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Lugares de Antiguas vecindades

Description: Recording of Abril Padilla's Lugares de Antiguas vecindades. This work was commissioned by the City of Zaragoza, Spain, following the MAP residency of the association Nurseries of Young Artists of Europe. This piece reflects the sonic impressions that the city produced during the composer's residency between 2003 and 2004. The composer has created a stereo version as well as a quadraphonic version.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Padilla, Abril, 1970-
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Drames brefs deux (de Philippe Minyana)

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Drames brefs deux (de Philippe Minyana). This composition was created to accompany a theatre piece by the same name and consists of eight short pieces that each represent a different major life event.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
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Apte

Description: Recording of David Behar's and Xavier Gipulo's Apte. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of electric guitar and French spoken word.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Behar, David, 1973- & Gipulo, Xavier
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Au nom du père

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Au nom du père. This work was created as part of the open work project at the Synthése Bourges festival in 2003. It is meant to incapsulate the sounds that are heard from a newborns perspective. The voices of their father and mother and how these first sounds create the newborns first impressions of the parents.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude
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Mères et monde

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Mères et monde. In this work, the symbolism of the mother is linked to that of the sea and earth in the sense that they are both receptacles and matrices of life. The composer states that the idea behind this piece is a mother's triggering the cycle of life.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne
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De Psicopatia - Igitur

Description: Recording of Catalina Peralta's De Psicopatia - Igitur. This work was commissioned by the Culture Ministry of Columbia and was created as part of the electroacoustic production for "PSICOPATIA-IGITUR...", a larger work in progress. This piece is divided into 6 mini-sections that are thought of as independent live parts and includes sound materials inspired by different concrete objects: human voice, birds, instrumentals, etc.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Peralta, Catalina, 1963-
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Shalala ware

Description: Recording of Gérard Torres' Shalala ware. This work reflects a love story between a virtual couple, Fred and Cathy, who sing their song "Shalala" throughout the piece. The composer has separated this work into four parts: 1. R.A.M., 2. Shalala Song, 3. Love is bossa nova, and 4. Free loop. Each part has its own mode of composition.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Torres, Gérard
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Cantos de antes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's Cantos de antes. This work was commissioned by the Association pour la recherche et l'Expérimentation Musicale and is dedicated to Simone Rist and Roger Cochini. This piece was created from transformed texts performed by Simone Rist, the voice of Roger Cochini, and other electroacoustic sounds. The composer states that this piece speaks to very old stories lost thousands of years ago.
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Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-
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Creusement de l'être où surgissement de l'incontient de la forme et la chaire

Description: Recording of Maxime Benoist's Creusement de l'être où surgissement de l'incontient de la forme et la chaire. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of French spoken word and nature sounds.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Benoist, Maxime
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Les destins d'une berceuse

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's Les destins d'une berceuse. This work includes vocals and spoken word with text from the French lullaby "Fais dodo". The composer has also included segments from Beethoven's 5th Symphony and melds together these two songs under the theme of "destiny".
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Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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".
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert
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Sons Plaisir

Description: Recording of Cyril Kestellikian's Sons Plaisir. The composer uses this work to paint a picture of a utopia where nature peacefully coexists with mankind.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Kestellikian, Cyril
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L'aile de l'abeille

Description: Recording of Denis Dufour's L'aile de l'abeille. This work expresses the idea of coming into a new millennium with a history that has been reconstructed and stigmatized. The composer gives a special thanks to Agnès Poisson for the sound recordings used, This work was produced at Motus studio.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Dufour, Denis
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tja tja tja

Description: Recording of Laurent Redolfi's tja tja tja. This work was inspired by music styles from past decades in an effort to create a nostalgic resurgence during the new millennium. The main musical material referenced in this work is the "Cha-Cha-Cha".
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Date: 2000
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Redolfi, Laurent
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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.
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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
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de, 1941-
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Electro House

Description: Recording of Claude Jordan's Electro House.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 6 minutes 01 second
Creator: Jordan, Claude, 1954-
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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).
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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.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 19 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Campion, Edmund J., 1957-
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