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Act of Opening

Description: "Act of Openings" is a stereo composition made with Moog analog synthesis modules. Composed in 1968, its duration is 17'27. The score of the composition is a dense and modulated sound characterized by carefully controlled phase relationships. All the rhythmic and harmonic elements of the piece derive energy from a long, brilliant sound. Each part of the room is another glimpse of this sound, as a set of flowers form a bouquet. "Act of Openings" received the 2nd Prize at the 1969 Dartmouth Inter… more
Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Weiss, Jonathan, 1949-
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Batucadas

Description: Recording of Gabriel 's Batucadas. This is a piece entirely composed with electronic sounds. It is an elaboration based on pulsations that occur at different speeds leaning towards density accumulation. Static, shrill and strongly aggressive material that overflows the interrupted background of pulsations. The work was composed in 1973, during the last year of existence of the Laboratory of the Latin-American Center of High Music Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute.
Date: 1969
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-
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Christus

Description: Mixed Media Painting of charcoal, watercolor, gouache, ink and oil slick on paper. Black erratic mark making throughout the plane.
Date: 1969~
Creator: Rainer, Arnulf
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Concentric. A question with two answers.

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's "Concentric. A question with two answers." for instrumental ensemble and tape. The piece is a reaction to Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question," which is, in comparison, schizoid in nature, marked by breach, discord, disparity and incommunicability. There are three layered music layers in "Concentric" which join together to create a kind of communion that is timeless through the use of resonant harmonic issued by a fundamental sound C, placed in the deepest regist… more
Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian
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Energies

Description: "This piece made in 1969 with extremely modest means was integrated in 1972 into a triptych, Assemblages, which accompanied an exhibition of "Volumes éclatés" by the sculptor Michel Anasse. It can be considered the third of my "presentable" studies. “Energies” was part of the material submitted in 1988 for the first "Magisterium" of the Bourges Competition, which was obtained. "
Date: 1969
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Gurges

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ružička's Gurges. The composer calls this piece a "space matrix composition." It was created on the strength of promulgation of international trial electronic and concrete composition "Musica nova." It was composed in Pilsener Electronic Laboratory in November 1969 .
Date: 1969
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Ružička, Rudolf (composer)
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Hydrophonie I

Description: Recording of Werner Kaegi's Hydeophonie I for 4-track tape. It was composed and realized in 1969 in the studios of the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (Holland). The piece is based on the possibilities offered by a generator with a variable function which, at the time, preceded the digital computer. Kaegi's work is based on programmed and descriptive structures. All the musical material was generated in a purely synthetic way, all resembling the "reality" having come only from the musical str… more
Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner
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Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque. This piece was created for live instruments and stereo tape. It's imagining a situation: in the center of the kiosk, someone is playing the score of their existence. Like any concert in a square, it is disturbed, distorted by external manifestations, foreign to the score. But here, in this particular situation, it is musical actions, taken over by the instrumentalists of Opus 9, which will disturb, prevent or perhaps facilitate the performance of this scor… more
Date: 1969
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-
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Lettre à une demoiselle

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Lettre à une demoiselle. This piece uses music written on a newspaper, a sheet, in an attic, in view of an open window on an impassive river, at a flowery table, around two o'clock in the morning, in a low voice, in memory of the companions of the Pleiad. There are three movements: draft, erasures, and post Scriptum. This work also uses sound samples and recorded sound to allow for the poem to reach full expression and character.
Date: 1969
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-
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Measurement Room

Description: Tape adhered to wall upon which is written a string of numbers from right to left interrupted by strings of numbers written left to right.
Date: 1969
Creator: Bochner, Mel
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Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Que

Description: Recording of Coriún Aharonián's Que, spoken text performed by Armando Halty. All of the sound material, besides the spoken text, is electronically generated sounds. It was composed between July and October 1969 and was realized in the Laboratorio de Moesica Electronica of the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Date: 1969
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Aharonián, Coriún, 1940-2017
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Shozyg 1 et 2,2

Description: Recording of Hugh Davies' Shozyg 1 et 2,2. This work was created by reconstructing and modifying 4 instruments (an egg slicer, Aeolian harp, guitar string, and various springs) whose sound progresses from monophonic into stereophonic. The composer intends the piece to be performed with 4 speakers.
Date: 1969
Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Davies, Hugh, 1943-2005
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Solitaire

Description: Recording of Arne Nordheim's Solitaire. The composition was composed for the opening of the Museum Sonia Henko-Niels Onstad Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo. The primary assumption of the composer was to give the composition in audiovisual form in which the latest technical possibilities of sounds and light projection would be utilized. However, this composition exists also in concert version, deprived of extra musical elements, in which a significant role is played by the spatial … more
Date: 1969/1970
Duration: 12 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Nordheim, Arne
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Studie VI

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals's Studie VI. The basic material is rectangular waves. This material is subjected to various transformations by filtering. The octave is divided into 24 equal parts--it's quarter-tone music. Various sound layers (rhythm - melodic) are superimposed which gives form to a polyphonic playing. So it is mostly linear music with no use recorded sounds.
Date: 1969
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
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