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Description: Haris XANTHOUDAKIS: 1 ... 789 It is the setting to music (of the "setting in rhythm", more precisely) of two Greek texts talking about the French revolution and illustrating two opposite aspects of its impact in Greece, still occupied by the Turks, of the end of the seventeenth century: a "Patriarchal letter" (sort of circular of the Patriarch of Constantinople, to read in the Orthodox churches), condemning the French who "practiced the fraticide, killed their king and lost their faith in God"… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Xanthoudakēs, Charēs

3 divertissements numériques (1 franchir le rubicon, 2 fission, 3 mange ta télévision)

Description: Recording of Jean-François Cavro's 3 divertissements numériques (1 franchir le rubicon, 2 fission, 3 mange ta télévision). This work is created with electronics and uses traditional electronic technique. There is present noise elements within this work's texture, which establish a good balance within the orchestration of sound. By working with electronic sound effects and pre-recorded sounds of many qualities or frequencies, balance is found.
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Date: 1989/1993
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Cavro, Jean-François

4 Piezas Instrumentales

Description: For being the round world, who walks away in the East looking for new landscapes, after many trips and adventures he will return to the starting point from the West ... perhaps without wanting to or looking for it. By listening to these 4 instrumental pieces, you will think that they consist of an interpretation made for traditional music instruments. However, for me, the composer is nothing but a new experience in the field of technological music. In this case the experimentation consists of a… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Asuar, José Vicente, 1933-

8 Deustche Tänze

Description: Recording of Peter Wessing's 8 Deutsche Tanze.
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Date: 1981/1982
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Wessing, Peter

12 haiku pour la paix céleste

Description: Recording of Bernard Fort's 12 haiku pour la paix céleste. This piece is for 12 haikus for celestial peace. Haikus are very short Japanese poems which with reading, demonstrate the way of photography, as moments, sensations and feelings. There is a wide variety of both synthesized sounds and manipulated samples.
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Date: 1989/1992
Duration: 38 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Fort, Bernard

96

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's 96. "According to Amnesty International, there are 96 countries in the world that have political prisoners. In most of these countries, there is clearly physical or mental torture that is punishable by law and unlawful killings." Sound material includes sounds of doors shutting, locks locking, bells, ringing, etc.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

124 E 170th St

Description: Recording William Ortiz's 124 E 170th St. (for electronic tape, narrator, and percussion). It is a mixed electroacoustic work depicting the Puerto Rican urban experiences the United States: the struggle against the agony of the ghetto and against the imposition of a crushing colonial state of mind. The piece is a summons to awake from the broken English dream and assume the Puerto Rican and Latin American essence that belongs to us. The text was written by two Puerto Rican poets living in New Y… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Ortiz, William

950 for Bob

Description: Recording of Terry Setter's 950 for Bob. He describes this style of composition as "focusless music," which is structured in such a way that the listener always hears an undifferentiated sound continuum, making the smallest changes noticeable. The title refers to the length of the piece (950 seconds) and to Robert Ericksson, to whom the piece is dedicated.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Setter, Terry

1789-1989

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lament… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

1789 Libegal FRA

Description: Ivan PATACHICH: 1789 Libegal FRA The title of the play is a date, known throughout the world, and an acronym containing the first syllables of the three slogans of the French Revolution: FREEDOM, EQUALITY, FRAternity. The sound materials of the play are those three words spoken and sung in nine languages, French, English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, German, Erithrenic, Russian, Hungarian, and the sampled structures of the vowels and consonants of these notes in nine languages, as well as two con… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Patachich, Iván

Les accords d'Helsinki

Description: Recording of Steve McCaffrey and François Dufrêne's Les accords d'Helsinki. These pieces are part of a suite for electronics. Sound materials include vocalizations and spoken text.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: McCaffery, Steve & Dufrêne, François, 1930-1982

The Acoustic Painter

Description: Like colours, the sounds are composed using a keybord like brush and time like canvas. The work has two parts: first the painter freely paints an abstract subject and second he compose a defined subject. This work was originally composed for voices, bassoon and tape but this is the unique realization. The sounds were generated using additive, frequency modulation, ring modulation synthesis and sampling.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Pedrazzi, Marco, 1959-

Across the Evening Sky

Description: "Across the Evening Sky" consists of sustained, slowly changing sonorities and pedal figures which gradually evolve across a variety of registers, densities and intensities. Formal cohesion is achieved via a process akin to isorhythm, wherein large-scale repetitions occur at varying rates, thus resulting in ever-changing juxtapositions of material. The composition was realized at the computer music studio of Northwestern University in the winter and spring of 1987, and received its premiere at … more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Mickel, John E., 1961-

Action/Passion

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Action/Passion. It is the result of a close collaboration where choreography and music were designed in interaction. The work is inspired by inner energy and its manifestation: movement. During the show, the dynamic movements of the sounds unfold in the space thanks to a spatialized interpretation. Music and dance play on very contrasting energies such as breaths, fluids, attack/immobility, attack/movement, rebounds, journeys, falls, crushing, rotations, oscil… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 38 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette

Acuerdor por Differencia

Description: Picture yourself travelling at ease on the train. As you look through the window, you notice the power cables, which run parallel to the tracks. As your eyes follow them, they seem to turn giving the impression of a volume that gently and continuously rotates as it changes shape. This flow seems to accelerate before being momentaneously interrupted by the posts that hold them at more or less regular distances; this is immediately followed by the previous soft change as you recapture the perspe… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier, 1956-

Acufenos V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Acufenos V, for trumpet, piano and electronic sounds. Written in 1980 for the trumpet player Robert Gibson, who did the premiere performance at Pollack Hall, Montreal, with the pianist with Alcides Lanza at the piano. The tape part of Acufenos V was made from sounds of recorded trumpet, with a diversity of mutes and styles of playing, and electronic imitations of the same sounds. Acufenos is a Spanish medical term meaning "tinnitus" (tinnitus: from the Latin ringin… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 21 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Adagio

Description: Adagio is, as the title suggests, cast very much in the tradition of the late-Romantic symphonic slow movement, with its carefully measured pacing combined with a dramatic use of weight and drive. In particular, Adagio has a special relationship with the slow movements of Mahler's symphonies, this relationship being present at different levels and to different degrees at various points in the piece, ranging from the use of generally expressive gestures to explicit 'quotations' (particularly fro… more
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Date: 1985
Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Lewis, Andrew, 1963-
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[Adam Nussbaum Lecture, February 28, 1989: Part 3]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Adam Nussbaum on February 28, 1989 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Adam Nussbaum, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: February 28, 1989
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Nussbaum, Adam
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[Adam Nussbaum Lecture, February 28, 1989: Parts 1 and 2]

Description: Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Adam Nussbaum on February 28, 1989 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Adam Nussbaum, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.
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Date: February 28, 1989
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Nussbaum, Adam

Adieu petit prince

Description: Recording of Ton Bruynèl's radio composition on the theme of "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Adieu petit prince." The text of the composition is partly taken from a critical analysis of the children's book entitled "Fantaisie et mystique dans le Petit Prince" by Yves le Hir. The piece was commissioned by the Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 19 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton

Aglavaine et Selysette. Musique de scène

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Aglavaine ed Selysette. Musique de scène. This work uses traditional electronic technique to manipulate sound and create a eerie soundscape. The use of sound within the space is truly key within this work. The sounds are all around the stereo system and sometimes sound closer and further away.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette

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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