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Multiplication virtuelle

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Recording of Mei-Fang Lin's Multiplication virtuelle. This is a work for solo percussionist performing on a wide array of pitched and non-pitched acoustic instruments. Audio signals taken from microphones placed in close proximity to each instrument are used to control a real-time computer-based electro-acoustic component. This piece is dedicated to the French percussionist Jean Geoffroy, who premiered the piece on Oct. 14, 2004 at l'Espace de Projection at IRCAM in Paris during the Resonances Festival. This work was funded in part by the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center.
Date: 2004
Creator: Lin, Mei-Fang, 1973-
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-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Libellune

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Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Libellune. The composer describes this work as the sound journey of a dragonfly and says that this is the perfect time for reflection. This piece is structured in eight stages titled: Métamorphose, départ, Orient, Afrique, Tropiques, Amérique, Europe, and Espace. This work includes processed recordings of human voices and various musical instruments. The integration of musical instruments from different cultures serves to illustrate the journey of the dragonfly.
Date: 2002
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne
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-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aires Acondicionados

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Recording of Lennart Westman's Aires Acondicionados. This is a work for solo-oboe and electronics that consists of recordings of one oboe d'amore and an English horn. This piece was commissioned by Jesper Harryson, a solo oboe player in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Date: 2004
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Earth-Star Songs

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Recording of Leif Brush's Earth-Star Songs. This work is considered a "stitching" of sounds and recordings taken from an array of the composer's analogue constructs and terrain instruments. These recordings have been paired with recordings produced by Jerry Chamkis' Kosmophone. The result is an inexhaustibly complex amalgamation of hard-edged terrestrial and tactile phenomena contrasted by cosmically sourced retro-futuristic synth interjections.
Date: 2004/2005
Creator: Brush, Leif
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-
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-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hommage à Parmerud

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Recording of Natasha Barrett's Hommage à Parmerud. This work acts as an homage to composer, Ake Parmerud. The two composers undertook a project where they swapped basic sound materials and composed new works based on each other's offerings. This piece is the product of that and gave Barrett the chance to compose her first homage to one of the many composers that have influenced students and professionals worldwide.
Date: 2005
Creator: Barrett, Natasha
System: The UNT Digital Library

Invito

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Recording of Per Samuelsson's Invito. The composer describes this piece as inviting the listener to "crawl under the skin of string instruments and let them sound in a way we are normally not used to". The fact that other sounds naturally fit into this piece proves that not just ordinary musical instruments find it's spot on the musical map.
Date: 2005
Creator: Samuelsson, Per, 1971-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hastening toward the Half Moon

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Recording of Elainie Lillios' Hastening toward the Half Moon. This work strings together a series of vignettes on life's eternal mysteries; murmuring, wandering, yearning amongst the drifting tides of the unknown. This piece was commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art and premiered during the Octophonic Concert of the Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art on Toronto Island, Canada.
Date: 2004
Creator: Lillios, Elainie, 1968-
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-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil

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Recording of Philippe Gonin's Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil. This piece was built in two sections. The first section sets up a strange atmosphere that includes noises and distorted voices that emerge little by little. The second section introduces the poetic text. The work ends suddenly and only slight sounds of rain and music remain. This piece is part of a cycle titled "Musiques Écouter dans le Noir", a collection devoted to dreams.
Date: 2002/2004
Creator: Gonin, Philippe
System: The UNT Digital Library

Banchory Ears

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Recording of Pete Stollery's Banchory Ears. This work was commissioned by Woodend Arts Association and is a concert version of the music that the composer made to accompany the Banchory Faces photography exhibition in September 2003. The composer collected sonic photographs from various areas of Banchory in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The composer thanks Bertha Forbes, a local historian, for her recollection of sounds and for the use of the interview with her in this piece.
Date: 2004
Creator: Stollery, Pete
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nuit Electronique opus 33

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Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Nuit Electronique opus 33. The composer states that this work was inspired by intimate memories from the last night of the Bourges festival 2003. He describes this piece as a "kind of cosmic electroacoustic jukebox quiz".
Date: 2004
Creator: De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Repossess Reprocess II

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Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Repossess Reprocess II. This is an entirely abstract piece that is constructed of concrete sounds from the real world using a VCS3 synthesizer to process the sounds instead of creating them.
Date: 2005
Creator: De Moncey-Conegliano, Peter, 1948-
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Treno in corsa

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Recording of Michele Biasutti's Treno in corsa. This work is a real time performance with digital elaboration of the sound of noisers (intonarumori), the noise machines built by Luigi Russolo. This piece was inspired by Russolo's painting, "Treno in corsa nella notte" made in 1911 and is based on some perceptive phenomena studied in the field of psychology of music such as masking, space-time perception, and some perceptive illusions on rhythm.
Date: 2005
Creator: Biasutti, Michele, 1963-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Refléxe I

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Recording of Franco Degrassi's Refléxe I. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 2005
Creator: Degrassi, Franco, 1958-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ochlophoinc Study # 2 : Hong Kong

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Recording of John Levack Drever's Ochlophoinc Study # 2 : Hong Kong. This piece is the second in a series of studies investigating crowd sounds. Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, but is also interspersed with green open spaces and sites of reflection and introspection. The sound material includes edited field recordings that aim to celebrate the sheer intensity of continuous human activity that is Hong Kong.
Date: 2005
Creator: Drever, John Levack
System: The UNT Digital Library

Motion and Glitch Study

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Recording of Shintaro Imai's Motion and Glitch Study. This is a work for dance, visual image processing, and electronic sound. It was commissioned by Inventionen 2004 and was a collaborative work with Kazue Ikeda (dance improvisation). The main purpose of the piece is to experiment with the relationship between the gradual/sudden transformation of a dancer's motion, electronic glitch sounds, and visual textures as a result of modulation.
Date: 2004
Creator: Imai, Shintaro, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau

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Recording of Saur Etienne's Bords et débords, voyages autour de mon bureau. This is a composition that is meant to be used for theatre. The narrative of the play centers on the daydreams of a man stuck in the closed world of his office. The first part of the music for this composition was created by Stéphanos Vasiliadis who passed before completing the work.
Date: 2004
Creator: Etienne, Saur
System: The UNT Digital Library

Donnie's Room

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Recording of John Mallia's Donnie's Room. This work is a mixed media installation with animated projection, television monitors, spatialized sound, and objects. This work is an homage to the composer's distant cousin, Donnie. This work attempts to reflect the scale at which a person living in a debilitating condition might experience moments of peace despite their otherwise unconquerable physical and/or mental constraints. The sounds, images and objects used in the installation represent gifts to Donnie and/or symbolize comfort, entertainment, stability, perseverance and constraint.
Date: 2005
Creator: Mallia, John
System: The UNT Digital Library