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Le narval électrique

Description: Recording of Charles-Édouard Platel's Le narval électrique. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word and is dedicated to French writer, Jules Verne. This piece in particular was inspired by the book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Verne. This work was created as a contribution to the Synthèse Festival open works project under the theme "Mondes futurs, automates et machines pour s'y projeter".
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Platel, Charles-Édouard
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Les salades

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Les salades. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word.
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Date: 1970
Duration: 10 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-
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Ca c'est ma petite fille

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's Ca c'est ma petite fille. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word.
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Date: 1970
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian, 1945-
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Jeu de carte

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Jeu de carte. This work was created for the open work project as part of the Synthèse Festival. This work is meant to celebrate the bicentenary for George Sand by using a computer playing traditional instruments. Sound material that has been used in this piece includes: music box sounds, barrel organ, and sound card for the computer.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
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The old rose reader

Description: Recording of Frances White's The old rose reader. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and flute performance. This recording includes two tracks, one for tape only and one with tape and flute.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-
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Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes

Description: Recording of Tomonari Higaki's Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes. This work includes quotes from the text "Les amants du Spoutnik" by Haruki Murakami. The composition is segmented into 5 movements that include 3 monologues of young people who stopped playing piano. These monologues reflect how demanding piano practice and performance is and how necessary is becomes to sacrifice everything as a pianist.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Higaki, Tomonari
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Cadaveres exquisitos

Description: Recording of Jésus Jara's Cadaveres exquisitos. This work is for electronics that includes tuba sound samples. It was performed at the Alicante International Contemporary Music Festival which fell under the theme of "The View of the World".
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Jara, Jesús, 1977-
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L'arracheuse de poussière

Description: Recording of Julien Belet's L'arracheuse de poussière. This is a work for electronics that the composer describes as a "voluntarily unfinished piece of poetic character" with children's voices whispering.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Belet, Julien
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Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or)

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or). This piece is the first movement of the work "Amarcord" that the composer describes as a trilogy of sonorous memories. This work was conceived as a combination of electronic, electroacoustic, and ambient instrumental recordings that were all produced in the years from 1976 to 1996.
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor
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Inside a visit

Description: Recording of Olivier Labbe's Inside a visit. This work was created as part of an open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composition is a digital multi-track montage based on recordings made in an artist's studio within an industrial wasteland. These are random recordings of a demo of drum exercises, radio waves, radio broadcasts, and repetitive vocal cycles.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Labbe, Olivier
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La Wal-Manichette

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La Wal-Manichette. This work was premiered during a Synthèse Festival in Bourges under the appearance of a parody of a cultural radio program. The concept behind this work is "creation" and acts as a theatricalization of sound which is strictly in the domain of electroacoustics.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
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Temps Fixé

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Temps Fixé. This work was commissioned by Media Arts Networks with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts. This work was inspired by a visit the composer made to a singer friend who now, as an elderly individual, lives in an assisted living facility. The composer was struck by the vision of "a worn man, deteriorated by time". The work represents not death but the idea of time and the unstoppable nature of it through the lens of a singer frozen in time at the heig… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
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Evolu-Son

Description: Recording of Hervé Déjardin's Evolu-Son. This work was created as part of the Festival Synthèse under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". The composer used recordings of the mechanical work of an artisan-weaver with more traditional music of village festivals mixed in.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Déjardin, Hervé
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Himno a las lesbianas

Description: Recording of Jesús Torres' Himno a las lesbianas. This is an electroacoustic work that includes sound objects of the same type (news, voices, groans, etc.). These sounds create a collage that shows a distorted view of humor in a cumulative and destructive series. This series is linked to Schwitters' Dadaism, the notion of surrealist chance and the desire to dissolve the border between art and life. Overall, it represents the aesthetic of negation.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 3 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Torres, Jesús
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Ouverture

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Ouverture. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
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Fête (3 mvt de Bruits)

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Fête (3 mvt de Bruits). This is a work for electronics that includes 3 movements: Children's Corner, Nuit, and Fête. This work was commissioned by the Sonic Art Network (Great Britain) in which they asked the composer to create an environmental painting. The dominant element is noise: "smooth" noise, constant noise, and immutable noise made up of the sum of human machines.
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Date: 1997/2000
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
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Lugares de Antiguas vecindades

Description: Recording of Abril Padilla's Lugares de Antiguas vecindades. This work was commissioned by the City of Zaragoza, Spain, following the MAP residency of the association Nurseries of Young Artists of Europe. This piece reflects the sonic impressions that the city produced during the composer's residency between 2003 and 2004. The composer has created a stereo version as well as a quadraphonic version.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Padilla, Abril, 1970-
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La violence (mix2)

Description: Recording of Roald Baudoux's La violence (mix2). This short piece was composed for the Phonurgia Nova 2001 competition the rules of which stated that at least one extract of a radio library provided by the organizers had to be included in the composition. The record that grabbed the composer's attention was one that included words by French writer, Jean-Paul Sartre: "La violence est la seule chose qui reste, quel que soit le système". The composer used this question of violence to inspire the r… more
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Date: 2001/2002
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Baudoux, Roald
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Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre. This work consists of spoken word with text by Kamal Ben Hameda and spoken by Eveline Legrand. The text describes the image of Western urban civilization in the eyes of an immigrant Arab poet. The reciter, her voice, and her expressiveness is at the center of the work.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette, 1946
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The weasel is living on the lofts now

Description: Recording of Dirk Veulemans' The weasel is living on the lofts now. This work is a composition for flute with digital processing and 8-track tape. This piece is inspired by our present cosmopolitan, informative, and communicative life environment. The tape version is made from several life recordings.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Veulemans, Dirk
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