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Evolu-Son

Description: Recording of Hervé Déjardin's Evolu-Son. This work was created as part of the Festival Synthèse under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". The composer used recordings of the mechanical work of an artisan-weaver with more traditional music of village festivals mixed in.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Déjardin, Hervé

Lugares de Antiguas vecindades

Description: Recording of Abril Padilla's Lugares de Antiguas vecindades. This work was commissioned by the City of Zaragoza, Spain, following the MAP residency of the association Nurseries of Young Artists of Europe. This piece reflects the sonic impressions that the city produced during the composer's residency between 2003 and 2004. The composer has created a stereo version as well as a quadraphonic version.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Padilla, Abril, 1970-

La violence (mix2)

Description: Recording of Roald Baudoux's La violence (mix2). This short piece was composed for the Phonurgia Nova 2001 competition the rules of which stated that at least one extract of a radio library provided by the organizers had to be included in the composition. The record that grabbed the composer's attention was one that included words by French writer, Jean-Paul Sartre: "La violence est la seule chose qui reste, quel que soit le système". The composer used this question of violence to inspire the r… more
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Date: 2001/2002
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Baudoux, Roald

Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre. This work consists of spoken word with text by Kamal Ben Hameda and spoken by Eveline Legrand. The text describes the image of Western urban civilization in the eyes of an immigrant Arab poet. The reciter, her voice, and her expressiveness is at the center of the work.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette, 1946

The weasel is living on the lofts now

Description: Recording of Dirk Veulemans' The weasel is living on the lofts now. This work is a composition for flute with digital processing and 8-track tape. This piece is inspired by our present cosmopolitan, informative, and communicative life environment. The tape version is made from several life recordings.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Veulemans, Dirk

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

Rayures

Description: Recording of Hubert Michel's Rayures. The inspiration for this work was the concept of stripes, more specifically sound stripes, and its travel through the colors of time and space. The sound materials used were derived from a credit card on a metal grid, the sounds of colleagues and friends, and synthesis mining.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Michel, Hubert, 1976-

Les destins d'une berceuse

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's Les destins d'une berceuse. This work includes vocals and spoken word with text from the French lullaby "Fais dodo". The composer has also included segments from Beethoven's 5th Symphony and melds together these two songs under the theme of "destiny".
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline

Cantos de antes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's Cantos de antes. This work was commissioned by the Association pour la recherche et l'Expérimentation Musicale and is dedicated to Simone Rist and Roger Cochini. This piece was created from transformed texts performed by Simone Rist, the voice of Roger Cochini, and other electroacoustic sounds. The composer states that this piece speaks to very old stories lost thousands of years ago.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-

Shalala ware

Description: Recording of Gérard Torres' Shalala ware. This work reflects a love story between a virtual couple, Fred and Cathy, who sing their song "Shalala" throughout the piece. The composer has separated this work into four parts: 1. R.A.M., 2. Shalala Song, 3. Love is bossa nova, and 4. Free loop. Each part has its own mode of composition.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Torres, Gérard

De Psicopatia - Igitur

Description: Recording of Catalina Peralta's De Psicopatia - Igitur. This work was commissioned by the Culture Ministry of Columbia and was created as part of the electroacoustic production for "PSICOPATIA-IGITUR...", a larger work in progress. This piece is divided into 6 mini-sections that are thought of as independent live parts and includes sound materials inspired by different concrete objects: human voice, birds, instrumentals, etc.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Peralta, Catalina, 1963-

Mères et monde

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Mères et monde. In this work, the symbolism of the mother is linked to that of the sea and earth in the sense that they are both receptacles and matrices of life. The composer states that the idea behind this piece is a mother's triggering the cycle of life.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne

Au nom du père

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Au nom du père. This work was created as part of the open work project at the Synthése Bourges festival in 2003. It is meant to incapsulate the sounds that are heard from a newborns perspective. The voices of their father and mother and how these first sounds create the newborns first impressions of the parents.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Apte

Description: Recording of David Behar's and Xavier Gipulo's Apte. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of electric guitar and French spoken word.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Behar, David, 1973- & Gipulo, Xavier

Drames brefs deux (de Philippe Minyana)

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Drames brefs deux (de Philippe Minyana). This composition was created to accompany a theatre piece by the same name and consists of eight short pieces that each represent a different major life event.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne

Le Cheval

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Le Cheval. This work was created for the retirement of the composers teacher, Pierre Boeswillwald. The composition was an exercise given by his instructor to new students and consisted of cutting and editing snippets of spoken text to create an original phrase or concept.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne

Longue est la course du soleil

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Longue est la course du soleil. This work was created as part of the open work at the Bourges Festival, "Synthse", whose theme was the seasons. This piece is based specifically on summer and includes fragments of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Summer.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne

Pama

Description: Recording of Jean-Marc Weber's Pama. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of French spoken word and distorted voices.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 6 minutes
Creator: Weber, Jean-Marc

Artillerie lourde

Description: Recording of Candy Trash's Artillerie lourde. The composer wrote this piece with the idea of parenting in mind and separates the work into two parts that represent "father" and "mother" respectively. This piece showcases both the heavy weight of responsibility that falls on parents as well as the joy and support of family. The work has been segmented into 5 separate tracks.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 6 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Candy, Trash

Qui à côté de moi aujourd'hui

Description: Recording of Jean-Michel Deliers' Qui à côté de moi aujourd'hui. The composer wrote this with the idea of "absence" or "to lack" in mind and was influenced by the writer, Samuel Beckett in which many of his works included those themes. The only sound source in this piece is the human voice.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Deliers, Jean Michel

La mère, le matin etc...

Description: Recording of Philippe Moënne Loccoz's La mère, le matin etc.... This work was created as part of the Institute of Bourges on the theme: "Le Pére, La Mére". It includes sound materials from family interactions, primarily children.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Moënne Loccoz, Philippe

Un peu de surprise et d'amour

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Un peu de surprise et d'amour. This composition is a sonic tribute to the work of painter, Max Ernst. The sound materials used in this work represent different motifs in various paintings by Ernst. The voices used in this piece are 4th graders from Auriol College.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Contr'gris

Description: Recording of Michel Karsky's Contr'gris. This work was created for the Autumn Music Festival in Moscow and includes spoken Japanese and French text. The word "grisaille" is repeated several times and this composition plays on the notion of "grisaille". The title was recommended to the composer by a Russian musicologist who emphasized the importance of an accent when speaking it.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Karsky, Michel, 1936-
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