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Les Accords d'Helsinki
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Recording of Trevor Wishart's Les Accords d'Helsinki for tape.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Wishart, Trevor
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Six fantaiseies on a poem by Thomas Campion
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Recording of Paul Lansky's "Six fantasies on a poem by Thomas Campion" performed by Hannah Mackey. It is a suite of computer synthesized studies of the reading of the poem "Sweet-cheeked Laura" by Thomas Campion. In this work, Lansky takes a single text, which was then read by his wife and frequent collaborator Hannah Mackay, and subjected it to a variety of aural manipulations. Each of the studies attempts to explicate different implicit musical aspects of the sound of speech. The effect of the different approaches should be to change the listener's perception and application of the musical senses of speech, particularly poetry reading.
Date:
1978/1979
Creator:
Lansky, Paul, 1944-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mu Song
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Recording of Richard Karpen's Mu Song. Karpen used the programs "Music II" sound synthesis language and "Score II" not list preprocessor in the composition of this piece. It was realized at the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Date:
1983
Creator:
Karpen, Richard, 1957-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The story of our lives
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Recording of Charles Dodge's The story of our lives
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Dodge, Charles
Object Type:
Sound
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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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cascando -- An Electronic Musicalization of the Radio Play by Samuel Beckett
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Recording of Charles Dodge's Cascando -- An Electronic Musicalization of the Radio Play by Samuel Beckett. The original play by Beckett concerns the attempts of the "Voice" to tell a story about a man named Woburn that will satisfy the "Opener," which would allow the "Voice" to remain silent from then on forever. When the "Voice" falters or the "Opener" grows tied of hearing him, music is heard. In Dodge's version the "Opener" is played by Sam Tsoutsouvas and the "Voice" is a computer-synthesized voice based on a reading by Steven Gilborn. The music was realized using the synthetic voice as a model for its pitch and noise events.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Dodge, Charles
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Through the mirror of thirst
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Recording of Bengt Emil Johnson's Through the mirror of thirst.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Johnson, Bengt Emil, 1936-2010
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Six dark questions
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Recording of Dexter Morrill's Six dark questions performed by Neva Pilgrim, soprano. The piece is designed for soprano and a single electronic speaker. It is a voice drama in which the questions form an inquiry into the structure of the personality. At the outset of the piece, both singer and electronic device are defined in lifeless, mechanical terms; but as the questions are put forward one by one, more and more is revealed about the well hidden emotions in the individual. At first, the singer is unwilling to play the question and answer game, and even when she finally begins to respond, her answers are stock cliches. However, she quickly finds that when she gives a superficial or false response, the speaker falls silent. The quality and weight of this silence grows in meaning through the piece. When, on the other hand, she reveals herself, the speaker joins in accompaniment of increasing complexity and intensity after the first tentative beginnings. The questions are "dark" for two reasons. Firstly, they are suggestive and symbolic rather than open and direct. Secondly, they raise increasingly serious human problems. The first two animal questions, the singer's associations for cats and horses are relatively simple. …
Date:
1979
Creator:
Morrill, Dexter
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The fly
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Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's The fly for tape.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anna
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Recording of John Edward Cousins's Anna. This piece is based on recordings made in 1974 at the ISME Research Seminar which took place at the Department of Music of the University of Canterbury. The subject of the seminar was Music and the Preschool-aged Child. Among the invited speakers were two specialists in the field of Musical Therapeutics. As an example of the power of musical sounds on an extremely retarded child, their article defends all therapeutic positive aspects inherent in musical nature. The composer tried to capture, by means of sound, the feeling of both joy and pain that the experience of music gives to a person, disabled or not.
Date:
1974
Creator:
Cousins, John Edward
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Walk through the City
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Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's A Walk through the City performed by Norbert Ruebsaat, speaker. The piece is for two electroacoustic sound tracks. The poetry was written by Norbert Ruebsaat. the piece is an urban environmental composition based on Ruebsaat's poem. It takes the listener into a specific urban location - Vancouver B.C.'s Skid Row area - with its sounds and languages. Traffic, carhorns, breaks, sirens, aircraft, construction, pinball machines, the throb of trains, human voices, and poetry are its "musical instruments." These sounds are used partly as they occur in reality and partly as sound objects altered in the studio. A continuous flux is created between the real and imaginary soundscapes, between recognizable and transformed places, between reality and composition. The poem is spoken by the author and appears throughout the piece, symbolizing the human presence in the urban soundscape. Its voice interacts with, comments on, dramatizes, struggles with the sounds and other voices it encounters in the piece. "A Walk Through the City" was composed at the Sonic Research Studio at Simon Fraser University and, in its final stage, at the CBC studios in Vancouver, with the technical assistance of Gary Heald. Many of the sounds were taken from …
Date:
1981
Creator:
Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chanson
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Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Chanson.
Date:
1971
Creator:
Kaufmann, Dieter
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein
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Recording of Bruce Pennycook's Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein performed by Laurel Miller. The piece is for soprano and computer-generated tape. it was commissioned through the Canada Council for the Arts by Nera Pilgrim (soprano) and Dexter Morrill of Colgate University. It is a setting of four of the ten stanzas of the poem by Margaret Atwood, Canada's leading female author. This work has recieved numerous performances by Ms. Pilgrim and other in Canada and the U.S. This recording is a live performance of Laural Miller at the 1981 International Computer Music Conference in Denton, Texas.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Pennycook, Bruce, 1949-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Recorded
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Recording of Vladan Radovanović's Recorded. The attention in this piece is focused on the interaction of sound and semantic aspects of the word "recorded" and the sounds that accompany it. At times reversible elements oppose the irreversibility of the flow of the word.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Radovanović, Vladan, 1932-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Zoo logical
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Recording of Andrew Bentley's Zoo-logical for tape. The piece functions as a sort of trilogy (if it is called a dialogue between three people) between a poem, sounds of animals that are electronic in origin. The work is related to the themes of the Helsinki Agreements which mainly are contained in the words "participant nations" and "United Nations." The poem that is spoken is Finnish in origin.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Bentley, Andrew
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Le soi, le choix et les autres
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Recording of Dimitrios Iatropoulos's "Le soi, le choix et les autres" ("The self, the choice and the others"), five songs composed on the voice of Tibby Sachet. Iatropoulos calls this work a "composition psychoacoustique" ("psychoacoustic composition"). It is a study on the expansion and travesty of the voice that corresponds to the continual contradiction between the self and the choice of the woman. The choices the woman is faced with it that of active/passive, dad/mom, woman/girl, self/others. It is a representation of average female forces in a medium social environment in a language that is not too formal and not too casual. The intensity of the sentences are amplified by the montage on the magnetic tape which reflects the speed of the woman's thoughts.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Iatropoulos, Dimitrios
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Targeting
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Recording of Henry Kucharzyk's Targeting for tape. The piece is based on the composers personal observations of the presidential campaign.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Kucharzyk, Henry
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
For Marguerite, Motherhood, and Mendelssohn
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Recording of Gunner Møller Pedersen's "For Marguerite, Motherhood, and Mendelssohn" for tape.
Date:
1971
Creator:
Pedersen, Gunner Møller
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rapsodie pour la mort d'un république
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Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's "Rapsodie pour la mort d'une république" ("Rhapsody for the Death of a Republic"). The world premiere was during a fragment of the ballet "Agranissement" at the Warsaw Chamber Opera in 1979.
Date:
1979/1980
Creator:
Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aguiro
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Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.
Date:
1974
Creator:
Beyst, Stefan
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Hommage aux grands faux penseurs
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Recording of Sven-Erik Bäck's Hommage aux grands faux penseurs.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Bäck, Sven-Erik
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Monday Morning Quarterback
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Recording of David Koblitz's Monday Morning Quarterback.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Koblitz, David
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Unter dem Pflasterstein liegt der Strand
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Recording of Martin Schwarzenlander's Unter dem Pflasterstein liegt der Strand. The music is interspersed with text about demonstrations in East Germany during the 1970s.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Schwarzenlander, Martin
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The medium is the matter
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Recording of Hans Poort's "The medium is the matter." The music is made of repeated results of electronic sound circuits, presented as dynamic musical processes. By teaching on tape, the material aspect of the "here and now" of poetry, both music and words are emphasized. Poort attempted to keep the time and space of the present sound - poetry and music - by leaving both of them autonomous.
Date:
1979/1980
Creator:
Poort, Hans
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library