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Una musica, un rumor, un simbolo
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Recording of Gabriel Valverde's Una musica, un rumor, un simbolo.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Valverde, Gabriel, 1957-
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The UNT Digital Library
Atmen noch
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Recording of Teresa Rampazzi's Atmen noch. After many months of researching the relationships between harmonic or better harmonic spectra, this piece was the result of that research. This research was done jointly with Rampazzi's student Maria Luisa Bon. The form of the work is sets of stamps and association between them and a Grecian-inspired Cantus Firmus. The groups are figurations of galaxies out of time.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Rampazzi, Teresa
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The UNT Digital Library
Partial Distances
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Recording of James Dashow's Partial Distances. It is the last purely analog electronic work Dashow composed. There are a few sounds in this piece generated by computer but significantly transformed and altered by analog techniques of one kind or another, such as dynamic filtering, delay line processing, extreme velocity manipulations, etc. The piece was made by the old tape cut and splice method, mixing and re-mixing pairs of ReVoxes onto a third one, and avoiding tape hiss with the newly invented dbx noise reduction box. The piece is in 4 sections, the first two blending smoothly into each other, and these are separated from the fourth by the giant multi-voiced "ostinato" movement that builds to the work's climax. The sounds are constructed from series of partials whose distances between each other vary from harmonic to inharmonic and are subsequently combined in a variety of ways. The title refers to distances between musical ideas and/or variants of the same idea, distances which are never extended, long, full or complete, despite what we say or do, but, like distances between people, only partial.
Date:
1978/1979
Creator:
Dashow, James, 1944-
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The UNT Digital Library
Just Behind the Horizon
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Recording of Józef Rychlik's Just Behind the Horizon for tape. This music, composed "without filtering", uses a range of timbres made by different programming of the values of heights, time, intensity, and specific acoustic music reactions for some kinds of impulses. Each motif, even in the second polyphonic part, are made of several layers. Each layer is an "automatic game sequence," which allows for the process of semi-automatic composition. Along with this idea, the ability of this piece to go beyond the nature of this apparatus and to compose a work that is independent of the "natural aesthetics" given by the machine is a key foundation of the piece.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Rychlik, Józef, 1946-
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The UNT Digital Library
kristallisation I
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Recording of Klaus Röder's kristallisation I. The material of this piece are tape recordings of triads played with the guitar. 26 tape loops contented 4 triads each on 4 different channels. The pitches were chosen such as to build a cluster with the extent of one octave by simultaneous reproduction of all 4 channels of one loop. The loops differed in pitch and were arranged in chromatic order so that the 'lowest' loop extended from E1 to Dis1 and the 'highest' one from E1 to Dis2. Then from the tape loops special parts were copied to another tape in a fixed order. By taking either the front or the back part of a tape loop variations in tone color and volume could be made ( loud, clear, hard-swinging: font of the loop; silent, dark, smooth-swinging: back of the loop). The copied parts were cut into pieces according to their duration of tone and then they were put together again. Sequence, color and duration of the tones were provided by the score. Tone color and duration change from tone to tone so that there is a fluctuating impression.The whole tape consists of several thousands of cut pieces that were stuck together. …
Date:
1981
Creator:
Röder, Klaus, 1948-
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The UNT Digital Library
Cantata ai-ai-a
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Recording of Rudolf Růžička's Cantata ai-ai-a.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Růžička, Rudolf
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The UNT Digital Library
Akymyle
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Recording of Yvon Magnette's Akymyle.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Magnette, Yvon
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The UNT Digital Library
Syntagmes
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Recording of Francis Dhomont's Syntagmes. This work obeys a double concern: formal rigor and vagrancy of the imagination. Seemingly contradictory proceedings, they are inspired by linguistic mechanisms which - within the limits of a code - allow innumerable discoveries.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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The UNT Digital Library
Pastourelle
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Recording of Frans Van Doorn's Pastourelle.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Van Doorn, Frans
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The UNT Digital Library
Construction
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Recording of Curtis Roads's Construction. This piece consists of continuous sound spectra. It was composed intuitively by ear. Its process of forming is characterized by an interplay among sections of historical development (continuous transformation), sequences of event (discrete spectral "harmonies"), and disjoint non-sequiturs (contrasting modes of musical behavior). "Construction" is a model, an alternative vision to the dominant mode of structuring. The technical devices used to make the work were: Moog III Synthesizer, Bode Ring Modulator, Bode Frequency Shifter, Ampex 4/2 Mixer, JBL Monitors, Quad/Eight Mixing Console, ITI Parametric Equalizer, Pultec Equalizer, Acoustic Echo Chamber, Altec Monitors.
Date:
1975/1976
Creator:
Roads, Curtis
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The UNT Digital Library
Ouroboros
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Recording of Denis Smalley's Ouroboros
Date:
1975
Creator:
Smalley, Denis
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The UNT Digital Library
Syrrhapte
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Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Syrrhapte
Date:
1975
Creator:
Lenfant, Patrick
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The UNT Digital Library
Music for two flutes and tape
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Recording of Joe Davidow's "Music for two flutes and tape." All of the sound material for the tape was originally played on the flute. The studio processing has has the aim of enhancing the inner harmonics and enriching the more obscure instrument sounds, bringing them to the forefront in inter-structural relation to the two live flutes. Breath, which is the original source of all the sound in the work, is itself an intricate part of the sound color relationship, together forming a structure of interweaving live and processed flutes, counter posing the real and surreal.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Davidow, Joe
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Strummin'
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Recording of Stephen Montague's Strummin'. This piece is based on a single chord which is pre-set by use of rubber wedges to depress the keys and evoked by a gentle sweeping of the piano strings with the right and left hands. The electronic sound grows from the acoustic chord, sustaining and gently transforming it.
Date:
1974/1975
Creator:
Montague, Stephen
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The UNT Digital Library
Al-Un
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Recording of Michel Tétreault's. Al-Un is based on a single sound material: an aluminum chime. From this material, Tétreault created sonic events of different densities that he then arranged in the stereophonic space. The result is a work which two main parameters are: perspective and fixity or the mobility of plans. The structural organization is elaborated according to the weight and the atomic mass of the aluminum.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Tétreault, Michel, 1954-
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The UNT Digital Library
Extension 1
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Recording of Zagorka Zivkovic's Extension 1 created at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm. It is the first in a series of works aiming to extend the sound quality of certain live-instruments. This piece focuses on the cello and manipulating the instrument in different ways - from a low degree (transposition) to an extremely high degree (a combination of layerings of loops and permutations through the use of a Buchla synthesizer). These sounds are then juxtaposed with some pieces of the original sound material in order to give depth to the perception of the instrument.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Zivkovic, Zagorka
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Cartoons
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Recording of Paul Pignon's Mechanical cartoons. On the Synthi 100 it is possible for the composer to patch complex systems which can generate musically acceptable trajectories even without control gestures - these are called "organic machines" by Pignon, because they are like beings with an independent life manifested in sound. An important feature for the overall structure of the piece is that one of the organic machines, which has a central role within which the characters of the cartoon act out and are subject to the influence of a previously defined rhythmic pulse train. Although this rhythmic structure is nowhere obvious, it nevertheless biases the overall form.Of the four "voices", the first is the setting already mentioned, featuring richness and variety of sound objects while being rather static in space. The second and third are quasi-human-animal voices that are very mobile in space. The fourth, also mobile, Pignon imagines as a monstrous bird-like figure, although it too occasionally exhibits humanoid characteristics.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Pignon, Paul
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tremola impressao
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Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Tremola impressao. This piece is a mix of disparate languages: instrumental music, sounds of nature and electroacoustic music, resulting in a different kind of electroacoustic music. The material originates from earlier works, not always Caesar's, but manipulated to make it different. He tried to make useful the sounds that were condemned trash; without any comparison with "Fontana Mix" by John Cage
Date:
1981
Creator:
Caesar, Rodolfo, 1950-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Computer Fantasy
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Recording of John Rogers's Computer Fantasy. This work uses rotational arrays to determine the vertical pitch structures. It is unique in using “controlled random” melodic motion between array elements. The sonic surface of the piece is characterized by a great use of variable digital band pass filters.
Date:
1974/1975
Creator:
Rogers, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Octuor
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Recording of Horacio Vaggione's Octuor. Sound material is all computer synthesized. Techniques used include frequency modulation, nonlinear distortion, additive synthesis and wave array synthesis.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Vaggione, Horacio, 1943-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Triple concerto
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Recording of Alejandro Viñao's "Triple Concerto" for flute, cello, piano, and computer. Triple Concerto was commissioned by Option Band with funds provided by the Art Council of Great Britain. The tape was produced and composed with a Fairlight computer music instrument at The City University Electro-Acoustic Music Studio in London.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Viñao, Alejandro, 1951-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ludus Sinteticus
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Recording of Iván Patachich's Ludus Sinteticus. This composition includes synthetic sounds and contains nine part of form that contrast in atmosphere and construction to each other. Two fundamental structures characterize the composition: a successively built block of clusters and a kind of percussion-rhythmic structure.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Patachich, Iván
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Voyage II
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Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's Voyage II.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The thin edge of the wedge
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Recording of Andrew Newell's "The thin edge of the wedge." This is the first piece in a triptych of pieces. It is orchestrated for seven electronic instruments, which were realized on a Buchla 200 series synthesizer. The concept behind the music concerns itself with man's position in the world today, which the composers sees as a very dangerous one, with possible self-destruction close at his heels. This piece is as one voice "crying in the wilderness," not meant to soothe, but to alert his fellow man to the evil that seems so near. The piece divides into two large sections which are then subdivided four plus three into subsections. The last subsection is a direct contrast to the first both in context and in attitude. The pitches are based on a number series that derives from the fractional part of the ratio of partials 8 and 7, but this is not a serial piece because the above-mentioned series is used primarily as a series of central pitches around which a random distribution of pitches revolves.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Newell, Andrew, 1951-
System:
The UNT Digital Library