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Walking Bells

Description: Recording of David Porter's Walking Bells for tape. The piece is a tour through an environmental/concrete landscape. It is another variation on the "cumulative form." This is the second in a series of four tape pieces. As with all these pieces, this piece comments on political and compositional methods and devices. In this instance, the piece makes reference to another composer whose style is borrowed. Other than that, it is pure experience. This piece should be listened to with speakers placed… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 10 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Porter, David, 1953-
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Rapid eye movement

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's Rapid eye movement. The title refers to the type of sleep called "Rapid Eye Movement" or REM, which is dream sleep. During REM sleep, the muscles of the eyes move as though the dreamer were watching something. Structurally, the work is conceived in the same way as Déjà vu occurs in life. There are 30 or 40 instances of mysterious familiarities of the same sounds placed in totally different contexts. Like the human cell, any extract from the composition will reveal the… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger
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96

Description: Recording of Sten Hanson's 96. "According to Amnesty International, there are 96 countries in the world that have political prisoners. In most of these countries, there is clearly physical or mental torture that is punishable by law and unlawful killings." Sound material includes sounds of doors shutting, locks locking, bells, ringing, etc.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013
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Sous le regard d'un soleil noir

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sec… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Son recif

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's "Son recif" for voice and tape. This piece comes from a work on the myth of the sirens and includes texts written on this theme in their original languages. As the singer/speaker repeats the story, it is crossed by the sounds of these languages, by songs that cannot continue, as well as successive states of emotion. The electroacoustic tape plays a constant dramatic role: sometimes worrisome, sometimes reassuring, sometimes enveloping presences, it continually i… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline
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Dictée

Description: Recording of Bernard Gagnon's Dictée for tape. The majority of the material was executed in real time. The instruments used are voice, a pencil, and also a few oscillator sounds. An oscillator provided a wave that was delayed by tape, and then turned into a voltage to modulate the early sound: a self-modulating delay loop. The piece is a reflection on the anxiety of first learning to write as well as on the degrees of the distances of the writing. The dictation comes from a loudspeaker, while t… more
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Date: 1981
Duration: 7 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Gagnon, Bernard
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An even game

Description: Recording of Jarmo Sermilä's An even game. Most people consider sports to be the antithesis of art. Sermilä argues that this is not always the case since the world of sports offers many pairs of opposites which appear in all areas of life, including art: for example, team-work vs. individualism, violence vs. sportsmanship, spontaneity vs. organization, etc. "An Even Game" is an imaginary team sport in which these characteristics are brought out - reduced, however, to musical terms. Two teams cl… more
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Date: unknown
Duration: 18 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Sermilä, Jarmo, 1939-
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Liège à Paris

Description: Recording of Henri Pousseur's Liège à Paris for tape. The preposition "à" refers to several possible verbs: first, Liège thinks of Paris, and his first way of expressing it is to go there in a fictitious way, to play to visit it, to be there. So one can perceive that this is not just an illusion, that Liege (just like Geneva or Montreal) is in Paris, in every sense of the word, including that of 'to belong'. All these cities are part of a vast linguistic and cultural fabric, of which Paris is u… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 59 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Pousseur, Henri
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Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris

Description: Recording of Pierre Mariétan's "Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris" ("Sketch of some part in Paris"). Uses sound clips of events in Paris (e.i. a car starting, kids playing, bells tolling, etc.).
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Date: 1978
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-
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Laus stultitiae

Description: Recording of Zoltán Pongrácz's "Laus stultitiae" ("Praise of folly") for baritone and tape.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Pongrácz, Zoltán
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Merry-Go-Round

Description: Recording of Pekka Sirén's Merry-Go-Round for tape. This piece is the final result of Sirén's studies in working time and leisure time acoustic objects in the sonical surroundings. Factory noises are combined with entertainment noises to create an entity in which it would be impossible to distinguish them from each other.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Sirén, Pekka
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Fall

Description: Recording of Carlos Cerana's Fall. This work is a soundscape which evolves slowly and introduces new sounds. The piece has sounds which resemble the outdoors, manipulated animals sounds, and sine tones creating harmonies which float in the background on this soundscape.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Cerana, Carlos
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Opening a Can of Worms

Description: Recording of Lars Larsson's Opening a Can of Worms. The composer speaks of the process behind this piece as follows: Talking gibberish, stopping mid-sentence only to find I forgot what I was talking about, and saying obscure quotes to communicate are things I do a lot. The work "Opening a can of Worms" reflects this in various ways: a) regarding the sound, I tried to incorporate as many conflicting sounds as possible, something that nobody would normally use in this way musically; b) regarding … more
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Date: 19XX
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Larsson, Lars, 1964-
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Aquapolis

Description: Recording of Lou Mallozzi's Aquapolis. The sound material is language and ambient recordings. The text is written in English, and has been translated into German and Venetian Italian. There are aquatic sounds, body sounds, and sounds of physical labor. Conceptually, the piece is based on a fictional trans-historical walk through an aquatic city, loosely based on Venice. The piece is in four sections: Preamble, 2000 Years Ago, 200 Years Ago, and This Year.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Mallozzi, Lou, 1957-
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Flurstück

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Flurstück. The composer denotes "Flurstück" as meaning a piece of countryside, a rural landscape (Flur), which is private property; this is important to a central theme of ownership and its interactions with natural environments vs more "technical" atmospheres. It is described as such: The background of the piece is the dismemberment of the landscape, the subdivided land. From this are born the images. Fields, travel, property, appropriation and expropriation, the bat… more
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Date: 1989/1995
Duration: 16 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-
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Les vagues

Description: Recording of Hiroki Takeishi's Les vagues.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 19 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Takeishi, Hiroki
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Dwamb

Description: Recording of Augusto Valente's Dwamb.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 25 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Valente, Augusto, 1959-
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The cries afar

Description: Recording of YeeOn Lo's The cries after. This work is for flute and electronics. This work is a soundscape with legato notes and complex harmony. Since the electronics are created to sound very similar to the flute the harmony is very clear and the instruments both blend together every easily.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 14 minutes
Creator: Lo, YeeOn, 1945-
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Junky

Description: Recording of Adrain Moore's Junky. This work is electroacoustic ambient. There are very few discernible sound sources, (some styrofoam,some ping-pong balls), the majority having being heavily processed to form pitch and rhythmic motives. All sounds were processed from natural source sand then mixed in the digital studio (samplers, pro-tools mixing, computer treatment etc.). The work falls into three sections, articulated with gestural material.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Moore, Adrian, 1969-
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