Speaking...again

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Recording of Elainie Lillios' Speaking...again. This is a radiophonic composition based on interviews with Don, a long-time friend of the composer. Don experienced a profound and life-changing challenge in his early 50's and set an example for how we should all approach living through his outlook and determination. Don teaches us not to take the simple things for granted. This work was commissioned by La Muse en circuit and premiered at the Péniche Adélaïde for the radiophonic art prizewinners competition.
Date: 2003
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Comédie à toute vitesse

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Recording of David Behar's Comédie à toute vitesse. This is a composition that was created for classes of young children at the Perpignan conservatory. The intention of this piece was to offer pleasure, imagination, and avoid pure abstraction; moving towards a more figurative narration.
Date: 2003
Creator: Behar, David, 1973-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digiroom

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Recording of Per Samuelsson's Digiroom. This work was created using the concept of a "room" as an important component. This work was composed and mixed for 8 channel surround sound. The four walls of the "room" keeps sounds together and groups them together in clusters which forms new sounds. This composition can in many ways be compared to the course of events of a room during a certain space of time.
Date: 2003
Creator: Samuelsson, Per, 1955-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quintuple Escapement

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Recording of William Kleinsasser's Quintuple Escapement. This is a work for interactive software instrument that was composed for Daniel Koppelman. This composition presents five short pieces that explore what might be idiomatic music for this new instrumental paradigm. The pieces grow out of two principal ideas: pieces that are compressed and nearly rarified character pieces as well as each movement building up from juxtaposed and inter-related musical statements.
Date: 2003
Creator: Kleinsasser, William, 1961-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Critical band

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Recording of Michele Biasutti's Critical band. This is an electroacoustic work for flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar, piano, and signal processing. This work was inspired by a perceptive phenomenon studied in the field of psychology of music. The general aim of this piece is to apply in music composition the results of the research in frequency-ratios, experimenting new formal developments. Formally, the piece is based on an ascending semi-tone interval, using 'E' as a tonal center.
Date: 2003
Creator: Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Targilim be'ivrit shimushit

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Recording of Rajmil Fischman's Targilim be'ivrit shimushit. This work was created with a text by Israeli poet, Dan Pagis, in mind. This music explores the phonetic aspects of modern Hebrew as well as semantic meaning. This piece focuses on points of contact between the live performer and the more abstract sonic dimension embodied in the electronic part. The electronics were created using digital techniques to process a reading of Pagis' poem by the singer, Eti Ben-Zaken, for whom this work was composed.
Date: 2003
Creator: Fischman, Rajmil, 1956-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Epoque

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Recording of Jacky Mérit's Epoque. The composer describes this work as an electroacoustic triptych in three movements. This work is meant to explore how sounds effect the internal person through different combinations and articulations of sound layers.
Date: 2003/2005
Creator: Mérit, Jacky
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library