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1965–1970
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WORK TITLE
EXPLANATION
COMPOSER'S NOTES
Jozef Malovec
Orthogenesis
This piece combines — in an astonishingly convincing manner, given the year in which it was composed — concrete sound sources...
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This is an analog and mixed composition, the first one ever made in the Electroacoustic Studio Czechoslovak of Radio Bratislava...
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1971–1975
COMPOSER(S)
WORK TITLE
EXPLANATION
COMPOSER'S NOTES
Miro Bázlik
Simple Electronic Symphony
This piece demonstrates some of the technical and compositional advances made in less than a decade following...
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1976–1980
COMPOSER(S)
WORK TITLE
EXPLANATION
COMPOSER'S NOTES
John Wells
Rock in the Water
In this Canadian work, we see just how far electroacoustic techniques have evolved...
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1981–1985
COMPOSER(S)
WORK TITLE
EXPLANATION
COMPOSER'S NOTES
José Augusto Mannis
Cyclone
Combining the use of stereophonic recording, electroacoustic treatments and hybridization of natural sounds...
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Guy Isabelle
Viscères symphoniques
The selected excerpt features very complex sounds that when layered upon one another could very easily create...
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In
Viscères symphoniques
, I sought to create sonorities that were organic, animal-like...
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László Dubrovay
Symphonia
This piece effectively demonstrates the level of transparency attainable in this period...
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1986–1990
COMPOSER(S)
WORK TITLE
EXPLANATION
COMPOSER'S NOTES
Jacques Lejeune
Messe aux oiseaux :
1. Kyrie
During this period, postmodernist ideas and æsthetics made their way into all art forms...
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Pierre Bouchard
Mécanique de la foudre
In this example the composer has created a counterpoint of structures that have greatly divergent dynamic levels...
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Mécanique de la foudre
is the growth of a unique sound material — a metal-like crunch — being transformed in many different ways...
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Elliot E. Freedman
The Griffith Observer
A few concrete sounds, a sampler and a fairly transparent digital reverb are all the composer needed to create several broad sonic planes...
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Upon the heels of the introductory resonant gestures, the Griffith Observer proceeds to explore a granular network of sound...
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