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Poema Reiterado

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Poema Reiterado using the voice of Leonardo Martinez reciting Mandolini's own poem "Palabras" in an electro-acoustic composition. All sound material are disengaged from the speech of the spoken text (Sprachkomposition) which embodies the idea of the ancient synthesis between text and music. Realized at the Studio of the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany in 1983.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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Sones de sanblas

Description: Recording of Jon Appleton Sones de sanblas.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Appleton, Jon
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Echoes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's "Echos" with vocals by Mercedes Cornu. The piece was made from the "destructuration" of four Latin American songs: two Argentinian and two Brazilian. Cornu uses a variety of vocal sounds (long and short sounds, breaths, coughs, etc.).
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-
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Ahora

Description: Recording of Ivan Pequeño's Ahora.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Pequeño, Ivan
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Corales poema sonoro

Description: Recording of Carlos Fariñas' and Sergio Barroso's Corales poema sonoro. This piece is excerpted from a show, "Dialogues," for band, instruments, images, and the public performed with Sergio Barroso in 1971. The sound poem is based on a montage of Cuban poems, which goes from a poetic enumeration of Cuban plants and trees to quotes from Macbeth and fragments of the Campaign Journal and other political narratives of José Martí (revolutionary, poet, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, ideolo… more
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Date: 1970/1971
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Fariñas, Carlos, 1934-2002 & Barroso, Sergio
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Sensors IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Sensors IV performed in 1984 by the McGill Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Reynolds. The tape was realized at the Composer's studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS in Montreal, QC, Canada. The piece explores different techniques of vocal wiring, especially the relationship of semantics, languages, and memory. The word "Memory" constitutes the entire text for the piece - using letter sound, recombinations of the word, and adding syllables from other… more
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Malebolge

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Malebolge.
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Date: 1972
Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
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Ayayayaya

Description: Recording of Mesias Maiguashca's Ayayayaya.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Maiguashca, Mesias
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Los proverbios

Description: Recording of Gerardo Gandini's Los Proverbios. It contains the sounds of human voices only in a fairly simple and straightforward structure. The piece was the composer's first purely electroacoustic composition.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Gandini, Gerardo, 1936-2013
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Cuauhtémoc

Description: Recording of Antonio Mastrogiovanni's Cuauhtémoc. The work "Cuauhtémoc" is dedicated to this young Aztec king, who defended the city of Mexico against the Spanish conquerors commanded by Hernan Cortes. During the siege of this city, nine-tenths of the Aztec population was exterminated, and Cuauhtémoc himself was tortured and assassinated by Hernan Cortes. Three fragments of indigenous texts are used in the work: The first text is the one recited on the occasion of the birth of a Mexican child, … more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Mastrogiovanni, Antonio
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Impossible a la x

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana Mejia's "Impossible a la x" ("Impossible to the X"). The piece raises the sonorous vision of a spiritual and violent situation, in which the primitive flows and their purity as a mimetic being and the "being children: are involved in clearly antithetical situations.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
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Tramos

Description: Recording of Eduardo Bértola's Tramos for tape. The piece was made from two sound sources: radio broadcasts and direct recordings of popular events. These materials were structured by simple juxtaposition excluding the mixes and any kind of development of the original sound. It is therefor a purely horizontal structure in which we note the union of fragments of hard edge, perfectly delimited, similar to that used in some works of North American Pop Art. In this way, Bértola expresses his own po… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Bértola, Eduardo, 1939-1996
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Geodesic Life

Description: Recording of Pedro Guajardo's Geodesic Life. This piece is of 6 dancers and one musician. The sound sources for this piece have been sampled from ethnic percussion instruments and voices, one feminine, and the other from a two year old child. All the sequences are repeated 13 times and the the tempo also increases 13 times. The dancers explore hitting sound sculptures on a geodesic done that is amplified. The musician playing a MIDI wind controller, while the tape plays back recorded acoustic s… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Guajardo, Pedro, 1928-
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India vieja que pretebde volverse joven Tomando sangre de condor

Description: Recording of José Halac's India vieja que pretebde volverse joven Tomando sangre de condor. The India vieja (old Indian woman) sings the Baguala, (traditional folk song from the West North of Argentina) expressing her wish to become young by means of drinking the blood of the Condor (immense and majestic bird from that area), in order to be able to enjoy sex and life once again. This beautiful and magical idea inspired me to create this piece. Originally she says the text first beating her "Caj… more
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Date: 1991
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Halac, José
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Stanford (a mi padre)

Description: Recording of Guillermo Pozzati's Stanford (a mi parde). This piece uses traditional electronic techniques while incorporating orchestral instruments and samples. The software used are common Lisp music (CLM) and common music (CM), which are being processed through a next machine.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 51 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Pozzati, Guillermo D.
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Alturas, Fuego, Granizo…

Description: Recording of José Sosaya Wekselman's Alturas, Fuego, Granizo… This work has many sine tones creating harmonies, voice giving dialogue, along with electronically created sounds which add texture and gesture.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 13 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Sosaya Wekselman, José
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Oquedades

Description: Recording of Stefano Scarani's Oquedades. This video is accompanied by audio that deals with poetic texts through electroacoustic processing. The visuals of the video include the imagery of a naked woman as well as the face of the woman speaking. There are also visuals of sea life that are shown throughout as well as bookending the video as a whole.
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Date: 2003/2004
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Scarani, Stefano, 1966-
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Praia das catetrais

Description: Recording of María Inmaculada Cárdenas Serván's Praia das catetrais. This work premiered in Madrid within the framework of the "XI International Festival of Electroacoustic Music - Punto de Encuentro". This work is dedicated to the cliffs off of the north coast of Galicia and mixes the sounds of everyday life with clarinet improvisations. The text spoken in this work was done by Guillermo Abraldes, whom the composer thanks for his selfless collaboration.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Cárdenas Serván, María Inmaculada
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Take me away

Description: Recording of Eduardo Pérez Maseda's Take me away. The axis of this work is a text by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino. This text was taken from the novel, "Il barone rampante", and includes both English and Spanish.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Pérez Maseda, Eduardo 1953-
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Mensaje Electroacustico de Navidad de S.M. a la Nacion

Description: Recording of Leopoldo Amigo and Miguel Molina's Mensaje Electroacustico de Navidad de S.M. a la Nacion. This work was created from a voice that belongs to a hypothetical King who is subliminally transmitting a message to the audience on Christmas Eve. It is meant to be broadcast on December 24th to families in front of the television.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Amigo, Leopoldo & Molina, Miguel
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Camello

Description: Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel and Bérengère de Tarlé's Camello. This work tells an imaginary story by taking elements from real life including the sounds of public transportation in Havana. It is a soundscape of a part of the daily life in Havana. The composer points to the importance of the words in the piece from people speaking and public announcements as it holds symbolism for the Cuban people. This work premiered at the "XIII Festival de La Habana de Música Contemporánea".
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén & de Tarlé, Bérengère
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