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Water Phases

Description: Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Water Phases.
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Date: [1932..]
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-
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Quintaesencia

Description: Recording of Julio Roloff's, Quintaesencia. This piece features a wide ambience of frequencies, Roland piano improv, and electronically produced sounds. The frequent changes in energy and direction allow for free flowing ambient sections and intense section with strict rhythm.
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Date: 1951
Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Roloff, Julio
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Fantasy in Space

Description: This is another in a series of pieces Luening made by recording himself playing flute, and then while listening on earphones, taped a second flute part over the first, and so forth.
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Date: 1952
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Invention in 12 Notes

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Invention in 12 Notes.
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Date: 1952
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Low Speed

Description: The work is made around tape recordings of Luening's improvisations on the flute. The flute recordings were transposed through change of tape playback speed and transformed through "tape recorder feedback".
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Date: 1952
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Orphée 53

Description: Recording of Pierre Schaeffer's Orphée 53.
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Date: 1953
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-1995
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Rhapsodic Variations

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Rhapsodic Variations.
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Date: 1953/1954
Duration: 17 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Poem in Cycles and Bells

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Poem in Cycles and Bells.
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Date: 1954
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Dripsody

Description: Recording of Hugh le Caine's Dripsody. It is an study for variable speed recorder. It was composed in one night. Le Caine used a recording of a drop of water falling into a bucket, which he re- recorded different speeds, obtaining the heights of a pentatonic scale. Using 25 connectors and the variable speed tape recorder, it produced thousands of sound effects. Dripsody begins with the original sound of the water drop, repetition loop. Shortly afterwards, by adding more loops, the density of th… more
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Date: 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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Ninety nine Generators

Description: Recording of Hugh le Caine's Ninety nine Generators. The title refers to the 99 organ sound generators sensitive keys - a separate generator for each note of the keyboard that can all be operated simultaneously. Le Caine here uses a resonance pedal and a device that can change the pitch to produce a vibrato or long glissandi impossible to achieve on an organ. The particular reverb of this piece is caused by the unusual acoustics of the place where it was realized.
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Date: 1956
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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Sonotranjosti

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Sonotranjosti.
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Date: 1956
Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor
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Invocation

Description: Recording of Hugh Le Caine's Invocation. The piece opens with a trio of three recorded sounds: a glass that is broken with a hammer, a ping-pong ball hitting a racket, and a drop of water. These sounds are the "instruments" used throughout the piece. Drips are configured as fast ascending and descending glissandi. A series of chords is constructed from a sustained movement of glass stamps. The sound of the ping-pong ball - from the left to the right - gradually accelerates. Severe rumbling and … more
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Date: 1957
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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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
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Die Mauer

Description: Recording of Armand Gutheim's Die Mauer. The sight of the former wall, which divided Europe in two, and the feeling that it evoked, was the perfect subject for an electroacoustic piece. Divided into three parts (1. Construction 1961, 2. Checkpoint 1975 and 3. Destruction 1989). Several acoustic instruments, tools and sounds were originally used at the recordings as well as a choir. Nevertheless, they were all processed and adapted into the electroacoustic concept that can be heard. The result b… more
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Date: 1961/1989
Duration: 9 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Gutheim, Armand
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Musica Para Danza

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's Musica Para Danza. This is the composer's first work for electroacoustic tape and was created using an oscillator and tape recorders.
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Date: 1961
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008
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Piano Concerto No. 2 - "Aux fins de quelques siècles"

Description: Recording of Clarence Barlow's Piano Concerto No. 2 - "Aux fins de quelques siècles". This work started as the second movement of the composers Piano Concerto No. 1 in D and as years past and music changed, the piece changed as well. The composer notes the musical differences throughout the progression of the piece as a reflection of the decade it was written. It was premiered as an orchestral piece in Reykjavik with soloist Deborah Richards and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
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Date: 1961/1998
Duration: 15 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Barlow, Klarenz, 1945-
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Studie 2

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Studie 2. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1962
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
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Studies 3

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals' Studies 3. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1962
Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
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Synthesis

Description: Recording of Otto Luening's Synthesis.
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Date: 1962
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
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Cadenza

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals Cadenza. This composition is part of a work for orchestra and electroacoustic music. It is a solo for tape recorder, placed in the middle of the work. The basic material is electronic sounds and concert sounds (instrumental sounds). The overall shape is the result of superimposing a large number of fairly simple sound layers.
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Date: 1963
Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
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Microstructures

Description: Recording of Włodzimierz Kotoński's Microstructures. This piece utilizes sections of fragmented tape to create a montage of sound layers in very dense structures. The composer used the sound of knocking on wood, metal, and glass to form a new sound material and spatialization of sound. These sounds recorded on magnetic tape were cut, melted, and glued randomly into random sequences from which loops of different length were formed and copied onto a layer which finally resulted in this desirable … more
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Date: 1963
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Kotoński, Włodzimierz
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Voices and Bells

Description: Recording of Myron Schaeffer's Voices and Bells.
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Date: 1963
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Schaeffer, Myron
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