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Voie Lactée

Description: Voie Lactee is a work in four movements (A ? 3:06, B ? 5:53, C ? 9:00, D ? 11:05) meant to depict the fast-changing galactic multitudes of the Milky Way in tandem with reflections on the drama of the human condition. The work owes its title to a recurring stanza in G. Apollinaire?s Chanson du Mal Aime (1904): Voie lactée, ô soeur lumineuse Des blancs ruisseaux du Chanaan Et des corps blancs des amoureuses Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan Ton cours ver d'autres nébuleuses. … more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 11 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Laske, Otto E. (Otto Ernst), 1936-
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Fractal C

Description: Recording of Horacio Vaggione's Fractal C.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Vaggione, Horacio, 1943-
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Digital Tantra II

Description: This work was premiered September 15, 1984, as winner of the 1984 Newxomp Competition. It is the second of three pieces which together form a set. The piece is dedicated to my daughter S. Michelle, whose singing voice provided a model for many of the synthetic voices, and also to my old friend and teacher, Mr. John R. Brasher.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Petersen, Tracy Lind, 1939-
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To my friends – A Letter

Description: I dedicate this piece to all those who do not remain indifferent to the plight of others, to all our friends granting us their support, if only in their thoughts. I would like this expression of thanks for the assistance and solidarity to be accompanied by a message: make sure that our minds are not conquered by deceptive ideologies. - Bohdan Mazurek
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Date: 1984
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan 1937-2014
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Transparency for Harp and Tape

Description: This work was realized at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands and premiered in Tokyo in 1984. The tape part was created with real-time computer sound synthesis techniques, and real-time computer transformations of sections of the harp part. Two PDP-15 computers were employed in this process. For the real-time sound synthesis, the "PILEM" application developed by Paul Berg was used. The signal processing programs were written by the composer in FORTRAN and Macro Assembler. This work won… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Rai, Takayuki, 1954-
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Points

Description: Points was realized on a VAX 11/750 computer at EMS in Stockholm. Most of the source material was generated with a program called Chant. This program is especially designed for synthesis of the human voice, and developed at IRCAM in Paris, by among others like Xavier Roder. The material has then been processed and structured with a set of different "processing-programs".
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Date: [1984..1986]
Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Lindwall, Christer, 1950-
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The Description of France

Description: This is a personal recollection of a Paris which I never knew. It is an anecdotal remembrance of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier with more then a nod to Raymond Roussel and filtered through the radio of Jean Cocteau’s taxi. This is the Fourier of the mathematical memoir, On the Propagation of Heat in Solid Bodies, a somewhat controversial view at that time in which the author described the diffusion of heat by a partial differential equation which could be solved using an infinite series of trigon… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 14 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Wendt, Larry 1946-
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Later Bagatelles 1 and 2

Description: This work was composed at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto as part of an Artist in Residence program. Inspired by Webern's Six Bagatelles, the piece seeks to travel far in a short period of time. The sonic textures build and change rapidly and sounds transform restlessly. In just over three minutes, an entire series of complex statements are quite complete. Composed on 16 tracks, with some sub-mixing employed, a large selection of digital and analog synthesizers were used. The mix is, howe… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Kramer, Gregory, 1952-
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La Logica de la Sorpresa

Description: Recording of José Manuel Berenguer's La Logica de la Sorpresa.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Berenguer, José Manuel, 1955-
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The Eternal Lake

Description: "The Eternal Lake" is a musical poetic work. The sound material consists of vocal and instrumental, electronic and environmental sounds, intelligible speech and non-verbally treated voice. Music and fable are amalgamated: while the musical component maintains its independent logic, it also wraps itself into the fable, while the fable spreads into the musical domain by the use of verbal structures. In order to maintain intelligibility, the verbal part is practically never sung, while the sung pa… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 23 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Radovanović, Vladan, 1932-
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Lollipops

Description: Lollipops was inspired by a sculpture of Alexander Callers', entitled Lollipops. The Calder suspends 4 large multicolored steel "lollipops" from a large red steel foundation. When the wind blows, the lollipops are motivated to sing as steel does against itself. The extraordinary combination of the colored lollipops with their association to surreal and child-like things; the unyielding drama of the cold steel structure; and the wistful song of the steel, gave me a profound feeling of something … more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Rothman, Daniel 1958-
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Ambitos

Description: This work was made from basic material taken from human voice and electronic sources and was ended at the beginning of 1984.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008
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Time Past III

Description: "All animals always hear. To hear is the fundamental involuntary activity that initiates experience of the external world. But hearing is not listening. Only when the flow of hearing is interrupted by attention does listening occur. There must be desire." (Philip Oxman : 'From Hand to Mouth' (BBC/1978)) Time Past III was realized between July 1983 and December 1984 in the Electroacoustic Music Studio at City University, London. It is dedicated to the memory of Philip Oxman, whose ideas inspir… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Emmerson, Simon, 1950-
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De Wang

Description: "De Wang" is a monologue set to music and wants to emancipate the "sound" at the same time. The piece is a musical reflection on isolation (and psychiatry) as a political remedy and as a reflection on musical aesthetics. The specific use of psychiatry and the treatment of prisoners shows how an incumbent government can deal with its contentious elements. Sensory depravation, (isolation), electroshock, medical treatment, psychosurgery, in fact new means of torture that are not yet recognized as … more
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Date: [1984..1986]
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Clercq, Eric de, 1960-
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Four Nocturnes

Description: Recording of Hiroaki Minami's Four Nocturnes.
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Date: 1984?
Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Minami, Hiroaki 1934-
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Houdinism

Description: Houdinism (1984) is a 12'20 "command of Swedish radio, an example of Lindgren's anti-sentimental side, and Houdini, the master of the escape, was the man who was locked in boxes with "infracturable" locks and chains, and of course he managed to escape from his freely chosen prison and was given the honorary title of "Master of the Escape." Lindgren's work is a complicated device with small and large "sound boxes" that are open or closed Depositif is designed to use a planar geometric system in … more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Lindgren, Pär, 1952-
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Venceremos!

Description: On December 7, 1975, Indonesian troops attacked Dili, the capital of the Republic of East Timor, thus ending the Timorese people's brief but brave period of independence and beginning an era of savage colonialism that continues to this day. Concerned Australian supporters of Fretilin (that East Timorese resistance army that is still waging a bitter guerilla war against the Indonesian invaders) hoped for many years that the next Labor government in Australia would honor its pledge and bring pres… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Wesley-Smith, Martin, 1945-
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Four Fragments and Epilogue

Description: The first three text fragments were inscribed on pyramids between the years 2350 and 2175 B.C., the fourth text fragment is the remains of an ancient Babylonian penitential pealm. The electronic sounds accompanying the text are fragments from four sections of another composition, Tetrachotomous for piano, violin, cello, and tape. In the epilogue, the text fragments are transformed into electronic sounds which are immersed into a texture of harmonic fields. Time and chance have worked on the mat… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Winiarz, John, 1952-
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Dances of Illusion

Description: Recording of Tera de Morez Oyen's Dances of Illusion.
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Date: [1984,1985]
Duration: 32 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Marez Oyens, Tera de
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A Sea Inside Myself

Description: The sea is always moving, waving and roaring, fast or slow. Sometimes green or blue, dark or light, warm or cold. In the same way my mind is constantly in commotion. In my head, in my ears, inside myself. I tried to reflect these thoughts in this composition. The basic material is a recording of several percussion sounds, which are modulated electronically by a synthesizer, a Publison Harmonizer and a EMT 251 digital reverb system. The last one is a splendid machine for special effects, which … more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Eisma, Will, 1929-
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La chambre secrète

Description: La chambre secrète is the first piece for a 9-voice musical ensemble composed after the work of Alain Robbe-grillet. It uses a small part of original text, principally three fragements in evoluationary connection with the figure of man and his situation in space. These threeThese three fragments, in turn, cut up, exploded become generators of sound forms and also of new meaning. The structure of the piece is determined by the principle of moebius: closed loop on itself, but whose contained expl… more
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Date: 1984?
Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Fano, Michel, 1929-
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Obertura y Albanzas

Description: These two sections, each separately, are part of the work composed for a ballet called "Song of Creation", based on the link of St. Francis of Assisi. The first part (opening) depicts St Francis of Assisi, sitting alone, sick in the dark. The second part (Prayers) is based on Psalm 141 "Lord, take my soul out of this prison, so that I pray ... Make every cell of my body reach you ...".
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Date: 1984
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Serra, Luis María (1942- )
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Fanfare and Chaconne

Description: Recording of Arthur Kreiger's Fanfare and Chaconne.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Kreiger, Arthur, 1945-
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Andromeda

Description: It is a mixed piece for percussion and electroacoustic support. This one was realized in 1984 at the Berlin Technical University Studio with technical assistance from Folkmar Hein. The CD interpretation is performed by percussionist Martin Schulz. From a formal point of view, the piece divides into two different parts. The first is a permanent game on acceleratins, with the evolutions of a serious bell-shaped sound as alternative of speech. The second feeds on the musical gestures of the first,… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 12 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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