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Mimoyecques

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concep… more
Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-

Kitsch _ N

Description: Recording of Nicolae Brînduș's Kitsch_N for clarinet, saxophones, Hungarian folk instruments, and tape. It is an instrumental theatre subscribed to the preoccupation of the author with controlling randomness in a musical action where the sound, attitude and stage gestures are structurally corroborated widening the domain of the performance. It is the second piece of a cycle named Vagues where the author develops similar stochastic principles of composition.
Date: 1981
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Brînduș, Nicolae

Match - Monody I & Polyphony IV

Description: Recording of Nicolae Brînduș's Match - Monody I & Polyphony IV. It is a version dedicated to the Ensemble "Ars Nova" from Cluj Ð Romanian and based on collages of traditional folk dances from Romania's northern area of Maramures and ancestral laments from the regions of Banat and Oltenia. The final tape was re-positioned in the frame of the performers' controlled improvisation live which follows the same principles of composition. It became a sort of an ancestral memento to the momentary perfor… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Brînduș, Nicolae

Ciels

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Ciels. The text comes from the revolutionary poem "Egy gondolat bánt engemet..." ("One Thought Torments Me") by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849), and can be roughly translated into English as: "When every enslaved people / Will rise up breaking his chains / Red faces will carry red flags / And on the flags we will write: / Freedom for the whole world!"
Date: 1996
Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Adieu à Terez

Description: Recording of László Király's Adieu à Terez. “The sound material of the composition is a female voice modulated by various electronic means. The composition consists of 3 parts: 1) The enchantment of Terez, 2) The dream at dawn 3) Farewell The first part is based solely on the modulation of the voice. The beginning of the second part consists of an indiscernible speech and vocal music, which becomes more and more discernible. The third part remains on the contrast of voice and vocal music. For… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 12 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Király, László

Ballade

Description: Recording of Ivan Patachich's Ballade. This work strives to adapt popular music electronically; its basis is a popular tchango ballad. The sound material of the piece includes the spoken text in prose and sung of the ballad, as well as the concrete sounds characterizing the ballad (sounds of carts, cries of pain, floods of water, etc.). All the parameters of form, rhythm, dynamics, as well as synthetic sounds are given by the indicated numeral series and by the derivatives. It consists of eight… more
Date: unknown
Duration: 42 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Patachich, Iván

Klagovisor

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Klagovisor. This work is written in memory of the composer's mother. The use of an old dried-out zither is used within the piece. There are also sounds of strings and crying, wailing vocal fragments from Hungarian folk music groups. The piece consists of thirteen short movements that blend into each other. Text by Isabel Thomson, was heavily inspired by Ákos Rózmann.
Date: 1987
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos

Souvenir de K

Description: Recording of Itsvan Szigeti's Souvenir de K. The form of the piece as the composer describes it is: Inner form - determined by the content of the poem. It is built up by dream-like, blending episodes as a quasi-birth; Outer form - freely handled rondo and bridge; Rondo- The returns certain soundings/mostly singing separated vowels/ in a modulated - almost periodical - way; Bridge - The correspondence of the time-spheres of certain episodes; Ordering principle - mathematics, statistics as well a… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds
Creator: Szigeti, István, 1952-

Folkronic

Description: Recording of Yvan Szekely's Folkronic.This work is made of human voices and eclectronic sounds. This work has the aim to summarize all the acoustic genres of Hungarian folklore; to melt old, collective forms into a new, individual one. These folklore forms are represented by the essence of their usage, motives, musical structure, performing styles and manners, and by characteristic snaps. It ranges from the quotation of phonograph recordings through live performances up to transforming them int… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 2 hours 14 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Székely, Iván, 1950-
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