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Adagio

Description: Adagio is, as the title suggests, cast very much in the tradition of the late-Romantic symphonic slow movement, with its carefully measured pacing combined with a dramatic use of weight and drive. In particular, Adagio has a special relationship with the slow movements of Mahler's symphonies, this relationship being present at different levels and to different degrees at various points in the piece, ranging from the use of generally expressive gestures to explicit 'quotations' (particularly fro… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Andrew, 1963-

Alternances

Description: "Alternances" for violin, clarinet, piano, percussion, cello and tape was written in 1985, the electroacoustic effects being made in the studio of Romanian Radio-Television. The room consists of seven sections, including sections 2, 4 and 6 on tape. The 6th section on tape and "life" is the recurrence of the second section, of the same existing correspondence between sections 1 and 7, 3 and 4. The dominant idea of ​​the work is that of the imbsication of parallel music, with particular characte… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Iorgulescu, Adrian

Anamorphées

Description: "Anamorphées" was made entirely from a single instrument (saxophone) of five seconds, processed in computer delayed time. The basic instrumental sequence is presented, isolated before the play for the jury. The use of a reduced original material makes it possible to carry out a real "genetic" work of sound and musical development where each stage of treatment is an opening towards other possible ones. From mutations to successive mutations, the resulting sound objects are diversified, progressi… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Racot, Gilles, 1951-

Anguish in Lebanon

Description: In this piece, the digitally constructed voices, 13th root of 3.14 tuning and distorted piano all combine to create a sonic field at first curious and finally frightening. It is the composer's intention to bring to mind not only the anguish of interminable war but the ambiguities of life for those whose mother country is so afflicted.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Kramer, Gregory, 1952-

Antiphony IX

Description: Commissioned by the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, Glenn Block, cond.; Premiere: Electronic Music Festival; Kansas City Conservatory of Music, 10.13.85 MS
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Date: 1985
Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Gaburo, Kenneth

L'Apocalypse

Description: Recording of Xavier Garcia's L'Apocalypse.
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Date: 1985/1986
Duration: 40 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Xavier, 1959-

Before the Sea of Glass

Description: The title "Before the Sea of ​​Glass" refers to a scene described by the Apostle John in his revelations. Having reached Paradise, he sees a throne surrounded by a rainbow from which flashes, rumblings, and thundering sounds start. Around the throne there were twenty-four old men in white, four strange winged creatures covered with eyes, and angels in great numbers. Each in turn worshiped the one seated on the throne. A myriad of diverse creatures united in the same act of worship: a scene at o… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Paul, John F., 1955-

Berceuse pour Emmanuel

Description: "Berceuse pour Emmanuel" is a command from my wife to make our son Emmanuel sleep.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Yvanez, Roland, 1956-

The Birth of a Smile

Description: Miniature of a time process between five and nine in the morning. Dedicated to the Orgel Draaier, the men who carry their Barrel-Organ through the streets of Utrech.
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Date: 1985/1986
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Guttman, Ben, 1958-

...black it stood as night

Description: This piece is a band-only version of "The Other Shape", for a percussionist and band, whose composition was screened mainly on antinomies. Between the short and the long, by example; short and resonant sound; the dry and the reverberated, or the lying down; the continuity of silence or holding, opposed to the explosion brutal and ephemeral percussive sounds, etc. Like in many others pieces, this dialectic had led me to a form typically segmented and punctuated, simple and bare. These antitheti… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 14 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Lorrain, Denis, 1948-

Caballos

Description: A recording of Juan Marcos Blanco's Caballos.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 34 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

Canales

Description: For four channel computer synthesised tape. This is a stereo version. This work was composed at CCRMA (1985), Stanford University, using the Samson Box digital synthesizer and the programs to control it written by Bill Schottstead. The structure of "Canales" results from the combination of opposite aspects of rhythm, pitch and timbre such as rhythmic/arhythmic, consonant/dissonant and harmonic/inharmonic. Rhythms and pitches were selected with regard to recent theories in psychoacoustics (Frais… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Núñez, Adolfo, 1954-

Cantus

Description: After my first experiences in musique concrète, and even more so, when I started using the computer for music composition, I wanted to be able to compose the sound material , as I composed the structures when I wrote "notes" for instrumentalists. Our first researches, from 1976 (by means of a microprocessor that we had procured for ourselves), were done in this direction: to put the sound matter in memory and to fragment it so that it became "reflowable". The microprocessor of this era providin… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 8 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Boesch, Rainer, 1938-2014

Caroselli

Description: This is a fun piece and should be enjoyed by both the instrumentalists and the audience. The idea of the work is obvious from the name, "Carousel". Labels run our lives – who, what, where we are and so forth. Minimalism, Maximalism, Expressionist, traditional. All these labels have different meanings according to who is listening. Not mentioning the importance of where the listener is from. This piece should be listened to, and not labeled. It is conceived fro the Electro-Acoustic Concert Envir… more
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Date: 1985/1986
Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Davidow, Joseph, 1949-

Chants Magnétiques

Description: Thoughts come tumbling in, unordered and often without any connection with the composition no which you are working. This was also the case during the time I was composing my Ritournelles for soprano and computer. A flood of material and studies came into existence which could not be fit into my Ritournelles. From out this material resulted in my piece "Chants Magnétiques" on January 20th, 1985 in two hours by writing a command string at a high tempo and reading it into my MIDIM system on the P… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner 1926-

Chromatonal

Description: "Chromatonal" is an exploration of the twelve intervals in the tempered scale. The music contains twelve sections, each of increasing length - the first is 10 seconds, the second is 20, the third is 30, etc. Each section concentrates on a particular interval and is punctuated by a "spatial" sound. The sections alternate between melodic and harmonic textures. Pitch classes are devised up into two groups as follows: Group I – a-flat(8), g-flat(6), b-flat(10), d(2), d-flat(1); Group II – e-… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 39 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Malouf, Frederick L., 1954-

Cómo es Lily?

Description: Lily, how is she? She is sweet, she is cute ... very delicate. Melancholy sometimes: she is ticklish Irritable ... she lets herself die, burned by the flames.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 11 minutes 01 second
Creator: Kusnir, Eduardo, 1939-

Composition 16

Description: Recording of Takehito Shimazu's Composition 16.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Shimazu, Takehito, 1949-

Contrepoint

Description: The different harmonic parts are gradually faded, in favor of masses of stamps that contrast in height. Micro-events punctuate them.The rhythmic part that follows is based on a new series, which in turn goes down to silence (13 ''). New micro-events occur and reappear the first series which in turn allows the melodic line to reappear. Melodic line that is fixed with a double, out of order, and which will gradually highlight its own variations that interact with natural sounds (voices and laught… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Dorobisz, Patrick

Conversation

Description: This work was composed in 1985. It uses voices recorded in Japan and Thailand, hence the title of "Conversation", although the voices are generally used in a more musical than semantic way. The instruments respond to these voices in different ways during the course of the work, which also gives it a conversational character. This work can be considered as a continuation of "Orchestra" and "Ten Temperaments" in that the image of the sounds resumes the orchestra like a prototype. The recordings o… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 29 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Grippe, Ragnar, 1951-

Corale quasi una fantasia

Description: "Corale quasi une fantasia" (or more correctly "Fantasia quasi une corale") was composed in July 1985 at the Electronic Music Studio in Cologne. My goal was less to compose a "work" or a "piece", than to do ten minutes that I would like, and if possible that you would like too.
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Date: 1985
Duration: 50 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Moschos, Konstantinos, 1959-

Cracovie mon amour

Description: I is the opening part of my Polish trilogy, an electronic romance for synthesizers and loudspeakers. It is meant to be performed outside in the nature giving thus the surrounding town and landscape architecture to modify its original instrumental voices. One of its most beautiful performances it received in Matera the south Italy where it«s voices were echoing behind the cabyon splitting the town. Later this piece often has been used as a small romantic "opening the ears" entry after which the … more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka, 1946-

Cuenca

Description: The result of a long stay in the city of Cuenca during the summer of 1985 and a reflection of various experiences. In the first place, the influence of the city and its impressive landscape is undeniable. In addition, I wanted to pay a cryptic tribute to the writer Villiers de L'Isle-Adam: his short story The secret of ancient music, which is part of his cruel tales, awakened in me the fascination for this unusual an instrument of the nineteenth century called "Chinese hat", fascination that le… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 13 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Polonio, Eduardo, 1941-
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