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'''''Différences''''' is a composition by the Italian composer [[Luciano Berio]] for [[flute]], [[clarinet]], [[viola]], [[cello]], [[harp]] and [[magnetic tape]], dating 1958–59. It was written for the [[Domaine musical]] concerts in Paris and first performed in March 1959, conducted by [[Pierre Boulez]].

''Différences'' is one of the first attempts to combine live instruments with [[electronic music]]. At the centre of the work, the tape sound takes the place of the performers. They return with various [[pizzicato]] entries, creating a homogeneous texture which seeks only an alteration in the expression rather than a disruption in the character of the music.

Berio began the composition for ''Différences'' a year before the premiere by recording in Paris the same musicians who were to give the first performance. In the [[Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano|Studio di fonologia musicale]] in Milan he then transformed these recordings to produce the tape with which the musicians interact during the performance. Berio remarked that "[i]n ''Différences'' the original model of the five instruments coexists alongside an image of itself that is continually modified, until the ''different'' phases of transformation deliver up a completely altered image that no longer has anything to do with the original" {{Harv|Berio|Dalmonte|Varga|1985|p=126}}.

==References==
*{{Citation | last=Berio | first=Luciano | author-link =Luciano Berio | last2=Dalmonte | first2=Rossana |last3=Varga | first3=Bálint András | title=Two Interviews | publisher=Boyars | place=[[London]] | year=1985 | isbn=0-7145-2829-3}}

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