71 Matching Results

Results open in a new window/tab.

Scyntillisuisse

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Bernadette Johnson's Scyntillisuisse. This work explores the sounds of Swiss instruments, specifically from the areas of rural Switzerland. The composer compares their use of technological instruments with the discovery of fantastical creatures.
Date: 2004
Creator: Johnson, Bernadette (composer)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Simmelibärg transfiguration

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Ruth Glatt's Simmelibärg transfiguration. This work follows the contents of an old popular Swiss folksong, "Guggisberglied". This song tells the story of a mountain which stands as an obstacle between two people in love. The composer has used this folksong and transformed it to explore the idea of what humans and machines have in common.
Date: 2004
Creator: Glatt, Ruth
System: The UNT Digital Library

Slow Motion Tarantula

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Jadel Andreetto's Slow Motion Tarantula. This is a work for electronics that includes German spoken word and flute.
Date: 2004
Creator: Andreetto, Jadel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tradurre - Tradire

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Frank Corcoran's Tradurre - Tradire. This is a work for electroacoustics that includes German spoken word. It also includes sounds of screaming and whispering.
Date: 2004
Creator: Corcoran, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library

Unheimlices Wasser vol. 4

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Blas Payri's Unheimlices Wasser vol. 4. This is a work for electronics that includes German spoken word and atmospheric sounds.
Date: 2004
Creator: Payri, Blas
System: The UNT Digital Library

48 13 N, 16 200

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Tae Hong Park's 48 13 N, 16 200. This is a work for electronics that includes ambient sounds and spoken German language.
Date: 2003
Creator: Park, Tae Hong, 1969-
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Mother/In praise of communism

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Peter De Moncey Conegliano's The Mother/In praise of communism. This text in this work was taken from the libretto of The Mother by Berthold Brecht which was itself based on the novel by Maxim Gorky. The composer used rain sticks and porcelain flutes (Pacha Mama) from Mexico to create the sound material.
Date: 2003
Creator: De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Herd !

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Marc Beugnies' Herd !. This work was inspired by the concept of fire in the wintertime and uses sample fire sounds as well as excerpts from Wagner's Feuerzauber. The word "Herd" is used throughout the piece, which in German translates to "hearth" or home.
Date: 2002
Creator: Beugnies, Marc
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pour la mort de Danton

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Pour la mort de Danton. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 2001
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library

The wall and de panne

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of David Berezan's The wall and de panne. This is a work for electronics that includes various vocal sound samples.
Date: 2001
Creator: Berezan, David, 1967-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Odissey

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Jean-Louis Belmonte's Odissey. This work was part of the "Synthese" Festival in Bourges.
Date: 2000
Creator: Belmonte, Jean Louis
System: The UNT Digital Library

Steel II

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Steel II. This work celebrates and mourns the failure of the Modernist dream represented by poet, Geoffrey Bridson's, 1937 broadcast: "Steel: An Industrial Symphony". It also captures the sound of an optimistic, heroic Modernist in the 21st century and how the new century would sound in contrast to the last.
Date: 2000
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Berlin views

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Günter Heinz's Berlin views. This work presents the "sound of the city at the end of the century" and arose in connection with the video project Ç Vortex È of Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Date: 1999
Creator: Heinz, Günter (Composer)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dialogue avec Wittgenstein

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Dialogue avec Wittgenstein. This work is built on fragments of philosophical text spoken in both French and German, as well as various musical segments by composers Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and the composer himself. The work was produces at the ELAK Institute of the University of Vienna Music and had two premieres. The German version in Vienna (1999) and the French version in Bourges (1999).
Date: 1999
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Flights of Fancy

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Jon Christopher Nelson's Flights of Fancy. This work, for fireworks and tape, was written as the grand finale to the Grand Opening Concert of the Murchison Performing Arts Complex at the University of North Texas and premiered at the event. The piece incorporates a variety of musical excerpts that were performed throughout the concert as well as sample sounds of fireworks. It was premiered simultaneously with a fireworks display.
Date: 1999
Creator: Nelson, Jon Christopher
System: The UNT Digital Library

De front (Quatuor)

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Pierre Jodlowski's De front (Quatuor). The idea of ​​this piece is based on a set of writings around the processes of aggression in humans and animals, as well as on the notion of frontality (which relates to the intermediate, fuzzy zones of our experience - physical or intellectual). The principle of the work (hence the precision quartet) is based on the development, "in concentric circles," of four groups or entities: 1. clarinet / trumpet; 2. percussion; 3. string quintet; 4. parts electronics. These gradually close in on the listener. This convergence takes place through processes of accumulations and encounters in which perception passes from individualized states to a group feeling.
Date: 1999
Creator: Jodlowski, Pierre, 1971-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Klangfassaden

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Ulrich Suesse's Klangfassaden. The title of this work is an installation built into the two front walls of the Museum of Communication in Berlin, made up of loudspeakers that react to passing pedestrians. The theme of this the installation is communication and is built upon different sound experiences. This recording represents one possible "hearing experience".
Date: 1999/2000
Creator: Süsse, Ulrich
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monsterfest

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Ming Wang's Monsterfest. This work consists of sounds from two different cultures during similar situations. It is meant to explore the idea of people who are transplanted into a different culture and the struggles that come with that. The composer states that the piece has 3 formal parts: 1.) Introduction and variation, 2.) Three-part "song" (A.B.A'), 3.) Covert recapitulation mirrored.
Date: 1999
Creator: Wang, Ming, 1962-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Songline

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Frank Schweizer's Songline. This work is made up of 10 untitled movements and contains various concrete and electronic sounds.
Date: 1999/2000
Creator: Schweizer, Frank, 1962-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tango

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Tango. This work was commissioned by the WDR 3 of Cologne, Germany. This radiophonic piece was inspired by the origin of Tango and uses fragments from old songs as well as a lecture by Jorge Luis Borges about the topic. The text has been translated into German and French for segments of the work.
Date: 1999
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Esboco de thetis

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Rodrigo Cicchelli-Velloso's Esboco de thetis.
Date: 1998
Creator: Velloso, Rodrigo Cicchelli
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aquapolis

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of Lou Mallozzi's Aquapolis. The sound material is language and ambient recordings. The text is written in English, and has been translated into German and Venetian Italian. There are aquatic sounds, body sounds, and sounds of physical labor. Conceptually, the piece is based on a fictional trans-historical walk through an aquatic city, loosely based on Venice. The piece is in four sections: Preamble, 2000 Years Ago, 200 Years Ago, and This Year.
Date: 1997
Creator: Mallozzi, Lou, 1957-
System: The UNT Digital Library

An die materie

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Recording of David Prior's An die materie. Written for dancer, choreographers, voice, and electronics. The relationship established between the music and the movement, was carefully considered throughout the collaborators. The piece was inspired by a poem by French Jesuit mystic Pierre Theilhard de Chardin in its German translation.
Date: 1997
Creator: Prior, David, 1972-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dirigez la fortune

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
None
Date: 1997
Creator: Süsse, Ulrich
System: The UNT Digital Library