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IRCAM 0001 | 12" | 33rpm | France | 1983 |
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IRCAM un portrait-- Jean-Claude Risset: Songes (1979 for computer-generated tape) / Pierre Boulez: Repons (1982 for instrumental ensemble, computer-generated tape, and realtime electronic treatments) / Morton Subotnick: The Double Life of Amphibians (1981 for ensemble and live electronics) / John Chowning: Stria (1977 for tape) / Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980 for computer-treated concrete sounds) / Tod Machover: Soft Morning, City! (1980 for soprano, contrabass, and tape) / Mesias Maiguashca: Fmelodies (1982 for ensemble and tape) / York Holler: Resonance (1982 for chamber orchestra and computer-synthesized tape) / Examples Sonores [by various artists] |
Private pressing issued by l'Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique as a document of their ongoing research into sound. Side 1 contains "sound examples," a beautiful montage of demonstrations of then state-of-the-art synthesis methods, sound experiments, newly invented electronic instruments, digital audio processing techniques, and psychoacoustic phenomenon; there are some extremely unusual sounds including computer-generated and digitally-processed speech and vocal noises, studies in spatial/stereo effects and microtonal scales, and mutated virtual instruments which morph different properties of multiple instruments into a single sound source. Contributors to this side include most of the other composers on this disc plus Maurice Bejart, Vinko Globokar, Roger Reynolds, Harrison Birtwistle, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, and many others. Side 2 features works by IRCAM residents (some tracks are excerpts) ranging from purely electronic works to live instrumental pieces incorporating realtime electronic processing. Performers include the Ensemble InterContemporain directed by Peter Eotvos as well as Boulez, soprano Jane Manning, and contrabassist Barry Guy.
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