 untitled movements.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Redolfi, Michel, 1951-

Camello

Description: Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel and Bérengère de Tarlé's Camello. This work tells an imaginary story by taking elements from real life including the sounds of public transportation in Havana. It is a soundscape of a part of the daily life in Havana. The composer points to the importance of the words in the piece from people speaking and public announcements as it holds symbolism for the Cuban people. This work premiered at the "XIII Festival de La Habana de Música Contemporánea".
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén & de Tarlé, Bérengère

El fin del caos llega quietamente

Description: Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel's El fin del caos llega quietamente. This piece was intended to demonstrate that mathematics can also be a path to music. It was created entirely in real time from the calculus of the Logistic function by means of the Fractal Composer system and recorded in one pass.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 3 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén

Thrum

Description: Recording of John Gibson's Thrum. This is an electroacoustic piece that revolves around a wide range of sounds played on an acoustic guitar. Many of the guitar textures were created by a virtual player that read short guitar samples and created a pulsed repetitive texture. The composer's aim was to create music that balances human qualities against the regularity of machines.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Gibson, John, 1960-

Superstrings

Description: Recording of Adrian Moore's Superstrings. This work premiered at the SEAMUS "Acousma-Tex Conference" at University of North Texas. The composer dedicates this work to his father. This composition uses natural string sounds from the piano and harpsichord to create new harmonics and musical gestures. The composer relates the title to the scientific theory of matter and intended for this piece to "pulse" with that raw energy.
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Date: 1998/1999
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Moore, Adrian, 1969-

The shout

Description: Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's The shout. This work was written to accompany a video made by the Chilean artist, Pia Videla-Hintze. The composer describes this work as being something to just "sit and feel". The title as well as the piece references stages of life, "we come into the world shouting, we go out shouting".
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Date: 1998
Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-

Credo in unam naturam

Description: Recording of Kit Powell's Credo in unam naturam. This work is an homage to the natural world as well as a work of nostalgia for the composers home country, New Zealand. Sound materials of birds (Kiwi, Bellbird, Fantail, and Little Grey Warbler) as well as a Humpback whale can be heard.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Powell, Kit, 1937-

Mahakala Sadhana

Description: Recording of João Pedro Oliveira's Mahakala Sadhana. This piece was conceived as a western perspective about some musical traditions of the eastern countries. There is no intention to establish strict theoretical relations, but the pieces of the Journey of Sounds are the result of sound images suggested by these eastern traditions. Mahakala Sadhana is based on the musical tradition of Tibet Buddhism.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 20 minutes
Creator: Oliveira, João Pedro

Murmullo a Voces

Description: Recording of Roberto Morales-Manzanares' Murmullo a Voces. For electronics. This piece tries to express the tension towards some phenomenon or attitude shown by some sonic imaginary but very sophisticated hypothetical society.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Morales-Manzanares, Roberto, 1958-

Phonurgie

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Phonurgie. For electronics and manipulated pre-recorded sound. This work is a celebration of musique concrète and a movement of a larger project. These four works constantly bounce off each other, call out to one another, reply, complement and extend diversions. Although technological tools have changed and the color of sound has evolved, the constructions have remained to the ideals of the first "concerts de bruits" (noise concerts).
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Two Women

Description: Recording of Trevor Wishart's Two Women. This work consists of 4 movements: 1. Siren, 2. Facets, 3. Stentor, and 4. Angelus. This work is meant to act as an extended sound documentary, where the voice samples of Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana create both a political cartoon and personal portrait respectively.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Wishart, Trevor

Toda la humanidad habla de troya

Description: Recording of Adolfo Nunez's Toda la humanidad habla de troya. This recording is the soundtrack of a video that premiered at the Tabarca Island in the Festival of Contemporary Music of Alicante. It was part of a multimedia show and based on texts by Euripides. The sound materials come from recordings of said text being recited by various actors and philosophers as well as their personal thoughts on it.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Núñez, Adolfo 1954-

Overrun

Description: Recording of Frank Schweizer's Overrun. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Schweizer, Frank, 1962-

Dans les étoiles

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Dans les étoiles.This work is an homage to those who are grieving loved ones and hope for a better future in the coming years. It's segmented into 5 movements titled: "Exils", "Sonneries de la forêt", "Dans les étoiles", "Les pensées de la terre", and "Trois rayons dorés".
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Date: 1998/2001
Duration: 25 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Weteringschans

Description: Recording of Edward Sielicki's Weteringschans. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 10 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Sielicki, Edward, 1956-

Sequence of earlier heaven

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Sequence of earlier heaven. This work was written for eight digital soundtracks and is a complement to the piece "Sequence of Later Heaven". This work references pairs of opposites and the sounds produced are meant to depict the energy generated by these oppositions. The composer is grateful to Sal Ferreras, Russell Hartenberger and Randy Raine-Reusch who provided the source material for this work, along with Simon Fraser University gamelan, Kyai Madu Sari. This work … more
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Date: 1998
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 01 second
Creator: Truax, Barry

Respiration I et II

Description: Recording of Jongwoo Yim's Respiration I et II. This work is compromised of the first two etudes in a collection of four that are designed for percussion and electronics. The first etude is dedicated to percussion, especially skin instruments, and electronics. The second etude is composed of voice and percussion instruments.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Yim, Jongwoo

A@traverso.it

Description: Recording of Elio Martusciello's A@traverso.it. The composer describes this work as "The voice through the technology of the '90s". This is a piece for electronics and includes various vocal samples.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Martusciello, Elio

Thalis

Description: Recording of Paul Dibley's Thalis. This work is based on the Greek philosophy by Thalis, that water is the basis of all life. The composition includes three elements: water, the voice, and pitch. The vocal component takes the form of Greek text about the philosopher, Thalis. While the pitched element takes the form of sung notes and the manipulated sounds of pitched instruments.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Dibley, Paul

...Raices Lejanas, Tal Vez...

Description: Recording of Daniel Schachter's ...Raices Lejanas, Tal Vez.... This composition is described as something like a sound journey through the world of memory, inspired by the friendship between the composer and Luis Zubillaga - one of the outstanding figures of the music avant-garde in South America, who developed during his life a very important work as composer and researcher. Zubillaga died in 1995 and this composition is the composer's tribute, as being "In memorian Luis Zubillaga" serves as t… more
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Date: 1998
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Schachter, Daniel, 1953-

Widerspiel

Description: Recording of Martin Neukom's Widerspiel. This is a work for electronics and viola that explores the interaction between the two.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Neukom, Martin

Figures de rhétorique

Description: Recording of Robert Normandeau's Figures de rhétorique. This is a work for tape and piano and explores the relationship between the two through the lenses of different figures of speech. This work was commissioned by the pianist, Jacques Drouin, with financial support from the Canada Council for the Arts. It premiered at the Chapelle historique de Bon-Pasteur in Montréal. The composer gives thanks to Guy Soucie, Michael Alcorn, and Daniel Teruggi.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Normandeau, Robert, 1955-
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