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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
Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka
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Inspiravit aeolus

Description: Recording of Pierre Barbaud's Inspiravit Aeolus. During the months of July - August 1979, Barbaud did his holiday homework on the island of Panarea, which is part of the eight Aeolian Islands in southern Italy. The title refers to the character Aeolus from Homer's Odyssey who is the Keeper of the Winds. In the hours of siesta, he blows with great gentleness on the bougainvillea; this is the inspiration for all of the algorithms in the piece. After returning to Paris, Barbaud asked Frank Brown a… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Barbaud, Pierre
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A pocketful of posies

Description: Recording of Jonathan Berger's "A pocketful of posies." The title refers to the Black Death of the 14th century, a time when people dealt with impending doom in much the same way as people do today. It was premiered at Stanford University in March 1984.
Date: 1984
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Berger, Jonathan, 1954-
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Strephanade

Description: 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.
Date: 1974
Duration: 4 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Jankowski, Loretta, 1950-
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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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Panta rhei

Description: 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.
Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen, 1956-
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Overfall

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Overfall. Transformed piano sounds and sound structures realized by means of voltage control make up the sound material of the piece.
Date: 1983
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio
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Jabara

Description: 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.
Date: 1979
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: Brinkerhoff, Martin (Composer)
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Suiana Wanka

Description: Recording of Fernando Condon-Garcia's Suiana Wanka for tape. This work collects and develops independently the materials of a music scene for Peter Shafer work "The Royal Hunt of the Sun". It is based exclusively on sound recordings of various Latin American instruments such as the Indian flute, pincuyos, sicus, tarkas, mohecenos, various kinds of percussion, etc., to which are added, during some passages, instruments from European culture (organ, flute, bass). The original sound was made in a … more
Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Condon, Fernando, 1955-
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Le mythe de la machine

Description: 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.
Date: 1975/1978
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Jentzsch, Wilfried
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Poliritmica

Description: 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.
Date: 1974
Duration: 8 minutes 01 second
Creator: Kolman, Peter
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Sch No. 2

Description: 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).
Date: 1977
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Kurtág, György
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The pulses of time

Description: 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… more
Date: 1979/1980
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Smalley, Denis, 1946-
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