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Naturalia

Description: Recording of Costin Cazaban's Naturalia for piano and tape. Circular games on the harmonic sounds of the totally linear solo piano part. The direction of the music shows the process of disintegration on the environment. The idea for the work was aroused by the myth of the Sister of Albert Camus.
Date: 1980
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Cazaban, Costin
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Panta rhei

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger's Panta Rhei. This piece is connected for one female dancer who is connected to a synthesizer via a cable ("Umbilical cord"). "Panta Rhei" ("everything flows") refers to the Greek myth of the Three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos). The cable represents the string of life which the performer can not escape. This dependency forces her to react to the sound events with reach her through the cable.
Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen, 1956-
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The waste land

Description: Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's The waste land, for fixed media. The piece is a journey through time and spaces. The present is mixed with the past, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream with reality. The work was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio and was realized in October 1979. The text comes from T. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land."
Date: 1979
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
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Scythia

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's Scythia for electronic tape. Scythia was a region of Central Eurasia in classical antiquity encompassing parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River and Central Asia, with the eastern edges of the region vaguely defined by the Greeks. It was thought of as the great land of education. It was also the place where Prometheus gave fire to man and where he was confined to be tortured by the gods for this. Every day an eagle came and tore out his liver and every … more
Date: 1981
Duration: 22 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Montague/Mead Piano Plus
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Tremola impressao

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Tremola impressao. This piece is a mix of disparate languages: instrumental music, sounds of nature and electroacoustic music, resulting in a different kind of electroacoustic music. The material originates from earlier works, not always Caesar's, but manipulated to make it different. He tried to make useful the sounds that were condemned trash; without any comparison with "Fontana Mix" by John Cage
Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-
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Night flower

Description: Recording of John Winiarz's Night flower performed by Le Duo Classique de Montréal: Davis Joachum and Eric Wilner. The title refers to a desert plant called a "night-blooming cactus," which blooms in the dark and dies at the first light of dawn. This is not a piece of program music; rather, it is an evocation of the atmosphere suggested by the images of the desert, night and beauty. The sound material used comes from electronic sources, natural and instrumental, processed mainly by lilting and … more
Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 14 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Winiarz, John, 1952-
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Dripsody

Description: Recording of Hugh le Caine's Dripsody. It is an study for variable speed recorder. It was composed in one night. Le Caine used a recording of a drop of water falling into a bucket, which he re- recorded different speeds, obtaining the heights of a pentatonic scale. Using 25 connectors and the variable speed tape recorder, it produced thousands of sound effects. Dripsody begins with the original sound of the water drop, repetition loop. Shortly afterwards, by adding more loops, the density of th… more
Date: 1955
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Le Caine, Hugh, 1914-1977
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Pourquoi t'as jeté ta pantoufle?

Description: Recording of Xavier Garcia's "Pourquoi t'as jeté ta pantoufle?" ("Why did you throw your slipper?"). Garcia asks the listener to do two things when listening to the piece: to pervert your listening and to find drama where there is none. To is done through both concrete listening (identifying the surrounding sound world, hearing external noise and understanding the "clues" -- this sound is read as the index of a causality.) and abstract "reduced" listening (listening to the thing for itself, de… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 21 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Garcia, Xavier
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Zoophonia

Description: Recording of Zoltán Pongrácz's Zoophonia for two channel tape. The sound material consists of thirty different animal sounds - including dolphin, fish for the Black Sea, monkey, dog, cat, frog, wild goose, and various birds - and from ten nature sounds - wind, water splashing, rain, thunder - which are electronically processed. The piece was commissioned by the Budapest Film Factory "MAFILM" and was realized in the studio of the Filmfabrik "Exaustud" in 1973.
Date: 1973
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Pongrácz, Zoltán
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The tincture of physical things

Description: Recording of Alistair MacDonald's The tincture of physical things. This work, indeed much electroacoustic music, tries to perform a sort of alchemy...to change the nature of "ordinary" materials. A quote of particular relevance, from The Golden Tract included in the Musaeum Hermeticum, is as follows: "The matter lies before the eyes of all; everybody sees it, touches it, loves it, but knows it not. It is glorious and vile, precious and of small account, and is found everywhere... But, to be bri… more
Date: 2000
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: MacDonald, Alistair, 1962-
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Kyrie

Description: Recording of László Dubrovay's Kyrie for tape.
Date: 1975
Duration: 15 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Dubrovay, László, 1943-
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