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Combinaisons en cercles

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's Combinaisons en cercles. It is a version at the request of Partita Radicale with a new timbral guise. The work is coceived in three different layers of sound. The surface, representing everyday (diurnal) consciousness, consists of brief and fleeting timbral events almost invariably played forte. A somewhat subdued middle layer provides semiconscious recollections and anticipations of the overall timbral fabric. The deepest layer is made up of complex static sound… more
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Date: 1965
Duration: 16 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

Concentric. A question with two answers.

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's "Concentric. A question with two answers." for instrumental ensemble and tape. The piece is a reaction to Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question," which is, in comparison, schizoid in nature, marked by breach, discord, disparity and incommunicability. There are three layered music layers in "Concentric" which join together to create a kind of communion that is timeless through the use of resonant harmonic issued by a fundamental sound C, placed in the deepest regist… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

Concerto for tape

Description: Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Concerto for tape.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław

Contrapuntos

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Contrapuntos
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Date: 1966
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Cronaca

Description: Recording of Walter S. Kimmel's Cronaca.
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Date: 1968
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Kimmel, Walter S.

Dialogos 1

Description: Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Dialogos 1. This work uses complexes of short of electronic sounds with long reverberations of the round 10 seconds each, thanks to the natural reverberation chamber build at the studio at that time. The name of the piece relates to the "dialog" between the long transparent sounds obtained through the aforementioned procedure and the original electronic pulses.
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Date: 1964
Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Kropfl, Francisco
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Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa (with examples)

Description: A longer-form discussion of jazz and its potential antecedents in the music and culture of western Africa between Conover and pianist Billy Taylor, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and bandleader and composer Quincy Jones. This version of the discussion includes examples. This material may have been used in Music USA #2352-B.
Date: 1962
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis

Don't hesitate, do it right now

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's Don't hesitate, do it right now. This work consists of 4 separate pieces: 'Che', 'The Glorious Desertion', 'Don't hesitate, do it right now', and 'Revolution'. This collection of pieces were inspired by the ADC (American Deserters Committee), a group of American soldiers that found sanctuary in Sweden after deserting the American army during the Vietnam war. The spoken text in this piece is sampled from a speech given by Che Guevara, a public figure who took part in C… more
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Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013

Doppelrohr II

Description: Recording of Bengt Hambraeus' Doppelroho II. The title indicates that Hambraeus has used as his basic material the range of tones produced by an organ. In this work timbral manipulation becomes a new compositional element. The importance of the organ is immediately established not only in its exclusive use, but as one of the most effective timbral fillers of the gap between live and electronic music.
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Date: 1966
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000

Electronic Compositions (1964-1965)

Description: 1. Lemon Drops: commissioned by Magnavox Corp.; Darmstadt, W. Germany, 3.22.67; Pub. Lingua Press 2. For Harry: (dedicated to Harry Partch); Electronic Music Concert, U. Illinois, 3.10.64 3. Fat Millie's Lament: (dedicated to MF); Electronic Music Concert, University of Illinois, 3.10.64 Pub. Lingua Press 4. The Wasting of Lucrecetzia; Electronic Music Concert, University of Illinois, 1.2.65; Pub. Lingua Press 5. Dante's Joynte; incorporated into Lingua I: Poems & Other Theaters (cf. below for … more
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Date: [1964,1965]
Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Gaburo, Kenneth

Energies

Description: "This piece made in 1969 with extremely modest means was integrated in 1972 into a triptych, Assemblages, which accompanied an exhibition of "Volumes éclatés" by the sculptor Michel Anasse. It can be considered the third of my "presentable" studies. “Energies” was part of the material submitted in 1988 for the first "Magisterium" of the Bourges Competition, which was obtained. "
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Date: 1969
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Exigencies

Description: Recording of George Balch Wilson's Exigencies for eight channel tape. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Balch_Wilson)
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Date: 1968
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Wilson, George Balch, 1927-

Fantasie

Description: Recording of Paul Pedersen's Fantasie. This 8 minute, 2-track tape piece was composed in 1967 at the Mc Gill University electronic Music Studio. The work was conceived as a multimedia presentation using 3 projectors with hand painted slides by the Montreal artist Gino Bielanski. The piece is in 15 sections, which are synchronized with the fifteen slides used in the centre projector. Pitch organization in the work is centered on a 9 pitch series between 77 and 2335 Hz with successive pitches 20… more
Date: 1967
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Pedersen, Paul, 1935-

Der Frieden

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Der Frieden.
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Date: 1968
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Gargoyles

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Gargoyles.
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Date: 1960/1961
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996

Gueraria repano

Description: Recording of José Vicente Asuar's Gueraria repano
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Date: 1968
Duration: 14 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Asuar, José Vicente, 1933-

Gurges

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ružička's Gurges. The composer calls this piece a "space matrix composition." It was created on the strength of promulgation of international trial electronic and concrete composition "Musica nova." It was composed in Pilsener Electronic Laboratory in November 1969 .
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Date: 1969
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Ružička, Rudolf (composer)
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