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S Conductor – weaving sampled speech and street sounds into a work with symphonic DDD Recorded: 24 May 2006 at Templestudio, Freiburg, 3 depth of range and expression. Germany , 20 Nov4em6ber 2009 at Gerberaustudio, Freiburg, Germany – , 10 and 11 January 2010 1 2 7 ! 8
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