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11 september

Description: Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis m… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 9 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl

Abominable A

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps,… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi

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-

Catchwave 71

Description: Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's Catchwave 71.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 17 minutes
Creator: Kosugi, Takehisa

Chanson

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Chanson.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter

Complices, pour un lendemain fête

Description: Recording of Frank Royon le Mée's Complices, pour in lendemain fête. Extracts from the three big hours of the office for a day-after party. For voice, processing device, magnetic tape, analog synthesizers. The vocal sequences have been elaborated and are sung by the composer. For Complices, techniques used: singing with harmonic (2 voices), Tibetan singing. Complices: made following a study visit during the spring
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Date: 1978
Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Royon Le Mée, Frank, 1953-1993

Droite, hommage à Le Corbusier

Description: Recording of Denis Lorrain's Droite, hommage à Le Corbusier. This piece uses ten basic materials whose durations are fixed in the range of 5-30 seconds and marked by percussive strikes. There are two free sequences that incorporate trombone and vibraphone. The piece is elaborated on by simple instrumental sounds and reading of texts.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 18 minutes
Creator: Lorrain, Denis

Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel. This piece begins with the poet himself (Jean Tortel) reading his poem aloud and then exchanging verses with a female speaker. Instrumental sections of music fill in the gaps between the speakers or play softly beneath the spoken voice.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris

Description: Recording of Pierre Mariétan's "Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris" ("Sketch of some part in Paris"). Uses sound clips of events in Paris (e.i. a car starting, kids playing, bells tolling, etc.).
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Date: 1978
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-

Fusar 3

Description: Recording of Arsène Souffriau's Fusar 3 for four mixed voices, four percussionist and two synthesizers. This piece is aleatoric music and is a collective improvisation by the performers. This recording of the collective improvisation took place on Thursday, September 1979 at around midnight. The interpreters were Viollette Beaujeant, Madeleine Fabrice, André Van Belle, and Arsène Souffriau. During the recording, each performer spoke, sang and manipulated various percussion instruments. Then, a … more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Souffriau, Arsène, 1926-

Guimauve

Description: Recording of Frank Royon Le Mée's Guimauve. Band concert version of a musical theater for: 3 readers 2 dancers 1 walk-on actor and tape recorder As a result of a month's stay in a psychiatric hospital, in all that sick "I succeeded?" After several attempts, gathering memories, various notes to paint a picture of tension, pain, laugh, forces, splinters, implosion, imbalance… Guimauve 4 parts of atmosphere
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Date: 1976
Duration: 13 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Royon Le Mée, Frank, 1953-1993

Innominé

Description: Recording of Léo Kupper's Innominé.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Kupper, Léo, 1935-

Liège à Paris

Description: Recording of Henri Pousseur's Liège à Paris for tape. The preposition "à" refers to several possible verbs: first, Liège thinks of Paris, and his first way of expressing it is to go there in a fictitious way, to play to visit it, to be there. So one can perceive that this is not just an illusion, that Liege (just like Geneva or Montreal) is in Paris, in every sense of the word, including that of 'to belong'. All these cities are part of a vast linguistic and cultural fabric, of which Paris is u… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 59 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Pousseur, Henri

Mordre La Terre Vivante

Description: Recording of Nicole Lachartre's Mordre La Terre Vivante. In the first part, a large number of quasi-linear paths intertwine to create a semi-fluid mass that is sometimes even almost amorphous. This is followed by a section worked into a precisely sculpted dynamic profile and contrasting rhythmic formulas are introduced at times by a wide variety of instruments including various percussions over which an almost classical solo voice hovers. Then the strict rhythmic formulas are temporarily destro… more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 14 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Lachartre, Nicole

Passe-Partout n°4

Description: Recording of Bernard Heidsieck's Passe-Partout n°4. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word and radio sound materials.
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Date: 1970
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Heidsieck, Bernard, 1928-2014

Personnage

Description: Recording of Makoto Shinohara's Personnage
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Date: 1973
Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Shinohara, Makoto

Rapid eye movement

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's Rapid eye movement. The title refers to the type of sleep called "Rapid Eye Movement" or REM, which is dream sleep. During REM sleep, the muscles of the eyes move as though the dreamer were watching something. Structurally, the work is conceived in the same way as Déjà vu occurs in life. There are 30 or 40 instances of mysterious familiarities of the same sounds placed in totally different contexts. Like the human cell, any extract from the composition will reveal the… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger

Reminiscences

Description: Recording of Gábor Darvas's Reminiscences for magnetic tape. The piece is made up of eight scenes which are built of concrete sounds reminiscent of past eras separated by distinct interludes. It composed at the Electronic Studio of Hungarian Radio during November and December 1979 and was realized at the Electronic Studio of Budapest Magyar Radio.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Darvas, Gábor

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-

Le soi, le choix et les autres

Description: Recording of Dimitrios Iatropoulos's "Le soi, le choix et les autres" ("The self, the choice and the others"), five songs composed on the voice of Tibby Sachet. Iatropoulos calls this work a "composition psychoacoustique" ("psychoacoustic composition"). It is a study on the expansion and travesty of the voice that corresponds to the continual contradiction between the self and the choice of the woman. The choices the woman is faced with it that of active/passive, dad/mom, woman/girl, self/other… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Iatropoulos, Dimitrios

Sous le regard d'un soleil noir

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sec… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Un téléphone

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Un téléphone.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 13 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
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