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Actualitanie

Description: Recording of Serge Bouc's Actualitanie. This is a work for electronics that contains various samples of spoken word.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Bouc, Serge, 1955-

L'aile de l'abeille

Description: Recording of Denis Dufour's L'aile de l'abeille. This work expresses the idea of coming into a new millennium with a history that has been reconstructed and stigmatized. The composer gives a special thanks to Agnès Poisson for the sound recordings used, This work was produced at Motus studio.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Dufour, Denis

Alba

Description: Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Cardi, Mauro

Ancienne Etude - Introduction

Description: Recording of Catalina Peralta's Ancienne Etude - Introduction. This work is dedicated to the baritone, Guido Ebi, and acts as a reflection on the book "Igitur ou la Folie d'Elbehnon" by Stéphane Mallarmé. This work was commissioned by the Culture Ministry of Colombia.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 7 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Peralta, Catalina, 1963-

Apte

Description: Recording of David Behar's and Xavier Gipulo's Apte. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of electric guitar and French spoken word.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Behar, David, 1973- & Gipulo, Xavier

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

Artillerie lourde

Description: Recording of Candy Trash's Artillerie lourde. The composer wrote this piece with the idea of parenting in mind and separates the work into two parts that represent "father" and "mother" respectively. This piece showcases both the heavy weight of responsibility that falls on parents as well as the joy and support of family. The work has been segmented into 5 separate tracks.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 6 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Candy, Trash

Au nom du père

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Au nom du père. This work was created as part of the open work project at the Synthése Bourges festival in 2003. It is meant to incapsulate the sounds that are heard from a newborns perspective. The voices of their father and mother and how these first sounds create the newborns first impressions of the parents.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Balloonarticularity 80

Description: Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Balloonarticularity 80. This work was inspired by Jules Verne and his novel, "Around the World In 80 Days". This piece plays with the possibility of that book being a futuristic novel, rather than a piece of 19th century literature. In this piece, a Victorian traveler journeys into the future of the present, listening for differences in an increasingly homogeneous world. This work for electronics includes balloon sounds the and sounds of counting numbers in French. more
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Date: 2005
Duration: 4 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy

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-

Cantos de antes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's Cantos de antes. This work was commissioned by the Association pour la recherche et l'Expérimentation Musicale and is dedicated to Simone Rist and Roger Cochini. This piece was created from transformed texts performed by Simone Rist, the voice of Roger Cochini, and other electroacoustic sounds. The composer states that this piece speaks to very old stories lost thousands of years ago.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-

Chansons françaises n°2

Description: Recording of Miklos Sugar's Chansons françaises n°2. This is a work for electronics that includes the instrumentation of flute, violin, cello, and soprano voice. This piece was inspired by the poetic world of Samuel Beckett and the composer attempts to recreate his themes with short musical movements and motifs.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 12 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Sugár, Miklós 1952-

En chemin

Description: Recording of Vincent Laubeuf's En chemin. This work explores the relationship between the music and the spoken text, creating a confrontation between a physically present reader and music broadcast by loudspeakers.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Laubeuf, Vincent, 1974-

Le Cheval

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Le Cheval. This work was created for the retirement of the composers teacher, Pierre Boeswillwald. The composition was an exercise given by his instructor to new students and consisted of cutting and editing snippets of spoken text to create an original phrase or concept.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne

Contr'gris

Description: Recording of Michel Karsky's Contr'gris. This work was created for the Autumn Music Festival in Moscow and includes spoken Japanese and French text. The word "grisaille" is repeated several times and this composition plays on the notion of "grisaille". The title was recommended to the composer by a Russian musicologist who emphasized the importance of an accent when speaking it.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Karsky, Michel, 1936-

Cordes Invisibles

Description: Recording of Roderik De Man's Cordes Invisibles. This work was created by request of Doris Hochscheid and Frans van Ruth, it was also commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music. The text spoken in the work was written by the composer and refers to the ideas expressed by the German philosopher and psychologist, Carl Stumpf. His ideas explained that while listening to music we may not always be able to follow the structure of a piece, however, our subconscious understanding compensates th… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de 1941-

La création ; Madame !

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La création ; Madame !. This work was written for an openwork during the Synthèse Festival in Bourges, France.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-

Les destins d'une berceuse

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's Les destins d'une berceuse. This work includes vocals and spoken word with text from the French lullaby "Fais dodo". The composer has also included segments from Beethoven's 5th Symphony and melds together these two songs under the theme of "destiny".
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline

Dict-On

Description: Recording of Eric Mulard's Dict-On. This work was composed as part of the open project with the theme "The Seasons". The composer describes this work as a "sound sketch" around old sayings about the weather and seasons.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 4 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Mulard, Eric
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