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Rayures

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Recording of Hubert Michel's Rayures. The inspiration for this work was the concept of stripes, more specifically sound stripes, and its travel through the colors of time and space. The sound materials used were derived from a credit card on a metal grid, the sounds of colleagues and friends, and synthesis mining.
Date: 2002
Creator: Michel, Hubert, 1976-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mimoyecques

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Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concept of the departure of the souls of the victims.
Date: 1994
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

From the Tripod

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Recording of Ton Bruynèl's From the Tripod. This program music musically retraces a kind of history of the West commented by a group of women, from Greece to American society. Charles Baudelaire's quote "Give me the strength and courage to contemplate this world without disgust," is heard at the end of Bruynel's work as a mechanical bird passes by and bells are ringing. From the Tripod is a piece for speakers, women and listeners.
Date: 1980
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
11 september transcript

11 september

Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis match between Sweden and Chile with more than 4,000 participants. The text is taken in small excerpts from the document in Spanish, English, Swedish, Danish, French, Dutch, and Icelandic. The piece consists of three sections overlapping each other gradually, which shows the relationship between the spoken words and the immediate danger connected with that text. The first section "as a spontaneous statement," deals with the document at its direct background: the silence is broken, in spite of the danger connected with the writing, manifolding papers that criticize the politics and methods of the junta and discuss the strategy of the opposition. The second section deals with the document as a medium of discussion. At …
Date: 1977
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nova & accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula nautica variationum magneticarum index juxta observationes anno 1700.

Map shows magnetic variations, trade routes, seasonal currents, coastal ports and settlements for six continents; continents of Australia and North America are incomplete. Includes text notes, illustrated title cartouche, and dates of discovery. Inset: "Asin que rien ne manquast à cette carte, nou arons ajoûté ce Cercle Polaire en partie pour montrer l'inclinaison de Meridien vers le Pole en partie pour évitar le trop grand rétrecissement de nôtre échelle." Scale not given.
Date: [1739..1750]
Creator: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus nouvelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francoise & Hollandois [Sheet 1].

Map shows major settlements, missions, roads, and areas of Native American habitation in the Caribbean Islands and along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Mexico, Central America, the northern coast of South America, the Florida peninsula, and adjacent coastlines; Pacific coastlines for a portion of Mexico and the countries of Central America; street layout, buildings, roads, and fortifications for harbors of Acapulco, Veracruz, St. Augustine, Havana, Espagnole [Santo Domingo], Porto Bello, and Carthagena. Includes ocean trade routes, channels, and notes; numbered keys to some insets; some historical dates. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Harbourg of Porto Bello," "Plan de la Baye de Carthagena," "Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Curacao," "A draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour," "La Havane," "Plan de LaVille Espagnole de S. Donmingue," "Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville D'Acapulco," and "Plan de la Vera-Cruz Port du Mexique." Depths by soundings on insets. No scale noted.
Date: [1725..1745]
Creator: Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus nouvelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francoise & Hollandois [Sheet 2].

Map shows major settlements, missions, roads, and areas of Native American habitation in the Caribbean Islands and along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Mexico, Central America, the northern coast of South America, the Florida peninsula, and adjacent coastlines; Pacific coastlines for a portion of Mexico and the countries of Central America; street layout, buildings, roads, and fortifications for harbors of Acapulco, Veracruz, St. Augustine, Havana, Espagnole [Santo Domingo], Porto Bello, and Carthagena. Includes ocean trade routes, channels, and notes; numbered keys to some insets; some historical dates. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Harbourg of Porto Bello," "Plan de la Baye de Carthagena," "Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Curacao," "A draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour," "La Havane," "Plan de LaVille Espagnole de S. Donmingue," "Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville D'Acapulco," and "Plan de la Vera-Cruz Port du Mexique." Depths by soundings on insets. No scale noted.
Date: [1725..1745]
Creator: Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus nouvelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francoise & Hollandois [Sheet 3].

Map shows major settlements, missions, roads, and areas of Native American habitation in the Caribbean Islands and along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Mexico, Central America, the northern coast of South America, the Florida peninsula, and adjacent coastlines; Pacific coastlines for a portion of Mexico and the countries of Central America; street layout, buildings, roads, and fortifications for harbors of Acapulco, Veracruz, St. Augustine, Havana, Espagnole [Santo Domingo], Porto Bello, and Carthagena. Includes ocean trade routes, channels, and notes; numbered keys to some insets; some historical dates. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Harbourg of Porto Bello," "Plan de la Baye de Carthagena," "Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Curacao," "A draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour," "La Havane," "Plan de LaVille Espagnole de S. Donmingue," "Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville D'Acapulco," and "Plan de la Vera-Cruz Port du Mexique." Depths by soundings on insets. No scale noted.
Date: [1725..1745]
Creator: Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus nouvelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francoise & Hollandois [Sheet 4].

Map shows major settlements, missions, roads, and areas of Native American habitation in the Caribbean Islands and along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Mexico, Central America, the northern coast of South America, the Florida peninsula, and adjacent coastlines; Pacific coastlines for a portion of Mexico and the countries of Central America; street layout, buildings, roads, and fortifications for harbors of Acapulco, Veracruz, St. Augustine, Havana, Espagnole [Santo Domingo], Porto Bello, and Carthagena. Includes ocean trade routes, channels, and notes; numbered keys to some insets; some historical dates. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Harbourg of Porto Bello," "Plan de la Baye de Carthagena," "Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Curacao," "A draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour," "La Havane," "Plan de LaVille Espagnole de S. Donmingue," "Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville D'Acapulco," and "Plan de la Vera-Cruz Port du Mexique." Depths by soundings on insets. No scale noted.
Date: [1725..1745]
Creator: Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus nouvelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francoise & Hollandois [Sheet 5].

Map shows major settlements, missions, roads, and areas of Native American habitation in the Caribbean Islands and along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Mexico, Central America, the northern coast of South America, the Florida peninsula, and adjacent coastlines; Pacific coastlines for a portion of Mexico and the countries of Central America; street layout, buildings, roads, and fortifications for harbors of Acapulco, Veracruz, St. Augustine, Havana, Espagnole [Santo Domingo], Porto Bello, and Carthagena. Includes ocean trade routes, channels, and notes; numbered keys to some insets; some historical dates. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Harbourg of Porto Bello," "Plan de la Baye de Carthagena," "Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Curacao," "A draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour," "La Havane," "Plan de LaVille Espagnole de S. Donmingue," "Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville D'Acapulco," and "Plan de la Vera-Cruz Port du Mexique." Depths by soundings on insets. No scale noted.
Date: [1725..1745]
Creator: Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grand theatre de la guerre en amerique suivant les plus nouvelles observations des Espagnols, Anglois, Francoise & Hollandois [Sheet 6].

Map shows major settlements, missions, roads, and areas of Native American habitation in the Caribbean Islands and along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Mexico, Central America, the northern coast of South America, the Florida peninsula, and adjacent coastlines; Pacific coastlines for a portion of Mexico and the countries of Central America; street layout, buildings, roads, and fortifications for harbors of Acapulco, Veracruz, St. Augustine, Havana, Espagnole [Santo Domingo], Porto Bello, and Carthagena. Includes ocean trade routes, channels, and notes; numbered keys to some insets; some historical dates. Relief shown pictorially. Insets: "Harbourg of Porto Bello," "Plan de la Baye de Carthagena," "Nouvelle Carte de l'Isle de Curacao," "A draught of St. Augustin and its Harbour," "La Havane," "Plan de LaVille Espagnole de S. Donmingue," "Nouveau Plan du Port et de la Ville D'Acapulco," and "Plan de la Vera-Cruz Port du Mexique." Depths by soundings on insets. No scale noted.
Date: [1725..1745]
Creator: Ottens, R. (Reinier), 1698-1750
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

'T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida : Door Ferdinand De Soto Nader Ontdekt en groot deels Bemagtigt ; La Floride, Grand Paÿs de l'Amerique Septentrionale, plus avant decouverte et presque toute conquise par Ferdinand de Soto en 1534, tirée de ses Mémoires, et de tous ceux qui ont paru jusqu à present.

Map shows the extent of Spanish Florida with settlements encompassing majority of southeastern portion of the North American continent. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1696
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1530-1594
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History