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Geodesic Life

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Recording of Pedro Guajardo's Geodesic Life. This piece is of 6 dancers and one musician. The sound sources for this piece have been sampled from ethnic percussion instruments and voices, one feminine, and the other from a two year old child. All the sequences are repeated 13 times and the the tempo also increases 13 times. The dancers explore hitting sound sculptures on a geodesic done that is amplified. The musician playing a MIDI wind controller, while the tape plays back recorded acoustic sound.
Date: 1989
Creator: Guajardo, Pedro, 1928-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metropolis - Buenos Aires

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Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Metropolis - Buenos Aires. This piece takes you on a sonic journey through the streets as a sound collage of Buenos Aires.
Date: 1989
Creator: Kröpfl, Francisco, 1931-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Un Mundo Imaginario

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Recording of Alcides Lanza's Un Mundo Imaginario, for choir, with electronic and computer sounds. The text is taken from ekphonesis V [1979], from Alcides lanza's Trilogy. The bilingual aspects of the text has been preserved. By means of syllabic and phonemic fragmentation - both in the studio for the creation of the tape part, and in the writing for the choir. The sounds on tape bring certain vocal qualities into focus and extend the choral material. The instruments used for the production of the tape were Sennheisser MD421 microphopnes, Revox A77 and DAT tape recorders, Akai S900 sampler, Macintosh SE computer with Sound Designer, plus Lexicon and Yamaha special effects units. The tape was realized at the SHELAN Studios and finalized at the EMS, McGill University. Premiered by Iwan Edwards and the McGill Concert Choir at Pollack Hall, November 16, 1989. Written at the request of choir conductor Iwan Edwards and dedicated to him.
Date: 1989/1990
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sin medida

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Recording of Julio D'Escrivan's Sin medida. This piece is a setting of three poems by Luis Perez Oramas. The poems are written in a conversational style which reflects on the themes of life and death. The material used comprises sounds of guitars, voices, wind instruments, and pure synthetic tones.
Date: 1989
Creator: D'Escrivan, Julio d', 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library

1789-1989

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Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lamentation of Louis XVI" and "The Permanent Guillotine", and ends with a few words from the Declaration of 1789, in French.
Date: 1989
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008
System: The UNT Digital Library