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Act of Opening

Description: "Act of Openings" is a stereo composition made with Moog analog synthesis modules. Composed in 1968, its duration is 17'27. The score of the composition is a dense and modulated sound characterized by carefully controlled phase relationships. All the rhythmic and harmonic elements of the piece derive energy from a long, brilliant sound. Each part of the room is another glimpse of this sound, as a set of flowers form a bouquet. "Act of Openings" received the 2nd Prize at the 1969 Dartmouth Inter… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Weiss, Jonathan, 1949-

Batucadas

Description: Recording of Gabriel 's Batucadas. This is a piece entirely composed with electronic sounds. It is an elaboration based on pulsations that occur at different speeds leaning towards density accumulation. Static, shrill and strongly aggressive material that overflows the interrupted background of pulsations. The work was composed in 1973, during the last year of existence of the Laboratory of the Latin-American Center of High Music Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-

Concentric. A question with two answers.

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's "Concentric. A question with two answers." for instrumental ensemble and tape. The piece is a reaction to Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question," which is, in comparison, schizoid in nature, marked by breach, discord, disparity and incommunicability. There are three layered music layers in "Concentric" which join together to create a kind of communion that is timeless through the use of resonant harmonic issued by a fundamental sound C, placed in the deepest regist… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

Concerto for tape

Description: Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Concerto for tape.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław

Energies

Description: "This piece made in 1969 with extremely modest means was integrated in 1972 into a triptych, Assemblages, which accompanied an exhibition of "Volumes éclatés" by the sculptor Michel Anasse. It can be considered the third of my "presentable" studies. “Energies” was part of the material submitted in 1988 for the first "Magisterium" of the Bourges Competition, which was obtained. "
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Date: 1969
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Gurges

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ružička's Gurges. The composer calls this piece a "space matrix composition." It was created on the strength of promulgation of international trial electronic and concrete composition "Musica nova." It was composed in Pilsener Electronic Laboratory in November 1969 .
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Date: 1969
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Ružička, Rudolf (composer)

Hydrophonie I

Description: Recording of Werner Kaegi's Hydeophonie I for 4-track tape. It was composed and realized in 1969 in the studios of the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (Holland). The piece is based on the possibilities offered by a generator with a variable function which, at the time, preceded the digital computer. Kaegi's work is based on programmed and descriptive structures. All the musical material was generated in a purely synthetic way, all resembling the "reality" having come only from the musical str… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque.
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Date: 1969
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Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque. This piece was created for live instruments and stereo tape. It's imagining a situation: in the center of the kiosk, someone is playing the score of their existence. Like any concert in a square, it is disturbed, distorted by external manifestations, foreign to the score. But here, in this particular situation, it is musical actions, taken over by the instrumentalists of Opus 9, which will disturb, prevent or perhaps facilitate the performance of this scor… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

[Mid-century home with a lawn and a car]

Description: Photograph of a white mid-century home with a manicured green lawn. Trees and shrubs dot the lawn. In the driveway of the home, there is a station wagon. The back of the station wagon has the following text printed on the back: "The Texas Boys Choir of Fort Worth, Courtesy of Bill McKay Chevrolet Co."
Date: 1969

Penetraciones

Description: Recording of Eduardo Bértola's Penetraciones for tape.
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Date: 1969/1973
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Bértola, Eduardo, 1939-1996
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