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5 Piccoli Ritmi

Description: Recording of Agostino Di Scipio's 5 Piccoli Ritmi. For tape music with computer-processed guitar sounds and voice. This work divided into 5 short section, each announced by Spanish voice. The text being read is from a poem by H. Maturana. The sounds are derived from mixing and processing concrete sounds. The processing techniques includes an interactively operated method of real-time recursive granulation and time-shifting. Feedback controls were utilized, so that amplitude and density of the o… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Di Scipio, Agostino
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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

94 eleciones

Description: Recording of Ricardo Arias' 94 eleciones. Inspired by the fascination of the fashionable spectacle of biodiversity. Within the tropical forest, psittacine, quickly show their invasion of acoustic space with repetitive and annoying messages. Sound recordings made in the forest and recordings of paid political advertising. The composer was devoted to cutting and assembling in sequence fragments of electoral sound borders and joining mixed unaltered vocalizations of birds and other animals.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 5 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Arias, Ricardo, 1965-

1789-1989

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lament… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008

Ahora

Description: Recording of Ivan Pequeño's Ahora.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Pequeño, Ivan

Alturas, Fuego, Granizo…

Description: Recording of José Sosaya Wekselman's Alturas, Fuego, Granizo… This work has many sine tones creating harmonies, voice giving dialogue, along with electronically created sounds which add texture and gesture.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 13 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Sosaya Wekselman, José

Anatomia

Description: Recording of Luís Antunes Pena's Anatomia. This work was created as a phonetical deconstruction of the text "Amor" by Jorge de Sena. The words provide the sonorous and rhythmical material of the piece and, simultaneously they become itself loud poetry. The music is sometimes an instrumentation of the text and, other times the text is music.
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Date: 2003/2004
Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Pena, Luís Antunes

Ayayayaya

Description: Recording of Mesias Maiguashca's Ayayayaya.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Maiguashca, Mesias

Babel

Description: Recording of Jorge Rodrigo Sigal's Babel. This work is part of a larger CD project called "Manifesto". The piece is meant for flute, tape, and optional live electronics. The sound materials were recorded in Spain, France, and Mexico City. The composer dedicates this work to Stefano Scarani and it was premiered by Mr. Harrie Starreveld.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Sigal, Rodrigo

The Breaking Of The Scream

Description: Recording of José Halac's The Breaking Of The Scream. This work was inspired by a folk song from North West Argentina called "Baguala del Tigre" and a poem written by Argentine poet Pablo Anadon called "Seasons of the Tree". The main ideas from both of these works converge into this composition.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Halac, José

Breve reseña sobre los sueños, el vacío y la enfermedad

Description: Recording of Fernando D. Polonuer's Breve reseña sobre los sueños, el vacío y la enfermedad. This composition is described as a program category work. It represents three steps in a painful and unconscious way to self-destruction. The dreams: the perception of loneliness and memories. The emptiness: the wake up, the light, the reflection, the comprehension. The illness: self-destruction, the fight for survival, pain and defeat. This work includes voices which have been recorded in different ye… more
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Date: 1998
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Polonuer, Fernando D.

The Camelian Sea

Description: Recording of Sue Mac Gown's The Camelian Sea. The Camelian Sea is an electroacoustic performance work for tape and voice. It is based on and incorporates an excerpt of the poem "The Carnelian Sea" by Joy Kirstin. This work explores the connections between relationships among women and the legacies left to us by our foremothers who live through centuries of being silenced by oppressive forces.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Mac Gowan, Sue

Camello

Description: Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel and Bérengère de Tarlé's Camello. This work tells an imaginary story by taking elements from real life including the sounds of public transportation in Havana. It is a soundscape of a part of the daily life in Havana. The composer points to the importance of the words in the piece from people speaking and public announcements as it holds symbolism for the Cuban people. This work premiered at the "XIII Festival de La Habana de Música Contemporánea".
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén & de Tarlé, Bérengère

Caminando... part III

Description: Recording of Andrés Lewin-Richter's Caminando... part III. This work consists of 3 parts that are meant to be played continuously. It was commissioned by the Spanish National Radio and the Spanish Center for Contemporary Music. It celebrates the 100th birthday of Nicolas Guillen, a Cuban poet, whose voice has been used in the piece. The title means walking and is meant to reference the "walk" of life.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 31 minutes
Creator: Lewin-Richter, Andrés, 1937-

Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away. This piece includes periods of overlapping voices, with voices speaking in French, German, English, and Spanish; sometimes these overlaps consist of two voices in different languages, sometimes more.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Cantiga en el umbral

Description: Recording of Juan Amenabar's Cantiga en el umbral. For voice, pre-recorded instruments, and electronics.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Amenábar, Juan, 1922-1999

Cartas desde el Real Hospital de Lunaticos.

Description: Recording of Daniel Amadeo Zimbaldo's Cartas desde el Real Hospital de Lunáticos. Work for soprano, flute, violin, violoncello, piano, percussion, and tape. Based on the book "Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo" by Camilo José Cela, the work tells the story of a mother who writes letters evoking her own dead son with particular lyricism. This evocation generates rhythms of tension and rest. The dissociation of reality is symbolized by the different timbres of the acoustic instruments; the predomin… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Zimbaldo, Daniel Amadeo

Chicarra's

Description: "Chicharra's" is an ode to the Spanish landscape and the men populating this landscape. Sounds of nature such as the breath of the wind, the rushing of the rain, the rustling of the sea carry life in themselves. Thus the rustling of "Chicharra's", the cicadas, their singing narrative was recorded as a set of precious voices. These voices were sent electronically to the strings and then turned into new sounds. This process is comparable to that of instrumental music where the violin bow is coate… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton

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

El Coronista de...

Description: Recording of Pekka Siren and Agnieszka Waligórska's El Coronista de.... This work contains field recordings in the highlands of Spain and around the village, Sallant de Gallego. The intention of this work was to create acoustical scores from the photographs and visuals captured during these trips to Spain. This composition is for solo tape.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 20 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Siren, Pekka & Waligórska, Agnieszka

Cronicas del tiempo

Description: Recording of Diego Losa's Cronicas del tiempo. This piece is an acoustic transcription of memories - the past, present, and future in the form of a story of a travelling man. This work, composed and played through a multi-channel system, deals with the unconscious; a reflection on sensations drawn from original sounds of Buenos Aires recorded at various times and then transformed with GRM Tools.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Losa, Diego

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

Dimers liquids

Description: Recording of Cèsar Amiguet Puig's Dimers liquids.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 59 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Amiguet Puig, Cèsar
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