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Transits élémentaires

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Transits élémentaires" ("Elementary Transits"). The piece is a question of a crossing that could be compared - very modestly - to that of Dante's Virgil. From fire through air, from central magma to the high layers of the atmosphere, the traveler crosses through then Alice's looking glass. The perception then becomes mental. At the formal level, the piece has five concave movements, all of unequal duration articulated by a constantly varied pattern, a sort of hin… more
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Date: 1982/1983
Duration: 16 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Eq

Description: Recording of Jonty Harrison's Eq for live saxophone and tape. It is the third in a series of works that features saxophones. This piece like the others, is also concerned with 'cu' (here made manifest by the interaction of live saxophone and recorded sounds on tape), 'Q' (a filter is used to sweet the producing melodic material out of static harmony) and spatial articulation. 'EQ' is studio slang for 'equalization - a more sophisticated version of the treble and bass controls on a domestic hi-f… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 15 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Harrison, Jonty, 1952-
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Inspiravit aeolus

Description: Recording of Pierre Barbaud's Inspiravit Aeolus. During the months of July - August 1979, Barbaud did his holiday homework on the island of Panarea, which is part of the eight Aeolian Islands in southern Italy. The title refers to the character Aeolus from Homer's Odyssey who is the Keeper of the Winds. In the hours of siesta, he blows with great gentleness on the bougainvillea; this is the inspiration for all of the algorithms in the piece. After returning to Paris, Barbaud asked Frank Brown a… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Barbaud, Pierre
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A pocketful of posies

Description: Recording of Jonathan Berger's "A pocketful of posies." The title refers to the Black Death of the 14th century, a time when people dealt with impending doom in much the same way as people do today. It was premiered at Stanford University in March 1984.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Berger, Jonathan, 1954-
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Overfall

Description: Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Overfall. Transformed piano sounds and sound structures realized by means of voltage control make up the sound material of the piece.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio
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Suiana Wanka

Description: Recording of Fernando Condon-Garcia's Suiana Wanka for tape. This work collects and develops independently the materials of a music scene for Peter Shafer work "The Royal Hunt of the Sun". It is based exclusively on sound recordings of various Latin American instruments such as the Indian flute, pincuyos, sicus, tarkas, mohecenos, various kinds of percussion, etc., to which are added, during some passages, instruments from European culture (organ, flute, bass). The original sound was made in a … more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Condon, Fernando, 1955-
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Troisième doxologie Saint Sébastien

Description: Recording of Frank Royon Le Mée's "Troisième doxologie Saint Sébastien" ("Third Doxology Saint Sebastian"). The piece is an electronic postlude in three stanzas.
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Date: 1981
Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Royon Le Mée, Frank, 1953-1993
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Mouvements et formes

Description: Recording of Charles Clapaud's Mouvements et formes.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 16 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Clapaud, Charles
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6 electronic preludes

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's 6 electronic preludes for tape.
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Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
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De Inwerking

Description: Recording of Joost Van de Goor's De Inwerking ("Influence"), which refers to a sign from the book of changes, I Ching. It refers specifically to the 31st hexagram which is based on the image of water, a small like on a mountain. In the piece, the clarinet (water) is looking for contact with the soundtracks (firm and unmoveable). The soundtracks were made by manipulating recorded clarinet sounds and composed using chance operations (using dice and coins). It was recorded in the electronic studio… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 7 minutes
Creator: Goor, Joost van de, 1956-
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Neap Tide

Description: Recording of Jaap Vink's Neap Tide. Neap Tide is the last part of the bigger work "Tide" and can be considered an independent composition. Tide is based on Vink's preference for recursive processes, which stemmed from the fact that the material is directly accessible to the composer who can therefore stimulate the expressivity of the sound. While sounding complex, recursive sound means sound and its derivative can be, if desired, recorded on top of each other in one action so that the sound str… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 20 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Vink, Jaap, 1930-
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Gwendolyne descendue !

Description: Recording of Bernard Gagnon's "Gwendolyne descendue !" for tape. Gwendolyne is an underground comic character from the 1940s. Read first glance, her adventures only seem to be excuses for exploring the possibilities of bondage, but the unity of style pervading even the smallest symbols and the obstinate repetition within the strict limits of a closed world gives them an esoteric aspect that inspired the piece. It tells the story of the forced disappearance of the heroine. The piece is dedicated… more
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Date: 1980/1981
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Gagnon, Bernard, 1953-
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96

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's 96. "According to Amnesty International, there are 96 countries in the world that have political prisoners. In most of these countries, there is clearly physical or mental torture that is punishable by law and unlawful killings." Sound material includes sounds of doors shutting, locks locking, bells, ringing, etc.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013
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Points de fuite

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Points de fuite" ("Vanishing Point").,It was realied at the composer's studio in Montreal in 1981-82 and was premiered on June 13th, 1982 at the 12th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 12 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Quadratwellenklangwurst

Description: Recording of Martin Sierek's Quadratwellenklangwurst. The piece is based on micro-intervals through the use of square-wave oscillations. These exact intervals were only achievable with a digital rectangle generator. In the composition, the higher pitched parts of the two harmonies are fed to the cohesive basic tones and a whole sound becomes a glittering sound spectacle. The intervals and the number of individual rectangles constantly increase during the composition and generate acoustic phenom… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Sierek, Martin 1958-
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Un minuto de silencio por favor

Description: Recording of Ricardo Teruel's "Un minuto de silencio per favor" for electronic sounds on tape.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 12 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Teruel, Ricardo, 1956-
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Inventio

Description: Recording of Sukhi Kang's "Inventio" for piano and prerecorded electronic sound. He used traditional Korean rhythmic elements (multirhythms) and blends them within the context of Western music and electronics to create the piece. The electronic sound is primarily derived from the pitch G on the piano, which is then electronically manipulated by duration, pitch and tone.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Kang, Sukhi, 1934-
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Ice breaker

Description: Recording of Kevin Jones's Ice breaker. Jones had just traveled from Helsinki to Stockholm by boat across the frozen Baltic Sea, which had been made more difficult due to a strike of icebreaker crews. During the crossing, the magical and mysterious sight of distant plains of ice reflecting the ship's searchlights contrasted strongly with the occasional violent thrusts of the bows ramming into thickly packed ice. The "ice breaker" concept also extends into the interpretation of breaking ice in s… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Jones, Kevin
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Metal harmonics

Description: Recording of Margaret Sambell's Metal Harmonics. The short piece uses sounds developed by concrete and electronic means of a metallic resonance, much of it utilizing the rich overtone content of the sound source. The work was completed in April 1983 at the University of Birmingham.
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Date: April 1983
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Sambell, Margaret
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Slow Dance on a Burial Ground

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's "Slow Dance on a Burial Ground." Inspired by multi-traking and over-dubbling in pop music. Montague plays all various individual parts on folk flutes and log drums, playing at various speeds and other manipulations in an electronic studio to create at virtuosic product, even with modest skills on the instruments. The piece is an exploration in "Romantic minimalism," with its monthematic unfolding of a melody in the dorian mode and static harmony, but also with 18… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 24 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen
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Scythia

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's Scythia for electronic tape. Scythia was a region of Central Eurasia in classical antiquity encompassing parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River and Central Asia, with the eastern edges of the region vaguely defined by the Greeks. It was thought of as the great land of education. It was also the place where Prometheus gave fire to man and where he was confined to be tortured by the gods for this. Every day an eagle came and tore out his liver and every … more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Montague/Mead Piano Plus
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