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Musique Concrète Instrumentale in Helmut Lachenmann's "Child's Play" (1980): A Pedagogical Study for Late Intermediate Students

Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann is a German composer of contemporary music. In his 1980 work for piano, Child's Play, Lachenmann develops one of his own signature concepts, musique concrète instrumentale, in which he uses the "standard" (not prepared) piano in non-conventional and innovative ways to explore new sounds and techniques. This dissertation is a pedagogical study that provides a teaching guide for educators who would like to use Child's Play as an introduction to some of the sounds and t… more

Date: May 2023

Creator: Kong, Byung Sook

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Impromptu

Impromptu for tape was comissioned by the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw in 1986. It was produced with the assitance of Barbara Makowska-Okon using electronic transformation as well as old fashioned techniques of tape splicing and manual tape speed control. The material was concrete and consisted of recorded sounds of instruments and crying chlidren.

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Date: 1986

Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds

Creator: Kapuscinski, Jaroslaw, 1964-

Item Type: Sound

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RevealingReveilingReveling

This thesis explores the possibilities of communication in the context of a sound composition. In RevealingReveilingReveling, a series of questions concerning communication posed by John Cage, coupled with an extension of those questions posed by myself, are set to recorded sounds-in-the-world. The intention is to create a greater awareness of that which there is to listen in our world. The first part of this essay discusses influences of philosophical thought during the process of composing … more

Date: May 2005

Creator: Colaruotolo, John

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Orphée 53

Recording of Pierre Schaeffer's Orphée 53.

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Date: 1953

Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds

Creator: Schaeffer, Pierre, 1910-1995

Item Type: Sound

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Suite Animalière

Piece written as a series of movements with different paces using concrete materials generated by the human breath. Theatrical space littered with realistic elements, a plot takes place in an exotic landscape. Opening of the "clap" and discovery of a theme with drawn figures, tense, fast, brief, where we feel the flight, the pursuits, the stops. Limit scenes, on the lookout exhibiting the anguish of the head, a very close space probably violent, very animal expressionist cries, existential, rev… more

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Date: 1989

Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds

Creator: Billaudeau, Bruno, 1954-

Item Type: Sound

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Le mécanicien effréné

Recording of Ragnar Grippe's Le mécanicien effréné. Voices are explicitly mentioned by the composer as acting as instruments; no language is intended or represented in this performance. This piece follows the composer's "symphonic" approach to timbre and construction of sound, wherein every sound is a composite of several included timbres, in a way that the composer identifies as being specifically contrary to the technique known as Musique Concrète of Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. T… more

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Date: 1994

Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds

Creator: Grippe, Ragnar, 1951-

Item Type: Sound

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Round the Corners of Purgatory

Rounds the Corners of Purgatory was completed in August 1987 at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music, Israel. Various pipes provide the source for most sounds. Pipes were played using percussion beaters, a cello bow, blowing air through them and splashing them in water. Some pipes have a long sustaining sounds, rather like a vibraphone. Other sounds were derived from a 10-foot long pole, using 2 microphones: one laid inside its far end and the other recording the co… more

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Date: 1987

Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds

Creator: Oppenheim, Daniel V., 1954-

Item Type: Sound

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Nocturne II

The work is based totally on natural sounds (sounds of glass, fire and vocals). The work was planed to be part of a major composition based on a phrase from “Bachae”. But the work was never finished and this part was re-wrote as a stand alone piece.

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Date: 1989

Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

Creator: Mantzoros, Costas, 1960-

Item Type: Sound

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Cymbal Simon

This piece is a musique concrète study of the cymbal. One eighteen-inch cymbal is the only sound source. The focus taken while composing this piece was to compare the distinctive attack and sustain portions of the cymbal. Then to transform each one into the other, creating new sounds to work with.

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Date: 1989

Duration: 8 minutes 08 seconds

Creator: Dodge, John, 1966-

Item Type: Sound

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Setting That Record Straight: Revised Program Notes for Sounds of New Music, Smithsonian Recordings

Revised program notes for the recording "Sounds of New Music" produced by Smithsonian Recordings. The document includes an introduction, a list of relevant formats and associated OCLC numbers to which the notes correspond, and a brief description of each piece appearing on the recording.

Date: 2005

Creator: Hartsock, Ralph

Item Type: Text

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Only Beatrice

This piece may be considered to be musique concrète. It also incorporates the features of Spiel-Hören. The female voice is used both as an exclusive material for the digital signal processing, and as a means for dramatization of the excerpt from Jan Lechon's poem Rendez-vous. The tape part is juxtaposed with the string quartet which gradually diverges from the tape, establishing its own distinct musical idiom. The voice has been digitally recorded, then cut into short fragments. Each fragment … more

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Date: 1988

Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds

Creator: Krupowicz, Stanisław, 1952-

Item Type: Sound

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Sounds Themselves: Intersections of Serialism and Musique Concrète in Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Elektronische Studie I"

In the summer of 1953, Karlheinz Stockhausen began composing his first piece of elektronische Musik at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne. Up to that point, Stockhausen's only experience with electroacoustic music was his time spent at the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française the previous year, where he assisted Pierre Schaeffer and composed a piece of musique concrète. An early case study in the marriage of serial aesthetics and electroacoustic techniques, Studie … more

Date: August 2020

Creator: Huff, David, 1976-

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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A Postcard from Cairo

A Postcard from Cairo is a chamber work for three performers (flute/soprano saxophone, vibraphone/conga, and electric guitar) supported by stereo tape and two digital sequencers. The musical content is a montage of Arabian, Indian, Spanish, and Moroccan ethnic music, combined with avant-garde sounds. The score reflects a mixture of traditional and contemporary elements featuring extensive use of improvisation and repetition. Each player is required to coordinate his responses in a variety of wa… more

Date: December 1984

Creator: Luis, Paul R. (Paul Reinaldo)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

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Chroniques

Chronicles comes from certain possibilities offered by the technique of sampling A certain return to concrete music where the spectral content of sounds is particularly rich. The materials used here are mostly instrumental items. The sequence of different movements is treated as a succession of news items belonging to the same heading, without having a systematic relationship between them (literary chronic <-> chronic sound). The score is interpreted with 4 musical objects sampled on AKAI S900 … more

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Date: 1988

Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

Creator: Donzel-Gargand, Bernard, 1945-

Item Type: Sound

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