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Fabulas

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Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Fabulas. It is a piece that creates a soundscape of fantasy, reminiscent of stories from childhood. Uses electronic and instrumental sound material.
Date: 1979
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Klangbild

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Recording of Klaus Röder's Klangbild. The basis of this piece was a guitar improvisation. The tape with the recorded guitar sounds was cut at suitable points. The cut pieces were sorted and classified. So there were several small musical motifs which were instrumented afterwards by electronic means.
Date: 1979/1980
Creator: Röder, Klaus, 1948-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Jabara

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Recording of Martin Brinkerhoff's Jabara. Sound material consists of percussion sounds that have been manipulated by concrete methods: pitch and duration transposition, inversion, and mixing. The work is dedicated to percussionist Martin Jabara, who provided the basic sounds. The piece was realized at the Center for Music Experiment at California San Diego University.
Date: 1979
Creator: Brinkerhoff, Martin (Composer)
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

The pulses of time

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Recording of Denis Smalley's The pulses of time. The piece reflects the varied behavior of pulses: the regular pulses of meter, the much slower pulses which pace sections of music, and pulses which form the interior character of sounds - the accelerating pulses of a bouncing sound, and the fast pulses creating the "grain" in sound textures. The different atmospheres in the work are generated by the major sound sources: the electronic bounced family of sounds, metallic harmonies which expand the resonances of dramatic gong-like attacks, noise contours, drums and percussion both real and synthetic, and the clavichord which provides a rich reservoir of sounds - deep clusters, sighing pitches, resonances truck on the soundboard, strings plucked and stroked. The clavichord sounds remain raw and untreated.
Date: 1979/1980
Creator: Smalley, Denis, 1946-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pashanti (Les 9 Milliards de Noms de Dieu)

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Recording of David Evan Jones's "Pashanti (Les 9 Milliards de Noms de Dieu)." "Pashanti" is a Sanskrit word that refers to the level of thought that immediately predicts the recognition of speech as sound. This composition uses a hybrid computer musical system to filter vowel sound sources and vowel-like sounds. The text consists of the vowels i / a / u / e / i in sequence with particular transition velocities form the word "Yaweh" (the name of the Hebrew god). This series of vowels is continuously permuted to form the text of Pashanti through the composition.
Date: 1979
Creator: Jones, David Evan
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Juego de magos y gonilas

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Recording of David de Gandarias's "Juego de magos y gonilas" ("Game of Magicians and Gorillas"). Uses percussion instruments as sources of sound.
Date: 1979
Creator: Gandarias, David de, 1951-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Version n° 2

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Recording of Máté Victor's Version n° 2. It was realized at the Studio of Radio in Budapest. The piece is constructed in five movements - movements 1, 3, and 5 contain the same material. It was composed at the Electronic Studio of Mayar Radio in Budapest.
Date: 1979
Creator: Victor, Máté, 1945-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Vent

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Recording of Jonty Harrison's A Vent for oboe and tape, performed by Robin Canter, oboe. It is more accurately described as a tape piece with oboe since the tape carries the greater part of the musical argument and is never merely a background for an oboe solo. The necessity of breathing permeates the work.
Date: 1979
Creator: Harrison, Jonty, 1952-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nekyia

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Recording of D. Gareth Loy's Nekyia. The title refers to the eleventh chapter of Homer's The Odyssey in which Odysseus and his men have just escaped the enchantment of Circle's Island and are about to experience the demonic confrontation of the souls from Hades, in order to consult with tierces for how to return to Ithaca. The music, though not narrative, uses images of enchantment and demonic confrontation to explore the existential position of the hero to evoke the same moods in the audience.
Date: 1979
Creator: Loy, D. Gareth
Object Type: Sound
System: 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
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chor der Steine

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Recording of John Melby's "Chor der Steine" ("Chorus of Stones"). It was composed on a commission in 1979 for the Twentieth Anniversary Celebration of the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was first played at a concert there in the spring of that year. The work was produced on a large IBM mainframe computer, using the MUSIC 360 language for digital sound synthesis. "Chor der Steine" takes its name from the title of a poem by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs. "Chor der Steine" is published by Merion Music, Inc. (Theodore Presser Company). The work was awarded First Prize at the 1979 International Electroacoustic Music Awards, Bourges, France.
Date: 1979
Creator: Melby, John
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gestes III : douceurs

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Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Gestes III : douceurs.
Date: 1979
Creator: Lewis, Peter Tod
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Betsy

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Recording of Rick Banks's Betsy, which is based on a story created by the composer. The computer program by which the piece is created emits sounds that Banks calls "Betsy" and Betsy's labels describe herself. "Betsy Butterfield didn't like counting nifty numbers so instead she tried jumping galaxies and times but soon found it was some different kind of goddess than her that never knew the suns."
Date: 1979
Creator: Banks, Rick
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Textures Bivox

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Recording of Gabriel Poulard's Textures Bivox for tape. The piece was made without a mixer from two revox tap recorders.
Date: 1979
Creator: Poulard, Gabriel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metal

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Recording of David Keane's Metal for tape and "synchronized slices projected up on a dance inside of a large conite elastic BAC." The piece's sound material is based on metallic qualities (hardness, cleavage, brittleness, coldness, sharpness, etc.). The slides were prepared by Trevor Moogson. The piece premiered at the Palais des beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium.
Date: 1979
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lunar Dusk

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Recording of Maggi Payne's Lunar dusk. Performance is with four speakers accompanied by abstract slides. Composed at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College.
Date: 1979
Creator: Payne, Maggi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pendulus

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Recording of Charles Norman Mason's Pendulus for tape.
Date: 1979
Creator: Mason, Charles Norman
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

3 for 5

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Recording of Richard Zvonar's 3 for 5 for percussion, performed by Daryl Pratt. The piece is divided into three movements, with a different set of instruments for each. These are set up in three locations, which form an arc left to right across the performance area. Four playback speakers are situated beside and between the three playing locations. The tape sounds are entirely derived from recorded sounds of the percussion instruments. Throughout the piece, the live and recorded sounds continuously diverge as the piece progresses until at the end, the original sounds have been greatly expanded and enriched through speed transposition, mixing, filtering, etc.
Date: 1979
Creator: Zvonar, Richard
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

A bientôt elfes, trolls et lutins

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Recording of Michel Lontin's A bientôt elfes, trolls et lutins.
Date: 1979
Creator: Longtin, Michel
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ange

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Recording of Jean Piché's Ange for tape or radio performance. It is a timbral work in which the main goal is the total acoustic mixing of natural and synthetic sound material. In addition to the synthetic sounds that are created through a digital synthesizer, four voices - two men, two women - are introduced in the final mix and are hardly distinguishable from the synthetic sounds.
Date: 1979
Creator: Piché, Jean
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Yantra IX

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Recording of Sergio Barroso's Yantra IX, for saxophone and tape. "Yantra" means "cosmogram" in the ancient language of Tibet. The piece is a graphic illustration to obtain variable structures and to explore the possibilities of live and tape saxophone sounds by mixing them. This composition is part of a series of works for various instrumental combinations with and without band. It was composed between August and September 1979.
Date: 1979
Creator: Barroso, Sergio, 1946-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tolling

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Recording of Ronald Perera's Tolling performed by Kenneth Fearn and Monica Jakuc.
Date: 1979
Creator: Perera, Ronald
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Short Circuit

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Recording of Hal Freedman's Short Circuit performed by Gerry Hemingway and Freedman himself. It is a duo piece, in which the instruments and timbres constantly intact in a highly structured but not inflexible manner. Many of the actual notes and rhythms were improvised, but within strict structural confines that often define what is to be played more naturally and precisely than a full score could accomplish.
Date: 1979
Creator: Freedman, Hal
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library