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Aeolian confluence

Description: Recording of Maggi Payne's Aeolian Confluence. In this work, distortion is utilized in many technical ways. This piece is a soundscape, which results from using electro-acoustic technique such as: real time mixing on the Ling seismographic filter, intermodulation distortion, heterodyning, and time delay.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi

The Aeolian Harp

Description: Recording of Heinrich Taube's The Aeolian Harp. This work was created with recorded tape and an aeolian harp, which creates musical sound from air passing through the strings. The composer dedicates this song to their sister, who died of cancer in 1997. The composer says that the piece acts as a reflection of their struggle to come to terms with her death.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 46 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Taube, Heinrich, 1953-

Aerial

Description: Recording of Monty Adkins' Aerial. This is a work for electronics and is included on the album "Mondes Inconnus" by the composer.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Adkins, Monty

Aerial

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Aerial for solo amplified horn and four computer-synthesized soundtracks performed by Steven Field. Aerial is characterized by an interplay between the solo instrument and the taped sounds in terms of complementary and contrasting sound colors. It attempts a close blending of the horn with the tape, not only in terms of timbre, but also with frequent pitch references, similar rhythms and quadraphonic spatial amplification. The horn is not intended to be heard as a 'so… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 46 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

Aes * Aurichalcum * Galmei

Description: Recording of Ron Averill's Aes * Aurichalcum * Galmei. For electronics and pre-recorded manipulated sound.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Averill, Ron, 1962-

Affirmation

Description: Recording of Anna Elizabeth Hinkle Turner's Affirmation. This work uses pre-recorded sounds and electroacoustic technique to find new sound possibilities. The composer's utilized; ProTools, SoundEdit 16, StudioVision Pro and SoundHack for the generation and mixing of all sound files.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth

Afflux / Reflux

Description: Recording of Colby Leider's Afflux / Reflux. This is a work for electronics.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 13 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Leider, Colby

Affranchi

Description: Recording of Alain Basso's Affranchi. This piece involves discourse between two sets of sounds, all of which are from sound recordings. The first set of sounds is comprised of aggressive tool and machine sounds, while the second set of sounds comes from soundscapes with more peaceful elements. As the composition progresses, the two sets of sounds mingle in a violent unison, while gradually a third element comes to weaken this turbulence: human breathing, calm and deep, described as a reminder … more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Basso, Alain

African Procession

Description: Recording of Ari Taskinen's African Procession. This piece is based on recordings of wildlife the composer took in East Africa. He also played certain phrases with various percussion. The composer separates the track into two parts: the first represents the nighttime and the second represents the day. The end of the track uses primarily synthesized sounds and creates a sense of a never-ending cycle of life.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Taskinen, Ari

African Violet

Description: Recording of Jo Thomas' African Violet. For electronics and pre-recorded audio.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Thomas, Jo, 1972-

After the summer rain

Description: Recording of Hideko Kawamoto's After the summer rain. This is a composition for amplified piano and two-channel tape. This work is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Asher Peevey and written for his mother Cecilia Peevey. It was inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's poems, (Nos Pleurs) and Before the Summer Rain. The work as a whole is meant to capture the image of a summer forest and uses a note motif that closely spells out the name "Clarence".
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Date: 2000
Duration: 11 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Kawamoto, Hideko

The afterbirth of apollo

Description: Recording of Eric Lyon's The afterbirth of appollo. This work is for electronics and has a lot of noise elements. The synthetic sounds are harsh and posses an analog sound. This sound feels continuous and even though there is movement in the sound, the construction continues to stay the same. There is a true representation of electronic sound in this work, instead of shying away from the noise, this work embraces it and explores the importance of balance and musical transitions.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lyon, Eric, 1962-

Agitato (Ergo Sum)

Description: Recording of John Duesenberry's Agitato (Ergo Sum). The piece is comprised of six sections, each around the same length. This electronic piece uses a "hyper-flute" sound, trying to accurately mimic the sound of an acoustic flute while also exceeding it in its physical capabilities.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Duesenberry, John, 1950-

Aglavaine et Selysette. Musique de scène

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Aglavaine ed Selysette. Musique de scène. This work uses traditional electronic technique to manipulate sound and create a eerie soundscape. The use of sound within the space is truly key within this work. The sounds are all around the stereo system and sometimes sound closer and further away.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 29 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette

Agnaby

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Agnaby. Realized at the Sheffield University Sound Studio (UK). Agnaby is an electroacoustic drama freely inspired by the novel "L'Etranger" by Albert Camus. It is also an attempt to get in touch, from a musical point of view, with Arab culture and language. The material is derived from a) environmental sounds of the Arab urban life and culture; b) fragments from Arab traditional music and texts; c) excerpts from the French text of the book read by Daniel Arfib. T… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-

Agora

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Agora. This work is an installation and a performance involving electroacoustic music, theatre, and the structural use of space. The theatre version of "Agora" is an event where spatial-music is the structural and theatrical driving force. There is one soprano performer but no "acting out". The work extends the aesthetic of the music theatre of Kagel and the consideration of delineated space defined in Oscar Schlemmer's theory of performance.
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Date: 2000/2003
Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

L'agrippe des droits

Description: Recording of Henri Chopin's L'agrippe des droits. One male voice reads the poem which is then electronically processed. Written for Christian Clozier. Henri Chopin's "Audiopoems" was originally realsed on cassette by Edition Hundertmark as 89. Karton in 2001. Only 500 copies were released.
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Date: [1980,1995]
Duration: 10 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Chopin, Henri

L'Agrippe des Droits

Description: Recording of Henri Chopin's L'Agrippe des Droits. One male voice reads the poem which is then electronically processed. Written for Christian Clozier.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 31 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Chopin, Henri

Agua Derramada

Description: This piece was included in first electro-acoustic recording in Mexico under the Colección Hispano-Mexicana de Música Contemporánea. Agua Derrramada is the sonic result of my perception of spilled water with different recipients. The instruments used for this piece are one Arp 2600, one Korg 3100 and a DX7 with no sample technique involved.
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Date: 1984
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Morales-Manzanares, Roberto, 1958-

Aguiro

Description: Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Beyst, Stefan

Ahora

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

Aï∂a ∂omi

Description: Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper a… more
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Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-

L'aile de l'abeille

Description: Recording of Denis Dufour's L'aile de l'abeille. This work expresses the idea of coming into a new millennium with a history that has been reconstructed and stigmatized. The composer gives a special thanks to Agnès Poisson for the sound recordings used, This work was produced at Motus studio.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Dufour, Denis

Les ailes du pamplemousse

Description: Recording of Eric Mulard's Les ailes du pamplemousse. For electronics and pre-recorded sound. The composer wrote: "Cinema for the ear , theater of sounds , dramaturgy of sound....! Bouquets of moments of life to hear, seized over the course of real and fictitious wanderings. Combined sound images , telescoped into memory , episodes from the lives of sounds attracting and repelling each other like electrons according to my imagination."
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Date: 1995
Duration: 15 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Mulard, Eric
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