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Diastasis

Description: Recording of Claude Colon's Diastasis. Diastasis means separation. Separation between an instrumental play and a set of sounds obtained with a generator. Dialogue. Osmosis. Separation.
Date: 1973
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Colon, Claude
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Synthana

Description: Recording of Branimir Sakač's Synthana, made in collaboration with Paul Pignon. Sakač describes this piece as an attempt to coerce the machine to "yield his feeling of the moment," which results in a desire for simplicity, for extended durations which bring security.
Date: 1973
Duration: 10 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Sakač, Branimir, 1918-1979
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Fresca

Description: Recording of Liviu Dandara's Fresca. Fresca synthesizes folk sound phenomena that accompany the daily events of Romanians. There are three intensity curves, proportionally equal. They correspond to the songs/signals of work, funeral music, and love songs. The dynamic culmination is reached in the same section, which interferes with the space and time of the folk festival. The final represents the filtering of a reverberation of the culmination of the work, accompanied by fragments of the motive… more
Date: 1973
Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Dandara, Liviu, 1933-1991
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Ripsnorter

Description: Recording of Gerald Plain's Ripsnorter. The American slang term "ripsnorter" is defined in the dictionary as a thing that is unusually violent. "Ripsnorter" is one of a series of compositions that attempt to incorporate materials that are characteristic of Kentucky. The composer uses the folksong “Joe Clark,” changing the words slightly at the opening of the composition to achieve a gruff-like quality.
Date: 1973
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Plain, Gerald, 1940-
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Estudio I

Description: Recording of Jorge Rapp's Estudio I. It was recorded at the Centro de Investigacin Masiva, Arte y Tecnologia de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Date: 1973
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Rapp, Jorge, 1946-
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Sound Beach

Description: Recording of Stephen Dembski's Sound Beach. (Another division) perhaps two conceptions of electronic music? One in which the tape produced is the performance of a score (regardless of that scores actual existence), the second: where the tape is a score in sound to be performed by the listener as he heard it. In the first, micromanipulation of sound leads ideally to an electrically phrased, dramatic performance of musical ideas, which the listener hears in one specific manifestation, one of the … more
Date: 1973/1975
Duration: 6 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Dembski, Stephen
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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
Date: 1973
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Mastrogiovanni, Antonio
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