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Epoque

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Recording of Jacky Mérit's Epoque. The composer describes this work as an electroacoustic triptych in three movements. This work is meant to explore how sounds effect the internal person through different combinations and articulations of sound layers.
Date: 2003/2005
Creator: Mérit, Jacky
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Targilim be'ivrit shimushit

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Recording of Rajmil Fischman's Targilim be'ivrit shimushit. This work was created with a text by Israeli poet, Dan Pagis, in mind. This music explores the phonetic aspects of modern Hebrew as well as semantic meaning. This piece focuses on points of contact between the live performer and the more abstract sonic dimension embodied in the electronic part. The electronics were created using digital techniques to process a reading of Pagis' poem by the singer, Eti Ben-Zaken, for whom this work was composed.
Date: 2003
Creator: Fischman, Rajmil, 1956-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Critical band

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Recording of Michele Biasutti's Critical band. This is an electroacoustic work for flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar, piano, and signal processing. This work was inspired by a perceptive phenomenon studied in the field of psychology of music. The general aim of this piece is to apply in music composition the results of the research in frequency-ratios, experimenting new formal developments. Formally, the piece is based on an ascending semi-tone interval, using 'E' as a tonal center.
Date: 2003
Creator: Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quintuple Escapement

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Recording of William Kleinsasser's Quintuple Escapement. This is a work for interactive software instrument that was composed for Daniel Koppelman. This composition presents five short pieces that explore what might be idiomatic music for this new instrumental paradigm. The pieces grow out of two principal ideas: pieces that are compressed and nearly rarified character pieces as well as each movement building up from juxtaposed and inter-related musical statements.
Date: 2003
Creator: Kleinsasser, William, 1961-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digiroom

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Recording of Per Samuelsson's Digiroom. This work was created using the concept of a "room" as an important component. This work was composed and mixed for 8 channel surround sound. The four walls of the "room" keeps sounds together and groups them together in clusters which forms new sounds. This composition can in many ways be compared to the course of events of a room during a certain space of time.
Date: 2003
Creator: Samuelsson, Per, 1955-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Comédie à toute vitesse

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Recording of David Behar's Comédie à toute vitesse. This is a composition that was created for classes of young children at the Perpignan conservatory. The intention of this piece was to offer pleasure, imagination, and avoid pure abstraction; moving towards a more figurative narration.
Date: 2003
Creator: Behar, David, 1973-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Speaking...again

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Recording of Elainie Lillios' Speaking...again. This is a radiophonic composition based on interviews with Don, a long-time friend of the composer. Don experienced a profound and life-changing challenge in his early 50's and set an example for how we should all approach living through his outlook and determination. Don teaches us not to take the simple things for granted. This work was commissioned by La Muse en circuit and premiered at the Péniche Adélaïde for the radiophonic art prizewinners competition.
Date: 2003
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metallic

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Recording of Abdul Wahid Hasnizam's Metallic. The idea for this piece came from listening to sounds of a music stand and was accidently recorded in a concert hall while the composer was working on a piece. Various techniques were used to play with the music stand, including plucking it and striking it with a pen and sometimes playing it as if it were a string instrument.
Date: 2003
Creator: Hasnizam, Abdul Wahid
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Yamaha PS 380

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Recording of Phil Archer's Yamaha PS 380. This work is a recording of an improvisation performed solely on a Yamaha Portasound PSS-380 keyboard. The keyboard is played inverted, with the keys resting on the performer's lap and the underside casing removed to expose the circuit-board inside. A length of insulated wire, stripped at both ends, is used to create temporary short-circuits. This method creates some degree of unpredictability in the performer's playing.
Date: 2003
Creator: Archer, Phil
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sattva

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Recording of Stefano Trevisi's Sattva. This is a work for prepared piano and tape. The piano is prepared using metal objects, cymbals, and crotales. The composition is based on the relation between textures, derived from cycles of impulses and the gestural energy of complex sound events. The title comes from a term in Samkhya philosophy; Sattva is one of three energies which constitutes the Prakriti.
Date: 2003
Creator: Trevisi, Stefano, 1974-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shadow Quartet

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Recording of Neil Rolnick's Shadow Quartet. This is a work for string quartet and computer that consists of 3 untitled tracks. This piece was created to celebrate the life of the composer's late father. The quartet performs while surrounded by four loud speakers, each serving as a shadow of the player in front of it. Each player controls the volume, sampling, and processing of their shadow sound.
Date: 2003
Creator: Rolnick, Neil B.
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ying yang

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Recording of Yu-Chang Tseng's Ying yang. This is a work for electronics that includes the sound material of piano.
Date: 2003
Creator: Tseng, Yu-Chung, 1960-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reflejos

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Recording of Francis Dhomont's Reflejos. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 2003/2005
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Parhélie, hymne à la lumière et à ses artefacts

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Recording of Etienne Saur's Parhélie, hymne à la lumière et à ses artefacts. This work was inspired by the natural phenomenon of a "mock sun". The composer describes it as a musical transposition of real, luminous visions made up of short movements with their own sound images.
Date: 2003
Creator: Etienne, Saur
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Distant thunder

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Recording of Maggi Payne's Distant thunder. The composer states that this work conjures up images of being in the desert while watching distant thunderstorms roll across the sky, accompanied by the unforgettable sweet smell of desert rain. The composer used the sounds of a resonant floor furnace as well as boiling water for tea.
Date: 2003
Creator: Payne, Maggi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

The temple of Oblivion

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Recording of Jeffrey Hall's The temple of Oblivion. This is a work for electronics that is part of a larger series titled: "Earmovie II".
Date: 2003
Creator: Hall, Jeffrey, 1944-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nouvelles études fugitives

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Recording of Blas Payri's Nouvelles études fugitives. This is a work for electronics that includes 8 untitled tracks/movements.
Date: 2003
Creator: Payri, Blas
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fluttuazioni remote

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Recording of Marco Dibeltulu's Fluttuazioni remote. This work explores the idea of certainties versus inexpressible thoughts. The sounds used are exclusively synthetic; created mainly with two synthesis techniques: additive and subtractive.
Date: 2003
Creator: Dibeltulu, Marco
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Frosty

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Recording of David Berezan's Frosty. This work is made up of sounds that were recorded while the composer was on a walk through snow around his parent's home in Canada. These recordings were then transformed into something different and removed from the original experience while retaining the qualities of the snow on that day.
Date: 2003
Creator: Berezan, David, 1967-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Detour

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Recording of John Gibson's Detour. This work uses recorded sounds of the subways in Tokyo and Kyoto, including machine sounds and platform announcements. The electronic sounds are meant to sharpen the qualities of the soundscape recordings which the composer created on a trip they made to Japan. The sounds of this piece are meant to suggest the feeling of disorientation and dislocation that come with traveling in an unfamiliar, fast-paced city.
Date: 2003
Creator: Gibson, John, 1960-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tango

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Recording of Jean Louis di Santo's Tango. This piece was entirely built on the UST "who wants to start"; the starting motif generates each sentence that follows. The title of this piece is meant to be a metaphor for desire.
Date: 2003
Creator: di Santo, Jean Louis
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploratio invisibilis

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Recording of Natasha Barrett's Exploratio invisibilis. This work carries the listener on their own 30-minute voyage through an energy filled landscape of implication, sound, and silence. This work was commissioned by the Ultima Festival 2003.
Date: 2003
Creator: Barrett, Natasha
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Zungenschlag

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Recording of Andre Bartetzki's Zungenschlag. This is a work for 8 loudspeakers that explores the sounds of vibrating reeds. In German the word "Zunge" (tongue) is a basic term used for reeds in musical instruments. While the composer speaks of vibrating reeds, there are no instrumental sounds of woodwinds within the work. Instead, the composer uses string sounds and actual vibration sounds as the material.
Date: 2003
Creator: Bartetzki, Andre, 1962-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eden

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Recording of Robert Normandeau's Eden. This work is based on the music composed for the play "L'Éden cinéma" by Marguerite Duras. The stage and concert music were composed in parallel as part of the same fiction but corresponding to different purposes. Given Duras' music, which was filled with instruction, the composer of this work responded to this by playing continuous music in the room. In the concert version sound elements are added to represent different facets of Duras' life.
Date: 2003
Creator: Normandeau, Robert, 1955-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library