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3 elektronische Studien

Description: Recording of Lothar Voigtländer's 3 elektronische Studien. The basis for the composition are the poems of the poet Erich Arendt. The poems were written around 1925 in his Expressionist creative period. Accordingly, the compositional means: concrete musical material is mixed with electronic sounds to achieve a strongly expressive and suggestive associative effect. It is less thought of as a "setting" of the texts, but should be added to the often strongly symbolic language formulations as a diff… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Voigtländer, Lothar, 1943-
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Adagio

Description: Recording of Raoul de Smet's Adagio. For this work the composer had proposed harmony and relaxation "before anything else.” From there, a slow and steady tempo and very simple form. The sound material is provided by twelve ordinary sound generators. The work begins with a chord in the treble, slowly emerging from the silence or void sound and sustained by a regular pulsation in the bass, the result of differential sounds. Then several new sounds are added while others change timbre, octave, or … more
Date: 1975
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: De Smet, Raoul
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Ambience

Description: Recording of Richard Orton's Ambience. Ambience for solo bass trombone and tape was written for the American Trombonist James Fulkerson and first performed by him in the Wigmore Hall, London, on 17 May 1975. He has since included the work in many recitals during his tours in Scandinavia, Canada and the USA. The title "Ambience" here refers to the imaginative sonic environment surrounding the sounds of the trombone, including the most "artificial," synthesized sounds, instrumental ensembles whic… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Orton, Richard, 1940-2013
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Atelje II (Atelier II)

Description: Recording of Lojze Lebič's Atelje II (Atelier II) for tape. The piece was composed in collaboration with Paul Pignon in the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio in September 1975. It is made up of five sections, in which certain electroacoustic "instrumental" ideas are transformed through characteristic compositional procedures. The title has a twofold meaning: on one hand, it reveals the aims of the composer's research, considering that this was Lebič's first encounter with the electronic medium, … more
Date: 1975
Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Lebič, Lojze
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Barisphère

Description: Recording of Zoltan Pongrácz's Barisphère. The work Barisphère is the central part of a cosmic series in three parts: Luna IX, Barisphère and The Big Bang. Its title refers to the central core of the earth, consisting of molten iron and nickel, with a diameter of about 30km. The composer's intention was to create, using electroacoustic means, a program music that excites the cosmic imagination of the listener. The sound material is made up of both synthetic and natural sounds rigorously structu… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Pongrácz, Zoltán
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Cantica feralia

Description: Recording of Ivan Parík's Cantica feralia. The basic material is an orchestral work of the composer. The material was re-worked with electronic manipulations; originally the work was quadraphonic. Dedicated to the victims of the concentration camps of the Second World War.
Date: 1975
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Parík, Ivan, 1936-2005
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Constellation

Description: Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Constellation. This composition is a process of pursuit to sonority in limited materials possibility of transformation and combination. In addition to all instruments used were a Graphic Equalizer, a Eariable Speed Tape Recorder, and a Microphon setting.
Date: 1975
Duration: 16 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-
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Construction

Description: Recording of Curtis Roads's Construction. This piece consists of continuous sound spectra. It was composed intuitively by ear. Its process of forming is characterized by an interplay among sections of historical development (continuous transformation), sequences of event (discrete spectral "harmonies"), and disjoint non-sequiturs (contrasting modes of musical behavior). "Construction" is a model, an alternative vision to the dominant mode of structuring. The technical devices used to make the w… more
Date: 1975/1976
Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Roads, Curtis
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...Despues el silencio...

Description: Recording of Hilda Dianda's "...Despues el silencio..." ("...After the silence..."). The piece is complex in its apparent simplicity. The slow evolution of the piece, with its predominantly dark and static sounds from which material of greater brightness and mobility emerge occasionally. Silence also plays an important role in the composition. It was realized at the SISMAT Laboratory.
Date: 1975
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Dianda, Hilda, 1925-
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Effetti Collaterali

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Effetti Collaterali performed by the clarinetist Phillip Rehfeldt. The composer's first effort in using systematically his concept of AM and FM spectra as inharmonic harmonizations of specific dyads. 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 each pitch-pair can generate several possible spectra, but the similarity in… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 10 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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Empty Mirror

Description: Recording of Neil B. Rolnick's Empty Mirror. This piece uses as sound sources the music of peoples distinctly apart from the tradition of Western Classical music. The composer makes use of the complex interplay of harmonic and rhythmic motion and tries to shape the sounds from diverse and trans-cultural nature of the original material.
Date: 1975
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.
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Haauqui

Description: Recording of Graciela Paraskevaídis's Haauqui (pronounced Wauki or Ouaouki) for two-track tape. The title is a Qechua word referring to a small statue carried by the Incas that resembles their own image, a meaning extended to brotherhood, community, and friendship. The sound events, created from both microphonic and electronic sources, aim at a non-discursive, non-anecdotic function based on a self-imposed simplicity and on the presence of structural silence. It was realized at Elac, pequeno es… more
Date: 1975
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Paraskevaídis, Graciela, 1940-
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