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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
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Ambulator Nemorensis

Description: Recording of David Keane's Ambulator Nemorensis. "Ambulator Nemorensis" was put together as a preliminary study for an experimental film by Nicholas Kendall called Tala. While the actual music used in Tala was quite different from “Ambulator Nemorensis” both are attempts to create an imaginary landscape (or to use Murray Schaefer's term "soundscape"). This piece is an honest attempt to create something beautiful.
Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
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L'Angélus

Description: Recording of Denis Lorrain's L'Angélus. This piece is of a fairly free design and naturally exploits passages of contrast or homogeneity between the tape and clarinet. The tape is composed of electronic and concrete sounds, including sounds from the clarinet itself. The development on two channels of the tape is opposed to the fixity of the interpreter situated between the two speakers. In a live presentation, this piece tries to avoid clearly marking its chronological limits: the beginning is… more
Date: 1971
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Lorrain, Denis
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Aubade

Description: Recording of Sandra L. Tjepkema's Aubade. This aubade, a serenade whispered into a lover’s ear, just before dawn: It is meant, of course, as a type of erotic poem; but it is not the text alone but the finished product which constitutes the poem. The words (in English) along with complementary phonetic signs and tremulous sighs, seek out the familiar images of love poetry. Phonetic variations on the vocabulary and the breathing of sleeping, dream-talking lovers, the more literal interpretation o… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Tjepkema, Sandra L.
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Cercles vicieux

Description: Recording of Fernando Lafferrière's Cercles vicieux. The title "Vicious Circles" is an allusion to the technical means used: the electronic feedback considered as a vicious circle in an amplifier. The piece, in its ternary section, is of a very simple formal conception; in the alternation of movements, moderate-slow-vivid, almost traditional. Brief introduction Intense fluctuating background, extended acute line, all punctuated by percussive elements. Sounding color serene, tender and fresh; S… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Lafferrière, Fernando
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Childish Dreams

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Childish Dreams. These “Childish Dreams” were written from an idea suggested to me by Jadwiga Mackiewicz and on an order I contracted with the Polish Radio’s Programme. It was the ambition both of the composer that the work should have more than a musical value; that is should possess a visible didactic function. It has been our assumption that electronic music can attract a child’s attention and direct it toward the beauty of the sound world which surrounds him t… more
Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
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Cicada

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Cicada. The male cicada has a pair of shelf-like drums with a complex series of resonators, located on the base of the abdomen. When the drums are vibrated, the resulting sounds are modified by the resonators.
Date: 1977
Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold
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À cordes perdues

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's À cordes perdues. This work was premiered on August 11, 1977 at the Saint Rémy de Provence Festival by bassist Henri Texier; it is, in fact, at the origin of a mixed music. Inspired by the album "AMIR" by Henri Texier (Eurodisc 913002), it borrows materials, groups, and objects, and proposes to send back an "electroacoustic reflection". During the concert, H. Texier improvised on the tape: reception and/or incentive for the instrumentalist; three-dimensional game … more
Date: 1977
Duration: 16 minutes 01 second
Creator: Dhomont, Francis
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D

Description: Recording of Dubravko Detoni's D. A radio composition for prepared harpsichord and magnetic tape with modified sounds of the harpsichord. It adds a tape made with the most different sounds coming from the harpsichord. The work consists of cadences and refrains constantly changing. The harpsichord alone performs the cadence (the center of the score), while the choruses (at the margins) are performed by the harpsichord and the tape. Each cadenza has a different disposition: ecstatic, resigned, im… more
Date: unknown
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Detoni, Dubravko
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Diamant

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant. This piece was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem.
Date: 1977
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John
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Drive

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Drive. Its glow is soft - silver. It becomes denser - and as the stuff of which it's made grows closer, it becomes harder and harder to keep it round, shining, glowing. Fatigue builds. Will is not enough. Finally, the question of why enters and the blows weaken, are fewer. The center holds itself for a while. To fail means death. The center then comes apart. Bursting or oozing. Back again to the periphery. A counterattack is mustered by the powers of will. A new… more
Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold
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Effetti Collaterali (for clarinet in A and computer generated electronic sounds)

Description: The specified pitches are made to generate their own accompanying frequencies, generally inharmonic with respect to the pitches themselves, as a result of FM or AM procedures. Each interval, or, in fact, each pitch-pair (or if you don't want to limit yourself to the chromatic scale, each pair of arbitrarily decided upon frequencies) can generate several possible spectra, but the similarity in sound quality between kinds of spectra quickly reduces to a limited number of readily manageable famili… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 10 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James
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Face the Music

Description: Recording of Tommy Zwedberg's Face the Music. This piece is made for solo trumpet and tape. The trumpet plays towards the tape without electronic manipulation. The trumpet has also been used as material to make the tape-part which makes a closer connection between both parts. There is also a piano used as concrete material for the tape part. The character of the piece alternates with compactness in the beginning and a peaceful part in the middle. In the end, the piece returns to the character f… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Zwedberg, Tommy
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Fantasie

Description: Recording of Paul Pedersen's Fantasie. This 8 minute, 2-track tape piece was composed in 1967 at the Mc Gill University electronic Music Studio. The work was conceived as a multimedia presentation using 3 projectors with hand painted slides by the Montreal artist Gino Bielanski. The piece is in 15 sections, which are synchronized with the fifteen slides used in the centre projector. Pitch organization in the work is centered on a 9 pitch series between 77 and 2335 Hz with successive pitches 20… more
Date: 1967
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Pedersen, Paul, 1935-
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Fantasie for Horns I

Description: Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's Fantasie for Horns I. The sound sources for this piece are taken from the acoustic environment. They are: Canadian trainhorns, foghorns from both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada, factory and boathorns from Vancouver and surroundings-horns that Canadians hear in daily life. Additional sound sources are an alphorn and a creek. Listening to the various horns in the collection intrigues the listener because of the way their sounds are shaped and modulat… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Westerkamp, Hildegard
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For Alrun I et II

Description: Recording of Iván Székely's For Alrun I et II. The work entitled "For Alrun" was composed in 1975 in Bayreuth during a live electronics course. The singing part of the play of about 7 minutes, a form and a light local broadcast, contains the popular song tchango beginning with the words "Gyere ki te gyšngyvirag" / come, leave my beautiful, my lily of the valley / - this one will have to be changed to all the presentations in Hungarian. This task was undertaken at the world premiere by Alrun Zah… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Székely, Iván
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Goodbye Black

Description: Recording of Mark Schubert's Goodbye Black. Originally, “Goodbye Black” was to be for percussionist (solo) and tape. However, until I have the percussion part finished I feel the tape can stand alone. It is dedicated to the memory of Henry Black and his unique apartment complex in Iowa City called “Black's Gaslight Village.” - Mark Schubert, composer
Date: 1978
Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Schubert, Mark
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Grundgesetze III

Description: Recording of Max E. Keller's Grundgesetze III. "Grundgesetze III" is the third part of a six-part work begun in 1975. Sections I and IV were realized as orchestral pieces. Lyrically, the work is based on the confrontation of ideology (for example, the constitution, that is, the "Basic Law" of the FRG [Federal Republic of Germany]) and the reality of bourgeois society. In "Grundgesetze III" the federal government processes a text about the so-called social market economy, while two other speake… more
Date: 1977
Duration: 13 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Keller, Max E.
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In Memoriam: Hugh le Caine

Description: Recording of David Keane's In Memoriam: Hugh le Caine. Hugh le Caine (born in 1914) died in the summer of 1977 after a life devoted to the world of music. He is perhaps best known for his inventions in the field of electronic music such as touch keyboards, spectograms, serial structure generator, multiplier (play-back equipment), polyphone. He is also important for his works, his assistance in establishing the first electronic music studios in Canada (at the University of Toronto in 1959 and at… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
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Les inventeures

Description: Recording of Rune Lindblad's Les inventeures. The composition is based upon a poem of the French writer Réné Chars (“Les Inventeures” from “Les Matinaux”). Especially the relationships between freedom and discipline, cognizance and action, and other items like solitariness and community, have been important when shaping the piece, which have resulted in the creation of voice fragments, solo or chorus, mixed with inarticulate screams and stifled exclamations.
Date: 1977/1978
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Lindblad, Rune, 1923-1991
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La légende des merveilles du monde

Description: Recording of Liliane Donskoy's La légende des merveilles du monde. I - Crystal: Bell rubbed with infinitesimal elements that are superimposed causing falls of the inexistent harmonics to the attentiveness of isolated elements. After a break. II - Rock: Sudden burst of macroscopic forms. Some rather short "frozen" sounds, interspersed, gradually lengthen, crumble, melt, merge, and little by little sink into a furious atmosphere, opaque magma. III - The Grotesque Figures of Fire: A random dea… more
Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Donskoy, Liliane
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Lune et triangle

Description: Recording of Michel Redolfi's Lune et triangle. Made to lead one's ear in a world of acoustic and psychic duality. Among these dualities, one can perceive separately at the same time or not all the following couples: Concrete / Abstract Far / Near Signal / Noise Anecdotal / Acousmatic Dense / Noisy Pure / Saturated Inside / Outside Tension / Release "Lune et triangle" is the last part of a series of works composed with computer means. Like "Nuit solaire," a digital synthesizer that allowed the … more
Date: 1978
Duration: 22 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Redolfi, Michel
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