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A La bataille

Description: Recording of Philippe Blanchard's A La bataille. This piece is for electronics. This work has sounds from electronically manipulated voice, pre-recorded fragments, and synthetically built sounds.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-
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Dithirambe

Description: Recording of Masahiro Miwa's Dithirambe. This work is for voice and electronics. This work explores just how much the composer could use electronic processing to alter the sound of the voice. The piece introduces the unprocessed voice and slowly begins to add different effects including: pitch alteration, reverberation, speed, and sound placement.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Miwa, Masahiro
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Le bass de auf a bourges du dat

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger and Ulrich Süsse's Le bass de auf a bourges du dat. It is a work for saxophone, bass clarinet, and electronics. There are speech snippets which are accompanied by free improv from the saxophone and clarinet, while processed and manipulated recording of these instruments play in the background.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen & Süsse, Ulrich
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Un Nom A Quoi?

Description: Recording of Eric Cordier's Un Nom A Quoi? There is speech throughout this piece and lying underneath is where the electronics create a layer of sound adding complexity and texture to the overall piece.
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Date: 1990/1991
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Cordier, Eric
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Celtic circles - I

Description: Recording of Ryszard Szeremeta's Celtic Circles - 1. It is for string plucked instruments, piano, wind instruments, percussion, and electronics. This piece uses synthetic instruments which eventually unfold into a upbeat song with a synthesizer providing a melody and the percussion accompanying. The piece switches between rhythmic sections and still almost-legato sections.
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Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Szeremeta, Ryszard
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Discours croises

Description: Recording of Jean-François Cavro's Discours Croises. The translation of the piece's title is "Crossed Discourse", and it is for tuba-bass in F and electronic device. The tuba evolves in a free, quasi-improvised way, on urban soundscapes collected in Japanese metropolises, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. The dialogue between the instrument and the pre-recorded medium is played in the mode of a constant search for mutual imbalance with the tuba having to make its way through the richness of the r… more
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Date: 1998
Duration: 41 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Cavro, Jean François
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L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique)

Description: Recording of Philippe Blachard's L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique). Rabelais adored nothing so much as liberty and it therefore takes this anniversary to be remembered a little. The sound sources include Rabelaisian quotations and the five parts of a traditional mass, the selected texts being superimposed on a string of adulterated sounds. The sounds consists of many variety, such as, everyday sound object, voice, and synthetic sounds; which provid… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 21 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-
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La Loupe d'Orme

Description: Recording of Eric Mulard's La Loupe d'Orme. This work is for electronics, voice, and pre-recorded audio. The elm is a slender tree providing soft and hard wood. The elm burl is the most central part. It is the most precious space because it is rare and complex. To the eye, the elm magnifying glass offers a kaleidoscope of forms of relief, figures, circles, all at once harmonious and yet elusive in their contours. It depends on the viewing distance from the material.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Mulard, Eric
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A-roving

Description: Recording of Eduardo Polonio's A-roving. This work begins with a reading of Lord Byson's "So We'll Go No More a Roving" and a story which is spoken in Spanish, about the architecture of Rome. The sounds are both pre-recorded and synthetic; there are nature sounds, sounds from inanimate objects, and synthetically built sounds.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Polonio, Eduardo, 1941-
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Mimoyecques

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concep… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
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Eloge de la folie

Description: Recording of Bernard Donzel-Gargand's Eloge de la folie. There are no vile or glorious acts that are not inspired by it: Madness. Absurd and radiant arrows seek their target among hearts overjoyed, overwhelmed with grief resting on a tree of illusions. The spoken and processed voice is used extensively. All of the processing is computer-assisted, using the MAX language, (warping, stretching, real-time playback of variable windows on various samples).
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Date: 1993
Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Donzel-Gargand, Bernard
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Cyber-Cerbère

Description: Recording of Jean Piche's Cyber-Cerbère. This work is for electronics and electro-acoustic technique.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Piche, Jean
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Obsession

Description: Recording of Todor Todoroff's Obsession. The sound materials of the piece comes mainly from two sources whose multiple transformations follow one another or are edited and mixed in such a way that contrasts and coincidences. The sound sources are recordings of flowing water and wave sounds used in different ways and texts which are fragmented, transformed, assembled and spatialized. This evolution, ranges from micro montage to the complete sentences and goes through a succession of words.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Todoroff, Todor, 1963-
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La Lueur de la fumée

Description: Recording of Nicolas Verin's La Lueur de la fumée. The title of this piece translates to "The glow of the smoke." There is a wide variety of sound, including voice. The sounds are electronically manipulated and with different techniques.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 18 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas
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Ys

Description: Recording of Yves Coffy's Ys. This piece is structured around two poems, one read by Jean-Pierre Niogret, "Beautiful City", and the other read by Mohammad, "Charnel-House Vertigo". In the first section, the timbres and the colors are organized around the first text: it overflows with the complexity of rumors, of savors, of secrets, and is progressively wound about by the second text in the language of Mohammad. In the third section, a sort of deep spatial envelope is obtained by the extreme slo… more
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Date: 1991
Duration: 8 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Coffy, Yves, 1954-
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La ville machine

Description: Recording of Gilles Gobeil's La ville machine. This work is a realization of ecological sound with electro-acoustic technique. The use of traditional technique allows for the listener to be immersed within different sound environments.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Gobeil, Gilles, 1954-
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Silence... on fait du bruit !

Description: Recording of Marc Tremblay's "Silence...on fait du bruit". The definition of the word noise in the Larousse dictionary has a character that is both amusing and disturbing: "set of sounds without harmony". The piece is divided into two parts: lively and slow. Deliberately anecdotal in the first part, the piece slides towards an abstract atmosphere to discreetly salute the great noise makers that the Italian futurists were in their manifesto: "the art of noises".
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Date: 1992
Duration: 11 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Tremblay, Marc
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Ein Aleatorischer Spaziergang Durch die stadt

Description: Recording of Florian Mutschler's Ein Aleatorischer Spaziergnag Durch die stadt. This work is a reflection on the urban acoustic universe at the same time as a structuralist work on the laser support and the possibilities offered by the readers: 18'19'' of unprocessed sound recordings of urban universes and silence are divided into 99 tracks. By programming the repeat and random keys of his laser reader, the user-listener will transform it into a random music generator in which "acoustic images"… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 18 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Mutschler, Florian
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Sieben Stufen

Description: Recording of Hans Tutschku's Sibeben Stufen. This is an electro-acoustic composition based upon the poem "Verfall" (decline, decay) by Georg Trakl. All the sounds are derived by manipulations of two recordings: the poem spoken by four different voices (German and French) and four chosen German main-words sung seven different pitches and the same for the French speech. The piece is structured in 7 parts which each represent at once an approach and distortion of the text.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Tutschku, Hans, 1966-
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Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel

Description: Recording of Jean-Luc Therminarias' Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. For electronics, voice, and acoustic instruments.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 27 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Therminarias, Jean-Luc
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L'humeur du monde

Description: Recording of Xavier Garcia's L'humeur du monde. This work was created for the purpose of an electroacoustic composition class directed by Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel. This work is for electronics, pre-recorded sound, and electronic instruments creating rhythmic figures and effects, written by using traditional electroacoustic technique.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Xavier
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Vie

Description: Recording of Till Lefranc's Vie. Musical representation of 7 specific moments of the day. These moment are tied to specific actions which correspond with given pitches. This sound is created on a synthesizer, the tone and timbre of which evoke the action it represents. The whole piece has a structure in the nuances of the given form.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Lefranc, Till
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Forêt profonde

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Forêt profonde. This work is an acousmatic melodrama, based on Bruno Bettelheim's essay The Uses of Enchantment, of which this is the third version. Forêt profonde comprises 13 sections, of which the 6 Rooms (sections 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12) constitute transit periods/areas, secret passages of sort, between the seven thematic sections (sections 2, 4,5, 7, 9, 11 and 13). These Rooms contain little or no text. Each of the 13 sections borrows a brief element, a color,… more
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Date: 1994/1996
Duration: 58 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Aï∂a ∂omi

Description: Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper a… more
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Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-
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