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The old rose reader

Description: Recording of Frances White's The old rose reader. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and flute performance. This recording includes two tracks, one for tape only and one with tape and flute.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-
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Jeu de carte

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Jeu de carte. This work was created for the open work project as part of the Synthèse Festival. This work is meant to celebrate the bicentenary for George Sand by using a computer playing traditional instruments. Sound material that has been used in this piece includes: music box sounds, barrel organ, and sound card for the computer.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
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Evolu-Son

Description: Recording of Hervé Déjardin's Evolu-Son. This work was created as part of the Festival Synthèse under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". The composer used recordings of the mechanical work of an artisan-weaver with more traditional music of village festivals mixed in.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Déjardin, Hervé
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Temps Fixé

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Temps Fixé. This work was commissioned by Media Arts Networks with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts. This work was inspired by a visit the composer made to a singer friend who now, as an elderly individual, lives in an assisted living facility. The composer was struck by the vision of "a worn man, deteriorated by time". The work represents not death but the idea of time and the unstoppable nature of it through the lens of a singer frozen in time at the heig… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
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La Wal-Manichette

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La Wal-Manichette. This work was premiered during a Synthèse Festival in Bourges under the appearance of a parody of a cultural radio program. The concept behind this work is "creation" and acts as a theatricalization of sound which is strictly in the domain of electroacoustics.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
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Inside a visit

Description: Recording of Olivier Labbe's Inside a visit. This work was created as part of an open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composition is a digital multi-track montage based on recordings made in an artist's studio within an industrial wasteland. These are random recordings of a demo of drum exercises, radio waves, radio broadcasts, and repetitive vocal cycles.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Labbe, Olivier
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L'arracheuse de poussière

Description: Recording of Julien Belet's L'arracheuse de poussière. This is a work for electronics that the composer describes as a "voluntarily unfinished piece of poetic character" with children's voices whispering.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Belet, Julien
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Cadaveres exquisitos

Description: Recording of Jésus Jara's Cadaveres exquisitos. This work is for electronics that includes tuba sound samples. It was performed at the Alicante International Contemporary Music Festival which fell under the theme of "The View of the World".
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Jara, Jesús, 1977-
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Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes

Description: Recording of Tomonari Higaki's Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes. This work includes quotes from the text "Les amants du Spoutnik" by Haruki Murakami. The composition is segmented into 5 movements that include 3 monologues of young people who stopped playing piano. These monologues reflect how demanding piano practice and performance is and how necessary is becomes to sacrifice everything as a pianist.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Higaki, Tomonari
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