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Walking Bells

Description: Recording of David Porter's Walking Bells for tape. The piece is a tour through an environmental/concrete landscape. It is another variation on the "cumulative form." This is the second in a series of four tape pieces. As with all these pieces, this piece comments on political and compositional methods and devices. In this instance, the piece makes reference to another composer whose style is borrowed. Other than that, it is pure experience. This piece should be listened to with speakers placed… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Porter, David, 1953-
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Refraction

Description: Recording of Kim Dyett's Refraction for tape. The piece is composed from words that are twisted and transformed moving from meaning to sound images.. The work was inspired from poems by E. E. Cummings.
Date: 1980
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Dyett, Kim, 1956-
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Switch

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's Switch performed by Olwen Fouere, actress with the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument.
Date: 1982/1983
Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger
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He met her in the park

Description: Recording of Charles Dodge's "He met her in the park," poetry by Richard Kostelanetz. The poem consists of a boy-meets-girl story that is told eight times, and the retellings abridged versions of the previous ones, sometimes reversing the gender roles until the final retelling is just "He met her in the park." In the composition, the lines are read by a male and female actor alternating lines and each telling of the story is articulated in a different way. The voices are synthesized with melodi… more
Date: 1983
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Dodge, Charles, 1942-
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Deca-Danse

Description: Recording of Alain Thibault's Deca-Danse. Using a recording of a speech by President Ronald Reagan, Thibault makes a statement about the destruction that humans cause for one another. Th piece is split into ten sections: 1. Technopolis; 2. You are Loved; 3. Special Emission; 4. President's Message; 5. Reagan's Happiness; 6. Reagan's Delirium; 7. The Most Beautiful Gift of God; 8. Generation x; 9. Mx; 10. Future x. The piece was created at the Studios Bruit Blanc and McGill University.
Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Thibault, Alain, 1956-
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Nazca Liftoff et Time Arroyo

Description: Recording of David Rosenboom's "Nazca liftoff et Time Arroyo." David Rosenboom: Nazca Liftoff and Time Arroyo. Nazca Liftoff and Time Arroyo are two sections of a series of seven pieces composed for the album, "Voyage Futur." These are two examples of what the author calls "high performance." These pieces are completely based on algorithms. Direct actions to the computer have the effect of directing the algorithm process to crucial branches and selecting sets of musical materials and / or relat… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 8 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Rosenboom, David
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Broken Crystals

Description: Recording of Larry Wendt's Broken Crystals, from "World-Class Technology." It is an extended narration piece that takes the form of a personal recollection. It is narrated by a Silicon Valley worker who works for an integrated circuit foundary that grows garnet crystals for the manufacturing of bubble memory. The factory is overcome with insects that destroy the crystals, and, in response, Silicon Valley is bombed with Cane Toads in order to get rid of the bugs. As a performance piece, the narr… more
Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Wendt, Larry
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Anna's Magic Garden

Description: Recording of Trevor Wishart's Anna's Magic Garden. It is an impressionist work that attempts to recreate the agitation of the world from the view of a three-year-old child. The voice is that of his daughter, Anne Ruth. The piece contains sounds both concrete and synthesized. Recorded over five weeks in the studios of San José State University and University of Texas, Austin.
Date: 1982
Duration: 10 minutes 01 second
Creator: Wishart, Trevor
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Son recif

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's "Son recif" for voice and tape. This piece comes from a work on the myth of the sirens and includes texts written on this theme in their original languages. As the singer/speaker repeats the story, it is crossed by the sounds of these languages, by songs that cannot continue, as well as successive states of emotion. The electroacoustic tape plays a constant dramatic role: sometimes worrisome, sometimes reassuring, sometimes enveloping presences, it continually i… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline
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Mu Song

Description: Recording of Richard Karpen's Mu Song. Karpen used the programs "Music II" sound synthesis language and "Score II" not list preprocessor in the composition of this piece. It was realized at the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Date: 1983
Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Karpen, Richard, 1957-
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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
Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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A Walk through the City

Description: Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's A Walk through the City performed by Norbert Ruebsaat, speaker. The piece is for two electroacoustic sound tracks. The poetry was written by Norbert Ruebsaat. the piece is an urban environmental composition based on Ruebsaat's poem. It takes the listener into a specific urban location - Vancouver B.C.'s Skid Row area - with its sounds and languages. Traffic, carhorns, breaks, sirens, aircraft, construction, pinball machines, the throb of trains, human voices,… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 16 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-
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Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein

Description: Recording of Bruce Pennycook's Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein performed by Laurel Miller. The piece is for soprano and computer-generated tape. it was commissioned through the Canada Council for the Arts by Nera Pilgrim (soprano) and Dexter Morrill of Colgate University. It is a setting of four of the ten stanzas of the poem by Margaret Atwood, Canada's leading female author. This work has recieved numerous performances by Ms. Pilgrim and other in Canada and the U.S. This recording is a live per… more
Date: 1982
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Pennycook, Bruce, 1949-
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Zoo logical

Description: Recording of Andrew Bentley's Zoo-logical for tape. The piece functions as a sort of trilogy (if it is called a dialogue between three people) between a poem, sounds of animals that are electronic in origin. The work is related to the themes of the Helsinki Agreements which mainly are contained in the words "participant nations" and "United Nations." The poem that is spoken is Finnish in origin.
Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 01 second
Creator: Bentley, Andrew
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Targeting

Description: Recording of Henry Kucharzyk's Targeting for tape. The piece is based on the composers personal observations of the presidential campaign.
Date: 1981
Duration: 13 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Kucharzyk, Henry
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Nagasaki

Description: Recording of Alden Jenks's Nagasaki made in the electronic music studio of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Both electronic and non-electronic sounds were used (of the latter the human voice and music of the Japanese court, "gagaku", figure prominently). The human voice appears to be electronically generated, or electronic sounds appear to be gagaku instruments, singing voices, or a percussion ensemble. The words used are those of Fujio Tsujimoto at the age of five, of Nagasaki; on the … more
Date: 1982-03/1983-03
Duration: 23 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Jenks, Alden, 1940-
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