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Simmelibärg transfiguration

Description: Recording of Ruth Glatt's Simmelibärg transfiguration. This work follows the contents of an old popular Swiss folksong, "Guggisberglied". This song tells the story of a mountain which stands as an obstacle between two people in love. The composer has used this folksong and transformed it to explore the idea of what humans and machines have in common.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Glatt, Ruth
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Slow Motion Tarantula

Description: Recording of Jadel Andreetto's Slow Motion Tarantula. This is a work for electronics that includes German spoken word and flute.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Andreetto, Jadel
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Scyntillisuisse

Description: Recording of Bernadette Johnson's Scyntillisuisse. This work explores the sounds of Swiss instruments, specifically from the areas of rural Switzerland. The composer compares their use of technological instruments with the discovery of fantastical creatures.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Johnson, Bernadette (composer)
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48 13 N, 16 200

Description: Recording of Tae Hong Park's 48 13 N, 16 200. This is a work for electronics that includes ambient sounds and spoken German language.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Park, Tae Hong, 1969-
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Das unrecht in meinem bad

Description: Recording of Martin Rudolf SchwarzenLander-Fischer's "Das unrecht in meinem bad" ("Injustice in my Tub") for tape.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Fischer, Martin, 1955-
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Berlin views

Description: Recording of Günter Heinz's Berlin views. This work presents the "sound of the city at the end of the century" and arose in connection with the video project Ç Vortex È of Akademie der Künste Berlin.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Heinz, Günter (Composer)
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Odissey

Description: Recording of Jean-Louis Belmonte's Odissey. This work was part of the "Synthese" Festival in Bourges.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Belmonte, Jean Louis
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Steel II

Description: Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Steel II. This work celebrates and mourns the failure of the Modernist dream represented by poet, Geoffrey Bridson's, 1937 broadcast: "Steel: An Industrial Symphony". It also captures the sound of an optimistic, heroic Modernist in the 21st century and how the new century would sound in contrast to the last.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy
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Monsterfest

Description: Recording of Ming Wang's Monsterfest. This work consists of sounds from two different cultures during similar situations. It is meant to explore the idea of people who are transplanted into a different culture and the struggles that come with that. The composer states that the piece has 3 formal parts: 1.) Introduction and variation, 2.) Three-part "song" (A.B.A'), 3.) Covert recapitulation mirrored.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Wang, Ming, 1962-
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Dialogue avec Wittgenstein

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Dialogue avec Wittgenstein. This work is built on fragments of philosophical text spoken in both French and German, as well as various musical segments by composers Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and the composer himself. The work was produces at the ELAK Institute of the University of Vienna Music and had two premieres. The German version in Vienna (1999) and the French version in Bourges (1999).
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-
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Esboco de thetis

Description: Recording of Rodrigo Cicchelli-Velloso's Esboco de thetis.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Velloso, Rodrigo Cicchelli
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Flights of Fancy

Description: Recording of Jon Christopher Nelson's Flights of Fancy. This work, for fireworks and tape, was written as the grand finale to the Grand Opening Concert of the Murchison Performing Arts Complex at the University of North Texas and premiered at the event. The piece incorporates a variety of musical excerpts that were performed throughout the concert as well as sample sounds of fireworks. It was premiered simultaneously with a fireworks display.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Nelson, Jon Christopher
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Zu klugen Gestirnen

Description: Recording of Riccardo Dapelo's Zu klugen Gestirnen. For soprano and tape. The work is derived from a picture poetry of Paul Klee. The composer tries to separate elements common to Klee's theory. The starting point is a small sound gesture: an upward exponential function. This function shapes all the steps of the work in a motion from noise to sound. The attempt is to build a self-similar structure with matching between small details and larger forms.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Dapelo, Riccardo
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Aquapolis

Description: Recording of Lou Mallozzi's Aquapolis. The sound material is language and ambient recordings. The text is written in English, and has been translated into German and Venetian Italian. There are aquatic sounds, body sounds, and sounds of physical labor. Conceptually, the piece is based on a fictional trans-historical walk through an aquatic city, loosely based on Venice. The piece is in four sections: Preamble, 2000 Years Ago, 200 Years Ago, and This Year.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Mallozzi, Lou, 1957-
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De front (Quatuor)

Description: Recording of Pierre Jodlowski's De front (Quatuor). The idea of ​​this piece is based on a set of writings around the processes of aggression in humans and animals, as well as on the notion of frontality (which relates to the intermediate, fuzzy zones of our experience - physical or intellectual). The principle of the work (hence the precision quartet) is based on the development, "in concentric circles," of four groups or entities: 1. clarinet / trumpet; 2. percussion; 3. string quintet; 4. pa… more
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Date: 1999
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Jodlowski, Pierre, 1971-
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Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away. This piece includes periods of overlapping voices, with voices speaking in French, German, English, and Spanish; sometimes these overlaps consist of two voices in different languages, sometimes more.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010
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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
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Hymne an die materie

Description: Recording of David Prior's Hymne an die materie. "An die Materie" was written for dancer/ choreographers R. The piece was inspired by a poem by French Jesuit mystic Pierre Theilhard de Chardin in its German translation. The piece was primarily intended for an anglophone audience, giving the opportunity to use the text for it's complex morphologies. Although inextricable from the recording technologies which made it possible, and in stark contrast to much of my other work, the lines or layers su… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Prior, David, 1972-
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An die materie

Description: Recording of David Prior's An die materie. Written for dancer, choreographers, voice, and electronics. The relationship established between the music and the movement, was carefully considered throughout the collaborators. The piece was inspired by a poem by French Jesuit mystic Pierre Theilhard de Chardin in its German translation.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Prior, David, 1972-
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Media Survival Kit

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Media Survival Kit. This work is a lyric satire in three parts for radio. This instruments heard include: harp, contrabass, percussion, cello, and soprano voice. The processed pre-recorded sound were put through synthesis which was done using a MUSIC30 system. The three differing movement are titled: Nico, Crema (Cream), and Tutti Collegati (We're All Connected).
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Date: 1995/1995
Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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Flurstück

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Flurstück. The composer denotes "Flurstück" as meaning a piece of countryside, a rural landscape (Flur), which is private property; this is important to a central theme of ownership and its interactions with natural environments vs more "technical" atmospheres. It is described as such: The background of the piece is the dismemberment of the landscape, the subdivided land. From this are born the images. Fields, travel, property, appropriation and expropriation, the bat… more
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Date: 1989/1995
Duration: 16 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-
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Die Unsichtbare front

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Die Unsichtbare front. The composer notes the following: The spatial installation of this work was designed and realized for the highest space in the building of the Technical Collections of the city of Dresden. This place just below the dome of the tower with its exceptional view of the city and the nearby radio tower is part of the work. The composition itself consists of 16 minutes of music on magnetic tape, constantly looped, spatialized and broadcast through the … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 16 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-
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