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...del vuoto oro freddo e tagliente

Description: Recording of Riccardo Dapelo's ...del vuoto oro freddo e tagliente. For six wind instruments, MIDI system, tape, and live electronics.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Dapelo, Riccardo

Dessins dans le ciel

Description: Recording of Dante Feijoo's Dessins dans le ciel. This work uses electronically built sounds, which contain very harsh analogue sounds. These harsher sounds captivate the listener and offers a changes from the stillness of the bas of the sound structure.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Feijoo, Dante

Deux pièces musicales d'une ethnie imaginaire

Description: Recording of Jorge Luis Sad's Deux pièces musicales d'une ethnie imaginaire. This work is for acoustic wind instruments and electronics. The work uses saxophone, flute, and other various instruments to create a musical diverse environment.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Sad, Jorge Luis

Diamant

Description: Recording of Frank Schweizer's Diamant. At the beginning of the work, recordings of sounds from different recorders, concentrating precisely on the multiple sounds that Johannes Fischer presented in different variations on the recorder machine. When the flute is not the primary focus the interpreter begins to send air through a pipe into the recorder machine. With the valve system, the air is distributed in twelve different valves. The individual opening and closing of each valve is possible th… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 24 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Schweizer, Frank

Drift

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Drift. The tape part uses real-time granular synthesis to processed viola samples. Bowed and plucked sounds has been treated in this way to produce a large-scale mosaic of sounds to background the solo viola part, which explores playing techniques involving small changes in pitch. Such as, fingers, in closer than normal position, produce rhythmic patterns on very small intervals and create a very fluid melody in the upper reaches of the instrument.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John

Drones 5

Description: Recording of Warren Burt Dronesz. This piece is from a large collection of drone pieces. The purpose is to stay in one harmonic world for a very long time. In order to establish a complex harmonic structure, changing series of chords would fade in and out. In the first section, the harmonies are bases around subharmonic relationships. In the second section, small intervals result in just intonation intervals. There is also "noisebands" which are cluster chord harmonies.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Burt, Warren, 1949-

Dwamb

Description: Recording of Augusto Valente's Dwamb.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 25 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Valente, Augusto, 1959-

Elpia II a

Description: Recording of Rainer Bürck's Elpia II a. All of the sounds uses in this work have been created with the piano and have been electronically processed in different ways. There are different systems of tuning, different attack and filter settings, time stretching, and etc. The score used for this recording is in graphic notation, defining certain actions and "characters" to be carried out by the pianist's improvisation. Nevertheless, the overall form of the piece is fixed. There are four "regions" … more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Bürck, Rainer

L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique)

Description: Recording of Philippe Blachard's L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique). Rabelais adored nothing so much as liberty and it therefore takes this anniversary to be remembered a little. The sound sources include Rabelaisian quotations and the five parts of a traditional mass, the selected texts being superimposed on a string of adulterated sounds. The sounds consists of many variety, such as, everyday sound object, voice, and synthetic sounds; which provid… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 21 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-

Eolico 2

Description: Recording of Maria Francesca Ancarola Saavedra's Eolico 2. This work is for electronically processed voice and electronics.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Ancarola Saavedra, Maria Francesca

El espejo de los viejos

Description: Recording of José Halac's El espejo de los viejos. For violin, computer, and tape. Based on the same tape material the composer used previously with UITOTOS, sincretismo #2 but now with a score for violin. The term syncretism refers to, as Horacio Vaggione has described it in his notes for the composer's piece BALL, sincretismo #4, the merging of things together with the morphology of a continuity which is articulated in different levels or may not be articulated from the compositional process … more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Halac, José

Feuillage de silence

Description: Recording of Elsa Justel's Feuillage de silence. The composer dedicates this work to his father who helped inspire the concept behind the piece. The composer compares the job of a musician to that of a gardener when honing their craft, by experimenting and manipulating nature in a non-destructive way in search of something beautiful.
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Date: 1994/1995
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Justel, Elsa

Fiestudy

Description: Recording of Simon Hall's Fiestudy. Fiestudy was composed for two reasons - one practical, one musical. In 1992, the composer bought a 12-year-old Ford Fiesta. The car itself was cheap, but over the course of the next 18 months, it cost the composer thousands of pounds in repairs and towing bills. Simon Hall then became determined to reap some reward for the large, apparently worthless financial investment, and the opportunity of utilizing some of the strange noises this condemned vehicle made … more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Hall, Simon, 1970-

First Tangent to the Given Curve

Description: Recording of James Dashow's First Tangent to the Given Curve. This work is for piano and electronic sounds. The title of the work comes from an essay by Michel Serres, which captures rather nicely the sense of the music, the sense of the composition.The musical relationship between the computer and piano is rather precise. The pitches provide the basis for the sounds, which were created by the MUSIC30 software by the composer.
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Date: 1994/1995
Duration: 19 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-

Flying apple

Description: Recording of Kui Dong's Flying apple. This work concerns an unfinished childhood dream where a walk is taken through a colorful and unspoiled world. By listening for what best fits the overall concept for the piece, the use of timbre reminds an oriental scent. This algorithmic composition was composed on DMIX, Daniel Oppenheim's software package for Macintosh, and was programmed with extreme nesting patterns, forming a simple idea which then grows into a complex pattern.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Dong, Kui, 1967-

Forêt profonde

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Forêt profonde. This work is an acousmatic melodrama, based on Bruno Bettelheim's essay The Uses of Enchantment, of which this is the third version. Forêt profonde comprises 13 sections, of which the 6 Rooms (sections 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12) constitute transit periods/areas, secret passages of sort, between the seven thematic sections (sections 2, 4,5, 7, 9, 11 and 13). These Rooms contain little or no text. Each of the 13 sections borrows a brief element, a color,… more
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Date: 1994/1996
Duration: 58 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Free shadows

Description: Recording of William Kleinsasser's Free Shadows. This work projects the idea of virtuosic performance integrated technological rendition and augmentation. The computer music is made up of sounds from the piano with both conventional and extended technique. The synchronization of live performance with computer music utilizes a system that allows for the computer to track the performance of the Disklavier. A Max patch has been designed which tracks the Disklavier performer's progress through the … more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Kleinsasser, William, 1961-

El Fuego

Description: Recording of Jean-Marc Weber's El Fuego. This work is for electronics. This work uses aeolian mouth sound and electronically-made sounds to create an evolving work. It uses time repetitive motifs which begin to fade in and out, leading to the work abrupt ending.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 8 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Jean-Marc, Weber

Gamma Orionis

Description: Recording of O Powers' Gamma Orionis. This piece is based on the metaphor of a journey through different regions of sound. There are seven regions, starting in Cityscape (with its Domes, Power Plant, and Spires), and moving outward through Wasteland, Dark Forest, Mesa, Mountain, Desert, and finally arriving at Ocean. This approach provided both a series of sonic contrasts and an overall direction to the work. The sounds were created with a Yamaha TG77, controlled by Digital Performer running on… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 19 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Powers, O

Genesis

Description: Recording of Vladimir Komarov's Genesis. This work is for electronics and synthesized sounds.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 21 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Komarov, Vladimir, 1940-

The ghost of Eriboll

Description: Recording of Peter Manning's The ghost of Eriboll. This programmatic work is a commentary on our natural environment and the urgent need to preserve the increasingly fragile ecology of so many hitherto unspoilt regions for the benefit of future generations. Loch Eriboll is to be found on the north coast of Scotland, creating an inlet which cuts deep into the countryside of Sutherland, an area of outstanding natural beauty, characterised by rich fishing grounds, rising mountains and tracts of wi… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 23 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Manning, Peter, 1948-

Le Ginkgo

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Le Ginkgo. This electroacoustic composition is a narrated work with a significant amount of low voice audio in French. It is described and expanded upon in the following words (translated from original French text): A man walks to meet himself...: From the secure and unequivocal void of eternity without future to the proliferation of passionate, ephemeral life, with an uncertain future, except that its swirling column will m 'carries irresistibly towards a lov… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette
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