Le mythe de la machine

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Recording of Wilfried Jentzsch's "Le mythe de la machine" for piano and tape. The design is based on various calculations of chance. The tape was made in collaboration between the electroacoustic studio of the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Center for Studies of Mathematics and Musical Automatics (C E M A M u) in Paris.
Date: 1975/1978
Creator: Jentzsch, Wilfried
System: The UNT Digital Library

Whispers Out of Time

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Recording of James Dashow's Whispers Out of Time. The title of this piece refers to the last line in a poem titled "Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery (1975). The composer used a VCS3, three ReVox tape recorders each with vari-speed gadget, and an AKG reverberation unit in an attempt to express with electronic sounds the moods, feelings, and sensations the four words of the title invoked in him.
Date: 1975
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Valse molle

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Recording of Alain Savouret's Valse molle
Date: 1975
Creator: Savouret, Alain
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skelelemedania

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Recording of Hal Freedman's Skelelemedania. This piece falls into three sections; the first and third combine live and tape sounds, and the second is for tape alone. The piece as a whole represents an expansion of the middle tape section. The more purely electronic layers were composed to complement or contrast with the vocal elements. The first and third sections make use of tape echo and delay systems. The timing of the repetitions allow the delay to be heard not as feedback but as a continuous evolution of texture and harmonic, melodic, and contrapuntal interplay.
Date: 1975
Creator: Freedman, Hal
System: The UNT Digital Library

Champs

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Recording of Georges Boeuf's Champs.
Date: 1975
Creator: Boeuf, Georges
System: The UNT Digital Library

In Celebration

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Recording of Charles Dodge's In Celebration. "In Celebration" was composed during the first part of 1975. The composition tends to capture the spirit and structure of Mark Strand's poem and to give it a coherent sense musically. The poem has a two-part structure separated by the reappearance of the verse "You sit in a chair.” The two parts of the poem can be distinguished from each other by the different degrees of passivity attributed to the "You,” the person to whom the poem is addressed.
Date: 1975
Creator: Dodge, Charles
System: 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

Memento

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Recording of Ryszard Klisowski's Memento for tape.
Date: 1975
Creator: Klisowski, Ryszard
System: The UNT Digital Library

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

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-
System: 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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ouroboros

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Recording of Denis Smalley's Ouroboros
Date: 1975
Creator: Smalley, Denis
System: The UNT Digital Library

Syrrhapte

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Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Syrrhapte
Date: 1975
Creator: Lenfant, Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library

Relazioni-trasformazioni

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Recording of Albert Mayr's Relazioni-transformazioni. “Relationships-Transformations” is part of a series of works that are based on the TIME-ASPECTS text and thus start from the same basic hypothesis: highlighting the relationships that come into being between various sound events - or even visual, theatrical – in function of relationships between their organizations in time and subjective transformations - of such events that occur during the operation. This hypothesis is carried on with the use of a very small material, both for recorded and instrumental parts, without any virtuosity, even to avoid masking, with affirmative artisans, the state of erosion of making music today.
Date: 1975
Creator: Mayr, Albert
System: The UNT Digital Library

Playing with Piano

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Recording of László Dobos's Playing with Piano. The piece consists of six parts and includes electronic piano.
Date: 1975
Creator: Dobos, László
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ta Foneenta

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Recording of Iván Patachich's Ta Foneenta. The base of the work forms a mathematical series. The sound material of the work consists of vowels, synthetic sounds, and Morgenstern's poem "The Great Lalula." The construction of the work is two-channel and panoramic and constructed spatial movement are also often used. Sound units present in the molded parts are microstructures. The work has a so-called bridge shape, so the eleventh molding is a variation and mirror image of the first part, the tenth molding varies the second, and so forth. The sixth molding is the highlight of the work.
Date: 1975/1976
Creator: Patachich, Iván
System: The UNT Digital Library

Atelje II (Atelier II)

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Recording of Lojze Lebič's Atelje II (Atelier II) for tape. The piece was composed in collaboration with Paul Pignon in the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio in September 1975. It is made up of five sections, in which certain electroacoustic "instrumental" ideas are transformed through characteristic compositional procedures. The title has a twofold meaning: on one hand, it reveals the aims of the composer's research, considering that this was Lebič's first encounter with the electronic medium, and on the other, his expectations that the composition would be performed in the Concert Atelier cycle of the Society of Slovene composers. Atelier II was later expanded into Atelier III for magnetic tape and live violoncello performance.
Date: 1975
Creator: Lebič, Lojze
System: The UNT Digital Library

Funzione acustico

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Recording of Iván Patachich's Funzione acustico
Date: 1975
Creator: Patachich, Iván
System: The UNT Digital Library

Viols II

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Recording of Manuel Enríquez's Viols II. A stringed instrument, both with and without bow, is the sole source of sound.
Date: 1975
Creator: Enríquez, Manuel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Canti per checca

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Recording of Teresa Rampazzi's Canti per checca.
Date: 1975
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lazy Garnet

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Recording of Shoko Shida's Lazy Garnet
Date: 1975
Creator: Shida, Shoko
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Polyfonium

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Recording of Lucien Goethals's Polyfonium. This is a mobile electroacoustic composition consisting of 4 independent layers that must be superimposed ad libitum during the listening even if the piece is in a concert hall. By varying the modes of superposition, one obtains a different version each time without the general character of the piece changing. It is also possible to make reduced versions, that is to say, by superimposing two or three layers only. Such achievements will then give less complex versions, but quite complete from the musical point of view because each structural layer is autonomous. The basic material consists of concrete sounds and electronic sounds. Complex figures were made using an electronic programmer. The piece is dedicated to Nicole Lachartre.
Date: 1975
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ambience

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Recording of Richard Orton's Ambience. Ambience for solo bass trombone and tape was written for the American Trombonist James Fulkerson and first performed by him in the Wigmore Hall, London, on 17 May 1975. He has since included the work in many recitals during his tours in Scandinavia, Canada and the USA. The title "Ambience" here refers to the imaginative sonic environment surrounding the sounds of the trombone, including the most "artificial," synthesized sounds, instrumental ensembles which incorporate the trombone, and environmental recordings including public sounds we will recognize and share. Within this sonic environment the trombone at times asserts itself, at times merges most imperceptibly, and eventually complements it and achieves a harmonic and dynamic balance.
Date: 1975
Creator: Orton, Richard, 1940-2013
System: The UNT Digital Library

Slow Field

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Recording of Stephen Montague's Slow Field. The primary sound was recorded from a toy organ and altered by means of filters, etc. The work employs heterodyning (using an electronic circuit to combine an input radio frequency with one that is generated in order to produce new frequencies) and the use of vari-speed near the end.
Date: 1975
Creator: Montague, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library