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Pierre Schaeffer - l'Oeuvre Musicalel'oeuvre
musicale - the complete works of Pierre
Schaeffer is back! Following a huge
demand, GRM have re-issued this collection of works in a
3 CD boxed set. This is a superb compilation of the music
of the 'father of electroacoustic music'. A must have for
any electroacoustic library! |
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New from Digital Music Archives - Download a
continually expanding catalogue of electroacoustic
music tracks!
You can now download a selection of single tracks of music from
our website. All the tracks are encoded as top quality MP3s at
320k. All you have to do is go to our tracks
page, add the ones you want to your shopping cart, and you
will be presented with a webpage with links to the tracks as soon
as your credit card payment has been authorised. You will also
be sent an email with the links and a seven day period to download
the tracks. |
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| Pierre Henry says of Labyrinthe - "For
the first time during my journey and ventures into the world
of creation, I dreamt of a breath of fresh air deriving from
the electronic realm."
This CD is a real retrospective of this pioneer of electronic
music. |
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Our UK
Event Listings service is
now online....
We now have a listings page for concerts,
festivals, conferences and workshops of electroacoustic
music in the UK. We hope it will soon be the place
to check up on whats happening and where. Its already up and
running - click
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Looking for a course
in electroacoustic composition? - Try our links
page for some of the best places in the UK. You'll also
find links to organisations and institutes all over the world.
Think we've missed out on something? Email us at links@digital-music-archives.com and
let us know. |
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| We are fans of Bernard
Parmegiani and so we now have all six of his CDs in stock.
If you don't know his music, we recommend that you make an
acqaintence with it by listening to some clips and reading
the comprehensive notes which we have on the site. Click here for
links to his biography and all his CDs. |
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| Alien Bog |
During her year as first director of The Tape Music Center at Mills Callege (now Center for Cantemporary Music-CCM) in Oakland, California. Pauline Oliveras completed Alien Bog (1967) utilizing the original Buchla Box 100 series |
| Artist: Pauline Oliveros |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| As Weak as Vain |
No notes on this track |
| Artist: Iury Lech |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Ascencion |
Ascencion was composed using samples of sacred European music from the 11th to the 16th centuries, recordings of indigenous orchestras and singers from South America |
| Artist: Alejandro Iglesias-Rossi |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Ashram |
Ashram is a mixed piece for mukha veena (an Indian double reed instrument) and tape composed in 1991. The work was commissioned by American composer, multimedia artist and virtuoso instrumentalist Joseph Celli. |
| Artist: Ricardo Dal Farra |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Babel |
'Babel' is created from sounds recorded in Mexico, Spain, Italy and France. Processed at Agon and Tangatam Studios, Milan, Italy. Flute: Harrie Starreveld Its a space for the flute to travel. A little about imagination, the city and words. |
| Artist: Rodrigo Sigal |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Beautiful Soop |
During her year as first director of The Tape Music Center at Mills Callege (now Center for Cantemporary Music-CCM) in Oakland, California. Pauline Oliveras completed Beautiful Soop (1966) utilizing the original Buchla Box 100 series |
| Artist: Pauline Oliveros |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Callejuelas |
The general idea as well as most of the composition procedures utilised in the work refer to the multiple possibilities of facing "all those small, narrow, interrupted, intercrossed, and curved streets" of Madrid, both the old part and downtown. |
| Artist: Martin Alejandro Fumarola |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Chaotic Lucidity |
The piece is looking at behaviors of elementary sound entities and sound masses in a number of contexts. 2nd prize at Jeu de Temps, CEC Composition Contest, 2003. Mention at the Bourge International Electroacoustic Competition, 2002. |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Dolor en Mi |
'Dolor en Mi' is the fourth track on the album 'Manifesto' by Rodrigo Sigal. Guitar: Pablo Gomez. Pain as the source of so many things we depend on each day, and E, the note where many things the guitar depends on. |
| Artist: Rodrigo Sigal |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| El Firmamento |
'el Firmamento' is the fifth track on the album 'Manifesto' by Rodrigo Sigal. Piano: Diane Cochran Composed at the Banff Center for the Arts, Canada.
The tape is created entirely with sounds taken from the piano. |
| Artist: Rodrigo Sigal |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| El peregrinar de la arana |
The title of the work means "the travels of the spider." The conception of the piece is based on a typical journey through the World Wide Web of the Internet. |
| Artist: Martin Alejandro Fumarola |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| En Masse |
We live in a world dominated by information technology and a culture of mass multimedia communication. |
| Artist: Ed Wright |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Enough? |
Enough~? is a piece for solo Clarinet and live signal processing using max/msp. The only sounds that you hear on the track are created live |
| Artist: Ed Wright |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Excursions |
Excursions is a acousmatic piece that explores possibilities of moving from one sonic landscape to another through the gestural articulation of sonic modulation (dynamic, sudden and sequential). |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Fe |
'Fe' is the second track on the album 'Manifesto' by Rodrigo Sigal. Piano: Duane Cochran. Each one chooses his own faith. |
| Artist: Rodrigo Sigal |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Fundamental Manouvre |
Fundamental Manoeuvre is an acousmatic piece that was created from an environmental recording of city trams in Göteborg Sweden. |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Holiday Snap |
Creating Holiday Snap 2002: A Sonic Document was originally an attempt to create a definitive document using sounds that emanated from the small seaside town of Whitby. |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Lagarto |
'Lagarto' is the third track on the album 'Manifesto' by Rodrigo Sigal. Created at the Chajul station in Chiapas, with sounds taken from the Lacandona rainforest. Tape originally in 6 channels and an amplified ensemble, here it is presented in stereo. |
| Artist: Rodrigo Sigal |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Love Raga |
Voice: Vangelis Psareas. Developed mainly from material played on electric guitar, the sound of steel strings taking on a journey through electric landscapes and references to sonic images. |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Marimbagenes |
The name of the piece - Marimbagenes - is a pun, impossible to translate into English, that could be understood as either "marimba's image" or "at the marimba's margins." |
| Artist: Teodoro Cromberg |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Nouvel étoile |
No notes on this track |
| Artist: Iury Lech |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Olivine Trees |
Olivine Trees is perhaps the first piece of electroacoustic music ever composed using a parallel computer. The piece was specifically composed using sounds synthesised by Chaosynth, a granular synthesis system. |
| Artist: Eduardo Reck Miranda |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Ping |
Ping represents a continuing interest in theatre and intermedia running through Reynold's compositions since 'The Emperor of Icecream' (1961-62) |
| Artist: Roger Reynolds |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Postcard from Home |
So much electroacoustic music can sound dark and sad... here's to writing happy music! |
| Artist: Ed Wright |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Rainwater II |
The sound of rain on metal. A gas fire. A piano follows the raindrops. Noises from the kitchen and the living room. |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Rites of Passage |
The piece was composed in eight channels during a residency at Studio Césaré in Reims France in October 2001. It is written for Passage Subé in Reims and was performed there over many speakers, with live spatialisation. |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Rubicon Drift |
Rubicon is the ancient name for a small stream that formed part of the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul; the crossing of it by Caesar marked the beginning of the war with Pompeii. |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Sax? |
Sax? is an electroacoustic piece for saxophone, live electronics and fixed medium. It builds upon my interests relating to extended instrumental technique that was undertaken in Dimensions (2000). |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Submarine |
Submarine is an acousmatic work that was motivated by the catastrophic suffering that the Kursk submarine crew must have endured during their entrapment at the bottom of the ocean whilst facing their inevitable death. |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Swan Song |
All sonic materials for Swan Song were taken from the voice of Maria Jardardottir who specialises in experimental vocal improvisation. The source materials were recorded under the direction of the composer before being used for compositional purposes. |
| Artist: Dale Perkins |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| The Door Study |
Made from a sample of the gent’s toilets doors at the Berliner Kulturcentrum, recorded during icmc2000 for The Door Project, conceived by John Ffitch for icmc2001. |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| The Maze |
....cold wind. ...A door opened with echoing noise, leading out of a strange room with very high ceiling. No idea how I'd got there. Flooded with alien memories and behind the walls all these noises… Shortlisted by SPNM in 2001 |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| The Way I Saw It |
This piece explores the age old idea of the duet, in this case it is between live violin and a pre-recorded tape part . |
| Artist: Ed Wright |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Tiempo Quebrado |
This work is the first part of the two part cycle Sin Tiempo, composed between February and June 1993. (The second part, Tiempo Ausente, is for five instruments and tape). |
| Artist: Daniel Schachter |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Traces |
Traces was written for the composer-pianist Yuji Takahashi. Scored for solo piano, with flute, cello, ring modulator, signal generator, and 6 independent channels of taped sound, this work is concerned not only with events but their residues (traces). |
| Artist: Roger Reynolds |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Under Siege |
No notes on this track |
| Artist: Iury Lech |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Vox 1 |
The form of the opening was suggested by the patterns of growth of living organisms. It begins with a seamless stream of vocal sounds, emerging from the tape sounds. (From the CD 'The Vox Cycle') |
| Artist: Trevor Wishart |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Vox 2 |
VOX 2 is concerned with the detailed inner articulation of vocal sounds, and its relationship to the harmonic context in which this takes place. |
| Artist: Trevor Wishart |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Vox 3 |
This piece explores different, and increasingly complex, rhythmic counterpoints in a set of ‘variations’, separated by sections of conversation between the performers. |
| Artist: Trevor Wishart |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Vox 4 |
A dramatic scenario for 4 voices, with extensions and interventions on tape. Here extended vocal techniques are used for their dramatic or psychological import. |
| Artist: Trevor Wishart |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Vox 5 |
An entirely electro-acoustic piece, creates a "supervoice" at front center stage, whose utterances metamorphose into natural events… crowds, bells, trees, and less specific sound events… images of the creation and destruction of the world. |
| Artist: Trevor Wishart |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Vox 6 |
VOX 6 is a dance-finale for the VOX cycle. The mood changes abruptly from the ‘sublime’ to the ‘profane’, and the musical style is based on 1980s popular dance music. |
| Artist: Trevor Wishart |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Weather |
A short study inspired by the weather forecast |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| Zrrraam! |
Transformed environmental sounds and speech shape a dynamic collage of sonic landscapes, with the mutated sound of a door separating different places of action. Mention at the Bourge International Electroacoustic Competition, 1999. |
| Artist: Stelios Giannoulakis |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| …Due Giorni Dopo |
Due Giorni Dopo was composed and produced in 1988, at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova's University, Italy. |
| Artist: Ricardo Dal Farra |
| Format: MP3 Download |
| …the serpent snapping eye |
…the serpent-snapping eye (1978) was composed for trumpet, percussion, piano and 4 channel tape. The phrase quoted in the title comes from 'The Quarterdeck' chapter of moby Dick |
| Artist: Roger Reynolds |
| Format: MP3 Download |
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Fast and articulate sonic theatre. Transcendentally elegant journeys with strong contrasts and playful transformations, games of tension and resonance.
Giannoulakis is an engineer, composer, sound designer and instrumentalist based in Athens, Greece. He studied Electronic and Biomedical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, took an MA in Digital Music Technology at the University of Keele with Mike Vaughan and Rajmil Fishman and a Ph.D. in Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Wales Bangor with Andrew Lewis.
Composition with recorded sound, free improvisation, collaborations with other musicians and visual artists. Music and sound design for installations, dance, theater. Performing on electric guitar, percussion, didjeridoo, trumpet, synthesizers and self-made instruments in acousmatic-funk-samba-reggae-dub-noise-fusion projects.
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