there is a history of electroacoustic "shorts." in 1982, elliott sharp created an album of shorts called "state of the union" to accompany an issue of zone magazine. in the mid-1980s when the association pour la création et recherches en électroacoustique de québec (acreq) launched an annual competition for "electroclips", most pieces being between one and three minutes in duration. in the late 1980s, jean-françois denis and claude schryer of montreal, commissioned 25 three-minute pieces for the "25 instantanés électroacoustiques", électro clips, published by empreinted digitales in 1990, imed 9004. in 1998, larry polansky created "the frog peak collaborations project" a double album of shorts based on an audio sound file from chris mann.