Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer

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Recording of Christian Zanési's Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer. The composer has these remarks on the creation of this piece: In 1996, on the initiative of the Experimental Music Group of Bourges (GMEB), around a hundred composers paid tribute to Pierre Schaeffer. It was on this occasion that I composed a short, outdated waltz, the theme of which is childhood (it is said of Pierre Schaeffer that, when he was a few years old, he would have written a 'treatise on the hoop'). Later, I continued: the railway, the sound object, the single man, relativity in all things to evoke this multiple man who played with all registers and all voices. So many faces which, superimposed, draw a single form. As for Arkheion, the words of Stockhausen (1995) I composed this work from archives (from the Greek, arkheion). Karlheinz Stockhausen was a kind of distant and inaccessible angel, the ideal situation. I had only used one spoken document then. For Pierre Schaeffer, who is closer to me (I took his classes at the conservatory and produced several radio programs with him) I took, here and there, fragments discovered at random in the considerable mass of archives concerning him. With …
Date: 1996/1997
Creator: Zanési, Christian
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

The ghost of Eriboll

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Recording of Peter Manning's The ghost of Eriboll. This programmatic work is a commentary on our natural environment and the urgent need to preserve the increasingly fragile ecology of so many hitherto unspoilt regions for the benefit of future generations. Loch Eriboll is to be found on the north coast of Scotland, creating an inlet which cuts deep into the countryside of Sutherland, an area of outstanding natural beauty, characterised by rich fishing grounds, rising mountains and tracts of wild moor land, from which and upon which small groups of fishermen and crofters have sought to maintain an existence in circumstances which have often been harsh and inhospitable. As the years have gone by so this way of life has come under threat with increasing industrialisation around the coast from the east, for example the nuclear power station built at Dounreay and numerous installations to support the North Sea oil industry. This piece is a soundscape, which reflects upon the survival of these communities down the ages and the uncertainty, which faces those who remain. All the source material is drawn from the archives of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. The transformations of these aural …
Date: 1994
Creator: Manning, Peter, 1948-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Die Unsichtbare front

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Recording of Ipke Starke's Die Unsichtbare front. The composer notes the following: The spatial installation of this work was designed and realized for the highest space in the building of the Technical Collections of the city of Dresden. This place just below the dome of the tower with its exceptional view of the city and the nearby radio tower is part of the work. The composition itself consists of 16 minutes of music on magnetic tape, constantly looped, spatialized and broadcast through the 7 loudspeakers configured in the space. The piece is based on modulations of extremely high frequencies, up to the limits of the audible, whose dynamic degree barely reaches the threshold of perception. What is significant vis-à-vis the content of the play is their interruption by documentary material: news in different languages, interviews, recordings of demonstrations, reports and documents from the archives, and synthetically generated or processed sounds of associative character. This confrontation of situational elements with documentary elements generates contradictory tensions in space. The architectural form of this one is also substantial: first of all, the space is presented in a neutral way, not done on purpose for pleasure. The exposed location of the dome provides openness, …
Date: 1996
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
College of Music program book 1992-1993 Fall/Spring Performances Vol. 1 (open access)

College of Music program book 1992-1993 Fall/Spring Performances Vol. 1

Fall/Spring performances program book from the 1992-1993 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 1993
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big Band Chronicles Cassette 2A transcript

Big Band Chronicles Cassette 2A

Part A of the second cassette of a condensed version of John Gilliland’s 1940s Big Band Chronicles, originally produced in the early 1970s. This segment emphasizes the time of the Second World War, with musical excerpts and commentary from performers and other music industry figures. Excerpted selections include "Skylark," "All or Nothing At All," "Pistol Packin' Mama," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore."
Date: 1994
Creator: Gilliland, John
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Program Book: Murchison Performing Arts Center, Feburary - March 1999] (open access)

[Program Book: Murchison Performing Arts Center, Feburary - March 1999]

Booklet containing the program for the opening gala of the Murchison Performing Arts Center and for events occurring during the first two months, with notes and performer lists. It also contains brief background information on the newly-constructed buildings and acknowledgments for staff and funders, along with various advertisements.
Date: 1999
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
College of Music program book 1995-1996 Fall/Spring Performances Vol. 1 (open access)

College of Music program book 1995-1996 Fall/Spring Performances Vol. 1

Performances program book from the 1995-1996 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 1996
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
College of Music program book 1998-1999 Ensemble Performances Vol. 2 (open access)

College of Music program book 1998-1999 Ensemble Performances Vol. 2

Ensemble performances program book from the 1998-1999 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 1999
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
College of Music program book 1993-1994 Fall/Spring Performances (open access)

College of Music program book 1993-1994 Fall/Spring Performances

Fall/Spring performances program book from the 1993-1994 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 1994
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library