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Sound Beach

Description: Recording of Stephen Dembski's Sound Beach. (Another division) perhaps two conceptions of electronic music? One in which the tape produced is the performance of a score (regardless of that scores actual existence), the second: where the tape is a score in sound to be performed by the listener as he heard it. In the first, micromanipulation of sound leads ideally to an electrically phrased, dramatic performance of musical ideas, which the listener hears in one specific manifestation, one of the … more
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Date: 1973/1975
Duration: 6 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Dembski, Stephen

Speech Song

Description: Recording of Charles Dodge's Speech Song. The first movement, A man sitting in the cafeteria; second movement, The days are ahead; third movement, When I am with you; Fourth movement, He destroyed her image. Speech Songs was created at the Bell Laboratories in 1972 by composer Charles Dodge using a speech synthesis system of Joseph Olive. The four short Poems are by the distinguished American poet, Mark Strand. The songs, especially as articulated by the computer-synthesized voice, are ironic… more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 7 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Dodge, Charles, 1942-

Studie 7b

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals's Studie 7b. Six groups of 24 frequencies, chosen in the temperate system, undergo 12 transformations of amplitude and duration. The succession of the 72 variants of the basic groups is determined by the random element of the programmer, by means of which this study was carried out. During the realization, the multiple possibilities of this programmer contributed significantly to enrich the sound result. The composer decided to make the distinction between the compo… more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 8 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Studie VIIb

Description: Recording of Lucien Goethals's Studie VIIb. Six groups of 24 frequencies, chosen in the tempered system, undergo 12 transformations of amplitude and duration. The succession of the 72 variants of the basic groups is determined by the random element of the programmer, by means of which this study was carried out. During the production, the multiple possibilities of this programmer significantly contributed to enriching the sound result, which the composer decided to distinguish between the compo… more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 8 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Goethals, Lucien

Synthana

Description: Recording of Branimir Sakač's Synthana, made in collaboration with Paul Pignon. Sakač describes this piece as an attempt to coerce the machine to "yield his feeling of the moment," which results in a desire for simplicity, for extended durations which bring security.
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Date: 1973
Duration: 10 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Sakač, Branimir, 1918-1979

Theme: Electronic Music (Synthistory)

Description: Recording of Boguslaw Schaeffer's Theme: Electronic Music (Synthistory).Synthistory was produced in the Radio Belgrade Electronic studio on a Synthi 100 in close collaboration with Paul Pignon. This work was produced in April-May after working on Music for tape. Synthistory is composed in three parts, using the sequencer for most parameters. The two short outer parts are similar in material and special distribution, but differ in many other aspects. The middle part is much longer and composed w… more
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Date: 1973
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław

To A child

Description: Recording of Ross Harris's To A child
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Date: 1973
Duration: 12 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Harris, Ross, 1945-

Tres momentos magicos

Description: Recording of César Franchisena's "Tres momentos magicos" ("Three Magical Moments"). This is the second of the three movements, which were conceived as contrasting autonomous pieces. It is a non-directional piece that revolves around a limited number of motifs.
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Date: 1973
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Franchisena, César M., 1923-

Zoophonia

Description: Recording of Zoltán Pongrácz's Zoophonia for two channel tape. The sound material consists of thirty different animal sounds - including dolphin, fish for the Black Sea, monkey, dog, cat, frog, wild goose, and various birds - and from ten nature sounds - wind, water splashing, rain, thunder - which are electronically processed. The piece was commissioned by the Budapest Film Factory "MAFILM" and was realized in the studio of the Filmfabrik "Exaustud" in 1973.
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Date: 1973
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Pongrácz, Zoltán
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