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Spermanence

Description: This work uses, with rudimentary means, the fixed qualities of a piano sound sampled by the lack of an AKAI factory. Despite a rather hollow sound that I sought in this sonata to give a field of expression quite extended to the possibilities of putting in play offered by the computer. The piece is in three movements, essentially based on the deployment of an initial agreement. At any moment, I voluntarily appealed to a rhetorical break of form, an appeal to our routed memory, to become, and ye… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 22 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Agam, Orram, 1963-

Eso silencios

Description: Recording of Coriún Aharonián's "Esos silencios" ("Those silences"). "Esos silencios" are the silences of our daily vital experience of the seventies in almost all Latin America. "We do not desire them, but they surround us always, until we finally succeed in breaking them," Aharonián wrote. It exclusively uses materials of microphonic origin. Some of the sounds have been made with instruments constructed in Guatemala by Joaqu’n Orellana. The decision to bring to life the piece at that histor… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Aharonián, Coriún, 1940-2017

Fantasy

Description: Recording of James Aikman's Fantasy. It is a work for violin and tape. This piece is in five short sections ranging from lyric to bold sounds and there are quarter-tone inflections in the tape part. The violin is sampled and digitally edited which is used tp provide the bulk of the tape dialogue. There is also use of synchronous music with the soloist and the tape. The last instrument and technique is composing a unified free interplay where synchronization is not indented.
Date: 1989
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Aikman, James

Tragoida/Komoidia

Description: Tragoidia 1) A dramatic or literary work depicting a protagonist engaged in a morally significal struggle ending in ruin or profound disappointment. 2) 2) Any dramatic, disastrous event. Komoidia : We now and now enter the region of a big guy who eats pies and does not lie in the sun but always tells the truth without shades. With his mephitic breath he sings for night watchmen who intrepidly become character traits as they watch him introduce the players. There are buzzards, there are child… more
Date: 1987
Duration: 9 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Aikman, James

Boustrophedon ä-e-i III "souple révolution d l'eau"

Description: - Third movement of the suite "Boustrophedon ä'e'i". Order from the city of Marseille for the Bologna Biennial 88. Intrauterine journey of the modern poet whose heavy and unique obsession is to break the jar of the interior in order to discover the Woman. Sounds then the Sacred Noise, the first awakening of the Tectonic Blacksmith: "What is heavy, is low! What is light is high!", First awakening of the Water-the-unfathomable: "Who can imagine the sea before the first rain? What sound was thund… more
Date: 1988
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Alagna, Jan Pascal

What if...

Description: Recording of Kristi Allik's "What if...". The title refers to the composer's most common thought during the creation of the composition; the work was the result of constant questioning and exploration, mainly in the area of timbral synthesis and sound juxtaposition.
Date: 1983
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Allik, Kristi

Acuerdor por Differencia

Description: Picture yourself travelling at ease on the train. As you look through the window, you notice the power cables, which run parallel to the tracks. As your eyes follow them, they seem to turn giving the impression of a volume that gently and continuously rotates as it changes shape. This flow seems to accelerate before being momentaneously interrupted by the posts that hold them at more or less regular distances; this is immediately followed by the previous soft change as you recapture the perspe… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier, 1956-

Asi el Acero

Description: In Asi el Acero, I tried to marry two very different sound worlds: the steel drum, generally associated with Caribbean music, and the world of electroacoustic music, usually associated with technology, computers and synthesizers. In order to find a coherent ensemble for both, I have done important research in the classical repertoire of steel drum, music by nature very "noisy", very rhythmic and very repetitive. From there came to me the idea of ​​using small rhythmic cells to adapt the fixed i… more
Date: 1988
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier, 1956-

Papalotl

Description: Papalotl (from the Nahuatl word butterfly), started off as a revision of my previous work for piano and tape Luz Caterpillard. As the work evolved, I realised the piece was taking a completely different path from the one originally intended, and the result was an entirely new piece. My Papalotl is a toccata like, a tour de force for both pianist and its counterpart on tape. As in some of my previous works, the concerns are primarilly rhytmic and demand an extreme coordination between the two pa… more
Date: 1987
Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier, 1956-

The Question Mark's Black Ink

Description: The Question Mark's Black Ink was inspired, in part, by a poem by S.L. Hough (opposite), from which the title comes. Though not programmatic, the work was influenced by the atmosphere of the poem as well as its implicit psychological dichotomy, of which the contrast of tape and live performers may be taken as representative. There also exists a unity between the tape and the acoustic sounds, however, because the sounds on the tape were all taken from the instruments playing: piano (bowed, pluck… more
Date: 1986
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Alves, Bill

Il satellite sereno

Description: Recording of Claudio Ambrosini's Il satellite sereno. This piece revisions how early electronic music utilized certain sounds. The beginning white noise is used as a time marker. Then, it closes with an unexpected minimalistic section. The marimba transforms its timbre to eventually become the white noise heard at the beginning.
Date: 1989
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Ambrosini, Claudio

Pas de Voix

Description: When asked to compose a piece for an all-Samuel Beckett concert in Los Angeles (including works by Cage, Dodge and Gnazzo), I determined not to act a text of the renowned existentialist writer but rather to sample his voice and manipulate the recording to formulate the substance of the music. Upon learning that Mr. Beckett does not permit his voice to be taped under any circumstances, I proceeded to record the lobby of his apartment building in Paris, the open-air Metro stop across the street, … more
Date: 1987
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Amirkhanian, Charles

Walking tune (a room-music for Percy Grainger)

Description: Recording of Charles Amirkhanian's Walking Tune (a room-music for Percy Grainger). Inspired by Grainger's Walking Tune for piano solo, Amirkhanian uses a Synclavier digital synthesizer to combine sounds from multiple locations, along with the sounds of a violin and voice. The violin and voice part is performed by Elizabeth Baker of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Date: 1986/1987
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Amirkhanian, Charles

Hommage à Milanés

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton's Hommage à Milanés. This short work of 5:OO is based on a phrase from a song "si el poeta eres tu ..." composed and sung by the great Cuban artist Pablo Milanés. This sentence appears in the middle of the work. The text is used with different reciters and with the original musical arrangements that convey in a variety of time and places that this song evokes to the composer. This work also suggests various political interpretations, none of which are desired by the co… more
Date: 1987
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon

Sashasonjon

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton's Sashasonjon for synthesizer. In memorium Alexander Walden (26 December 1896-4 February 1981).
Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon H., 1939-

Ce que Signifie la Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyens de 1789 pour les Hommes et les Citoyens des "Les Marquises"

Description: 17 articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen extracted from the French Constitution of 1789 are read by a 100-year-old woman who was born in France and grew up on the island of Nuku Hiva in the "Marquesas Islands" . The sound materials of the piece were recorded there in December 1988. The work is dedicated to the village of Anaho.
Date: 1989
Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon H., 1939-2022

Happening USA 68

Description: Twenty years ago, there were various forces in American culture that had political and artistic significance. The unconscious unease of the 1950s continued in force at the same time as the struggle for American civil rights, but attracted the attention of the media. The artistic response of the avant-garde was unaware of all these events and in its own search for freedom created events called “Happening.” This one-night event recalls all cultural conflicting tendencies from the composer's point… more
Date: 1988?
Duration: 37 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon H., 1939-2022

Chronaxie

Description: This work focuses mainly on the study of the various resonance times of percussion instruments, in a continuum idea from the longest resonances to the briefest ones. The rhythm follows a similar curve, starting from non-rhythm to an increasingly fast pace. Everything is built on a single rhythmic cell. The piece is for multiple percussion and tape.
Date: 1987
Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Arcuri, Serge, 1954-

Murmure

Description: Murmure is an electroacoustic piece for magnetic tape alone. It was created at the request of David Olds as part of the radio show "Transfigured Night". There are many myths that attribute the creation of the universe to a breath or a cry. From primitive African societies to Vedic texts in India, in China or among the Inuit peoples, we find universally a sound at the origin of the different cosmogonies. The astrophysical theories of the twentieth century do not designate the first seconds of t… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Arcuri, Serge, 1954-

L'approche de la lumière

Description: Recording of Daniel Arfib's L'approche de la lumière ("The Approach of the Light"). The piece functions as much as a sound experiment on the resonance of the vibrations as of sound as a concert piece. For the entire listening experience, pay particular attention to the quality of the silence before and after the performance.
Date: 1980
Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Arfib, Daniel
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