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A 1

Description: Recording of Daniel Schachter's A 1. This piece uses traditional electronic technique and emphasizes on musical gestures. The sounds are mostly synthetically constructed and are heard throughout the piece.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 16 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Schachter, Daniel, 1953-

3 pièces pour double basse et bande

Description: Recording of Orlando Jacinto Garcia's 3 pièces pour double basse et bande. Was written for bassist Robert Black and completed in the summer of 1990. The tape part was made using the bass player's recordings of brief musical pieces (i.e. tremolos, harmonics...) which were then digitized by the composer, sometimes transforming and mixing the material in layers of sound. The second of the three pieces is characteristic of a genre of glissandos, register changes, and also long holds both on tape an… more
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Date: 1990
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: García, Orlando Jacinto

4 in 1

Description: Recording of Herbert Mitschke's 4 in 1. This piece uses traditional electro-acoustic technique to alter recording sounds and explore musical possibilities.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Mitschke, Herbert A., 1954-

5 Cookie jars and a broomstick

Description: Recording of Paul Geladi's 5 Cookie jars and a broomstick. The piece is based on percussive sound. These come from 5 cookie jars and a broken aluminum broomstick found in a garbage container. All the sound were recorded with a SONY ECM 979 stereo microphone.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 7 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Geladi, Paul

5 Cookies

Description: Recording of Paul Geladi's 5 Cookies. This piece is based on percussive sounds that come mainly from 5 cookie jars and a broken aluminum broomstick. It is a reworked version of "5 cookie jars and a broomstick" from 1995.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Geladi, Paul

5 Interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili

Description: Recording of Scipio di Agostino's 5 Interazioni cicliche alle differenze sensibili. This work consists of 5 untitled movements. This composition was written for string quartet and computer processing. The string instrumentals are not meant to sound like their traditional timbre and instead have become something that is algorithmically conceived and interactively regulated.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: di Scipio, Agostino

5 little things mother taught me

Description: Recording of Jeffrey Faustman's 5 little things mother taught me. This work is a collection of five miniatures composed from three sound sources: the soprano voice from Edgar Varese's "Poem Electrique", the composer's voice, and a radio broadcast. The movements are titled: 1. Cantare, 2. Tedium, 3. Traumen, 4. Distance, and 5. Escape/Hallucination.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Faustman, Jeffrey

5 little things mother taught me

Description: Recording of Jeffrey Faustman's 5 little things mother taught me. This work is a collection of five miniatures composed from three sounds. Most of the material was generated from a single sample of an analog recording of a soprano voice - the soprano voice from Edgar Varese's POEM ELECTRIQUE "to be exact. The other two sound sources are the composer's voice and a radio broadcast.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Faustman, Jeffrey

6 regards sur L.

Description: Recording of Xavier Garcia's 6 regards sur L. This piece uses voice and manipulates the sound to create unsettling and technical passages. There is a wide use of the music technique of spatialisation.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 15 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Xavier, 1959-

Los 7 Espejos

Description: Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Los 7 Espejos. This work was composed for 6 instruments and electronics. This work is based on the idea of the computer "mirroring" each of the instruments presented in the piece. The composer purposefully makes the instrumental material stray from their traditional sounds, creating a confusing listening experience for the audience.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-

7 excerpts from "visual haïku"

Description: Recording of Warren Burt's 7 excerpts from "visual haïku". "Visual Haiku" was a set of 16 computer pieces made for Robert Randall's "Visual Haiku" project in 1994. All the music was made on various computer systems using software such as Band-in-a-Box, Sound Globs, M, Cool Edit and so on. Each of the "Visual Haiku" used algorithmic processes to assemble music which loudly and proudly proclaimed bad taste and slavish obeisance to commercial musical models, in keeping with the neo-Warholian aes… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Burt, Warren, 1949-

8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's 8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal. This work is part of a series called "recycling" where material from traditional music is brought into the world of electroacoustics and made to fit into that genre of music. This piece specifically uses material from a polka and is played with a willow flute. The recording of the willow flute was made 40 years ago and is the only one of its existence.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

15° harmonico

Description: Recording of Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso's 15° harmonico. For harmonica, piano, and tape. This piece develops a series of variations of the initial piano sequence. Most of the sounds in the electronic part are taken from the samples of the piano itself, but a flute and various percussion instruments have also been used. These sounds have been reworked using different filtering techniques, to impose a harmonic relationship commonality between instrumental and electronic writing.
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Date: 1995/1997
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Velloso, Rodrigo Cicchelli

888: Acht minuten achter acht netten vissen

Description: Recording of Paul Geladi's 888: Acht minuten achter acht netten vissen. This work is for 8 mono soundtracks, supplied as 4 stereo pairs. The soundtracks are in finished form and should be mixed according to a set of instruction given by the composer, on an 8 channel mixer to stereo or quadro configuration loudspeakers. The piece is for live performance. The 8 mono tracks are to be reorganized in 2 groups of 3 and 5 tracks each and the tracks do not have to start synchronously, allowing for an i… more
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Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 8 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Geladi, Paul

3b

Description: Recording of Ioannis Kalantzis' 3b. The composer used the bassoon in a rather post-classical way. The composer also used characteristics, which functions as a point of reference, by replacing a melodic subject with a single minor 3rd interval. Furthermore, the sentimental content that an interval expresses was explored. Such as, a minor 3rd (with a grace note-pattern), while giving different colorings around the content of this interval. The electroacoustic material comes entirely from bassoon … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Kalantzis, Loannis

Les 5000 roses

Description: Recording of Michel Frigon's Les 5000 roses. This moment is part of an impressionist suite for flute, percussion, and tape inspired by St.Exupéry's 'The Little Prince'. This movement evokes the journey of the Little Prince through the sands and rocks to a road that leads to men. Arrived in the middle of a rose garden, he realizes that his rose is no longer unique in the world and lying in the grass, he cried.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: Frigon, Miranda, 1980-

N.A.M.A.: "booty" don't walk

Description: Recording of Harry-Ed Roland's N.A.M.A.: "booty" don't walk. The composer dedicates this work to the memory of Michael Schleiter. The inspiration behind this piece is the experience of the composer living as a person of color and continuing to deal with inequality everywhere he goes. The work is about "creating inequality and its seemingly intrinsic hypocrisy and irrational fears".
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Roland, Harry-Ed

Abandoned Lake in Maine

Description: Recording of Mara Helmuth's Abandoned Lake in Maine. This work's compositional process uses technology to return the listener closer to nature, and into new relationships with nature. The composer's software, instruments, and algorithmic programs were used to create much of the material. The sources for this piece are recorded sounds of the loon in its environment and a naturalist's voice. This work uses field recordings of Maine.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 12 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Helmuth, Mara

Abrasch

Description: Recording of Cornelis Tazelaar's Abrasch. This piece is made entirely with the Granular system's output as a sound source, but is not a pure granular piece due to the program used to make it.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Tazelaar, Kees, 1962-

Abrazos

Description: Recording of Daniel Almada Abrazos. For cello, double bass, and electronics.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Almada, Daniel Alejandro, 1964

ABS Track sion

Description: Recording of José R. Sosaya Wekselman's ABS Track sion.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Sosaya Wekselman, José R.

Absorption

Description: Recording of Jongwoo Yim's Absorption. This work includes instrumental sounds as well as electronic sounds (both from tape and live electronics). The clarinet line is a spotlight and eventually gets pulled into the harmonies of the other parts.
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Date: 1997/1998
Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Yim, Jongwoo

Abstracts

Description: Recording of Jonty Harrison's Abstracts. This work includes 2 recordings. One of which is simply the produced electroacoustic tape on its own. The other is a live performance of the tape along with the University of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performing on top of it. The composer's goal was for the tape to create musical continuity while the live performers abstract upon it in varying ways.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 33 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Harrison, Jonty, 1952-

Accidents two: Sound projections

Description: Recording of Larry Austin's Accidents two: Sound projections. For piano and computer music. This work extends and substances the original compositional and real-time performance approach from an earlier work. There is an open form, invoking highly evolved improvisational formats and extends the musico-technical resources from the live electronics piece towards hypermedia and subsumes the actual sounds from the original work.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Austin, Larry
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