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Red Snow, by Natasha Barrett, sounds an exploration of spatial musical structure through an impression of a Norwegian landscape. Apparently, red snow is a phenomenon of algae or diatoms growing in the snow.

Jonathan Harvey’s tape composition Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, was completed in 1980 and realized at IRCAM, Paris.  Harvey uses the sounds of the Winchester Cathedral bell combined with the inscription of the bell,
“Horas volantes numero, mortuos plango: vivos ad preces voco”
(”I enumerate the fleeting hours, I mourn the dead, I call the living to prayer”),
sung [...]

From lawfulrebellion.org :

Until recently, I knew little of Marc Stevens. Matt introduced him as being a very interesting man and he’d like to interview Marc for the site. I previously read through some of Marc’s website and heard him on a radio programme Richy played before the interview. Until we all talked with Marc, I [...]

Pauline Oliveros’ Bye Bye Butterfly (1965) is a two-channel tape piece that uses two oscillators, two line amplifiers in cascade, two tape recorders in a delay set-up, and a turntable with a recording of Giacomo Puccini’s opera, Madama Butterfly(1904).

Time Perspectives was composed by Pauline Oliveros in 1959, at the time applying many innovative tape recorder techniques, one of which was Oliveros’ hand manipulation of  recording speed, whilst avoiding cutting and splicing as much as possible.  Time Perspectives was premiered at the San Francisco Conservatory on December 18, 1961.  It has never been performed [...]