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Shiffing spirits

Description: Recording of Ragnar Grippe's Shiffing spirits. The work has been conducted through recordings of immigrants in Sweden, but it's important to notice that the words do not represent any context with any specific meaning, since words have been taken out of their context and may only appear alone in many places. The hardware used is PowerPC 8100/80, 5.7 Gb of hard disk storage, Audiomedia II, Roland synthesizers, Alesis D4, Korg M3R, Proteus 2, Synclavier with sampling, Midi channels, etc. As well … more
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Date: unknown
Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Grippe, Ragnar, 1951-

Catchwave 71

Description: Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's Catchwave 71.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 17 minutes
Creator: Kosugi, Takehisa

Aguiro

Description: Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Beyst, Stefan

Cantata dialetica

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Cantata dialetica.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín

Musik Dari Jalan

Description: Recording of Jack Body's Musik Dari Jalan. This piece depicts the musical sounds and ever-varied texture of resonances of Indonesian streets. There are street sellers advertising their products and a street musician who accompanies himself with anklung (bamboo resonators which are shaken) and a small gong.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Body, Jack, 1944-2015

Samarkandko

Description: Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Samarkandko. This piece is a linear construction on five highly contrasted sources. The affective associations of the materials may suggest a dramatic scenario which, though ambiguous, contradictory, subjective, guided the order on event presentations and their manner of juxtaposition. One evolved theory of the work had precisely to do with the use of extreme, and perhaps at first seemingly unrelated, contrast that such materials can, with care and sensitivity, wo… more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 16 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Peter Tod
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11 september

Description: Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis m… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl

Diamant

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant. This piece was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem.
Date: 1977
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John

Abominable A

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps,… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)

Description: Recording of Pekka Sirén's "Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)" performed by Leena Schönberg, speaker. The poem "The Founding of Kazan" is a Mordovinian poem from the collection "Heimokannel," original translation of text from Mordavinian to Finnish by Otto Maninen. Realized in Finnish Radio's Experimental Studio and at Stockholm's EMS Studio from 1978-1980
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka

Moulin diabolique

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Moulin Diabolique" ("Devilish Mill"). The work consists of six sequence that have their own dramatic, musical, and architectural meaning independent of the piece as a whole. The piece is based on military orders in different languages, as well as the sounds emitted by human groups (soldiers), which constitute the answer itself or accompany the answer that is required. The composer processes the sounds of the orders to deepen the grotesque and lugubrious character… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz

Rupestre en el futuro

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's "Rupestre en el futuro" for tape. Extra-musically, the piece is a "testimony of place" in a surrealist picture of a social situation, namely, the development of humans. The beginning of the piece uses phonemes in indigenous languages (Quiché, Tzutujil) and special instruments made by the composer to simulate the sounds of "a supposed primitive man."
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Date: 1979
Duration: 22 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-

The genesis of Kazan

Description: Recording of Pekka Sirén's "The genesis of Kazan" for voice and tape. The composition is based on the Finnish text of an old poem of the Mordovian people. It is a mythological folk tale from that culture. After encountering the tapestry collection of A. O. Heikel which portrayed the Cheremis and Mordove peoples, Sirén was inspired to think of a new musical notation and to set one of these tapestries to music. He chose the poem "The Founding of Kazan" from the "Heimokanne" collection published i… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 24 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka

Impossible a la x

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana Mejia's "Impossible a la x" ("Impossible to the X"). The piece raises the sonorous vision of a spiritual and violent situation, in which the primitive flows and their purity as a mimetic being and the "being children: are involved in clearly antithetical situations.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-

Balthasar's Traum

Description: Recording of Frank Corcoran's "Balthasar's Traum" performed at the Electronic Studio of the Berlin Technical University in close cooperation with Folkmar Hein. The work is based on an idea of a short story by Jorge Luis Borge and the Gospel of St. Mark about Balthasar Espinosa, a man who becomes involved with the Gutres people of Pampa and eventually dies by being hanged on a cross by the same people with whom he was so fascinated. It takes place in the great plains of the Pampa where Baltasar… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Corcoran, Frank

P = Pinocchio ?

Description: Recording of Jukka Tiensuu's P = Pinocchio ? for six interpreters, computer-generated tapes and computer system for real-time compositional processes.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 26 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Tiensuu, Jukka

Les insectes

Description: Recording of Peter Martincek's Les insectes. Incorporates the sounds of insects into a electronic piece of music.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Martinček, Peter, 1962-

Pax

Description: Recording of Gottfried Martin's Pax for tape. Includes electronic and natural sounds, including voice, news recordings, and recordings of war sounds.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Martin, Gottfried

Sensors IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Sensors IV performed in 1984 by the McGill Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Reynolds. The tape was realized at the Composer's studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS in Montreal, QC, Canada. The piece explores different techniques of vocal wiring, especially the relationship of semantics, languages, and memory. The word "Memory" constitutes the entire text for the piece - using letter sound, recombinations of the word, and adding syllables from other… more
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Logos

Description: Recording of Andrew Lewis's Logos. "Acousmatic" music for fixed medium (stereo).
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Date: 1984
Duration: 30 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Andrew, 1963-
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