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Requiem per amanda

Description: Recording of Teresa Rampazzi's Requiem per amanda. Key musical features include two female voices in an echoing pattern and synthesized sounds.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
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Batucada

Description: Recording of Gabriel Brnčić's Batucada.
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Date: 1972
Duration: 26 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel
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Trio Prosodico II

Description: Recording of Arrigo Lora-Totino's Trio Prosodico II. Poetry is spoken by Lora-Totino. The music of this piece is found in the "natural melody" of the diction and language.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Lora-Totino, Arrigo
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Chor der Steine

Description: Recording of John Melby's "Chor der Steine" ("Chorus of Stones"). It was composed on a commission in 1979 for the Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was first played at a concert there in the spring of that year. The work was produced on a large IBM mainframe computer, using the MUSIC 360 language for digital sound synthesis. "Chor der Steine" takes its name from the title of a poem by the Nobel Prize-winning… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Melby, John
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Concertante

Description: Recording of Samuel Headrick's Concertante for Violoncello and Magnetic Tape. It is aggressive and decisive in nature with sections that emerge from and evolve into one another, giving the piece a feeling of inevitability. The title describes the concert-piece in which both instruments are used in virtuosic solo capacities. It was inspired by Brahms's Symphony Number One, First Movement and Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses."
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Date: 1977
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Headrick, Samuel
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3 for 5

Description: Recording of Richard Zvonar's 3 for 5 for percussion, performed by Daryl Pratt. The piece is divided into three movements, with a different set of instruments for each. These are set up in three locations, which form an arc left to right across the performance area. Four playback speakers are situated beside and between the three playing locations. The tape sounds are entirely derived from recorded sounds of the percussion instruments. Throughout the piece, the live and recorded sounds continuo… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 23 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Zvonar, Richard
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Concerto grosso I

Description: Recording of Ted Dawson's Concerto grosso I.
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Date: 1972/1974
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Dawson, Ted
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Concertino

Description: Recording of Miroslav Bázlik's Concertino.
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Date: 1972
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Bázlik, Miroslav
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Chronos

Description: Recording of Ton de Leeuw's Chronos. The piece is a journey through time, bringing together elements from the depths of the ages (some archaic, folkloric or quasi-folkloric formulas) and other material, that of our time: subjects and report that have always made people passionate.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 13 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Leeuw, Ton de, 1926-1996
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Pathways: seven sonic variations

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's "Pathways: Seven Sonic Variations." The piece sonsists entirely of processed tape-shoe sounds, based on a one minute and ten second long step pattern. This was performed and recorded in stereo with pressure-zone microphones. Each variation is a different tap performance and sonic interpretation of the original score.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold, 1945-
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Circumfusion: a Composition for Real-Time Computer Music Spatialization System

Description: Two of the leading methodologies for spatializing audio over multiple channels include non-real-time multi-track tape and variations of real-time systems that often involve complex configurations of hardware. Of the latter, composers relying on MIDI as a control source have used pairs of sound modules, effects units and automation capable mixers to achieve spatialization over four loudspeakers. These systems typically employ intensity panning, Doppler shifts and reverberation. The present rese… more
Date: August 1998
Creator: Morgan, Christopher R. (Christopher Robert)
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A Capella Eletronnica

Description: The intent of A capella Eletronnica is to explore the possibility of the human voice as the most versatile of musical instruments. The voice, capable of melodic, harmonic, percussive and rhythmic effects, is also employed for spoken text and conversational elements as musical sources. My aim was to enlarge this array of vocal techniques with the use of electronic processing and amplification.
Date: August 1995
Creator: Bonneau, Paul G. (Paul Gregory)
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Mass/360

Description: Mass/360 is computer music in the sense that the audio tape was realized with a computer language for digital synthesis. This tape is combined with traditional choral and instrumental forces, and demonstrates only one technique available for the use of computers in composition. The work displays a number of elements which afford both unity and contrast. The arch span of the whole is supported by timbral, melodic, rhythmic, and textural parameters. Recurring events include tone clusters, chant-l… more
Date: December 1980
Creator: Bales, William K.
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Computer Simulacra

Description: Computer Simulacra is a musical work composed for amplified instrumental ensemble and computer instruments on tape. It is a computer-assisted work, composed with the help of a stochastic compositional algorithm, called PTERIO, designed by the composer.
Date: December 1989
Creator: Phelps, James D. (James Dee)
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Three Ideas, a Collection of Three One-Act (Musical) Plays for Mixed Ensemble

Description: Three Ideas is a collection of three one-act (musical) plays intended to be performed either as a series or as separate pieces. In order for them to be performable in either of those ways, they need some sort of unifying fabric running throughout the collection, yet they must remain individually strong enough to stand alone outside the context of the series and still seem complete. The concepts Tonal and Nagual, Bell's Theorem, and Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind were chosen because of their th… more
Date: August 1986
Creator: Chapman, Davis Howard
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Calcululations

Description: Recording of Alden Jenks' Calcululations. It was made in the composer's home studio, using a Yamaha TX802 synthesizer controlled by a Macintosh Plus computer. The computer was running the Opcode sequencer "Vision". It is is dedicated to the composer John McGuire.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Jenks, Jonathan Alden, 1954-
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American Made

Description: Recording of Anna-Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner's American Made. It is an electroacoustic piece using various English and Japanese sound fragments to recreate the sound of a motorcycle's exhaust.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth
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Agitato (Ergo Sum)

Description: Recording of John Duesenberry's Agitato (Ergo Sum). The piece is comprised of six sections, each around the same length. This electronic piece uses a "hyper-flute" sound, trying to accurately mimic the sound of an acoustic flute while also exceeding it in its physical capabilities.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Duesenberry, John, 1950-
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La recherche panique d'écho

Description: Recording of Florivaldo Menezes' La recherche panique d'écho. It is an electroacoustic reflection on the mythic world of Monteverdi and various Greek myths. It is built of three sections, each focused on a different Greek mythological character. The first section focuses on Echo, the second on Orpheus, and the third on Pan.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Menezes Filho, Florivaldo, 1962-
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Swallows of Freedom

Description: Recording of Jøran Rudi's Swallows of Freedom. This piece was composed as music for a dance performance by Hexakin Dance Company, and created from recorded natural sounds. The sounds were processed with software available at the time, and organized in time to fit the choreography.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Rudi, Jøran
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In Aquas Scribis

Description: This piece is thought a a real "live electronics" work which should be interpreted not only by the bassist but also by the "mixer". Because the bass part has a place for individual interpretation, the mixer probably has to adapt to the prepared sequencer – parts by leaving voices or changing the relations of volume in between the "tracks". In this piece, I tried to use my musical youth and roots. I started to contact with music by playing recorder and listening all the music around me (my fathe… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Heiniger, Wolfgang
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Fantasy Quintet

Description: "Fantasy quintet" for piano and computer was composed in 1977-78 for pianist Dwight Peltzer, on a commission from the National Endowment for the Art. The work is cast in three movements, with cadenza-like material appearing in the middle of the first movement and near the end of the final movement. It was my intention from the beginning to compose a work that would allow the performer to play with some degree of freedom and in a vituoso style. Throughout most of the work computer is limited to … more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Morrill, Dexter
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Tremens

Description: The title of the composition is taken from a line by Cicero, "toto pectorum tremens" ("the whole breast trembling"). The main musical ideas in this piece are all related to the act of trembling as a response to some basic emotional state such as anticipation, fear, panic, exhaustion, etc. In order to expand the timbral palette of the pieced material, I have incorporated into the composition synthetic, unpitched sounds such as wind, breathing, and large, struck sheets of metal. During the course… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Taube, Heinrich, 1953-
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