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Capriccio

Description: Recording of Ensemble Team Brno's Capriccio. Ensemble Team Brno, founded in 1967, is comprised of the members Alois Pinoš, Arnošt Parsch, Rudolf Růžička, and Miloš Štědroň. All members of the Team studied and graduated at the High Musical School at Brno, the Janáček Academy of the Musical Arts.
Date: 1972/1974
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Pinoš, Alois, 1925-2008; Parsch, Arnošt, 1936-2013; Růžička, Rudolf & Štědroň, Miloš

Ceremony of Shrugs

Description: Recording of David Koblitz's Ceremony of Shrugs. This piece was originally composed as music to a dance choreographed by Amy Ellsworth and performed by members of the University of Michigan Dancers. It is heard here in a slightly altered form. The sounds used in the piece were produced by electrical acoustic instruments, in addition to purely electronic sources. All were subject to modification and rearrangement in the University of Michigan Electronic Music Studio.
Date: 1972
Duration: 18 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Koblitz, David

Fawn

Description: Recording of Lorenzo Ferrero's Fawn. "Fawn" has a number of very contradictory meanings in English; perhaps this is why it is a good title for a work on love that uses two extracts from Sappho as its text. The letters of this word are even the initials of a dedication that has meaning only for the author. It creates a relationship (Aristotelian?) between an esoteric (for oneself) and esoteric (for the public) that reproduces even romantic attitudes. This work can be performed live without any m… more
Date: 1972
Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Ferrero, Lorenzo

Gilgamesh, The Journey to the Gods

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Gilgamesh, The Journey to the Gods, a music theatre work for singers and 12 four-channel tapes. The work is based on the legend of the Sumerian god-king, as told in the Epic of Gilgamesh which dates from the 3rd millennium, B.C., 1500 years before Homer. In the epic, Gilgamesh is part god, part man, who is responsible for the building of the first walled city, Uruk, and other feats of technology. He has become close friends with Enkidu, a "wild man" reared by animals … more
Date: 1972/1973
Duration: 57 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

Metallika Glypta III

Description: "Metallika Glypta III", is the third release of a series of three works under the same title, was written in February 1972. Their processing and the final realization were made in the studio of the author. The sculpture exhibition of Loukoupoulos (1972) was the starting point of "Metallika Glypta". The idea of ​​using sounds taken exclusively from metal sculptures was a particularly challenging stimulus. The musical activity starts at the first moment when the sound material was collected. The … more
Date: 1972
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Adamis, Michael

Oil

Description: Recording of Pekka Siren's Oil. The piece was Siren's protest against the harbor plan proposed by the Finnish oil company Neste in the 1970s to establish a huge oil harbor in the nature preservation area in the southern coast of Finland. It was realized in YLE TV Studio two and three in 1972.
Date: 1972
Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Siren, Pekka
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