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Shiluvim

Description: "Shiluvim" was composed for the choir "Ankor" and commanded by their leader, A. Meroz. The work is conceived on two levels of combinations: 1. That of electronic sounds and a live performance of a children's choir. 2. The combination of two chords, the minor and G major, while a seventh chord in E-flat mixes with them. The text is composed of syllables that help bridge the gap between the children's voices and the sounds on the tape. Work done at the Studio of the Hebrew University.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 8 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Zur, M.

Sinfonia Concertante: Mozartean Episode

Description: Sinfonia Concertante is modeled on the dramatic essence of its classic namesake: the interplay of the chamber orchestra and the computer music narrative; of sweet consonance and angry dissonance; of innocence and duplicity; of pleasure and sorrow. The text for the taped narrative heard through the piece is formed from excerpts from ten letters written by Mozart from Mannheim and Paris to his father in Salzburg during a nine-month period from November 22, 1777, to July 9, 1778. The text was digi… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Austin, Larry

Solo II

Description: This piece is originally for live 8-tape track mixer, the various tracks constituting as many terminals that the interpreter can play. The version presented here is a mix made in the studio. The sounds on the tape are deliberately left pretty raw, so as to be flexible in mixing and broadcasting. In order to offer interesting gaming possibilities, they also come from a wide variety of sources: concrete sounds, analog and digital synthesis, and digital processing, made at the Pierre Henry Associa… more
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Date: [1986..1988]
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas

Sonatu(h)r

Description: Sonatu(h)r (1986) belongs to a more vast musical work (of a composition class type), designed for magnetic tape, piano and an intimate, non spectacular practice of sounds. Sonatu(h)r is short for Sonant, Sonata, Nature, Ur (the universal basis of culture) and Uhr (time, hour). Thus, the musical discourse is formed by the display of archetypal elements defining various musical cultures of the planet, or in other words essential rhythmical sounds of musical modes (the very basis of music)… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

Sones

Description: A study in timbres which develop and evolve in space, where pure electronic sounds intermingle with processed trumpet samples, mainly with speed variation and mix in many strata creating rich polyphonies and/or textures. The goal of the piece is to create a suggestive atmosphere.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 9 minutes
Creator: Lewin Richter, Andrés, 1937-

Souprematika

Description: The cube is the representation of the sound block, it is composed as follows: - creation of a material - creation of a writing - spatilization - total interaction between the sound micro-structure and the shape of the sound block. It comes in different forms (perspective) according to its location in space. This is not a variation of the sound block, but its presentation in a form each time different. The whole of the symphony results from the composition of the sound blocks. It is from this c… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Dorobisz, Patrick

Spoke

Description: "Spoke" is a phenomenon observed in the rings of planets such as Saturn and Uranus. These are radial rays that intersect the layers of the ring. This movement of the rings is very important in the composition of my acoustic space, where you can have the impression of zero gravity in the dark with your eyes closed. When the "Spoke" is done, the radial lines can sometimes be motionless, other times they oscillate slowly responding to different speeds of each layer of the ring. In a space its hori… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-

Steinelied

Description: Steinelied (song of stones) is the only composition where I used exclusively synthetic sounds, which were produced on a VAX in the studio EMS (Stockholm 1986). The meaning of the title is that the chips, the crystals of silicium, namely the stones try to sing and to show absurd emotions. For the frequencies of the musical intervals I had choosen (with one exception) prime numbers, so that all intervals are "incorrect" from the point of perfect tuning.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 11 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Katzer, Georg, 1935-

Streichquartett No. 11

Description: This composition is based on a magic square, which is on a copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer, entitled "Melencolia I" (dated 1514) The figures 17 and 34, resulting from the different additions, represent in this magic square as well as in my composition of the structural values. Numbers penetrate the composition in multiple ways, take the foreground to disappear to become elusive, rise to the surface to fall back into the vagueness. But it is still the magic square of Albrecht Dürer, without o… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 14 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Schweizer, Frank, 1962-

Tao, deuxième élément: Feu

Description: Extraordinary system of understanding and classification analogical, concrete and figured of the universe, the tao • sme allows an acousmatic writing based on the materials, the energies, the transformations. Cyclic succession of five elements, natural forces, destroying each other, TAO causes mutations, substitutions of symbols, concrete indices because there is interdependence between them. It is the regulator of the alternation. The following comments, written in a rather long post-publicat… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette, 1946-

Ultimate Effort

Description: A piece created on the digital system "UPIC" invented by the composer Iannis Xenakis. It was awarded the prize for UPIC based composition of the “Center for Contemporary Music Research (KSYME) in Athens and then performed at the electroacoustic music festival of Bourges in 1986, where it made an impression. The next year it was awarded the "residence" prize in the international competition of electroacoustic music of Bourges. Since then, it has been performed in many countries.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Stratoudakis, Constantin, 1963-

D'un Jour, l'Autre

Description: "One day, the other" work composed in 1986 in the electroacoustic music studio of CNR Amiens is a series of paintings passing like dreams, melting musical and anecdotal sounds.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne, 1958-

Vocalise

Description: This work is based entirely on the composer's closely microphoned voice and is a kind of self portrait.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Harris, Ross, 1945-

Walking tune (a room-music for Percy Grainger)

Description: Recording of Charles Amirkhanian's Walking Tune (a room-music for Percy Grainger). Inspired by Grainger's Walking Tune for piano solo, Amirkhanian uses a Synclavier digital synthesizer to combine sounds from multiple locations, along with the sounds of a violin and voice. The violin and voice part is performed by Elizabeth Baker of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Date: 1986/1987
Duration: 27 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Amirkhanian, Charles

Wallpapermusic

Description: Is a collection of fantasy and collected from a few excerpts of my favorite composers. The music begins to take shape as a kind of mask propelling its musical fragments. Intensive use has been made of the Vax numbering system in technical production. The programs used were: Chant, developed at IRCAM by Xavier Rodet; used for the synthesis of speech and song; Bada in conjunction with the mix. A transformation program developed at EMS by Paul Pignon.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 27 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Dyett, Kim, 1956-

Water Music

Description: The work was written in September and October 1985. The work was born from its first note, a violin note generated by computer and reverberated beyond any reasonable limit. The "off-tone" parts are really based on a 13-tone diatonic chord with some incursions into 48-tone diagrams. "Water Music" was performed on Stanford's system synthesizer (the Samson box).
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Date: 1986
Duration: 17 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Schottstaedt, Bill, 1951-

Weindlungen

Description: In this work, the sound material has been worked in such a way that the live soundtrack and the tape are merged into the sound result and so that there are always new "exchanges" between the two partners.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Zapf, Helmut, 1956-

Wet

Description: "Wet" mainly includes computer-processed sounds. The rest of the sounds are produced by synthesizers controlled by computers and an acoustic violin.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 11 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Hellström, Sten-Olof

With Love

Description: WITH LOVE, 1986, a fantasy for live cello and decorated cello cases, in memory of Myrtle Hollins Adelberg, by Vivian Adelberg Rudow, won FIRST PRIZE in the 14th International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Bourges,1986, program division. It won with straight ten's. Rudow was the first woman to win a first prize in the Program division of the Bourges competition and the first American woman to win any first prize. This work was composed for live cello and stereo tape. For the first perfor… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 52 minutes
Creator: Rudow, Vivian Adelberg, 1936-
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