Recording of Warren Burt's 7 excerpts from "visual haïku". "Visual Haiku" was a set of 16 computer pieces made for Robert Randall's "Visual Haiku" project in 1994. All the music was made on various computer systems using software such as Band-in-a-Box, Sound Globs, M, Cool Edit and so on. Each of the "Visual Haiku" used algorithmic processes to assemble music which loudly and proudly proclaimed bad taste and slavish obeisance to commercial musical models, in keeping with the neo-Warholian aesthetic of Randall's work. "Visual Haiku" appear on the 2 CD set "Randelli's Selection" - on Scarlet Aardvark CD No. 47 A and B, available from www.warrenburt.com.

Recording of Ricardo Arias' 94 eleciones. Inspired by the fascination of the fashionable spectacle of biodiversity. Within the tropical forest, psittacine, quickly show their invasion of acoustic space with repetitive and annoying messages. Sound recordings made in the forest and recordings of paid political advertising. The composer was devoted to cutting and assembling in sequence fragments of electoral sound borders and joining mixed unaltered vocalizations of birds and other animals.

Recording of Agnieszka Waligorska's 6th day. This work is for electronics, voice, pre-recorded manipluated sound, and saxophone.

Recording of Alain Basso's Acetone. It was created essentially from sounds representative of landscapes and festivities in Haute-Savoie, this piece explores the limits of the possibilities of sound mutation. The idea is to exaggerate certain acoustic characteristics, to better control the expressiveness of these sound objects, but without losing their original nature. Thus, the listener is projected into a lyrical world, while measuring the gap that separates him from real sources that can often be identified.

Recording of Michel Tetreault's Ad vitam aeternam. This work is for electronics and pre-recorded sound. By using traditional electro-acoustic technique certain effects have allowed for pre-recorded sound fragments to transforms and change throughout the piece. While listening to these sound, fields recording of differing sonic environments are playing.

Recording of Eric Lyon's The afterbirth of appollo. This work is for electronics and has a lot of noise elements. The synthetic sounds are harsh and posses an analog sound. This sound feels continuous and even though there is movement in the sound, the construction continues to stay the same. There is a true representation of electronic sound in this work, instead of shying away from the noise, this work embraces it and explores the importance of balance and musical transitions.

Recording of Juan Carlos Pampin's Apocalypse was postponed due to lack of interest. The title refers to an idea about the state of the art within the 19th century. Algorithms written with the COMMON LISP language controlled the rhythms and production of synthesis sounds to create different textures and densities. Sound generation techniques include: Karplus-Strong Modeled Attack, Additive Synthesis Generated Body and Filtered Noise Drop. The structure of the work is that of a continuous transformation where each object is condemned to mutate over time, these mutations take place in the short and long term during the piece.

Recording of Lelio Camilleri's Arcades. This work is for electronic and pre-recorded manipulated sound. This work uses traditional electronic technique to change the sound characteristics of pre-recorded sound and use of musical space and movement, accompanied by electronically produced track.

Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Archée. The main material in this work is fire, an "electonic" fire made from exclusively analog wave generators. The second material is "time" and is an essential part of the work. This piece belongs to a collection of works the composer calls his "electronic sound paintings" which consist of pieces that suggest to the listener an image of the chosen model by stylizing it using electronic sources.

Recording of Ragnar Grippe's L'Archer coupe l'air en deux. All the material was composed by the composer. The sound include soprano voice, voice, logs, water, toys, cello, piano, and radio waves. The technique used is very much based on the composers experiences from French Groupe de Recherches Musicales. MIDI sounds were made with a digital performer, sound on sound tools II, and manipulated with Turbo Synth SC.

Recording of Andrew Lewis' Ascent. For electronics. This process was initiated by the nature of the opening sounds of the piece, which were the first to be developed. Ascent moves freely across a spectrum of musical approaches, from the purely abstract to the more cinematic: at one extreme, the exploration of texture and of static pitch structures dominates; in the middle ground, evocations of irregular rock formations, undulating topography and large geological masses are prevalent; while at its most representational, important ideas are the elements.

Recording of Maria Cristina De Amicis' Aura. This work explores the sonic possibilities of processed percussion and electronics.

Recording of Bruno Capelle's Ballade. For electronics. This work is a sonic landscape which uses sound manipulation to alter the sound environment.

Recording of Barry Truax's Bamboo, Silk and Stone. This is a collabrative work with Barry Truax, who realized the tape, and Randy Raine-Reusch who performed the source material for the tape (on the balinese suling gambuh, the Chinese guzheng, the Korean hun or ocarina, gongs and tam-tam) and who composed the live accompaniment which he plays on the first three of those instruments. The tape part is mostly improvisations gestures used by the performer. The work was realized using the composer's PODX system which incorporates the DMX-1000 Digital Signal Processor controlled by a PDP Micro-11 computer with software for real-time granular synthesis and signal processing.

Recording of Karl Friedrick Gerber's Beautiful Numbers. The work is a result of the composers experiments with algorithmic composition written with the "GFA Basic" language. The real-time improvisation program is controlled or "conducted" by altering numbers of preselected so called discrete vectors. These vectors represent states in the space of sequences formed by counting integer values in cycles. Various midi events are generated to control the sound modules. The piece was concerned for dance improvisation and has a very smooth flow with a mood of simple beautiful structures and intervals.

Recording of Lars Gunnar Bodin's Best wishes from the lilac grove. For electronics. In Swedish it means a rather tiny grove, more like an outdoor room (without a roof) where the lilac shrubbery form the walls. The intention of this piece is to radiate something of the same relaxed feeling and contemplation you may experience when visiting such a room.

Recording of Jorge Rapp's Biosfera una. In this piece natural sounds which are playing all around us are combines with the human beings that reside with it. This environment is accomplished by using sounds from nature, animals, and people and our continuous soundscapes. Contrast and camouflage relations prevail, where human voices become the foreground; these encounters culminates with guttural animal sounds.

Recording of Trevor Wishart's Blue Tulips. This work is built on a recording of an old woman's voice and is more like a documentary in style. The story recounted provides all the material for the piece, which becomes a short study in sonic transformation and variation.

Recording of Juan Reyes' Boca de Barra. The sound events of the piece are based on visual images. These images were produced by elements and objects of a natural landscape. When the viewer concentrates on a particular event, the system destabilizes and events, like images in an exhibition, begin to arrive. La Bocca de la Barra is a geographical beach in the Caribbean, where salty sea water mixes with fresh water from the swamps and, where vegetables become seaweed, frogs become fish, and lobsters look like crabs. In this electroacoustic composition, the composer presents macro-acoustic organizations.

Recording of Gerald Siclovan's Bone. Text: "Cacophany" by Marc Christensen, read by the author and Mary M. Miller. Language cut to the bone: the piece begins with an isolated phoneme compressed and looped into a synthesizer-like texture, which gradually expands until it is transformed into the first word of the text. All sounds up to the end of the second stanza are manipulations of the human voice. Language conflated with non-language: the human voice as both means of communication and as instrument of incoherence. Language abandoned and superseded by the din of the world: voices embedded in desultory noise, failing to convey meaning; voices of birds and dogs which, though unpenetrated by human comprehension, at least remain recognizably articulated; voices of insects, which are not even articulated (at least to human perception); and voices of machines, inhabitants of a menacing wonderland, matter devoid of spirt. Among the noises heard in this piece: motorcycles, automobiles, ice cream trucks, the air brake of a school bus, a gasoline-powered generator; an especially obnoxious car alarm; radio junk emanating from automobiles and homes; firecrackers and fireworks; birds, dogs, crickets and cicadas; and of course the omnipresent hiss and rumble of the dystopic industrial world, …

Recording of Werner Cee's Braindrops. This work is an interactive, audio-visual performance. The installation makes spatial-temporal patterns of the impact of raindrops falling on various sound-making surfaces, creating a complex multitude of generated sound and light structures. Various psycho-physiological signals of the subject are measured using sensors and correlated. Changes in the individual's psycho-physical state are thereby fed back into the audio-visual event itself (biofeedback).

Recording of Ton Bruynel's Brouillard.

Recording of Eric Lyon's Butter.

Recording of Jan Pascal Alagna's C'est en forgeant. Sound allegory around the forge, fire, and the transformation of energy, of acoustic exploration of the last forge still in activity in Marseille. Based on the recording of sounds from the forest of pastre, an allegoric journey is offered where the various stages of transformation of metal, water and fire are presented. Other sound's include the Kalevala, Greece index, Gamelan, etc. These instruments represent the historical tradition enlightened by the myth of the blacksmith.