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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

Corales poema sonoro

Description: Recording of Carlos Fariñas' and Sergio Barroso's Corales poema sonoro. This piece is excerpted from a show, "Dialogues," for band, instruments, images, and the public performed with Sergio Barroso in 1971. The sound poem is based on a montage of Cuban poems, which goes from a poetic enumeration of Cuban plants and trees to quotes from Macbeth and fragments of the Campaign Journal and other political narratives of José Martí (revolutionary, poet, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, ideolo… more
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Date: 1970/1971
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Fariñas, Carlos, 1934-2002 & Barroso, Sergio

Cuauhtémoc

Description: Recording of Antonio Mastrogiovanni's Cuauhtémoc. The work "Cuauhtémoc" is dedicated to this young Aztec king, who defended the city of Mexico against the Spanish conquerors commanded by Hernan Cortes. During the siege of this city, nine-tenths of the Aztec population was exterminated, and Cuauhtémoc himself was tortured and assassinated by Hernan Cortes. Three fragments of indigenous texts are used in the work: The first text is the one recited on the occasion of the birth of a Mexican child, … more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Mastrogiovanni, Antonio

Echoes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's "Echos" with vocals by Mercedes Cornu. The piece was made from the "destructuration" of four Latin American songs: two Argentinian and two Brazilian. Cornu uses a variety of vocal sounds (long and short sounds, breaths, coughs, etc.).
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-

Ekphonesis V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides

Malebolge

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Malebolge.
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Date: 1972
Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-

Los proverbios

Description: Recording of Gerardo Gandini's Los Proverbios. It contains the sounds of human voices only in a fairly simple and straightforward structure. The piece was the composer's first purely electroacoustic composition.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Gandini, Gerardo, 1936-2013

Tramos

Description: Recording of Eduardo Bértola's Tramos for tape. The piece was made from two sound sources: radio broadcasts and direct recordings of popular events. These materials were structured by simple juxtaposition excluding the mixes and any kind of development of the original sound. It is therefor a purely horizontal structure in which we note the union of fragments of hard edge, perfectly delimited, similar to that used in some works of North American Pop Art. In this way, Bértola expresses his own po… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Bértola, Eduardo, 1939-1996
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