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prayer of a king
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Recording of Stefan Klaverdal's prayer of a king. This is a work for saxophone and computer that was extracted from the suite "On Being". It is thematically derived from the classical play of Hamlet, and was originally composed to a dance performance on the play. The notation is quite open, allowing the players to freely choose several aspects of interpretation, such as some rhythms, tempo, etc. for both of the musicians, both saxophone and computer.
Date:
2004
Creator:
Klaverdal, Stefan
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The UNT Digital Library
Oscura Frontera Milenaria
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Recording of Adolfo Núñez's Oscura Frontera Milenaria. This composition was heavily inspired by poetic text taken from the book "Europa" by Julio Martínez Mesanza. According to the composer, this text can help first world people be in the shoes of third world people. The work flows like several waves that are reviewing and transforming the material. This work was commissioned by the Universidad de Navarra. The instrumental ensemble used to record this composition was conducted by Vincente Martínez.
Date:
2002
Creator:
Núñez, Adolfo 1954-
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The UNT Digital Library
Hemlanden
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Recording of Love Mangs' Hemlanden. This composition is a suite with 3 pieces inspired the dynamics of the seasons in Scandinavia and the sentiments that go with it. Sound materials include the sounds of icicles and tensions in the ice surface.
Date:
2000/2003
Creator:
Mangs, Love, 1966-
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The UNT Digital Library
Shadow Quartet
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Recording of Neil Rolnick's Shadow Quartet. This is a work for string quartet and computer that consists of 3 untitled tracks. This piece was created to celebrate the life of the composer's late father. The quartet performs while surrounded by four loud speakers, each serving as a shadow of the player in front of it. Each player controls the volume, sampling, and processing of their shadow sound.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Rolnick, Neil B.
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The UNT Digital Library
Chameleon Fantasy (cimbalom and tape)
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Recording of Gyula Pintér's Chameleon Fantasy (cimbalom and tape). This is a work for electronics that includes the instrumentation of a cimbalom.
Date:
2002
Creator:
Pintér, Gyula 1954-
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The UNT Digital Library
Digits
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Recording of Neil Rolnick's Digits. This work was inspired by the use of "digits", as in fingers, to both play the piano and operate a computer. This is a composition for solo piano and digital processing in which the computer only plays sounds which originate from the piano. There can also be a video component to this piece of live images of the pianist's fingers as they play. The overall effect of the piece is of a classical, virtuoso piano sonata, in which the piano itself has been bent slightly out of shape, amplified, and multiplied.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Rolnick, Neil B.
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The UNT Digital Library
Sattva
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Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Sattva. This is a work for prepared piano and tape. The piano is prepared using metal objects, cymbals, and crotales. The composition is based on the relation between textures, derived from cycles of impulses and the gestural energy of complex sound events. The title comes from a term in Samkhya philosophy; Sattva is one of three energies which constitutes the Prakriti.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
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The UNT Digital Library
Schlachthof fünf
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Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Schlachthof fünf. This is a work for percussion quartet and tape. This piece is a study on metal timbres' typology and the starting material consists of a sound produced by metal objects. The formal course of the composition results from the combination of each typology's interaction.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
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The UNT Digital Library
Yamaha PS 380
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Recording of Phil Archer's Yamaha PS 380. This work is a recording of an improvisation performed solely on a Yamaha Portasound PSS-380 keyboard. The keyboard is played inverted, with the keys resting on the performer's lap and the underside casing removed to expose the circuit-board inside. A length of insulated wire, stripped at both ends, is used to create temporary short-circuits. This method creates some degree of unpredictability in the performer's playing.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Archer, Phil
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The UNT Digital Library
Triodes I
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Recording of Stephan Dunkelman's Triodes I. In this work, the electroacoustics lay the foundation for the instrumentals to be created upon. The electroacoustics build upon the raw instrumentals. This work includes 8 tracks for separate speakers.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Dunkelman, Stephan, 1956-
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The UNT Digital Library
Interleaved tracks
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Recording of Nicolas Vérin's Interleaved tracks. This is a work for clarinet and electronics that was dedicated to Louis Sclavis. The electroacoustics of this piece include pre-recorded sounds, some of which were chosen by the musician and others that are transformed sounds of the clarinet. This piece is based on the work done within the Daroux/Sclavis/Vérin trio.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Vérin, Nicolas
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The UNT Digital Library
Modul B
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Recording of Jos Janssen's Modul B. This work is a "symbiosis of electroacoustic and kinetic-digital elements". The composer states that in general this composition was created from material in their musical diary and includes some trumpet and string quartet material. This recording was also made to be accompanied by shadow images created by Constantin Jaxy.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Janssen, Jos
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The UNT Digital Library
Donnie's Room
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Recording of John Mallia's Donnie's Room. This work is a mixed media installation with animated projection, television monitors, spatialized sound, and objects. This work is an homage to the composer's distant cousin, Donnie. This work attempts to reflect the scale at which a person living in a debilitating condition might experience moments of peace despite their otherwise unconquerable physical and/or mental constraints. The sounds, images and objects used in the installation represent gifts to Donnie and/or symbolize comfort, entertainment, stability, perseverance and constraint.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Mallia, John
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The UNT Digital Library
Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau
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Recording of Saur Etienne's Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau. This is a composition that is meant to be used for theatre. The narrative of the play centers on the daydreams of a man stuck in the closed world of his office. The first part of the music for this composition was created by Stéphanos Vasiliadis who passed before completing the work.
Date:
2004
Creator:
Etienne, Saur
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The UNT Digital Library
Motion and Glitch Study
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Recording of Shintaro Imai's Motion and Glitch Study. This is a work for dance, visual image processing, and electronic sound. It was commissioned by Inventionen 2004 and was a collaborative work with Kazue Ikeda (dance improvisation). The main purpose of the piece is to experiment with the relationship between the gradual/sudden transformation of a dancer's motion, electronic glitch sounds, and visual textures as a result of modulation.
Date:
2004
Creator:
Imai, Shintaro, 1974-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Refléxe I
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Recording of Franco Degrassi's Refléxe I. This is a work for electronics.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Degrassi, Franco, 1958-
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The UNT Digital Library
Ochlophoinc Study # 2 : Hong Kong
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Recording of John Levack Drever's Ochlophoinc Study # 2 : Hong Kong. This piece is the second in a series of studies investigating crowd sounds. Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, but is also interspersed with green open spaces and sites of reflection and introspection. The sound material includes edited field recordings that aim to celebrate the sheer intensity of continuous human activity that is Hong Kong.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Drever, John Levack
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The UNT Digital Library
Treno in corsa
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Recording of Michele Biasutti's Treno in corsa. This work is a real time performance with digital elaboration of the sound of noisers (intonarumori), the noise machines built by Luigi Russolo. This piece was inspired by Russolo's painting, "Treno in corsa nella notte" made in 1911 and is based on some perceptive phenomena studied in the field of psychology of music such as masking, space-time perception, and some perceptive illusions on rhythm.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
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The UNT Digital Library
Metallic
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Recording of Abdul Wahid Hasnizam's Metallic. The idea for this piece came from listening to sounds of a music stand and was accidently recorded in a concert hall while the composer was working on a piece. Various techniques were used to play with the music stand, including plucking it and striking it with a pen and sometimes playing it as if it were a string instrument.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Hasnizam, Abdul Wahid
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The UNT Digital Library
Repossess Reprocess II
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Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Repossess Reprocess II. This is an entirely abstract piece that is constructed of concrete sounds from the real world using a VCS3 synthesizer to process the sounds instead of creating them.
Date:
2005
Creator:
De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-
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The UNT Digital Library
Nuit Electronique opus 33
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Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Nuit Electronique opus 33. The composer states that this work was inspired by intimate memories from the last night of the Bourges festival 2003. He describes this piece as a "kind of cosmic electroacoustic jukebox quiz".
Date:
2004
Creator:
De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Banchory Ears
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Recording of Pete Stollery's Banchory Ears. This work was commissioned by Woodend Arts Association and is a concert version of the music that the composer made to accompany the Banchory Faces photography exhibition in September 2003. The composer collected sonic photographs from various areas of Banchory in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The composer thanks Bertha Forbes, a local historian, for her recollection of sounds and for the use of the interview with her in this piece.
Date:
2004
Creator:
Stollery, Pete
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The UNT Digital Library
Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil
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Recording of Philippe Gonin's Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil. This piece was built in two sections. The first section sets up a strange atmosphere that includes noises and distorted voices that emerge little by little. The second section introduces the poetic text. The work ends suddenly and only slight sounds of rain and music remain. This piece is part of a cycle titled "Musiques Écouter dans le Noir", a collection devoted to dreams.
Date:
2002/2004
Creator:
Gonin, Philippe
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The UNT Digital Library
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-
System:
The UNT Digital Library