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Viola Celeste

Description: Recording of Michela Mollia's Viola Celeste. This work was performed at the Experimental Studio of Electroacoustic Music of the Conservatory of Pesaro. Its sound material is made up of 950 sines, grouped in a mixture of 4 sines, each and arranged in 16 sets of 21 mixtures from start to finish. Each layer (4 complexes) is a fairly complex superposition of sinusoidal sounds, the frequencies of which vary over time so as to avoid the creation of melodies, but to stabilize between one frequency val… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Mollia, Michela
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Viola celeste

Description: Recording of Michela Mollia's Viola celeste. This work was realized at the Experimental Studio of Electroacoustic Music of the Pesaro Conservatory. Its sound material consists of 950 sinusoids (sine curves) grouped into a mixture of 4 sinusoids each and arranged in 16 sets of 21 mixtures from beginning to end. Each layer (4 complexes) is a rather complex superposition of sinusoidal sounds whose frequencies vary in time so as to avoid the creation of melodies, but to stabilize between one freque… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Mollia, Michela
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Viols II

Description: Recording of Manuel Enríquez's Viols II. A stringed instrument, both with and without bow, is the sole source of sound.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Enríquez, Manuel
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Where Sea Meets Sky Part I

Description: Recording of John Rimmer's Where Sea Meets Sky Part I. This piece consists of two parts. Part 1 an electronic piece, Part 2 an instrumental piece which is an outgrowth of the electronic music. The work was inspired by a plane journey from Australia to New Zealand on a particularly beautiful, dead day. The elements of blue void and cloud formations provide the force for the piece which falls into several sections each separated by a length silence. The final section contains a spoken reference … more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Rimmer, John, 1939-
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Whisper Study for Two Electroacoustic Sound Tracks

Description: Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's Whisper Study for Two Electroacoustic Soundtracks. Whisper Study is based on the sentence "When there is no sound, hearing is most alert" (a quote from the Indian mystic Kirphal Singh in Naam or Word). Except for the distant horns, all sounds were derived from the composer's voice, whispering the above sentence and the word "silence". Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape techniques in the analog studio of the 70s and using the whis… more
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Date: 1975/1979
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-
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Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks)

Description: Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's Whisper Study (for two electroacoustic sound tracks). Whisper Study is based on the sentence "When there is no sound, hearing is most alert" (a quote from the Indian mystic Kirpal Singh. Except for the distant horns, all sounds were derived from the composer's voice, whispering the above sentence and the word "silence." Whisper Study started out as an exercise in exploring basic tape techniques in the analog studio of the 70s and using the whispered voice as… more
Date: 1975/1979
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Westerkamp, Hildegard
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Whispers Out of Time

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Whispers Out of Time. The title of this piece refers to the last line in a poem titled "Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery (1975). The composer used a VCS3, three ReVox tape recorders each with vari-speed gadget, and an AKG reverberation unit in an attempt to express with electronic sounds the moods, feelings, and sensations the four words of the title invoked in him.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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