Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: àɣöɣöə I, 15/11-81

Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: àɣöɣöə II, 15/11-81

Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: àɣöɣöə III, 15/11-81

Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the a performance of Ossie Davis' Broadway comedy "Purlie Victorious" directed by Curtis King in November of 1981. The tape includes one track of recorded music with various singers from the theatrical production.

Interview with Fannie Lou Throop about the history of Grapevine, Texas.

Akha songs and narratives. ḿ sjhɔ́ nɛ̀q thó thó ə́, Àbɔ́qɔ 24/10-81

Interview with Theo Alexander, who discusses his life experiences and viewpoints.

Akha songs and narratives. tjhɛ́ nḿ tsỳq ə shà zìq zìq ə, Oct-81

Akha songs and narratives. 0-20 Àbɔ́qɔ: tjhɛ́ nḿ tsyq ə Oct-81 (Ábɔ́koq's home); 20-25 Ásɔ̀q: tshɔ́ ŋö́ ŋö́ ə, zà sjhí xàqə, 6/11-81; 25-30 Ásɔ̀q: ja-phí dɔ́ ə qá-kɔq 6/11-81

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Douglas Cloakey. Cloakey joined the Marine Corps in October of 1940. He served with the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines. In 1941, they traveled to Iceland where they supplemented British troops to defend against a German attack on the island. In the fall of 1942, Cloakey deployed to Samoa and was assigned to the 3rd Raider Battalion. He participated in the Solomon Islands Campaign in 1943, and shares anecdotes of him and his fellow servicemen.

Elicitation of a Hani word list featuring 2 utterances of each word in isolation by a male speaker. Recorded in Kunming, Yunnan province, China.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall

Interview with Elmo Bailey, discussing his experience and personal viewpoints.

Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Maa'ts for tape (4-lane). The composition if a collage for voices and electronics. The choir sings in harmonically exact microcompositions.The piece was produced in February 1981 in the studio of the Technical University Berlin.

Interview with Ed Cleveland, discusses his life experiences and viewpoints.

Interview with Osie Chenault, who discussed his life experiences and life experiences.

Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's 6 electronic preludes for tape.

Recording of Peter Wessing's 8 Deutsche Tanze.

Speech delivered by Dr. LeMoine G. Lewis, Professor of Bible, for the 75th Homecoming celebration at Abilene Christian University. He reminds students and alumni in the crowd about stories from ACU’s past and present.

Recording of Þorsteinn Hauksson's Are we? performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Fabrice Pierre. The piece if for two trumpets, two trombones, two percussionists, and tape. The message of the piece of music is unstated by the composer, but he says "music of the Muses can express it in a much clearer way" than spoken or written words.

Recording of Bertand Dubedout's "Aux lampions" ("To the lanterns"). Lampions are small oil lamps, formerly popular as a carriage light. It is a concrete piece in three movements: "Bal convexe" ("Convex ball"), "Le cocher" ("The coachman"), and "Sous les planches" ("Under the boards"). For writers like Bulgakov, Gogol, and Chekhov, the ball scene is often a story of action, tragedy, or desperation; the ball can ruin an existence or bring hope. Delight, delusion, and loneliness are the multiple stigmata of the ball. The sound materials of the piece are all concrete sounds that are based on reality. The sound forms escape any precedence, combining to create images of incongruous weddings like in an agitated dream.

Recording of Miloš Petrović's Aw/wW ("Anton with-without Webern") for tape, interpreted by Ruža Petrović, Paul Pignon, and Miloš Petrović. Petrović uses the sound and structure in Anton Webern's works as a way of broadening the sound media in his own work. He places this work in a space defined by primal elements of different media, which allows for a greater number of operations on the speech-gesture relationship, while contributing to the cohesiveness of the result. Magnetic tape-transfected parts of Webern's composition, purely electroacoustic segments and short quotes from the composer's work. The tape was made in the electronic studio pf Belgrade Radio-Television. The work was written and presented first in 1981.

Recording of Frank Corcoran's "Balthasar's Traum" performed at the Electronic Studio of the Berlin Technical University in close cooperation with Folkmar Hein. The work is based on an idea of a short story by Jorge Luis Borge and the Gospel of St. Mark about Balthasar Espinosa, a man who becomes involved with the Gutres people of Pampa and eventually dies by being hanged on a cross by the same people with whom he was so fascinated. It takes place in the great plains of the Pampa where Baltasar Espinosa is invited to his friend's ranch. To escape the monotony of continuous rain, he begins every night to read aloud to the fascinated Gutres people. They ask for him to reread the Gospel of St. Mark. Mysterious things begin happening during the dark days -- Baltasar cures an animal through 20th century means, something the Gutres have never seen before. The rain eventually stops. That night a virgin Gutre girl visits Baltasar's bed. The next day, he reads the Gospel to the Gutres for the last time. They then ask Baltasar, who is not a believer, if even those who crucified the Savior can receive salvation. They ask for his blessing, …

Recording of Clifford Taylor's "Blendings" performed by Clifford Taylor, clarinet. The piece focuses primarily on combining various registral sounds of the clarinet with synthesized sounds of a variety of timbres.