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Strephanade

Description: Recording of Loretta Jankowski's Strephanade. The piece makes extensive use of voltage-controlled equipment. It was entirely electronically generated and produced. Strephanade was realized at the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Michigan.
Date: 1974
Duration: 4 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Jankowski, Loretta, 1950-
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Poliritmica

Description: Recording of Peter Kolman's Poliritmica. The framework of the work - the beginning and the end - form multi-layered rhythmic structures that complement each other to produce a regular pulsating movement. The whole composition represents a correlation between rhythmically regular, rhythmically irregular and rhythmically not articulated (thus continuously fluid) structures.
Date: 1974
Duration: 8 minutes 01 second
Creator: Kolman, Peter
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Renascence

Description: Recording of Jonathan Kramer's Renascence. This piece uses clarinet, tape delay system, and mixer to create a continuous melody with interspersed counter-melodies. The texture eventually becomes so dense that individual lines cannot be distinguished. The title refers to both a poem of the same title by Edna St. Vincent Millay and the rebirth of continuity from fragmentation within the piece.
Date: 1974
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Kramer, Jonathan, 1942-2004
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Mappings

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Mappings. This piece is in three large sections, each of which explores a particular kind of texture by developing the composition or structural possibilities implied in the timbral relationships between the cello and the electronic sounds. At the same time, each section contains forward and/or backward references to later/earlier material. In the third section, the cello/tape integration is brought to its maximum by turning the solo instrument into what might be cal… more
Date: 1974
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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The Conqueror Worm

Description: Recording of Krysztof Knittel's The Conqueror Worm. The music structure of this composition depends on the word structure of the poem of the same title written by Edgar Allan Poe. The sound material is based on electronic sounds as well as on the violin and trombone sounds transformed electronically and recorded by Weronika Szrajber-Knittel and Stanislaw Pierozek. The work was realized at the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio in collaboration with Barbara Okon in 1974 and premiered at the War… more
Date: 1974/1976
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Knittel, Krzysztof
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Strummin'

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's Strummin'. This piece is based on a single chord which is pre-set by use of rubber wedges to depress the keys and evoked by a gentle sweeping of the piano strings with the right and left hands. The electronic sound grows from the acoustic chord, sustaining and gently transforming it.
Date: 1974/1975
Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen
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Computer Fantasy

Description: Recording of John Rogers's Computer Fantasy. This work uses rotational arrays to determine the vertical pitch structures. It is unique in using “controlled random” melodic motion between array elements. The sonic surface of the piece is characterized by a great use of variable digital band pass filters.
Date: 1974/1975
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Rogers, John
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