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Five Soundscapes for Acoustic Instruments and Taped Computer Music

Description: Inspired by Chinese poems, the overall characteristics of the work reflect the assimilation of several non-Western musical and philosophical influences such as the use of pentatonic scale patterns, the principle of embellishing a single note, and the application of the I-Ching in dealing with active instrumental passages over a long-sustained computer music drone. Traditional Western compositional techniques such as aleatory counterpoint, serialism, and moment form are also employed in the trea… more
Date: August 1998
Creator: Tseng, Yu-Chung, 1960-
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Nuo Ri Lang

Description: Recording of Xiaofu Zhang's "Nuo Ri Lang". Draws inspiration from the composer's visit to Tibet. The composition involves electroacoustic looping techniques and bronze, leather, wood, and stone percussion instruments. Commisioned by the INA-GRM (France) at the international music festival 96 PRESENCES in Paris. There is also a mix edition that combines live performance and electroacoustic music sound and a version that include videos.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Zhang, Xiaofu, 1954-
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Gritos y Gritarras

Description: Recording of Teodoro Pedro Cromberg's Gritos y Gritarras. This is a work for electronics that includes voice and guitar as well as sound samples from Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple songs. The composer has attempted to make these songs and motifs recognizable without compromising the independence of the electroacoustic piece itself. The title is a play on words that is untranslatable; "Gritarras" is a made-up word that means something like the cry of the guitar.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Cromberg, Teodoro, 1955-
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Arco Voltaico

Description: Recording of Teodoro Pedro Cromberg's Arco Voltaico. This is a work for electronics that was created for cellist, Andrea Espinzo. In this piece the cello has been integrated into the electroacoustic mix. Four improvised performances of the cello were taken by the analogical recorder and then used to create different mixtures for the final product.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Cromberg, Teodoro, 1955-
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Marimbágenes

Description: Recording of Teodoro Pedro Cromberg's Marimbágenes. This is a work for electronics that includes sound samples of the marimba. The name of the piece is a pun and impossible to translate into English; it can be understood as either "marimba's image" or "at the marimba's margins". The electroacoustic material in this piece was created in relation with visual images (gases, the sea, liguids). Virtual percussion was also used on the tape.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 8 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Cromberg, Teodoro, 1955-
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La Coquille et le Clergyman

Description: Recording of Andrea Szigetvari's La Coquille et le Clergyman. This is an electroacoustic work that was created to accompany a video of scenes from the silent movie "La Coquille et le Clergyman" by Germain Dulac. The composer attempted to express the inner selves of the characters with the music. The video includes a compilation of scenes from the black and white film, highlighting critical scenes in the movie.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Szigetvari, Andrea
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Wedge. Music for two audio tracks

Description: Recording of René Uijlenhoet's Wedge. Music for two audio tracks. The composer describes this piece as being about sounds that wrench other sounds loose as well as frantically racing sounds or stationary sound planes. The piece was inspired by the rhythms and loops in Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's early Musique Concrète montages. Wedge was created with synthetic sounds from a variety of sources, as well as a pair of distorted bass clarinets and a manipulated cymbal.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Uijlenhoet, René, 1961-
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Rust

Description: Recording of Robert Scott Thompson's Rust. This is a work for computer which combines various kinds of metallic sounds - and their transformations, as well as other sounds sources such as clarinet, flute, and Tibetian and Gregorian chants. Both the acoustic and synthetic sounds have been subjected to various types of digital signal processing.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Thompson, Robert Scott
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Archée

Description: Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Archée. The main material in this work is fire, an "electonic" fire made from exclusively analog wave generators. The second material is "time" and is an essential part of the work. This piece belongs to a collection of works the composer calls his "electronic sound paintings" which consist of pieces that suggest to the listener an image of the chosen model by stylizing it using electronic sources.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 12 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Lenfant, Patrick
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L'éveil

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's L'éveil. This piece is the first in a cycle that explores the paradox of opposition in the sense of physical appearance as well as in the psychological reality of mankind. The piece concerns itself with the creation of the universe and its two poles. The idea of contrasts presented in the introduction are then developed on a larger scale throughout the rest of the piece.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
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Filamenti I

Description: Recording of René Uijlenhoet's Filamenti I. The title of this piece refers to the impossibility of creating a steady, sustaining sound on a harpsichord. This work attempts to work through the problematic characteristics of the harpsichord and in doing so the instrument will not be spared. The composition ends with the "tuning and testing" of a new prototype. This piece was written by order of the harpsichord players Annelie de Man and Thora Johansen, with financial support by the Fund for the C… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Uijlenhoet, René, 1961-
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La Mer Profonde

Description: Recording of Theodoros Lotis' La Mer Profonde. This piece is the second movement in a work titled "La Mer". This work expresses the joy and the purity of the water by using the hum of bees and a string quartet, both treated electronically, as main sound materials. This work offers two perceptions of the sea: the first being an imaginary, serene perception, and the second being a symbolic perception.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Lotis, Theodoros, 1967-
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Radiatus Sarchophagus

Description: Recording of Patrick Kosk's Radiatus Sarchophagus. This is a work for electronics and is meant to express small remarks or comments about contusions, repetitions, crossing overs, open minds, etc.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Kosk, Patrick, 1951-
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Wired Life. An analog live-electronic ecosystem

Description: Recording of René Uijlenhoet's Wired Life. An analog live-electronic ecosystem. This installation is an autonomous electric ecosystem and was inspired by recent artificial-life experiments. The musical output is sometimes percussive and fast and sometimes slow and quiet, but always with spatial development. This work was commissioned by Muziekcentrum De IJsbreker, Amsterdam and Het Haags Gemeente Museum, Den Haag. All of the equipment used is historical, modular, and analog.
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Date: 1995/2000
Duration: 44 minutes
Creator: Uijlenhoet, René, 1961-
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Sweeney's Vision

Description: Recording of Frank Corcoran's Sweeney's Vision. This work is an ecstatic sound vision and musical structure that was loosely inspired by the figure of the schizophrenic poet-outcast, Sweeney, from the Early Irish epic, Mad sweeney Buile Suibhne. The composer considers this work a four-movement "symphony" at the end of the 20th century. This work was commissioned by the Studio Akustische Kunst of WDR, Cologne and was first broadcast by WDR in 1997.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 20 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Corcoran, Frank
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El espiritu de la Iluvia

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's El espiritu de la Iluvia. This work moves away from the trend of concrete music by highlighting the origin of sounds and trying to transform the materials as little as possible. A natural narrative is created and evokes the ecological cycle. The main focus of this piece is rain and it's cycle. The sounds of nature as well as Altai throat singing are mixed into the piece in order to create compositional intention.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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Las claviculas de Salomon

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Las claviculas de Salomon. This work includes sound materials of various origins that are arranged in a form close to 'ABA'. This piece includes sound samples from 3 different pieces by the composer including trumpet and guitar instrumentals. The final section returns to the materials already presented.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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Story 1

Description: Recording of Artem Vassiliev's Story 1. This is a work for violin and tape that is based on the interplay of a plot and a character as it often can be found in the stories of literature. The title reflects some extra-musical aspects, which mostly affect the structure and dynamic shape of the composition. The composer states that this piece can be performed in a live concert setting where the soloist should play using a clock and watching the time grid in the score.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Vassiliev, Artem
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Son-Frissons

Description: Recording of Michel Redolfi's Son-Frissons. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds as well as French spoken word. This piece consists of 5 untitled movements.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Redolfi, Michel, 1951-
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Paisagens Londrinenses 2

Description: Recording of Guto Caminhoto's Paisagens Londrinenses 2. This piece is the second of a series of compositions based on soundscapes of Londrina city. The sound material uses recorded nature sounds as well as urban soundscapes. These sounds were then processed and synthesized over other sounds.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Caminhoto, Guto
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Pre-lute

Description: Recording of Artem Vassiliev's Pre-lute. This work includes improvised performance on a lute and explores various connections between sonic metaphors from different periods in history. It is an attempt to represent time by musical means. The structure of the piece was inspired by Franz Liszt's preludes.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 12 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Vassiliev, Artem
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Quasi una missa

Description: Recording of Frank Corcoran's Quasi una missa. This work is comprised of 4 movements and was composed as a mass. Sound materials for this piece include English and Irish spoken word.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Corcoran, Frank
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Le Grain de Bruxelles

Description: Recording of Theodoros Lotis' Le Grain de Bruxelles. This composition is based on sudden changes of dynamics and acts as a symbolic description of everyday life in Brussels. Different planes and images are represented by different sonic spaces and dynamics. Sounds of the city as well as a string quartet were recorded and transformed to create different spatial planes. This work was commissioned by Musiques et Recherches.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Lotis, Theodoros, 1967-
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Klangräume 2

Description: Recording of Gerald Eckert's Klangräume 2. This is a work for piccolo and tape that examines both the instruments and electronics as well as the combination of graphics and sound/timbre. The aim was to create a relationship between graphical constructions and sound.
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Date: 1991/2000
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Eckert, Gerald
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