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Stria
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Recording of John Chowning's Stria. The work uses the processes of computer synthesis to precisely control the spectral components - the partials - of sound. A non-tonal division of the frequency space is based on the golden ratio which is also used to determine relationships between inharmonic spectral components. Chowning received one of the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music's (IRCAM) first commissions to compose a piece for the first series of concerts of the Institute (which was presented by Pierre Boulez in Paris of 1977) at the initiative of Luciano Berio. Stria was composed between the summer and autumn of 1977 at the Center for Computer Research in Music an Acoustics of Stanford University.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Chowning, John M.
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The UNT Digital Library
Concerto for tape
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Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Concerto for tape.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Schäffer, Bogusław
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The UNT Digital Library
Haauqui
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Recording of Graciela Paraskevaídis's Haauqui (pronounced Wauki or Ouaouki) for two-track tape. The title is a Qechua word referring to a small statue carried by the Incas that resembles their own image, a meaning extended to brotherhood, community, and friendship. The sound events, created from both microphonic and electronic sources, aim at a non-discursive, non-anecdotic function based on a self-imposed simplicity and on the presence of structural silence. It was realized at Elac, pequeno estudio de Montevideo, in 1975.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Paraskevaídis, Graciela, 1940-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tides
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Recording of Bengt Hambræus's Tides
Date:
1974
Creator:
Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000
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The UNT Digital Library
Matin, matinée, soirée, nuit
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Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's "Matin, matinée, soirée, nuit." It is a work for children who conform to the adopted principles which should be of aesthetic values to initiate the broader sense of the term music. Mazurek introduced program elements to the music in order to train the young listener to attain the sense of psychological concentration needed for the perception of music. The musical layer lacks a homogeneous style, which results from the preconceived idea the diversity of functions that must be fulfilled by music ranging from an autonomous role to mere illustration. The sound material ranges from instrumental sounds (both natural and transformed), human voice, and sounds of electronic origin in which often by their character recall birds singing, frogs croaking, and instruments playing. The piece, which is in four distinct sections, was commissioned by the Redaction of Children's Programs of Polish Broadcasting and written in November 1979 at the Experimental Studio.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Mazurek, Bohdan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ice breaker
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Recording of Kevin Jones's Ice breaker. Jones had just traveled from Helsinki to Stockholm by boat across the frozen Baltic Sea, which had been made more difficult due to a strike of icebreaker crews. During the crossing, the magical and mysterious sight of distant plains of ice reflecting the ship's searchlights contrasted strongly with the occasional violent thrusts of the bows ramming into thickly packed ice. The "ice breaker" concept also extends into the interpretation of breaking ice in social relationships. The piece builds up into a succession of waves or thrusts, which eventually break through into a teasing catharsis. A doubtful release unravels in an extended coda. It was realized at the studios of EMS (Electronic Music Studios) in Stockholm, Sweden in March 1980 on a PDP15 computer employed to control a bank of oscillators.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Jones, Kevin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analogias paraboloides
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Recording of Pedro Caryeyschi's Analogias paraboloides.
Date:
1970
Creator:
Caryeyschi, Pedro
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Suite from inscape
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Recording of Felix Powell's Suite from inscape
Date:
1978/1979
Creator:
Powell, Felix Loren, 1933-
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The UNT Digital Library
Metal harmonics
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Recording of Margaret Sambell's Metal Harmonics. The short piece uses sounds developed by concrete and electronic means of a metallic resonance, much of it utilizing the rich overtone content of the sound source. The work was completed in April 1983 at the University of Birmingham.
Date:
April 1983
Creator:
Sambell, Margaret
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aurora
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Recording of Leo Nilsson's Aurora.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Nilsson, Leo
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The Conqueror Worm
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Recording of Krysztof Knittel's The Conqueror Worm. The music structure of this composition depends on the word structure of the poem of the same title written by Edgar Allan Poe. The sound material is based on electronic sounds as well as on the violin and trombone sounds transformed electronically and recorded by Weronika Szrajber-Knittel and Stanislaw Pierozek. The work was realized at the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio in collaboration with Barbara Okon in 1974 and premiered at the Warsaw Young Festival in Stodola Student Club in 1976 (March 18th). The version presented now was made on the basis of quadraphonic recording realized in 1976.
Date:
1974/1976
Creator:
Knittel, Krzysztof
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Slow Dance on a Burial Ground
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Recording of Stephen Montague's "Slow Dance on a Burial Ground." Inspired by multi-traking and over-dubbling in pop music. Montague plays all various individual parts on folk flutes and log drums, playing at various speeds and other manipulations in an electronic studio to create at virtuosic product, even with modest skills on the instruments. The piece is an exploration in "Romantic minimalism," with its monthematic unfolding of a melody in the dorian mode and static harmony, but also with 18th/19th form influence.
Date:
1983
Creator:
Montague, Stephen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fresca
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Recording of Liviu Dandara's Fresca. Fresca synthesizes folk sound phenomena that accompany the daily events of Romanians. There are three intensity curves, proportionally equal. They correspond to the songs/signals of work, funeral music, and love songs. The dynamic culmination is reached in the same section, which interferes with the space and time of the folk festival. The final represents the filtering of a reverberation of the culmination of the work, accompanied by fragments of the motive-echo, which suggests permanence.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Dandara, Liviu, 1933-1991
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mass colligation 2
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Recording of Curtis Roads's Mass colligation 2
Date:
1974
Creator:
Roads, Curtis
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Constellation
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Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Constellation. This composition is a process of pursuit to sonority in limited materials possibility of transformation and combination. In addition to all instruments used were a Graphic Equalizer, a Eariable Speed Tape Recorder, and a Microphon setting.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fantasie über Zerbrochenes glas
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Recording of John Maryn's Fantasie über Zerbrochenes glas.
Date:
1972
Creator:
Maryn, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reverse Osmosis
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Recording of Kari Keskinen's Reverse Osmosis for tape.
Date:
198X
Creator:
Keskinen, Kari I.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Petite Symphonie électronique
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Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Petite Symphonie électronique. The piece is divided into three parts: the Introduction and Allegro, Scherzo, and a Fugatto that is integrated at the beginning of the Finale. It was realizes at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw, Poland.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Mazurek, Bohdan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Structures IV: Distances and Proximities
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Recording of Otto Laske's Structures IV: Distances and Proximities.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Laske, Otto E. (Otto Ernst), 1936-
System:
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Scythia
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Recording of Stephen Montague's Scythia for electronic tape. Scythia was a region of Central Eurasia in classical antiquity encompassing parts of Eastern Europe east of the Vistula River and Central Asia, with the eastern edges of the region vaguely defined by the Greeks. It was thought of as the great land of education. It was also the place where Prometheus gave fire to man and where he was confined to be tortured by the gods for this. Every day an eagle came and tore out his liver and every day he endured.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Montague/Mead Piano Plus
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Quodlibet VIII (version 2a)
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Recording of Gabriel Brnčić's Quodlibet VIII (version 2a)
Date:
1970
Creator:
Brnčić, Gabriel
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Méditation électronique
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Recording of Juraj Pospíšil's Méditation électronique.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Pospíšil, Juraj, 1931-2007
System:
The UNT Digital Library
SST
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Recording of David Bates's SST
Date:
1971
Creator:
Bates, David
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The UNT Digital Library
Microstructures
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Recording of Włodzimierz Kotoński's Microstructures. This piece utilizes sections of fragmented tape to create a montage of sound layers in very dense structures. The composer used the sound of knocking on wood, metal, and glass to form a new sound material and spatialization of sound. These sounds recorded on magnetic tape were cut, melted, and glued randomly into random sequences from which loops of different length were formed and copied onto a layer which finally resulted in this desirable microstructure.
Date:
1963
Creator:
Kotoński, Włodzimierz
System:
The UNT Digital Library