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Le Souffle du Doux

Description: Recording of Daniel Arfib's Le Souffle du Doux. Le souffle du Doux is a play on simple elements always put in harmonic relation voluntarily limited from the point of view of the choice of timbres, it is the relation between the Low and the High (between the low end developing its harmonics and the high notes blow) who the subject of this piece.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Arfib, Daniel

Sous le regard d'un soleil noir

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sec… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-

Tanz-Trypticon

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger's Tans-Trypticon.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 34 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen

Textures Bivox

Description: Recording of Gabriel Poulard's Textures Bivox for tape. The piece was made without a mixer from two revox tap recorders.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Poulard, Gabriel

Time's imaginary eye

Description: Recording of Åke Parmerud's "Time's imaginary eye" for mezzo-soprano, tape and slide show controlled by computer. The mezzo-soprano part was composed from Swedish singer Kerstin Stahl. The piece was first performed at the Stockholm International Electronic Music Festival on September 3, 1979.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 20 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, Åke, 1953-

Tolling

Description: Recording of Ronald Perera's Tolling performed by Kenneth Fearn and Monica Jakuc.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Perera, Ronald

Trio Prosodico II

Description: Recording of Arrigo Lora-Totino's Trio Prosodico II. Poetry is spoken by Lora-Totino. The music of this piece is found in the "natural melody" of the diction and language.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Lora-Totino, Arrigo

Trio Prosodico II

Description: Recording of Arrigo Lora-Totino's Trio Prosodico. This work is modeled after a 'da camera' musical. There is no instrumental music. There is the natural melody of the diction, in three contemporary voices. All three voices are the composer.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Lora-Totino, Arrigo

Unthaitled

Description: Recording of Carl Stone's Unthaitled.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Stone, Carl, 1953-

A Vent

Description: Recording of Jonty Harrison's A Vent for oboe and tape, performed by Robin Canter, oboe. It is more accurately described as a tape piece with oboe since the tape carries the greater part of the musical argument and is never merely a background for an oboe solo. The necessity of breathing permeates the work.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Harrison, Jonty, 1952-

Version n° 2

Description: Recording of Máté Victor's Version n° 2. It was realized at the Studio of Radio in Budapest. The piece is constructed in five movements - movements 1, 3, and 5 contain the same material. It was composed at the Electronic Studio of Mayar Radio in Budapest.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 9 minutes 01 second
Creator: Victor, Máté, 1945-

The waste land

Description: Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's The waste land, for fixed media. The piece is a journey through time and spaces. The present is mixed with the past, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream with reality. The work was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio and was realized in October 1979. The text comes from T. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land."
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Date: 1979
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-

Waveforms

Description: Recording of John Celona's Waveforms. The source material is the Pacific Ocean recorded with a portable Stellavox while standing knee-deep in breaking waves and following their peaks and cascades with microphones. The material was then mixed in a studio according procedures derived from Fibonacci series with followed from the sequence of wave patterns on the particular day the recording was made.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Celona, John, 1947-

What the River Said

Description: Recording of Gene Carl's What the River Said. "This composition began as an experiment: I wanted to see what happens when the sound of a piano string (played by an impulse generator through an electro magnet) is rotated around 4 loudspeakers. After many listenings, the movements of the sounds took on musical forms. This guided me in creating both smallest and largest structures on which the piece is based. Through extensive tape manipulations, a spectrum of sounds evolved from the first sound s… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Carl, Gene

What the River Said

Description: Recording of Gene Carl's What the River Said. This composition is based on the sound of a piano string (played by an impulse generator through an electro magnet) is rotated around 4 loudspeakers. After many listenings, the movements of the sounds took on musical forms. The composer created both smallest and largest structures on which the piece is based. Through extensive tape manipulations a spectrum of sounds evolved from the first sound sources. The title comes from the poem, " the Wasteland… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Carl, Gene, 1953-

Wondrous Love

Description: Recording of Neil Rolnick's Wondrous Love for tape and trombone, performed by George Lewis. The piece is a sometimes humorous fantasy on an Appalachian hymn tune of the same name, in which the trombone and the computer generated accompaniment intertwine and play against one another.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 9 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.

Yantra IX

Description: Recording of Sergio Barroso's Yantra IX, for saxophone and tape. "Yantra" means "cosmogram" in the ancient language of Tibet. The piece is a graphic illustration to obtain variable structures and to explore the possibilities of live and tape saxophone sounds by mixing them. This composition is part of a series of works for various instrumental combinations with and without band. It was composed between August and September 1979.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Barroso, Sergio, 1946-
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