''Désintégrations'', for 17

musical instrument A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who pl ...

s and computer generated tape (1982–83) is a

musical composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...

spectral music Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition. Definition Defined in technical language, spectral music is an acoustic musical practice where compositional decisions are often informe ...

Tristan Murail Tristan Murail (born 11 March 1947) is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition. Among his compositions is the large orchestral work ''Gondwana''. Early life and studies Murail was born in Le Havre, France. His fa ...

, commissioned for

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

, Paris. The piece is more discontinuous than Murail's earlier composition ''

Gondwana Gondwana () was a large landmass, often referred to as a supercontinent, that formed during the late Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) and began to break up during the Jurassic period (about 180 million years ago). The final stages ...

'', owing in part to the use of dramatic silences throughout and particularly in the 6th

section Section, Sectioning or Sectioned may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea * Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents ** Section sign ...

.Anderson, Julian (2003). "Liner notes", p.7, ''Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again.'' Naïve. According to Julian Anderson,

Curtis Roads Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. Career and music Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Roads studied com ...

has said that "three compositions produced in the 1980s stand as good examples of compositional manipulation of analysis data: ''

Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco ''Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco'' ("I Mourn the Dead, I Call the Living") for eight-track tape is a musical composition created in 1980 by Jonathan Harvey, with the assistance of Stanley Haynes and Xavier Rodet, commissioned by the Centre Geor ...

'' (1981) by Jonathan Harvey, ''Désintegrations'' (1983, Salabert Trajectoires) by Tristan Murail, and ''

Digital Moonscapes ''Digital Moonscapes'' (1984) is an album by Wendy Carlos. "Written for orchestra (or orchestra replica), it is inspired by several astronomical subjects."

'' (1985, CBS/Sony) by

Wendy Carlos Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving ...

."Roads, Curtis (1996). ''The Computer Music Tutorial'', p.146. . The piece has been recorded by the

Ensemble l'Itinéraire The ''Ensemble l’Itinéraire'' is one of the main European ensembles dedicated to the performance of contemporary music, known in particular for its performances of spectral music works. Spectral music alters “timbres by assembling orchestral ...

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Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again
, ''AllMusic.com''. Chamber music compositions Computer music compositions Spectral music {{Chamber-composition-stub

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