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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

[The dining room of Neuschwanstein Castle]

Description: Photograph of the dining room shown at Neuschwanstein Castle in Schwangau, Germany. There is a statue near the center of the photo and four paintings with each containing people in them, two of which are placed over two wooden doors, one which has been opened. There is a chandelier hanging on the ceiling just above the statue.
Date: 1969

Energies

Description: "This piece made in 1969 with extremely modest means was integrated in 1972 into a triptych, Assemblages, which accompanied an exhibition of "Volumes éclatés" by the sculptor Michel Anasse. It can be considered the third of my "presentable" studies. “Energies” was part of the material submitted in 1988 for the first "Magisterium" of the Bourges Competition, which was obtained. "
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Date: 1969
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

[Field with trees]

Description: Photograph of a field with a few trees in the midground along with numerous objects dotting the field around the trees. A wire fence with wooden fenceposts is in the foreground, and there are dense trees in the background. The sky is blue with sparse clouds.
Date: 1969

Gurges

Description: Recording of Rudolf Ružička's Gurges. The composer calls this piece a "space matrix composition." It was created on the strength of promulgation of international trial electronic and concrete composition "Musica nova." It was composed in Pilsener Electronic Laboratory in November 1969 .
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Date: 1969
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Ružička, Rudolf (composer)

[Horizon over a body of water]

Description: Photograph of a horizon with clouds partially obscuring the sun, and the sky soft fading colors of orange to yellow to blue. There are multiple land masses far in the distance on a large body of water. In the foreground there's a large patch of ground, and the end of a fence is closer to the water is on the left side of the photo.
Date: 1969

Hydrophonie I

Description: Recording of Werner Kaegi's Hydeophonie I for 4-track tape. It was composed and realized in 1969 in the studios of the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht (Holland). The piece is based on the possibilities offered by a generator with a variable function which, at the time, preceded the digital computer. Kaegi's work is based on programmed and descriptive structures. All the musical material was generated in a purely synthetic way, all resembling the "reality" having come only from the musical str… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque.
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Date: 1969
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Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-

Kiosque

Description: Recording of Alain Savouret's Kiosque. This piece was created for live instruments and stereo tape. It's imagining a situation: in the center of the kiosk, someone is playing the score of their existence. Like any concert in a square, it is disturbed, distorted by external manifestations, foreign to the score. But here, in this particular situation, it is musical actions, taken over by the instrumentalists of Opus 9, which will disturb, prevent or perhaps facilitate the performance of this scor… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 31 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Savouret, Alain, 1942-
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