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Ekphonesis IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis IV.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Sensors IV

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Sensors IV performed in 1984 by the McGill Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Reynolds. The tape was realized at the Composer's studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS in Montreal, QC, Canada. The piece explores different techniques of vocal wiring, especially the relationship of semantics, languages, and memory. The word "Memory" constitutes the entire text for the piece - using letter sound, recombinations of the word, and adding syllables from other… more
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
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...There Is a Way to Sing It...

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's ...There Is a Way to Sing It... This piece uses extensively the voice of actress-singer Meg Sheppard, reciting, singing, and improvising on "Power Songs", a poem by the Canadian poet Norbert Ruebsaat. The piece used the following equipment was used: Mac SE, Akai S900, Yamaha digital synthesizers TX81Z and DX5, Lexicon LXP l, Revox TRs, Casio DAT recorder, Sennheisser 421 mikes, software by Opcode [DX edit. Libr.], Sound Designer (Akai), Master Tracks Pro (sequencing… more
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Date: 1988/1990
Duration: 15 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Voo

Description: Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, … more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
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Penetrations VII

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Penetrations VII. Penetrations VII (1972-III), the chamber version of Penetrations VI, moves from the individual's memories to a concern for mankind's global memories. This piece also deals with communication...or the lack of it. The performer is at the same time a child and a woman experiencing all the memories of humanity. The accumulated hatred and evil of our human history becomes too much to remember, causing a collapse. However, the piece ends in a rebirth of … more
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Date: 1972
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds
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Arghanum IV

Description: Arghanum (Gk. organon), arabic name for the byzantine organ. according to Ibn Khurdädhbih, writing in the 9th. c., it had bellows of skin and iron, and the word "arghanum" was interpreted as meaning 1000 voices. Arghanum IV uses a technique based on remembrances, mostly achieved by extracting materials from earlier compositions by lanza. Arghanum IV takes materials from the vocal pieces Penetrations VII and Ekphonesis V [written for and recorded commercially by Meg Sheppard]. The work also uses… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Interferences III

Description: There is an axial note, Db, out of which some sounds escape occasionally, only to return to it. All other sounds are stratified around these, and the entries of instruments are somewhat free, in a quasi canonic imitation. The tape part was realised with a Synclavier II Digital Synthesizer at the Electronic Music Studio, McGill University. The piece was written for the Agrupaci—n Nueva Mœsica/Rosario [ANM/R] and its conductor, composer Dante Grela. Interferences III is dedicated to them. Premi… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 13 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Plectros II

Description: Commissioned by Chilean pianist Carla Hübner, and premiered by her at the Latin American Music Festival, Bloomington, Indiana, in 1966. In Plectros II the composer extends the idea first explored in his Plectros I - the opposition of two different worlds of sounds. It requires the interpreter to extract "electronic" type of sounds from the piano using both the keyboard and the inside of the piano. No special mallets are required, and the pianist uses fingernails, fingertips or the palm of the… more
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Date: 1966
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Arghanum III

Description: Arghanum (Gk. organon), arabic name for the byzantine organ. According to Ibn Khurdédhbih, writing in the 9th. c., it had bellows of skin and iron, and the word "arghanum" was interpreted as meaning 1000 voices. Arghanum III (1987-II) : the composer explores the myriads transformations possible when sampling materials out of his own earlier [mostly vocal] compositions. The result is somewhat autobiographical: primeval, organic, watery sounds, perceived as through a mist, floating, with remembr… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Out off...

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Out Off... A solo tape piece realized at the EMS, McGill University. It is a re-elaboration of unused portions of penetrations I, The Cement Jungle Suite, rehearsal sounds from eidesis III and electronic sounds created with the Moog and Synthi AKS synthesizers. The piece refers to primitive forces at play, from the jungle sounds to the city jungle; from the primeval memories to the magnetic forces at play in the galaxies. All the 'human' sounds heard are below the l… more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Un Mundo Imaginario

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Un Mundo Imaginario, for choir, with electronic and computer sounds. The text is taken from ekphonesis V [1979], from Alcides lanza's Trilogy. The bilingual aspects of the text has been preserved. By means of syllabic and phonemic fragmentation - both in the studio for the creation of the tape part, and in the writing for the choir. The sounds on tape bring certain vocal qualities into focus and extend the choral material. The instruments used for the production of… more
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Date: 1989/1990
Duration: 22 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Acufenos V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Acufenos V, for trumpet, piano and electronic sounds. Written in 1980 for the trumpet player Robert Gibson, who did the premiere performance at Pollack Hall, Montreal, with the pianist with Alcides Lanza at the piano. The tape part of Acufenos V was made from sounds of recorded trumpet, with a diversity of mutes and styles of playing, and electronic imitations of the same sounds. Acufenos is a Spanish medical term meaning "tinnitus" (tinnitus: from the Latin ringin… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 21 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Ektenes III

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ektenes III. For clarinet, tape, and digital signal processing. The tape part was realized by recording clarinet tones, multiphonics and short improvised sequences in digital format and then processed utilizing an Akai S1000 digital sampler and the software programs Sound Designer II and Audiomedia II in a Macintosh computer system. all pre-recorded clarinet sounds were performed by Jean-Guy Boisvert.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Ekphonesis V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
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Arghanum V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Arghanum V. Arghanum (Gk. organon), Arabic name for the byzantine organ. The composer, himself originally from Argentina, has based some harmonic, melodic and gestural aspects of the work on a few notes of a very popular Argentinian tango [El Monito, by Julio de Caro]. The work also includes natural sounds sampled via an AKAI S900.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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out of...

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's out of... This piece for solo tape is a re-elaboration of unused portions of various pieces by the composer and the electronic sounds were created with the Moog and Synthi AKS synthesizers. The piece refers to primitive forces at play, from the jungle sounds to the city jungle, from the primeval memories to the magnetic forces at play in the galaxies. All the 'human' sounds heard are below the level of semantic comprehensibility.
Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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