Interview with Alena Mosley. Topics include the Hstory of Baytown, TX.

Recording of Andrzey Biezan's L' Épée d'un Archange.

Recording of Chris Chafe's "Marienbad" performed by Ann Witherall, Daniel Kobialka, and Willy Winant. The movie "Last Year at Marienbad", a 1961 French-Italian film directed by Alain Resnais from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, influenced the composition of Chafe's "Marienbad" in several ways. The most crucial connection between the two works is the feeling of "mental time" as described by A. Robbe-Grillet in his screenplay: "...it skips certain passages, it preserves an exact record of certain 'unimportant' details, it repeats and doubles back on itself." The tape plays a role similar to the narrator named "X" in the script, somewhat omniscient but also misleading when one tries to connect events in the "plot". Text, which is spoken and whispered by the tape and trombone player, is borrowed from the distorted dialogue, which "X" has with other figures in the movie.

Interview with Wilburn L. Snyder, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include World War Two and the history of Baytown, TX.

Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sections of the piece are as follows: 1. Pareil a un voyageur perdu (Like a Traveler Who's Been Lost); 2. Engloutissement (Engulfment); 3. Arrête! Arrête! Elle me tue (Stop it. Stop it. She's Killing Me); 4. Implosion; 5. Le moi divisé (The Divided Self); 6. Citadelle intérieure (Inner Citadel); 7. Pétrification (Petrification); 8. Le message quand vient le soir (The Message at the Coming of Night). The piece focuses on the experience of schizophrenia, something Dhomont calles a "particular form of human tragedy... the dissolution of the being and the exploding of personality, where a universe of implacable confinement is constructed." The "clinical commentaries" of the narrators, as the comments of a therapist/coryphaeus (though not …

Audio recording of a live performance by Steven Fromholz. Tracklist: 1. Tequila. 2. Isla Mujeres. 3. Dear Darcy. 4. Dimmy Deans Poor Puke Sauce Linkages/Redneck Mother. 5. Rest Area Waltz. 6. Aunt Minnie and Bears. 7. She's A Lady. 8. Late Night Neon Shadows. 9. Jane's House.

Recording of Graham Hair's microvariation.

Recording of Brenda Hutchinson's A Grandmother's Song for tape, in 5 parts: I. The Reunion II. The Peach III. Father IV. I Forgot V. Brother Day. This work was created at the Center for Music Experiment at the University of California in San Diego.

Recording of Dimitrios Iatropoulos's "Le soi, le choix et les autres" ("The self, the choice and the others"), five songs composed on the voice of Tibby Sachet. Iatropoulos calls this work a "composition psychoacoustique" ("psychoacoustic composition"). It is a study on the expansion and travesty of the voice that corresponds to the continual contradiction between the self and the choice of the woman. The choices the woman is faced with it that of active/passive, dad/mom, woman/girl, self/others. It is a representation of average female forces in a medium social environment in a language that is not too formal and not too casual. The intensity of the sentences are amplified by the montage on the magnetic tape which reflects the speed of the woman's thoughts.

Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.

Recording of Dexter Morrill's Six dark questions performed by Neva Pilgrim, soprano. The piece is designed for soprano and a single electronic speaker. It is a voice drama in which the questions form an inquiry into the structure of the personality. At the outset of the piece, both singer and electronic device are defined in lifeless, mechanical terms; but as the questions are put forward one by one, more and more is revealed about the well hidden emotions in the individual. At first, the singer is unwilling to play the question and answer game, and even when she finally begins to respond, her answers are stock cliches. However, she quickly finds that when she gives a superficial or false response, the speaker falls silent. The quality and weight of this silence grows in meaning through the piece. When, on the other hand, she reveals herself, the speaker joins in accompaniment of increasing complexity and intensity after the first tentative beginnings. The questions are "dark" for two reasons. Firstly, they are suggestive and symbolic rather than open and direct. Secondly, they raise increasingly serious human problems. The first two animal questions, the singer's associations for cats and horses are relatively simple. …

Sound recording of Jo Blatti giving a talk titled "The American Dream; The Success Ethic" during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History at State University of New York, Buffalo, NY. Michael Frisch is the moderator and commentator during the talk.

Sound recording of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Albert Schweitzer speaking during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History at the Oral History Institute, Murray State University.

Sound recording of Ronald C. Larson giving a talk titled "Before Silent Spring; An Oral History of Western Forest Entomology", and Mark Walter giving a talk titled "Location and Mapping of Fish Spawning Grounds in the Greater Lakes Via Oral History" during the 14th National Colloquium on Oral History at the Oral History Institute, Murray State University. The talks are moderated by William R. Wyatt.

Sound recording of Detlev Peukert giving a talk titled "Between Nazism and the Economic Miracle: Coal Miners and the Ruhr District in the 1930's and then 1940's" during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History At the Oral History Institute, Murray State University.

Sound recording of Betty Balanoff giving a talk titled "Chicago Labor History" under the topic of "Working People and Workers' Unions" during the 14th National Workshop of Oral History at the University of Michigan. Commentary during the talk is provided by Bob Repas, and Joyce Kornbluth is the moderator.

Sound recording of E. Culpepper Clark giving a talk titled "Communication in the Oral History Review: Investigating the Problems of Interpreting Oral Data" during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History at the Oral History Institute, Murray, Kentucky. Ronald J. Grele is the moderator for the talk.

Sound recording of Charles R. Knerr giving a talk titled "Confidentiality: Privacy and the Law" during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History at the Oral History Institute, Murray State University. The talk was given during a panel on legal and ethical responsibilities in the protection of historical sources. The moderator for the talk is Hubert. D. Humphreys.

Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a council meeting.

Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a business meeting.

Sound recording of Oral History Association members conducting a council meeting.

Sound recording of Al Skorma giving a talk titled "Early 20th Century Eastern United Stated Coal Culture" during the 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral HIstory at the Oral History Institiute, Murray State University. The talk was part of a series about international perspectives on coal miners. The moderator for the talk was Evaline Hovenec, president of the Coal Miners Research Association.

Sound recording of Elizabeth I. Dixon being interviewed by Bernard Galm about the history of the Oral History Association on 1115 S. 14th Street #107 Santa Monica, California.

Sound recording of Harlon E. Joye, E. Barnerd West, and Dana F. White from the Living Atlanta Project giving a talk titled "The Etiquette of Race Relations" during the Buffalo 14th Annual National Colloquium on Oral History.