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Rab-à-quatre

Description: Recording of Philippe Ménard's Rep-à-quatre. This piece is inspired by François Rabelais and his satire, grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. On a technical level, most of the sound material comes from samples of the texts (ASR 10 sampler) and the musical organization is managed by the MAX software, my improvising assistant.
Date: 1994
Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Ménard, Philippe, 1946-
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L'Oracle de la Dive Bouteille

Description: Recording of Georg Katzer's L'Oracle de la Dive Bouteiller. This work is for actors and tapes. The nonsense lyrics are taken from the wonderful "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Rabelais. There is a very important use of space, the sounds are at times isolated to where you may hear two different sounds on both sides, instead of predominantly in the center of the stereo system.
Date: 1994
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Katzer, Georg, 1935-2019
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Les Vagues

Description: Recording of Marcelle Deschênes' Les Vagues. This work is for voice and electronics. It is inspired by excerpts from Virginia Woolf's novel "Les Vagues". Moments of being of human are brought together haphazardly by the imagination of an old man. During the evening solitude, reflecting memories of incoherent and fleeting images from privileged moments of his life being to play and sensations emerge. This work represents a new stage which has been crossed; awakening the last rise of an endless f… more
Date: 1990/1994
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Deschênes, Marcelle, 1939-
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Rhapsodie parisienne

Description: Recording of Nicolas Vérin's Rhapsodie parisienne. This work uses texts taken from "Spleen de Paris" by Charles Baudelaire. The reciter is the guide is the base of the piece and the speech: is hammered, stretched, stopped by rhythms based on a pulsation, and synthetic sounds. Translated antagonisms reflect contrast: presence/absence, natural/artificial, melodic/noise, near/distant, as well as by contrasts of style.
Date: 1990
Duration: 21 minutes
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas
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Retour d'appel

Description: Recording of Yves Potvin's Retour d'appel. The use of voice and rhythm is the foreground of this piece. There are electronically built sounds and percussion which allow for the rhythmic aspect of the vocal part to have added complexity. Often times the voice is either syncopated or in unison.
Date: 1992
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Potvin, Yves
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Vision urbaine II ou Annecy… et moi aussi !

Description: Recording of Philippe Moënne-Loccoz's Vision urbaine II ou Annecy… et moi aussi! This work discusses the dissatisfaction from a composer's point of view and adds musical touches. These added changes makes these atmospheres resonate, which makes the work more alive, timeless, and technical.
Date: 1993
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Moënne-Loccoz, Pierre
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Hurlante

Description: Recording of Marc Pichelin's Hurlante. This piece uses samples and recordings to create a mysterious soundscape about the idea of wondering within the universe. The use of electro-acoustic technique allows for the listener to have a wide listening space with contrasting musical conversation.
Date: 1992
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Pichelin, Marc, 1967-
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Figures de la nuit (Faces of the night)

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Figures de la nuit (Faces of the night). This piece is about dreams and the concept of one's existence within the night. There are samples of voices, sine tones, nature, and electronically built and/or manipulated sounds.
Date: 1991
Duration: 26 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis
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Rictus Nocturne

Description: Recording of Jacques Tremblay's Rictus Nocturne. This piece is divdied in six movements each named after a jazz standard: Blue Train, Blue Prints, The Duke, Quiet Now, Walkin, and The Shadow of Your Smile. There are many samples of jazz utilized in this piece and they pay homage to musicians in jazz.
Date: 1992
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Tremblay, Jacques, 1952-
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Marche sonore I (Le matin du monde)

Description: Recording of Claude Schryer's Marche sonore I (Le matin du monde). The title translates to "Soundwalk I (The Morning of the World)." This piece is a radio fantasy based on the testimony of 25 people discussing their acoustic environments. The answers were orchesrated intp an electroacoustic soundwalk in six movements: Allô, Grenouilles, Auto-ville, Couches, Souffle de la terre, and Argument Electoral.
Date: 1990/1992
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Schryer, Claude, 1959-
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Fête (3 mvt de Bruits)

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Fête (3 mvt de Bruits). This is a work for electronics that includes 3 movements: Children's Corner, Nuit, and Fête. This work was commissioned by the Sonic Art Network (Great Britain) in which they asked the composer to create an environmental painting. The dominant element is noise: "smooth" noise, constant noise, and immutable noise made up of the sum of human machines.
Date: 1997/2000
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
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Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or)

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or). This piece is the first movement of the work "Amarcord" that the composer describes as a trilogy of sonorous memories. This work was conceived as a combination of electronic, electroacoustic, and ambient instrumental recordings that were all produced in the years from 1976 to 1996.
Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor
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L'ouest du palmarès

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's L'ouest du palmarès. The composer describes this work as a live improvisation from a sample percussionists and speaker. The instrumentation was created by Yamaha drums and a Yamaha sampler.
Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert
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Vox Alia

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Vox Alia. This work is separated into 4 main movements: Giocoso, Amoroso, Inncentemente, and Furioso. The composer describes each of these as small vocal studies that have been transformed through electroacoustics. While this work is split into separate tracks, they are all meant to be played together in an octophonic setting. This work was commissioned by the GRM (a musical research group in Paris).
Date: 1998
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette
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Attendre et espérer

Description: Recording of Agnés Poisson's Attendre et espérer. This recording was produced within the framework of the open work "Le monde devenu musique l'écoute du siècle". Throughout this recording, the composer's father speaks about his time during war as a prisoner in a concentration camp. The piece overall touches on the horrors and tragedies of war around the world.
Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: Poisson, Agnès
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Brain-Wash

Description: Recording of Yasuhiro Otani's Brain-Wash. This recording plays on the idea of the unspoken and the unheard as well as forgotten memories that return with new significance. The composer explores the idea of connecting electronic music with ones consciousness and thus making technology an essential humanizing force.
Date: 1999
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Otani, Yasuhiro
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xscho-haii

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's xscho-haii. This recording was made for mini disc and is made up of percussion, electronic drums, and voice. The vocals in this work are impromptu of onomatopoeia and sound effects. The composer describes it as "vocal combat".
Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert
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Fuite de Centaures

Description: Recording of János Decsényi's Fuite de Centaures. This work is the fourth piece in a cycle called "Book of poems". This piece in particular is based on a poem by José Maria which revolves around Greek mythology, specifically centaurs.
Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Decsényi, János
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Ecoute, écoute!

Description: Recording of Roderik de Man's Ecoute, écoute!. This piece was commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music. Ecoute, écoute! was composed at the request of Harry Sparnaay for the occasion of the "Who's afraid of?" project, organized by Iris van der Goot. In this project, prominent contemporary solo works were combined with newly written compositions. Ecoute, écoute! is a tribute to promotors of contemporary music, in this case the renowned bass clarinetist Harry Sparnaay. This prominent mu… more
Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de, 1941-
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Dialogue avec Wittgenstein

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Dialogue avec Wittgenstein. This work is built on fragments of philosophical text spoken in both French and German, as well as various musical segments by composers Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and the composer himself. The work was produces at the ELAK Institute of the University of Vienna Music and had two premieres. The German version in Vienna (1999) and the French version in Bourges (1999).
Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-
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L'autre

Description: Recording of Edmund Campion's L'autre. This work explores the similarity between "consciousness and the unconscious" and the "contention for ascendancy between poetry and music". The piece begins with an emergence of consciousness - the birth of language out of sounds and syllables and dives into the development of the two elemental principles.
Date: 1999
Duration: 19 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Campion, Edmund J., 1957-
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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.
Date: 1998
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Sigal, Rodrigo
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