Musik Dari Jalan

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Recording of Jack Body's Musik Dari Jalan. This piece depicts the musical sounds and ever-varied texture of resonances of Indonesian streets. There are street sellers advertising their products and a street musician who accompanies himself with anklung (bamboo resonators which are shaken) and a small gong.
Date: 1975
Creator: Body, Jack, 1944-2015
System: The UNT Digital Library

Moin Mor

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Recording of Manuel Rocha Iturbide's Moin Mor. In music using concepts or ideas which belong to other domains is something that has been realized by composers for a long time. The central element of sound work is language, which is what characterizes a determinate culture. Language is made out of sound and meaning, out of syntax (rhythm) and out of words (signs) For this work English, Gaelic, and Spanish are used.
Date: 1995
Creator: Rocha Iturbide, Manuel, 1963-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Logos

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Recording of Andrew Lewis's Logos. "Acousmatic" music for fixed medium (stereo).
Date: 1984
Creator: Lewis, Andrew, 1963-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Balthasar's Traum

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Recording of Frank Corcoran's "Balthasar's Traum" performed at the Electronic Studio of the Berlin Technical University in close cooperation with Folkmar Hein. The work is based on an idea of a short story by Jorge Luis Borge and the Gospel of St. Mark about Balthasar Espinosa, a man who becomes involved with the Gutres people of Pampa and eventually dies by being hanged on a cross by the same people with whom he was so fascinated. It takes place in the great plains of the Pampa where Baltasar Espinosa is invited to his friend's ranch. To escape the monotony of continuous rain, he begins every night to read aloud to the fascinated Gutres people. They ask for him to reread the Gospel of St. Mark. Mysterious things begin happening during the dark days -- Baltasar cures an animal through 20th century means, something the Gutres have never seen before. The rain eventually stops. That night a virgin Gutre girl visits Baltasar's bed. The next day, he reads the Gospel to the Gutres for the last time. They then ask Baltasar, who is not a believer, if even those who crucified the Savior can receive salvation. They ask for his blessing, …
Date: 1981
Creator: Corcoran, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pax

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Recording of Gottfried Martin's Pax for tape. Includes electronic and natural sounds, including voice, news recordings, and recordings of war sounds.
Date: 1983
Creator: Martin, Gottfried
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sensors IV

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Recording of Alcides Lanza's Sensors IV performed in 1984 by the McGill Concert Choir, conducted by Christopher Reynolds. The tape was realized at the Composer's studio (SHELAN Studio) and McGill University EMS in Montreal, QC, Canada. The piece explores different techniques of vocal wiring, especially the relationship of semantics, languages, and memory. The word "Memory" constitutes the entire text for the piece - using letter sound, recombinations of the word, and adding syllables from other languages that share similar etymology. Recording of the word "memories" -- Meg Sheppard's voice -- is used in the realization of the piece.
Date: 1983/1984
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aguiro

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Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
Date: 1974
Creator: Beyst, Stefan
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Diamant

Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant. This piece was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem.
Date: 1977
Creator: Elmsly, John
System: The UNT Digital Library

La Feria Fantástica

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Recording of Igor de Gandarias' La Feria Fantástica. This work was realized at the University of Maryland Electronic Music Studio using a Fairlight Series III station. The sound sources come from live recordings made in 1991 during the celebration of the most important popular feast in Guatemala City, called “Feria de Jocotenago” (Jocotenango’s fair). The feast, dedicated to celebrate the city’s patron anniversary (Virgin of the Assumption), takes place in August every year, enduring the complete month. Its activities contain not only religious ceremonies and processions with their particular musical environment (choirs and processional bands) but folk dances, food, games and entertainment. The recordings include: voices of a children's choir and voices of congregated people singing into the church, Indian speaking voices, snare drum processional patterns and rolls, a popular processional band piece, and a traditional Indian marimba piece which accompanies popular Indian dances during the procession. The sound of rhythmic patterns played on the rattles by the dancers; electronic games, church bells and the little bell of an ice-cream vendor were also recorded at the fair. Other sounds coming from three musical toys, which are usually on sale on these feasts, were recorded in studio.
Date: 1995
Creator: Gandarias, Igor de
System: The UNT Digital Library

Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)

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Recording of Pekka Sirén's "Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)" performed by Leena Schönberg, speaker. The poem "The Founding of Kazan" is a Mordovinian poem from the collection "Heimokannel," original translation of text from Mordavinian to Finnish by Otto Maninen. Realized in Finnish Radio's Experimental Studio and at Stockholm's EMS Studio from 1978-1980
Date: 1978/1980
Creator: Sirén, Pekka
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sing a song

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Recording of Simo Lazarov's Sing a song. This is a work for electronics and includes singing by a Bulgarian Folk group.
Date: 2002
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eden

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Recording of Robert Normandeau's Eden. This work is based on the music composed for the play "L'Éden cinéma" by Marguerite Duras. The stage and concert music were composed in parallel as part of the same fiction but corresponding to different purposes. Given Duras' music, which was filled with instruction, the composer of this work responded to this by playing continuous music in the room. In the concert version sound elements are added to represent different facets of Duras' life.
Date: 2003
Creator: Normandeau, Robert, 1955-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Samarkandko

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Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Samarkandko. This piece is a linear construction on five highly contrasted sources. The affective associations of the materials may suggest a dramatic scenario which, though ambiguous, contradictory, subjective, guided the order on event presentations and their manner of juxtaposition. One evolved theory of the work had precisely to do with the use of extreme, and perhaps at first seemingly unrelated, contrast that such materials can, with care and sensitivity, work together in a composition, to see in the end, related, if only now to the whole. Samarkandko was realized in October of 1976 in the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Iowa.
Date: 1976
Creator: Lewis, Peter Tod
System: The UNT Digital Library

Les insectes

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Recording of Peter Martincek's Les insectes. Incorporates the sounds of insects into a electronic piece of music.
Date: 1983
Creator: Martinček, Peter, 1962-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Alba

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Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
Date: 2002
Creator: Cardi, Mauro
System: The UNT Digital Library

Palabras del sur

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Recording of Federico Schumacher Ratti's Palabras del sur. This work was composed in response to the call for an open work "Le monde devenu Musique l'écoute du siècle". The sound materials in this piece come from instrumentals and vocals from the Kaweskar and Yamana indigenous groups as well as the Mapuche ethnic group and sheds a light on the perspective from the south.
Date: 1999
Creator: Schumacher, Federico, 1963-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Petrounka

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Recording of Simo Lazarov's Petrounka. This recording is a collection of mixed and modified folk melodies from regions in Bulgaria, encapsulating the atmosphere of Bulgarian villages.
Date: 2000
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Singing more

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Recording of Simo Lazarov's Singing more. The language of this composition is Bulgarian, with vocal audio recorded from the mountains surrounding the Bulgarian region of Sofia serving as the basic sound source of the composition. The composer's goals are to submerge the listener in an atmosphere of Bulgarian folklore, and to attain an associative effect by means of overdubbing and modification of original sound and songs, bearing in mind the wide variety and richness of the Bulgarian folklore and the immense attention it has gained abroad.
Date: 1994
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rupestre en el futuro

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Recording of Joaquin Orellana's "Rupestre en el futuro" for tape. Extra-musically, the piece is a "testimony of place" in a surrealist picture of a social situation, namely, the development of humans. The beginning of the piece uses phonemes in indigenous languages (Quiché, Tzutujil) and special instruments made by the composer to simulate the sounds of "a supposed primitive man."
Date: 1979
Creator: Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gilgamesh

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Recording of Dirk Stromberg's Gilgamesh. This work was commissioned by Musik Gavleborg. This piece was inspired by the story of Gilgamesh which was written four thousand years ago. The story is considered a heroic epic and includes many adventures and battles. It ends with him finding the fountain of wisdom and asking timeless, philosophical questions.
Date: 2003
Creator: Stromberg, Dirk, 1979-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Comunicacones

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Recording of Miguel Azguime's Comunicacones. The sound materials in this piece come from concrete sounds from a Lisbon port, communication satellites, and texts in more than 30 different languages, as well as synthetic and instrumental sounds. This work was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 and the concert version premiered at the "Musica em Novembro" festival in Lisbon.
Date: 1999
Creator: Azguime, Miguel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Souvenirs linguistiques II

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Recording of Henri Heuze's Souvenirs linguistiques II. This work is an homage to the Picard language and culture, which has been slowly disappearing. It includes samples of a woman and her son speaking the language as they both come from Picardy, a region in Northern France.
Date: 1999
Creator: Heuze, Henri
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal relations

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Recording of Milos Betko's Personal relations. This piece is segmented into 9 parts by the composer: 1. just before, 2. micado of mammoths, 3. speech of birds, 4. celestial threats, 5. song 1, 6. up and down, 7. song 2: "How many times it sings...", 8. emotions, 9. trio. It's comprised of background noise, violin, voices of the composer's friends, etc. The piece seems to be a collection of sounds that the composer relates to his personal life and day to day.
Date: 1997
Creator: Betko, Milos
System: The UNT Digital Library

Toundra

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Recording of Richard Loiselle's Toundra. This work is an homage to the Inuit, a Northern Canadian indigenous group, and the hardships that come with living in the tundra. The composer uses recordings of the Inuit's specialized throat-singing called "katajjait" throughout the work.
Date: 1997
Creator: Loiselle, Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library