This is the first in a cycle of pieces made of the same base material: samples taken from recordings made in a kneader and with a flint block.

This is the recording of three urban sound environments originally intended for radio broadcasting, as part of programs devoted to large provincial cities. The first of these sound photographs (the bell tower of St Christophe de Tourcoins church) is deliberately missed (used tape, microphone tests, recording speed changes). The second (the basin of St Nazaire) is "successful", but it includes two characters in the foreground and in the background, which cause musical events from objects arranged on the platform (anchors, chains, cans, iron bars ). The third (the funicular of Fournières in Lyon) is rigged (hanging on some natural pits of the band) in a concern nevertheless of minimum use manipulations.

"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 four voices, each having its own speaker. The somewhat whimsical arrangement of the speakers about the piano is important to the central idea of a quintet with the piano as a concerto instrument. The "Fantasy quintet" is meant to resemble a chamber concerto in terms of its volume and its frontal stage characteristic. In at least one sense this rather traditional and perhaps heroic plan would seen to be out of step with a medium using loudspeakers, which people often view in a detached or impersonal way. Yet it was that condition which I wanted very much to investigate in the "Fantasy quintet". The work attempts to personalize the speakers, and their sounds …

Recording of Milos Petrovic's Study.

Recording of Jan W. Morthenson's Attacca.

Recording of Thomas Sjöland's A Jazzy One.

Recording of Daniel Chorzempa's Sonett.

Recording of Antero Honkanen's Tapporaha.

Recording of Reed Holmes's Wood on Wood on Water.

Recording of Sandra Tjepkema's Aubade.

Recording of Jan W. Morthenson's Attacca.

Recording of Claude Colon's Diastasis 3.

Recording of Daniel Arfib's Voyelles d'éveil.

Recording of Mark Schubert's Goodbye Black.

Recording of Ivan Patachich's Metamorfosis Per Flauto

Recording of Thomas Sjoland's A Jazzy One.

Recording of Jonty Harrison's Pair/Impair.

Recording of Reed Holmes's Wood on Wood on Water.

Recording of Claude Colon's Diastasis 3.

Recording of Miloš Petrović's Study.

Recording of Eduardo Kusnir's "El encanto del cisne."

Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Mirror Concave.

Recording of Kiyotomi Yoshizaki's Son, Lumière et Temps

Recording of Daniel Arfib's Voyelles d'éveil.