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Pot Pourri

Description: Recording of Alain Thibault and Marcelle Deschenes's "Pot Pourri," a reduced version of the multimedia work OPERAaaAAH.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 25 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Thibault, Alain, 1956- & Deschênes, Marcelle, 1939-
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Metal harmonics

Description: Recording of Margaret Sambell's Metal Harmonics. The short piece uses sounds developed by concrete and electronic means of a metallic resonance, much of it utilizing the rich overtone content of the sound source. The work was completed in April 1983 at the University of Birmingham.
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Date: April 1983
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Sambell, Margaret
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Slow Dance on a Burial Ground

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's "Slow Dance on a Burial Ground." Inspired by multi-traking and over-dubbling in pop music. Montague plays all various individual parts on folk flutes and log drums, playing at various speeds and other manipulations in an electronic studio to create at virtuosic product, even with modest skills on the instruments. The piece is an exploration in "Romantic minimalism," with its monthematic unfolding of a melody in the dorian mode and static harmony, but also with 18… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 24 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen
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The Museum's Voices

Description: Recording of István Márta's The Museum's Voices, for tape.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 21 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Márta, István
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Scythia

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's Scythia for electronic tape. Scythia was a region of Central Eurasia in classical antiquity encompassing parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River and Central Asia, with the eastern edges of the region vaguely defined by the Greeks. It was thought of as the great land of education. It was also the place where Prometheus gave fire to man and where he was confined to be tortured by the gods for this. Every day an eagle came and tore out his liver and every … more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Montague/Mead Piano Plus
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Atmen noch

Description: Recording of Teresa Rampazzi's Atmen noch. After many months of researching the relationships between harmonic or better harmonic spectra, this piece was the result of that research. This research was done jointly with Rampazzi's student Maria Luisa Bon. The form of the work is sets of stamps and association between them and a Grecian-inspired Cantus Firmus. The groups are figurations of galaxies out of time.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
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Le grand silence d'un seul oiseau

Description: Recording of Will Eisma's "Le grand silence d'un seul oiseau" ("The great silence of a single bird") for tape. During World War II, a network of 40,000 km of trenches crossed South Flanders and the North of France. Still today, there remains part of these trenches as a long underground tunnel somewhere around Metz and Verdun. The composition represents an imaginary underground journey from Calais to the Swiss border, through the infernal moles, in the gloomy and frightening obscurity of this ab… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Eisma, Will, 1929-
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Just Behind the Horizon

Description: Recording of Józef Rychlik's Just Behind the Horizon for tape. This music, composed "without filtering", uses a range of timbres made by different programming of the values of heights, time, intensity, and specific acoustic music reactions for some kinds of impulses. Each motif, even in the second polyphonic part, are made of several layers. Each layer is an "automatic game sequence," which allows for the process of semi-automatic composition. Along with this idea, the ability of this piece to … more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Rychlik, Józef, 1946-
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kristallisation I

Description: Recording of Klaus Röder's kristallisation I. The material of this piece are tape recordings of triads played with the guitar. 26 tape loops contented 4 triads each on 4 different channels. The pitches were chosen such as to build a cluster with the extent of one octave by simultaneous reproduction of all 4 channels of one loop. The loops differed in pitch and were arranged in chromatic order so that the 'lowest' loop extended from E1 to Dis1 and the 'highest' one from E1 to Dis2. Then from the… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 7 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Röder, Klaus, 1948-
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Akymyle

Description: Recording of Yvon Magnette's Akymyle.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Magnette, Yvon
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C.A.S.

Description: Recording of Boyko Stoyanov's C.A.S. Stoyanov was inspired by the interpretation of Chopin's Op. 30, no. 1 by the Japanese pianist Rikako Akatsu, performed at the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In this work, the composer wanted to create a unique form, the basis of which provided by the electroacoustic music.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Stoyanov, Boyko
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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.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Thibault, Alain, 1956-
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Music for two flutes and tape

Description: Recording of Joe Davidow's "Music for two flutes and tape." All of the sound material for the tape was originally played on the flute. The studio processing has has the aim of enhancing the inner harmonics and enriching the more obscure instrument sounds, bringing them to the forefront in inter-structural relation to the two live flutes. Breath, which is the original source of all the sound in the work, is itself an intricate part of the sound color relationship, together forming a structure of… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Davidow, Joe
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L'agrippe des droits

Description: Recording of Henri Chopin's L'agrippe des droits. One male voice reads the poem which is then electronically processed. Written for Christian Clozier. Henri Chopin's "Audiopoems" was originally realsed on cassette by Edition Hundertmark as 89. Karton in 2001. Only 500 copies were released.
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Date: [1980,1995]
Duration: 10 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Chopin, Henri
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Extension 1

Description: Recording of Zagorka Zivkovic's Extension 1 created at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm. It is the first in a series of works aiming to extend the sound quality of certain live-instruments. This piece focuses on the cello and manipulating the instrument in different ways - from a low degree (transposition) to an extremely high degree (a combination of layerings of loops and permutations through the use of a Buchla synthesizer). These sounds are then juxtaposed with some pieces of the or… more
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Date: 1982
Duration: 7 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Zivkovic, Zagorka
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Mechanical Cartoons

Description: Recording of Paul Pignon's Mechanical cartoons. On the Synthi 100 it is possible for the composer to patch complex systems which can generate musically acceptable trajectories even without control gestures - these are called "organic machines" by Pignon, because they are like beings with an independent life manifested in sound. An important feature for the overall structure of the piece is that one of the organic machines, which has a central role within which the characters of the cartoon act … more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Pignon, Paul
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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
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Date: 1981
Duration: 8 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Rosenboom, David
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Tremola impressao

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Tremola impressao. This piece is a mix of disparate languages: instrumental music, sounds of nature and electroacoustic music, resulting in a different kind of electroacoustic music. The material originates from earlier works, not always Caesar's, but manipulated to make it different. He tried to make useful the sounds that were condemned trash; without any comparison with "Fontana Mix" by John Cage
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Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-
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Octuor

Description: Recording of Horacio Vaggione's Octuor. Sound material is all computer synthesized. Techniques used include frequency modulation, nonlinear distortion, additive synthesis and wave array synthesis.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Vaggione, Horacio, 1943-
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Triple concerto

Description: Recording of Alejandro Viñao's "Triple Concerto" for flute, cello, piano, and computer. Triple Concerto was commissioned by Option Band with funds provided by the Art Council of Great Britain. The tape was produced and composed with a Fairlight computer music instrument at The City University Electro-Acoustic Music Studio in London.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Viñao, Alejandro, 1951-
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The thin edge of the wedge

Description: Recording of Andrew Newell's "The thin edge of the wedge." This is the first piece in a triptych of pieces. It is orchestrated for seven electronic instruments, which were realized on a Buchla 200 series synthesizer. The concept behind the music concerns itself with man's position in the world today, which the composers sees as a very dangerous one, with possible self-destruction close at his heels. This piece is as one voice "crying in the wilderness," not meant to soothe, but to alert his fel… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Newell, Andrew, 1951-
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The silent god

Description: Recording of Mauro Graziani's The silent god. It is a sound processing work, no synthesized sounds are involved. The beginning sound materials are sounds often used in religious rites and ceremonies, hence the title. Sound material includes: Japanese gongs, Tibetan and Chinese bells, Tibetan trumpets, gamelan, Indian and Middle-eastern harp, western organ, aeolian harp, voices. Processing includes filtering, time and/or pitch changing, delays, freezing, cutting, and mixing. The work was realize… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 9 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Graziani, Mauro, 1954-
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Tess In Stonehenge

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Tess In Stonehenge. The piece explores the relationship between fast sound structures and sounds with a longer duration and different types of envelopes. The sound equipment consists of filtered white noise bands, frequency modulated bands, and sound structures obtained by the control voltage technique.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio
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