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Par Lui 2

Description: Recording of Denise Garcia's Par Lui 2. The material in this work was made from an amateur recording of Brazilian actor, Luis Otávio Burnier, reading part of the work "Poema Sujo" by Ferreira Gullar. This recording has been transformed and manipulated to create new sounds and varied textures. The text itself is viewed as one of the most influential literary works in Brazil. This composition was played at the 8th International Acousmatic Festival in Brussels, 2001.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Denise, 1955-

Peixe

Description: Recording of Michelle Agnes Magalhaes' Peixe. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken Portuguese, piano, and percussion.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 6 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Magalhaes, Michelle Agnes, 1979-

Rabo-de-Arraia

Description: Recording of Marcus Bittencourt's Rabo-de-Arraia. This work was composed under the theme of "Les Maitres Sonneurs" and shares some folk traditions of Brazil. The idea of this work comes from several of the composer's memories of watching capoeira circles which acts as a martial art, dance, sport, game, and musical event. The ensemble of capoeira musicians in this work was recreated by computer algorithms.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Bittencourt, Marcus (Marcus Alessi), 1974-

Solipsismo

Description: Recording of Bruno D'Auzon's Solipsismo. This work combines a finished text (in Portuguese) and its relation to a musical context. The composer has tried to combine the movement between sounds and speech, a poetic language without concern for meaning and in which sound objects or musical phrases may more easily support a concept or an image than words. The piece is divided into five parts, with the middle part playing a relaxing role where the theme is no longer human language.
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Date: 1975/1976
Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Auzon, Bruno d', 1948-

Tempora

Description: Recording of Daniel Barreiro's Tempora. This composition is a result of research on musical time that includes voice and the percussion of various objects. The voice presents excerpts of texts on musical time and narrative time written by various authors. This piece premiered during the IV Studio de Mœsica at the Instituto de Artes da UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2001.
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Date: 2000/2001
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Barreiro, Daniel Luís, 1974-

The Turning of the Tide

Description: Recording of Eduardos Reck Miranda's The Turning of the Tide. The sounds of the piece can be divided into two main groups: continuous sounds and discrete sounds. Continuity is given by the vowel-like sounds, which were digitally synthesized using three synthesis techniques: frequency modulation, wave shaping and formant synthesis. Articulation, on the other hand, is produced by noise-like sounds generated by the violin, samples of the composer's speech, and amplitude modulation using an analogu… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 24 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Miranda, Eduardo Reck, 1963-

Voo

Description: Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, … more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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