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Babel

Description: Recording of Jorge Rodrigo Sigal's Babel. This work is part of a larger CD project called "Manifesto". The piece is meant for flute, tape, and optional live electronics. The sound materials were recorded in Spain, France, and Mexico City. The composer dedicates this work to Stefano Scarani and it was premiered by Mr. Harrie Starreveld.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Sigal, Rodrigo
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Metharcana

Description: Recording of Stephan Dunkelman's Metharcana. This work was produced using material intended for a dance production. The composer used this work to explore the use of space within a time defined by the choreographic structure. He did this by presenting two seemingly ill-matched sonic worlds and making their relationship viable.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Dunkelman, Stephan, 1956-
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Come la voce della coscienza

Description: Recording of Juan Manuel Marrero's Come la voce della coscienza.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Marrero, Juan Manuel, 1970-
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Cause Cachette

Description: Recording of Roland Cahen's Cause Cachette. For voice, pre-recorded audio, and electronics. The title is a burlesque piece by Théâtrophone. This piece's message is: at a time when, against all logic, we persist in taking effects for causes and actions for effects without effects, while playing tribute to Pierre Schaeffer. The equipment used consisted of an 8-track cassette, accompanied with 8 speakers.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 22 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Cahen, Roland
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Personal relations

Description: Recording of Milos Betko's Personal relations. This piece is segmented into 9 parts by the composer: 1. just before, 2. micado of mammoths, 3. speech of birds, 4. celestial threats, 5. song 1, 6. up and down, 7. song 2: "How many times it sings...", 8. emotions, 9. trio. It's comprised of background noise, violin, voices of the composer's friends, etc. The piece seems to be a collection of sounds that the composer relates to his personal life and day to day.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Betko, Milos
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6 pièces avec voix

Description: Recording of Simon Jaunin's 6 pièces avec voix. For pre-recorded voice, percussion, and electronics. The composer writes: "An informal exchange between a reciter of considerable renown and not mentioned. The pieces revolve around the persistence of salient discursive elements in an unstable sound field. In addition, a strong tension is created between the mechanical aspect of development and freedom of tone."
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Date: unknown
Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Juanin, Simon
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Des ondes, toujours des ondes

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Des ondes, toujours des ondes. This piece was composed within the framework of the open work "le Monde devenu musique l'écoute du siècle". The concept behind the piece is the idea that we are all surrounded by waves constantly: the telephone, radio, television, etc. The composer focuses mainly on the importance of the radio over the last century by highlighting significant events and their broadcasts.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
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Molecules

Description: Recording of Didier Gino Favotti's Molecules. This work consists of various concrete and electroacoustic sounds that the composer states do not sound pleasing on their own, but come together to create a new sound space. It's separated into five movements that are untitled.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Favotti, Didier Gino
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Paysage enseveli

Description: Recording of Blas Payri's Paysage enseveli. The composer describes this work as an acousmatic oratorio based on fragments from the novel "Thérese Desqueyroux" by François Mauriac and is separated into ten untitled sections. The work contains several leitmotifs and depicts the opposition between the speaker and her surroundings, including various concrete and electronic sounds amidst the spoken word.
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Date: 1998/2000
Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Payri, Blas
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Train fantôme

Description: Recording of Bernard Donzel Gargand's Train fantôme. This is a work for electronics and various concrete sounds.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Donzel Gargand, Bernard
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La création ; Madame !

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La création ; Madame !. This work was written for an openwork during the Synthèse Festival in Bourges, France.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
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Conte Sous La Lune

Description: Recording of Marc Tremblay's Conte Sous La Lune.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Tremblay, Marc, 1960-
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Microinfinitos

Description: Recording of Sergio Rojas De Carvalmo's Microinfinitos. This piece is a constellation of 27 micro-songs exploring poetry and music. It uses an electro-acoustic design that is music free of any adjective, without any fear or melodies or even rhythmic pulsations where the eroticism of the body is expressed. This work explores how music can enhance meaning behind the words from a poem.
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Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 17 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Rojas De Carvalmo, Sergio
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Opening a Can of Worms

Description: Recording of Lars Larsson's Opening a Can of Worms. The composer speaks of the process behind this piece as follows: Talking gibberish, stopping mid-sentence only to find I forgot what I was talking about, and saying obscure quotes to communicate are things I do a lot. The work "Opening a can of Worms" reflects this in various ways: a) regarding the sound, I tried to incorporate as many conflicting sounds as possible, something that nobody would normally use in this way musically; b) regarding … more
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Date: 19XX
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Larsson, Lars, 1964-
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Sweden

Description: Recording of Lennart Westman's Sweden. The music of Sweden was composed already in 1997. However, in 1999 the collaboration with the visual artist Gunnar Jutelius was set about which resulted in the intermedial work Sweden is today. It has been performed in the autumn of 1999 at Café Umbra and Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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L'oeil neutrino

Description: Recording of Alexander Gabrys' L'oeil neutrino.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Gabrys, Alexander, 1974-
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Agnaby

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Agnaby. Realized at the Sheffield University Sound Studio (UK). Agnaby is an electroacoustic drama freely inspired by the novel "L'Etranger" by Albert Camus. It is also an attempt to get in touch, from a musical point of view, with Arab culture and language. The material is derived from a) environmental sounds of the Arab urban life and culture; b) fragments from Arab traditional music and texts; c) excerpts from the French text of the book read by Daniel Arfib. T… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-
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Un dimanche idéal

Description: Recording of Phillippe Blanchard's Un dimanche idéal. This work is a screenplay by Nicolas Fraix, with the composer creating the music. Sound manipulation techniques and vocal processing were used to explore the sonic possibilities of voice and electronics.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe
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Invisible

Description: Recording of Jean-Claude Risset's Invisible. For soprano and tape, dedicated to Irène Jarsky. The piece is based on texts by Tchouang-tzu, the Chinese Taoist philosopher. In this book, sounds which respond to the character don't come from the physical and visible. The very transformations of the voice transport into fictitious acoustics, which is no longer the audible trace of mechanical vibrations in a material world. The use of synthesis and digital voice processing makes it possible to imple… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Risset, Jean-Claude
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De front (Quatuor)

Description: Recording of Pierre Jodlowski's De front (Quatuor). The idea of ​​this piece is based on a set of writings around the processes of aggression in humans and animals, as well as on the notion of frontality (which relates to the intermediate, fuzzy zones of our experience - physical or intellectual). The principle of the work (hence the precision quartet) is based on the development, "in concentric circles," of four groups or entities: 1. clarinet / trumpet; 2. percussion; 3. string quintet; 4. pa… more
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Date: 1999
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Jodlowski, Pierre, 1971-
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Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away. This piece includes periods of overlapping voices, with voices speaking in French, German, English, and Spanish; sometimes these overlaps consist of two voices in different languages, sometimes more.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010
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Ciels

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Ciels. The text comes from the revolutionary poem "Egy gondolat bánt engemet..." ("One Thought Torments Me") by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849), and can be roughly translated into English as: "When every enslaved people / Will rise up breaking his chains / Red faces will carry red flags / And on the flags we will write: / Freedom for the whole world!"
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Date: 1996
Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude
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Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer

Description: Recording of Christian Zanési's Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer. The composer has these remarks on the creation of this piece: In 1996, on the initiative of the Experimental Music Group of Bourges (GMEB), around a hundred composers paid tribute to Pierre Schaeffer. It was on this occasion that I composed a short, outdated waltz, the theme of which is childhood (it is said of Pierre Schaeffer that, when he was a few years old, he would have written a 'treatise on the hoop'). Later, I cont… more
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Zanési, Christian
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