Normalmente, due

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Recording of Paolo Besagno's Normalmente, due. This work is an homage to Mr. Jacquard and his loom. The score was written with rows and columns in order to maintain the concept of the loom. The composer describes this piece as "a word game".
Date: 2004
Creator: Besagno, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Padova tace from "I viaggi in tasca - 20 luoghi mentali"

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Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Padova tace from "I viaggi in tasca - 20 luoghi mentali". This work is comprised of various sampled sounds and voice, performed by Giovanna Mori. It is based on text written by Valerio Magrelli and was commissioned by RadioRAI. The piece had its first radio broadcast in 1995 through RAI Radiotre.
Date: 1995
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Recordare

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Recording of Nicola Bernardini's Recordare. The text in this work was written by the composer's father in which he reflects on the shock he felt at the situation in Bosnia. The composer hoped to create a comment on a complex issue without losing the impact of the event in question.
Date: 1999
Creator: Bernardini, Nicola, 1956-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trasformazioni dell'anima

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Recording of Maria Cristina de Amicis' Trasformazioni dell'anima. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 2000
Creator: De Amicis, Maria Cristina
System: The UNT Digital Library

Viso di Primavera

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Recording of Andrés Lewin-Richter's Viso di Primavera. This work was created as an homage to mezzo-soprano Anna Ricci, who passed away in 2001. This composer has worked with her before and used fragments of her voice to create this work.
Date: 2002
Creator: Lewin-Richter, Andrés, 1937-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Anticlèa

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Recording of Elizabeth Mara Bossero's Anticlèa. This work was inspired by the meeting of Odysseus with his mother, Anticla, in 'Hades', book XI of the Odyssey.
Date: 2003
Creator: Bossero, Elizabeth Mara
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dall'alto

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Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Dall'alto. This is an electroacoustic work that includes Italian spoken word that describes the act of floating above the world in observation of the land and sea below.
Date: 2003
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'ouest du palmarès

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Recording of Robert Grassi's L'ouest du palmarès. The composer describes this work as a live improvisation from a sample percussionists and speaker. The instrumentation was created by Yamaha drums and a Yamaha sampler.
Date: 1999
Creator: Grassi, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aracne

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Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Aracne. This work is based off of a text by Guido Barbieri and was written as a radio play. This piece was produced and created in Rome at the CRM - Centro Ricerche Musicali and at Edison Studio. It was staged for the first time at the Roman Aquarium in June 1996.
Date: 1996
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Even event - Odd event

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Recording of Andréa Libretti's Even event - Odd event. This is a work for electronics that includes various vocalizations.
Date: 1999/2000
Creator: Libretti, Andréa
System: The UNT Digital Library

Limens Limine

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Recording of Fabio Cifariello Ciardi's "Limens Limine." This work is a 4+1 channel piece, with 4 of the channels playing on speakers off the stage and 1 channel played on a loudspeaker on center stage. Composer utilizes pre-recorded voices, percussion, found sounds, and electronics. Premiered in Montreal.
Date: 2003/2004
Creator: Ciardi, Fabio Cifariello
System: The UNT Digital Library

Segni dal tempo

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Recording of Riccardo Santoboni's Segni dal tempo. This work deals with the taste of the earth of "Salento" in the south of Puglia, Italy. The sound elements included in this work include the rhythm and music of traditional dance and voice while electronic processing is used to modulate.
Date: 2005
Creator: Santoboni, Riccardo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Caterina

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Recording of Patrick Portella's Caterina. This is a work for electronics that is meant to represent sensuality as well as the violence of sound. It premiered at the Futura 96 ​​Festival in Crest.
Date: 1996
Creator: Portella, Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sono una creatura

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Recording of Marco Dibeltulu's Sono una creatura. This work was inspired from a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti. The sounds of this work come from recited voice and have been manipulated to attempt a smooth transition between music and spoken word. The piece consists of three parts: the first is purely musical, made up of superimposed sound bands, the second imitates the vocal articulation with a "synthetic speech", and finally the third begins with the "granulated" vocal timbre.
Date: 2000
Creator: Dibeltulu, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library

In primo vere

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Recording of Paolo Besagno's In primo vere. This work is a short celebration of spring that the composer dedicates to their two daughters, whose voices are used as main sound material in the work. The text in the work comes from a nursery rhyme that was taught to the composer as a child and the voices of his daughters represent the true voice of spring. The composer gives thanks to Riccardo Dapelo for his friendship and collaboration.
Date: 2002
Creator: Besagno, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Altrove con il suo nome

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Recording of Mauro Cardi's Altrove con il suo nome. The text in this work is sampled from "Oggetto d'amore" by Pasquale Panella and the theatric content of the text is reflected in the recording. The sound materials used in the tape is primarily made up of samples from the actress' voice. The piece premiered in Rome in December, 2000 and again in 2001 as part of a larger project.
Date: 2000
Creator: Cardi, Mauro
System: The UNT Digital Library

Babel

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Recording of Jorge Rodrigo Sigal's Babel. This work is part of a larger CD project called "Manifesto". The piece is meant for flute, tape, and optional live electronics. The sound materials were recorded in Spain, France, and Mexico City. The composer dedicates this work to Stefano Scarani and it was premiered by Mr. Harrie Starreveld.
Date: 1998
Creator: Sigal, Rodrigo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Giovanni e gli alfabeti

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Recording of Stefano Giannotti's Giovanni e gli alfabeti. This work is based on the theme of language sound richness and includes various alphabet phonetics from different languages. The main focus of the piece, however, is the singing of Giovanni, who performs a song in his dialect and tells stories about his youth. The piece is available on CD.
Date: 1994/1996
Creator: Giannotti, Stefano, 1963-
System: The UNT Digital Library

I hear you think

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Recording of Johannes S. Sistermanns' I hear you think. This work consists of various concrete sounds as well as spoken text written by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Date: 1996/1997
Creator: Schmidt-Sistermanns, Johannes, 1955-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tabula irrasa

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Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Tabula irrasa. This is a work for tape that was inspired by the composer's experiences on trains crossing the Po Valley. While travelling, the composer found himself focusing on the landscape and drew inspiration from the fields, farmsteads, hedges, etc. The materials that have been used are based on the sounds of the language spoken by the river. The composer thanks Italo Formigoni and Wainer Melli for their helpfulness as well as the Istituto Mantovano di Storia Contemporanea for historical audio documents.
Date: 2004
Creator: Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Microclima II

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Recording of Marco Dibeltulu's Microclima II. This work was created as part of the open work "Les Maîtres Sonneurs" for the Synthèse festival. The intent of this work was to combine electroacoustic music with popular music. The title metaphorically represents the island in the center of the Mediterranean and the sound mimics the harsh and wild landscapes of the island with the emerald sea and ancestral music. This has been represented by the Launeddas and by the Canto a Tenore, a typical expression of island vocal polyphony.
Date: 2004
Creator: Dibeltulu, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library

Après les grands tours

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Recording of Johannes Goebel's Après les grands tours. This piece is a reference to tours that have crossed the Alps with the use of walking sounds and spoken word taken from "Germania" by P. Cornelius Tacitus.
Date: 1993
Creator: Goebel, Johannes, 1949-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tupac Amaru

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Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Tupac Amaru. The composer describes this work as a musical opera based on a text by Gianni Toti with all vocal parts attributed to the voice of Giovanna Mori. This work was premiered at "Europa Festival" in Ferentino, Italy. The original pre-recorded tape is divided into 8 tracks (ADAT format).
Date: 1997
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aquapolis

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Recording of Lou Mallozzi's Aquapolis. The sound material is language and ambient recordings. The text is written in English, and has been translated into German and Venetian Italian. There are aquatic sounds, body sounds, and sounds of physical labor. Conceptually, the piece is based on a fictional trans-historical walk through an aquatic city, loosely based on Venice. The piece is in four sections: Preamble, 2000 Years Ago, 200 Years Ago, and This Year.
Date: 1997
Creator: Mallozzi, Lou, 1957-
System: The UNT Digital Library