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Act of Opening

Description: "Act of Openings" is a stereo composition made with Moog analog synthesis modules. Composed in 1968, its duration is 17'27. The score of the composition is a dense and modulated sound characterized by carefully controlled phase relationships. All the rhythmic and harmonic elements of the piece derive energy from a long, brilliant sound. Each part of the room is another glimpse of this sound, as a set of flowers form a bouquet. "Act of Openings" received the 2nd Prize at the 1969 Dartmouth Inter… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Weiss, Jonathan, 1949-

[Adult sitting on a couch in a room]

Description: Photograph of a dim room with an adult sitting on a couch. There is a window covered by curtains, and there are many tables throughout the room with lamps and small objects. There is a tall plant and a piano next to the window, and a large dark tapestry on the wall behind the couch with the adult on it.
Date: 1969

[Adult sitting on a couch in a room, 2]

Description: Photograph of a room with an adult sitting on a couch. There is a window covered by curtains, and there are many tables throughout the room with lamps and small objects. There is a tall plant and a piano next to the window, and a large tapestry on the wall behind the couch with the adult on it.
Date: 1969

Batucadas

Description: Recording of Gabriel 's Batucadas. This is a piece entirely composed with electronic sounds. It is an elaboration based on pulsations that occur at different speeds leaning towards density accumulation. Static, shrill and strongly aggressive material that overflows the interrupted background of pulsations. The work was composed in 1973, during the last year of existence of the Laboratory of the Latin-American Center of High Music Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-

Concentric. A question with two answers.

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's "Concentric. A question with two answers." for instrumental ensemble and tape. The piece is a reaction to Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question," which is, in comparison, schizoid in nature, marked by breach, discord, disparity and incommunicability. There are three layered music layers in "Concentric" which join together to create a kind of communion that is timeless through the use of resonant harmonic issued by a fundamental sound C, placed in the deepest regist… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

Concerto for tape

Description: Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Concerto for tape.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław
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