Degree Department

Los 7 Espejos

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Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Los 7 Espejos. This work was composed for 6 instruments and electronics. This work is based on the idea of the computer "mirroring" each of the instruments presented in the piece. The composer purposefully makes the instrumental material stray from their traditional sounds, creating a confusing listening experience for the audience.
Date: 1999
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal

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Recording of Sten Hanson's 8 variations sur une polska de Hammerdal. This work is part of a series called "recycling" where material from traditional music is brought into the world of electroacoustics and made to fit into that genre of music. This piece specifically uses material from a polka and is played with a willow flute. The recording of the willow flute was made 40 years ago and is the only one of its existence.
Date: 1999
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

N.A.M.A.: "booty" don't walk

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Recording of Harry-Ed Roland's N.A.M.A.: "booty" don't walk. The composer dedicates this work to the memory of Michael Schleiter. The inspiration behind this piece is the experience of the composer living as a person of color and continuing to deal with inequality everywhere he goes. The work is about "creating inequality and its seemingly intrinsic hypocrisy and irrational fears".
Date: 1999
Creator: Roland, Harry-Ed
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Acoustic / Electric Guitar (Chrysalis Model)

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The main front view of the guitar is visible with its red body.
Date: 1999
Creator: Chrysalis Guitar Company, Inc.
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'albero capovolto

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Recording of Michèle Tadini's L'albero capovolto. This piece is an improvisation scheme for the Virtuosi di Nuova Consonanza. Recorded using magnetic tape and live electronics. This piece uses a combination of synthetic sounds and natural instruments.
Date: 1999
Creator: Tadini, Michele, 1964-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ambidecst

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Recording of Antonio Ferreira's Ambidecst. This composition is based on rhythmic cells produced using several contrasting concrete and synthetic sound objects. Several episodes are assembled between them in order to create abrupt feelings of running and escaping. This composition was made using Csound, Cecilia and Metasynth and was globally mixed for Ambisonics UHJ stereo compatible. Final mixing and mastering done in Protools LE.
Date: 1999
Creator: Ferreira, António, 1963-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Angustia

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Recording of Jean-Christophe Banaszak's Angustia. This work puts emphasis on the relation of space and the composer states that most of the piece has been processed in 3D, putting much of the sound in the background while only a sound resembling a slamming door remains in the foreground.
Date: 1999
Creator: Banaszak, Jean Christophe
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aquarius

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Recording of Anne Scarlett Harris' Aquarius. This work mixes the world of the "great outdoors" and the multifarious sounds of indoor life, using sound materials from different sources of water. The composer states that this piece reflects not only the fluid side of nature, but is also a tribute to the time it was written.
Date: 1999
Creator: Scarlett Harris, Anne
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aranea

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Recording of Rudolf Ruzicka's Aranea. This composition was inspired by the comparison of the spider and the possibilities of the world wide web. The title is Latin for "cobweb" and gives tribute to this concept. The work attempts to express both the characteristics of a spider and the typical features of the modern era amplified by the Internet.
Date: 1999
Creator: Růžička, Rudolf, 1941-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Architect's Handkerchief

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The sculpture depicts a white handkerchief on a black pedestal and is situated outdoors. The handkerchief is extremely over-sized.
Date: 1999
Creator: Oldenburg, Claes
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Architect's Handkerchief

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The white handkerchief detail shows the smooth texture of the sculpture.
Date: 1999
Creator: Oldenburg, Claes
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

...at other times, the distances

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Recording of James Dashow's ...at other times, the distances. Quadraphonic electronic music. This work is a re-working of the electronic materials from FAR SOUNDS, BROKEN CRIES, for 12 instruments and electronic sounds. With the exception of a single cello note, the sounds were produced by the composer's MUSIC30 language for digital sound synthesis, and subsequently elaborated by additional signal processing.
Date: 1999
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Attract

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Recording of José Miguel Fernández's Attract. This work was composed in 1999 as part of a FONDART project of the Ministry of Education of the Chilean government, on the use of mathematical models (chaotic and stochastic) for musical composition and interaction with the computer. For this work, the composer used two chaotic models (torus and logistic map) for the clarinetist's score and random models (Brownian, 1/f and white noise) for the spatialization of the sound. The samples were made with Csound, Audiosculpt, Peak and Protools (for some editing). A pitch-to-MIDI converter triggers MIDI events on a proteusFX with a random beat. The computer keyboard triggers the samples as well as a Max sequence made with the torus model X n+1 = X n + Ksen Y n. The title for this composition is taken from the strange attractors which have recursive equations and fractals; it is also drawn from the attraction which produces some sounds in the unfolding of the work and in the interaction.
Date: 1999
Creator: Fernández, José Miguel, 1973-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Avaricum

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Recording of Carlos Cerana's Avaricum. This work refers to the historical continuity of the city Bourges. The composer was inspired by its history and tumultuous past.
Date: 1999
Creator: Cerana, Carlos
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bastone armonico

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Roberto Doati's Bastone armonico. For violin, rainsticks, electronics, and interactive system. This work attempts to realize the idea of a monochromatic surface electronically transforming the impulsive sounds of two ‘palo de lluvia’ (rainsticks). The interactive system settles the relationship between violin gestures and electronic part, adding may differing timbres.
Date: 1999
Creator: Doati, Roberto
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Boreas

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Recording of André Ruschkowski's Boreas. This piece was composed as one part of a longer musical program originally created for the Susan Quinn Dance Company. The musical material consists of two levels: (1.) microphone-recorded sounds of everyday human activities, and (2.) musical material, which was produced with different means of electronic sound synthesis. The extensive electronic transformation of these items and their arrangement in larger musical units took place particularly on the basis of gesture criteria (i.e., the energetic process of human movement items, the rhythm of tension and relaxation, reflects itself directly in the musical structures and their combinations). The aim is to create by this means an electronic music, which is able to address the listener directly by this specific gesture or physical quality.
Date: 1999
Creator: Ruschkowski, André
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking

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Recording of Mathew Adkins' Breaking. This work mixes electronic sounds with those of classic R&B music.
Date: 1999
Creator: Adkins, Monty
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breath and the machine

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Recording of Paul Koonce's Breath and the machine. This work was composed for 2 or 8 channel tape and is a meditation on the ritual of musical sound. The piece explores the relationship between performer and instrument and the process of turning focused air into sound.
Date: 1999
Creator: Koonce, Paul C. (Paul Christian), 1956-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bref éloge du coup de tonnerre et du bruit d'ailes

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Recording of Frédéric Kahn's Bref éloge du coup de tonnerre et du bruit d'ailes. Work made for electronics.
Date: 1999
Creator: Kahn, Frédéric, 1966-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Brief Fast Ambrosia

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Recording of Eduardo Polonio's Brief Fast Ambrosia. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 1999
Creator: Polonio, Eduardo, 1941-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

By my acoustic vision

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Recording of Gyula Pinter's By my acoustic vision. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 1999
Creator: Pintér, Gyula 1954-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cacophony

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Recording of Hubert Howe's Cacophony. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 1999
Creator: Howe, Hubert S., Jr., 1942-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Carapaces

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Recording of Claude Hermitte's Carapaces. “Found” sound objects, captured in nature or imitated in the studio. “Lost objects” symbols of aggression, exclusion, confinement and withdrawal. “Lost objects” that want to break the shell, seek openness to the world and to others to rediscover childhood, the sensitive listening to sounds and the meaning they can carry.
Date: 1999
Creator: Hermitte, Claude
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Centre Bridge (dark river)

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Recording of Frances White's Centre Bridge (dark river). This work was commissioned by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for a concert of chamber music by women composers. The tape part is dominated by the recorded sounds of the Delaware River, while the instrumentals play over top. The title of the piece comes from the name of a bridge that crosses the Delaware river.
Date: 1999
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library