Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Ekstasis

Recording of William Hawley's Wave (for kiyoko)

Recording of Åke Parmerud's Suburban nights. Poem included: Suburban nights metallic, chilly hard surfaces, wiping out the feeling of depth and under the geometrical sediments violence hard, like the surfaces strikes again soft bodies desperately

Recording of Vassilis Risiotis's Eroptycha II

Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Perpetusa. A 4-Channel Tape Presentation in Four Movements. In electronic music, a typical "patch" (system interconnection) will comprise an audio signal and audio/sub-audio, AC/DC controls, where various parameters of the former are modified at specific points in the signal path by the latter. In the present work, these details may be of interest, in that the signal is one of the source materials for an earlier work, Gestes II, while the controls are voltages derived from Gestes II itself. This principal patch for Perpertusa produced a proliferation of sonic materials so baffling I had at first no idea how to proceed, yet so compelling I was forced to the task. Began with small structural units (which abound in this work, where virtually every moment partakes of a structural gesture) and crept towards larger ones. Towards the end of the work, a "new" idea, as of the sound of horns or tubas, is heard. It is none other than the signal, the source (whose torn and bleeding manifestations we have been listening to all along) at last unmodified. This mournful blare (from the fortress itself) signals the conclusion and summing up.

Recording of William Buxton's For Dance

Recording of Ryszard Klisowski's Cadenza

Recording of Lewis Nielson's Traveler

Recording of John Rimmer's Where Sea Meets Sky Part I. This piece consists of two parts. Part 1 an electronic piece, Part 2 an instrumental piece which is an outgrowth of the electronic music. The work was inspired by a plane journey from Australia to New Zealand on a particularly beautiful, dead day. The elements of blue void and cloud formations provide the force for the piece which falls into several sections each separated by a length silence. The final section contains a spoken reference to the poem "Those Others" by Ian Wedde, narrated on this tape by the poet. "The sea does not meet the sky. They kiss only in our minds. They are priceless in that space which recedes forever where we make them lovers forever."

Recording of Hilda Dianda's "...Despues el silencio..." ("...After the silence..."). The piece is complex in its apparent simplicity. The slow evolution of the piece, with its predominantly dark and static sounds from which material of greater brightness and mobility emerge occasionally. Silence also plays an important role in the composition. It was realized at the SISMAT Laboratory.

Recording of Ivan Parík's Cantica feralia. The basic material is an orchestral work of the composer. The material was re-worked with electronic manipulations; originally the work was quadraphonic. Dedicated to the victims of the concentration camps of the Second World War.

Recording of Miroslav Bázlik's Simple Electronic Symphony. This piece is arranged into four rather independent parts: Sonata, Cantus firmus, Madrigal and Ciaccona, designations of which reveal the author's effort to make the cyclic form of a symphony. The polarity of traditional and unconventional can be found also in the use of vocal or pre-composed material in a variety of transformations by studio means so that the cycle loses neither homogeneity nor tension.

Recording of Hubert Howe's Kaléidoscope, for electronic tape.

Recording of Zoltan Pongrácz's Barisphère. The work Barisphère is the central part of a cosmic series in three parts: Luna IX, Barisphère and The Big Bang. Its title refers to the central core of the earth, consisting of molten iron and nickel, with a diameter of about 30km. The composer's intention was to create, using electroacoustic means, a program music that excites the cosmic imagination of the listener. The sound material is made up of both synthetic and natural sounds rigorously structured by certain mathematical operations. Both rhythmically and formally, the proportions of the work are borrowed from the various measures of the earth. The treatments used are: transpositions, filtering, ring modulations, phase shifts, envelope transformations, feedback, reverberations, etc.

Recording of Jukka Ruohomäki's Pisces. The sound texture of this piece is exceptionally dense and compounds over one hour of mixed concrete and electronic sounds into six minutes. Some of the materials were originally made for a radio play in which people go through very painful experiences which finally transform them into fish.

Recording of Jozef Rychlik's Musinelle. Material of the piece was extracted from the jazz piece (looped) and processed through the following devices: 8 Octave Filter Bank, Random Voltage Generator, and Pitch-to-Voltage Converter. The new material was completed with the electronic sounds from Synthi AKS. Particular sound and rhythmical structures were edited and sequenced through the preciously composed narration with wide rhythmical and space expression. Editing was made with scissors and special splice tape.

Recording of Knut Wiggen's Deux études

Recording of Raoul de Smet's Adagio. For this work the composer had proposed harmony and relaxation "before anything else.” From there, a slow and steady tempo and very simple form. The sound material is provided by twelve ordinary sound generators. The work begins with a chord in the treble, slowly emerging from the silence or void sound and sustained by a regular pulsation in the bass, the result of differential sounds. Then several new sounds are added while others change timbre, octave, or dynamics causing different sounds of other types. During a slow rise in crescendo, short glissandi roam and decorate the sound space until the climax is reached. A sound column, containing twelve frequencies, comes to rest for about a minute, allowing the ear to move in the audience and thus capture the sound shimmer. This passage is the opposite of the sound of nothingness and could thus appear as a sound universe where one could also lose the notion of time. A brutal blow breaks this sound column like a spring too long stretched. This universe collapses slowly to retreat into the depths of the sound nothingness from which it came. The work was realized on an analogue …

Recording of Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux's Miroirs. This work identifies the problem of togetherness with the coexistence of the two sound sources, mainly using as basic material a harpsichord score previously recorded and subsequently subjected to various electroacoustic treatments. Concrete sounds and modulated sounds (EMS synthesizer) are used, to which are added some electronic sounds recorded directly in the studio. The final cut of the magnetic tape then served as the basic material for the development of the score structured in six moments which evolve into "mirror games".

Recording of Michela Mollia's Viola Celeste. This work was performed at the Experimental Studio of Electroacoustic Music of the Conservatory of Pesaro. Its sound material is made up of 950 sines, grouped in a mixture of 4 sines, each and arranged in 16 sets of 21 mixtures from start to finish. Each layer (4 complexes) is a fairly complex superposition of sinusoidal sounds, the frequencies of which vary over time so as to avoid the creation of melodies, but to stabilize between one frequency value and the next, a very long interval. Viola Celeste is the name of an organ register. The title signifies the composer's intention to synthesize the sound of this instrument, but rather to create a sort of gigantic uniform "cluster".

Recording of Michela Mollia's Viola celeste. This work was realized at the Experimental Studio of Electroacoustic Music of the Pesaro Conservatory. Its sound material consists of 950 sinusoids (sine curves) grouped into a mixture of 4 sinusoids each and arranged in 16 sets of 21 mixtures from beginning to end. Each layer (4 complexes) is a rather complex superposition of sinusoidal sounds whose frequencies vary in time so as to avoid the creation of melodies, but to stabilize between one frequency value and the next, a very small interval. "Viola Celeste" is the name of an organ register. The title means by my intention to synthesize the sound of this instrument, or rather more accurately, to create a sort of gigantic uniform "cluster.”

Last October while thinking about a composition I was to realize in the Columbia-Princeton Studio I spent a lot of time in my room listening to distant noises coming in through a half-open window. It was a seemingly disordered mixture of the street hubbub, signals of the river ships, and the distant thunder of planes. After some time I had an impression of all these noises being alive and perhaps even conscious of their existence; it seemed as it they wanted to speak. United into one whole and yet confined only to themselves they created a lonely choir. I wanted to express this feeling in my new composition. Solitude of Sounds does possess a certain plot. In the first phase, the homogeneous sound material exists only at the lowest register, as if unable to "free" itself from the area of darkness and uncertainty. Later, in the higher register, there appear sounds complexes of harmonic structure. They form a kind of a "choir" of aliquots, mutually penetrating and "singing through" one another. However, they are not allowed to create any new quality due to their restricted nature. Circling and persisting, they remain forever imprisoned in their own imperfection. I would like …

After an intense period of analog familiarization with the range and enormity of available sounds extraterrestrially and in nature, I tried the only techniques then available to me, tape manipulation and speaker placements. The only coloration that I employed in early sound handling was through equalization, balancing and combining mix-downs. I have always monitored from nearly neutral sensors, and my interest has been in trading, configuring and juxtapositionings and in the presentation of sound in natural and climatically different contexts, mainly exterior and in realtime. Within the 1980s, I worked with 200-speakers using an Intel 8080 microprocessor used for satellite teleperformances, with collaborators and in outdoor "studios." Structure wise my work centers around spaces in spaces, scale and proportion and my soundworks effect an awareness of the psychological effects of sounds, for instance, from trees and wind transformation via my windribbon. I'm concentrating on conceptualizing a segue into Internet 2 realtime with oncall 2way availabilities of my data-laden resources. My basic groundwork includes several recyclings of the TerraInstruments including the signal discs, selfbroadcasting trees, lased raindrops and windribbon variations in an attempt to express the voltages I seek from natural sources as recontextualized audible constructs: offering personal connections to the …

Recording of James Dashow's Effetti Collaterali performed by the clarinetist Phillip Rehfeldt. The composer's first effort in using systematically his concept of AM and FM spectra as inharmonic harmonizations of specific dyads. The specified pitches are made to generate their own accompanying frequencies, generally inharmonic with respect to the pitches themselves, as a result of FM or AM procedures. Each interval or each pitch-pair can generate several possible spectra, but the similarity in sound quality between kinds of spectra quickly reduces to a limited number of readily manageable families of chord-types. These chords are the basis for a variety of musically interesting relationships, and this work represents but one of many possible developments of these kinds of sounds. Effeti Collaterali was commissioned by Francois Bousch who was the resident holder of the "Prix de Rome" at the French Academy for the 1975/76 concert season.