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Beyond the Clouds
Recording of Keiki Okasako's Beyond the Clouds.
Studio per due sorgenti
Recording of Francesco Galante's "Studio per die sorgenti" ("Study for Two Sources"). The musical form is a comtinuum and the music is a passage from a low to high complexity of sound materials, of the shape of textures and the succession of the events in the acceleration of time. It was realized in the electronic music studios at the Experimental Music Center in Rome in 1978.
Fabulas
Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Fabulas. It is a piece that creates a soundscape of fantasy, reminiscent of stories from childhood. Uses electronic and instrumental sound material.
Klangbild
Recording of Klaus Röder's Klangbild. The basis of this piece was a guitar improvisation. The tape with the recorded guitar sounds was cut at suitable points. The cut pieces were sorted and classified. So there were several small musical motifs which were instrumented afterwards by electronic means.
Phases - Events
Recording of Enström's Phases - Events
November settting
Recording of Gottfried Martin's November setting.
Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)
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
Como un suspiro caido del cielo
Recording of Eduardo Kusnir's "Como un suspiro caido del cielo" ("Like a sigh dropped from the sky").
Strephanade
Recording of Loretta Jankowski's Strephanade. The piece makes extensive use of voltage-controlled equipment. It was entirely electronically generated and produced. Strephanade was realized at the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Michigan.
Panta rhei
Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger's Panta Rhei. This piece is connected for one female dancer who is connected to a synthesizer via a cable ("Umbilical cord"). "Panta Rhei" ("everything flows") refers to the Greek myth of the Three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos). The cable represents the string of life which the performer can not escape. This dependency forces her to react to the sound events with reach her through the cable.
Genesis
Recording of Barton MacLean's Genesis.
Soft Song
Recording of Ton Bruynèl's Soft Song.
Of time and nostalgia
Recording of Douglas Lilburn's Of time and nostalgia.
Catchwave 71
Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's Catchwave 71.
Jabara
Recording of Martin Brinkerhoff's Jabara. Sound material consists of percussion sounds that have been manipulated by concrete methods: pitch and duration transposition, inversion, and mixing. The work is dedicated to percussionist Martin Jabara, who provided the basic sounds. The piece was realized at the Center for Music Experiment at California San Diego University.
Le mythe de la machine
Recording of Wilfried Jentzsch's "Le mythe de la machine" for piano and tape. The design is based on various calculations of chance. The tape was made in collaboration between the electroacoustic studio of the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Center for Studies of Mathematics and Musical Automatics (C E M A M u) in Paris.
Poliritmica
Recording of Peter Kolman's Poliritmica. The framework of the work - the beginning and the end - form multi-layered rhythmic structures that complement each other to produce a regular pulsating movement. The whole composition represents a correlation between rhythmically regular, rhythmically irregular and rhythmically not articulated (thus continuously fluid) structures.
Humanofonia
Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Humanofonia
Sch No. 2
Recording of György Kurtág's Sch No. 2. The title applies to a series of works written for the electronic guitar. Second in the series, this piece uses very simple technical means: fuzz, wah-wah, feedback on the bass guitar. Kurtag's intention is to exploit the acoustic possibilities of the bass guitar. Recording made in the electronic studios of Radio Hungarian (1977).
Austera
Recording of Oscar Bazán's Austera.
The pulses of time
Recording of Denis Smalley's The pulses of time. The piece reflects the varied behavior of pulses: the regular pulses of meter, the much slower pulses which pace sections of music, and pulses which form the interior character of sounds - the accelerating pulses of a bouncing sound, and the fast pulses creating the "grain" in sound textures. The different atmospheres in the work are generated by the major sound sources: the electronic bounced family of sounds, metallic harmonies which expand the resonances of dramatic gong-like attacks, noise contours, drums and percussion both real and synthetic, and the clavichord which provides a rich reservoir of sounds - deep clusters, sighing pitches, resonances truck on the soundboard, strings plucked and stroked. The clavichord sounds remain raw and untreated.
Parier sur huit chevaux n°1
Recording of Karel Goeyvaerts's Parier sur huit chevaux n°1.
Diastasis
Recording of Claude Colon's Diastasis. Diastasis means separation. Separation between an instrumental play and a set of sounds obtained with a generator. Dialogue. Osmosis. Separation.
Ekphonesis IV
Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis IV.
Rapid eye movement
Recording of Roger Doyle's Rapid eye movement. The title refers to the type of sleep called "Rapid Eye Movement" or REM, which is dream sleep. During REM sleep, the muscles of the eyes move as though the dreamer were watching something. Structurally, the work is conceived in the same way as Déjà vu occurs in life. There are 30 or 40 instances of mysterious familiarities of the same sounds placed in totally different contexts. Like the human cell, any extract from the composition will reveal the main elements comprising it - the part reflects the whole.
Pashanti (Les 9 Milliards de Noms de Dieu)
Recording of David Evan Jones's "Pashanti (Les 9 Milliards de Noms de Dieu)." "Pashanti" is a Sanskrit word that refers to the level of thought that immediately predicts the recognition of speech as sound. This composition uses a hybrid computer musical system to filter vowel sound sources and vowel-like sounds. The text consists of the vowels i / a / u / e / i in sequence with particular transition velocities form the word "Yaweh" (the name of the Hebrew god). This series of vowels is continuously permuted to form the text of Pashanti through the composition.
Tanz-Trypticon
Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger's Tans-Trypticon.
Générique (Σ)
Recording of Denis Lorrain's Générique (Σ)
Un-X-2
Recording of José Maria Neves's Un-X-2. This piece proposes formal breaks and shows rich expressive possibilities in a non-Eurocentric posture through the use of all natural sounds.
Juego de magos y gonilas
Recording of David de Gandarias's "Juego de magos y gonilas" ("Game of Magicians and Gorillas"). Uses percussion instruments as sources of sound.
Christmas musik
Recording of John Cousins's Christmas musik.
Setting for spirituals
Recording of Joel Chadabe's Setting for spirituals.
Version n° 2
Recording of Máté Victor's Version n° 2. It was realized at the Studio of Radio in Budapest. The piece is constructed in five movements - movements 1, 3, and 5 contain the same material. It was composed at the Electronic Studio of Mayar Radio in Budapest.
Whispers Out of Time
Recording of James Dashow's Whispers Out of Time. The title of this piece refers to the last line in a poem titled "Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery (1975). The composer used a VCS3, three ReVox tape recorders each with vari-speed gadget, and an AKG reverberation unit in an attempt to express with electronic sounds the moods, feelings, and sensations the four words of the title invoked in him.
Renascence
Recording of Jonathan Kramer's Renascence. This piece uses clarinet, tape delay system, and mixer to create a continuous melody with interspersed counter-melodies. The texture eventually becomes so dense that individual lines cannot be distinguished. The title refers to both a poem of the same title by Edna St. Vincent Millay and the rebirth of continuity from fragmentation within the piece.
A Vent
Recording of Jonty Harrison's A Vent for oboe and tape, performed by Robin Canter, oboe. It is more accurately described as a tape piece with oboe since the tape carries the greater part of the musical argument and is never merely a background for an oboe solo. The necessity of breathing permeates the work.
Epizodes
Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Epizodes.
Valse molle
Recording of Alain Savouret's Valse molle
Batucada
Recording of Gabriel Brnčić's Batucada.
Synthana
Recording of Branimir Sakač's Synthana, made in collaboration with Paul Pignon. Sakač describes this piece as an attempt to coerce the machine to "yield his feeling of the moment," which results in a desire for simplicity, for extended durations which bring security.
Création mondiale
Recording of Jacques Diennet's Création mondiale. This piece is a synthetic prelude with a classic form. The composer used wide sound tracks/slides to spread concrete and electronic sound plates.
Ceremony of Shrugs
Recording of David Koblitz's Ceremony of Shrugs. This piece was originally composed as music to a dance choreographed by Amy Ellsworth and performed by members of the University of Michigan Dancers. It is heard here in a slightly altered form. The sounds used in the piece were produced by electrical acoustic instruments, in addition to purely electronic sources. All were subject to modification and rearrangement in the University of Michigan Electronic Music Studio.
The waste land
Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's The waste land, for fixed media. The piece is a journey through time and spaces. The present is mixed with the past, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream with reality. The work was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio and was realized in October 1979. The text comes from T. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land."
Skelelemedania
Recording of Hal Freedman's Skelelemedania. This piece falls into three sections; the first and third combine live and tape sounds, and the second is for tape alone. The piece as a whole represents an expansion of the middle tape section. The more purely electronic layers were composed to complement or contrast with the vocal elements. The first and third sections make use of tape echo and delay systems. The timing of the repetitions allow the delay to be heard not as feedback but as a continuous evolution of texture and harmonic, melodic, and contrapuntal interplay.
Eleorp
Recording of Dragoslav Ortakov's Eleorp.
Nekyia
Recording of D. Gareth Loy's Nekyia. The title refers to the eleventh chapter of Homer's The Odyssey in which Odysseus and his men have just escaped the enchantment of Circle's Island and are about to experience the demonic confrontation of the souls from Hades, in order to consult with tierces for how to return to Ithaca. The music, though not narrative, uses images of enchantment and demonic confrontation to explore the existential position of the hero to evoke the same moods in the audience.
Mugl Entsteigt
Recording of Günther Rabl's Mugl Entsteigt. This piece awakens the ear with new and expressive sounds: dazzling lines, clusters of Argentinian sounds, a kind of organ with soft shapes, an ostinato with colors and tasty traces, all this intertwines with humor and vivacity in real tests of symphonic development where electro-acoustic musicians rarely succeed. The work reveals a temperament, which is rare, here as well as elsewhere.
Piano d'ombres
Recording of Pierre Bernard's Piano d'ombres
Satumaisema
Recording of Marja Vesterinen's Satumaisema ("Fairy-tale Landscape") performed by Marja Vesterinen. The piece begins with an image of empty space with strange unknown planets passing over the observer. A raw chord, formed from the interval of the third and produced with the aid of amplitude modulation, symbolizes the friction against the outer atmosphere as the traveler reaches the vicinity of the fairy-tale planet. From beneath the layer of misty clouds is revealed a beautiful land of sweetness and verdure.
Mappings
Recording of James Dashow's Mappings. This piece is in three large sections, each of which explores a particular kind of texture by developing the composition or structural possibilities implied in the timbral relationships between the cello and the electronic sounds. At the same time, each section contains forward and/or backward references to later/earlier material. In the third section, the cello/tape integration is brought to its maximum by turning the solo instrument into what might be called a “prepared cello,” using paper clips to resemble an electronic ring modulation.
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