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La Feria Fantástica

Description: Recording of Igor de Gandarias' La Feria Fantástica. This work was realized at the University of Maryland Electronic Music Studio using a Fairlight Series III station. The sound sources come from live recordings made in 1991 during the celebration of the most important popular feast in Guatemala City, called “Feria de Jocotenago” (Jocotenango’s fair). The feast, dedicated to celebrate the city’s patron anniversary (Virgin of the Assumption), takes place in August every year, enduring the comp… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 8 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Gandarias, Igor de
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Figuras Flamencas

Description: Recording of Mario Verandi's Figuras Flamencas. This piece uses sound manipulation which creates a sonic environment using recognizable flamenco sounds, allowing musical flow as a sequence of superimposed and juxtaposed transformations between the two parallel worlds. The intention is to evoke a metaphorical journey through flamenco, which is "corrupted by surreal sonic creatures". The texts from Federico Garcia Lorca and sources materials from Spanish flamenco music and spoken texts Lorca's "B… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Verandi, Mario
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Flamenco

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Flamenco. Flamenco music always recalls a world of suggestions and a strong emotional rapture to all its listeners. This composition wants to be firstly an homage to the tradition of the guitarist virtuosity and then an attempt to render - in an electroacoustic way - the sensations of strength and energy belonging to such musical genre. All the sound material of the piece has been sampled from recordings by great guitarists. Original sound events were processed to… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-
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Fragment from Epitaph for N.Copernicus

Description: Recording of Roman Berger's Fragment of Epitaph for N.Copernicus. In addition to "traditional" electroacoustic apparatus, modules of the ARP synthesizer were used. A single relatively longer object is initially exposed as a "subject" and some sections of the composition are then intended as its variations. The form of the "epitaph" also ties in with tradition by respecting the principle of symmetry as well as that of evolution. In the background stands the idea of ​​continuous multidimensional… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 4 minutes 01 second
Creator: Berger, Roman, 1930-
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Games

Description: Recording of Fabio Cifariello Ciardi's Games. For contrabass and electronics. Looking at sound events in terms of mental images might be useful to grasp a part of the listener knowledge that might stand out clearly during the listening process, even without being directly related with musical parameters. In "Games," I used sounds to explore the abstract concept of game. "Games" is based on sonic organisms that dwell different virtual spaces. The listener is intended as the main player of a meta… more
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Date: 1995/1998
Duration: 13 minutes
Creator: Ciardi, Fabio Cifariello
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Gâteau d'anniversaire

Description: Recording of Roland Cahen's Gâteau d'anniversaire. Described by the composer as a musical joke made for the 25th anniversary of the Experimental Music Group of Bourges, and noted as the composer's only (recent) attempt at a rock song.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Cahen, Roland
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Ghost ship

Description: Recording of O. Powers' Ghost ship. This work was inspired by the legends surrounding the part of the Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea. The legends speak of a fantastic graveyard of lost ships and the composer feels this work has something to do with encountering the ghost of the sailors. The sound material in this work is made up of various concrete sounds that have been manipulated.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Powers, O., 1952-
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Gramvousa

Description: Recording of Roderik de Man's Gramvousa. This piece was commissioned by "Het Trio," and the composer derived the composition's title from a small island featured in a book he was reading at the time ("The Ulysses Voyage" by Tim Severin). The island of Gramvousa is situated at the north-west tip of Crete, which is featured in Homer's Odyssey. The island plays an important role in this epic story, as not only is it the home of Aeolus, the God of Winds, it also is the point of departure for the lo… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de 1941-
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