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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.
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Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen, 1956-
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Catchwave 71

Description: Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's Catchwave 71.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 17 minutes
Creator: Kosugi, Takehisa
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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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Skelelemedania

Description: Recording of Hal Freedman's Skelelemedania. This piece falls into three sections; the first and third combine live and tape sounds, and the second is for tape alone. The piece as a whole represents an expansion of the middle tape section. The more purely electronic layers were composed to complement or contrast with the vocal elements. The first and third sections make use of tape echo and delay systems. The timing of the repetitions allow the delay to be heard not as feedback but as a continuo… more
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Date: 1975
Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Freedman, Hal
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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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Rupestre en el futuro

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's "Rupestre en el futuro" for tape. Extra-musically, the piece is a "testimony of place" in a surrealist picture of a social situation, namely, the development of humans. The beginning of the piece uses phonemes in indigenous languages (Quiché, Tzutujil) and special instruments made by the composer to simulate the sounds of "a supposed primitive man."
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Date: 1979
Duration: 22 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
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Abominable A

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps,… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
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Memento

Description: Recording of Ryszard Klisowski's Memento for tape.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Klisowski, Ryszard
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The Museum's Voices

Description: Recording of István Márta's The Museum's Voices, for tape.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 21 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Márta, István
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Sicher sein...

Description: Recording of Max E. Keller's Sicher sein... This piece confronts newspaper articles on the subject of redundancies, read by the orator, with the advertising slogan "Sicher sein, Bankverein."
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Date: 1976
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Keller, Max E., 1947-
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C.A.S.

Description: Recording of Boyko Stoyanov's C.A.S. Stoyanov was inspired by the interpretation of Chopin's Op. 30, no. 1 by the Japanese pianist Rikako Akatsu, performed at the Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In this work, the composer wanted to create a unique form, the basis of which provided by the electroacoustic music.
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Date: 1980
Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Stoyanov, Boyko
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Deca-Danse

Description: Recording of Alain Thibault's Deca-Danse. Using a recording of a speech by President Ronald Reagan, Thibault makes a statement about the destruction that humans cause for one another. Th piece is split into ten sections: 1. Technopolis; 2. You are Loved; 3. Special Emission; 4. President's Message; 5. Reagan's Happiness; 6. Reagan's Delirium; 7. The Most Beautiful Gift of God; 8. Generation x; 9. Mx; 10. Future x. The piece was created at the Studios Bruit Blanc and McGill University.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Thibault, Alain, 1956-
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L'agrippe des droits

Description: Recording of Henri Chopin's L'agrippe des droits. One male voice reads the poem which is then electronically processed. Written for Christian Clozier. Henri Chopin's "Audiopoems" was originally realsed on cassette by Edition Hundertmark as 89. Karton in 2001. Only 500 copies were released.
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Date: [1980,1995]
Duration: 10 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Chopin, Henri
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12 heures 45 minutes

Description: Recording of Patrick Fleury's 12 heures 45 minutes.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Fleury, Patrick, 1951-
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Broken Crystals

Description: Recording of Larry Wendt's Broken Crystals, from "World-Class Technology." It is an extended narration piece that takes the form of a personal recollection. It is narrated by a Silicon Valley worker who works for an integrated circuit foundary that grows garnet crystals for the manufacturing of bubble memory. The factory is overcome with insects that destroy the crystals, and, in response, Silicon Valley is bombed with Cane Toads in order to get rid of the bugs. As a performance piece, the narr… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Wendt, Larry
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Cantata dialetica

Description: Recording of Joaquin Orellana's Cantata dialetica.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín
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Play bach

Description: Recording of Mayako Kubo's Play bach for eight channel tape. Play Bach is mainly based on two elements: first, there is no fixed form and no fixed duration because the composition consists in a mobile-system; second, the sound material uses only the tones B (Si-flat), A (La), C (Do), and H (Si) in different octaves performed by three instruments and with the letters B, A, C, and H spoken with human voice. Because the eight tracks are combined using a mobile system, each performance presents dif… more
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Date: 1980/1981
Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Kubo, Mayako
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Ahora

Description: Recording of Ivan Pequeño's Ahora.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Pequeño, Ivan
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Corales poema sonoro

Description: Recording of Carlos Fariñas' and Sergio Barroso's Corales poema sonoro. This piece is excerpted from a show, "Dialogues," for band, instruments, images, and the public performed with Sergio Barroso in 1971. The sound poem is based on a montage of Cuban poems, which goes from a poetic enumeration of Cuban plants and trees to quotes from Macbeth and fragments of the Campaign Journal and other political narratives of José Martí (revolutionary, poet, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, ideolo… more
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Date: 1970/1971
Duration: 6 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Fariñas, Carlos, 1934-2002 & Barroso, Sergio
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Monastery in snowfall

Description: Recording of Antero Honkanen's "Monastery in snowfall."
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Date: 1978
Duration: 7 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Honkanen, Antero, 1941-
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Mr Frankenstein's Babies

Description: Recording of Klaus Röder's Mr Frankenstein's Babies for tape. The sound material consists only of voice sounds recorded by Röder himself. The sounds were worked out in an envelope shape and then copies upon the other so that there was a "chorus" sound.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Röder, Klaus, 1948-
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