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Hemlanden

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Recording of Love Mangs' Hemlanden. This composition is a suite with 3 pieces inspired the dynamics of the seasons in Scandinavia and the sentiments that go with it. Sound materials include the sounds of icicles and tensions in the ice surface.
Date: 2000/2003
Creator: Mangs, Love, 1966-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Diablorence

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Recording of Pierre Mariétan's Diablorence. This work was inspired by the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and portrays the orchestra as the main character of the work. The soloists and the sound engineer process the entire sound world with the goal of being heard as music and only music. The orchestra performing this work is the Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France, conducted by Laurent Cuniot. The composer also credits Frédéric Antoine as being responsible for the "noises" in the piece.
Date: 2000/2002
Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-
System: The UNT Digital Library

DMXnébula

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Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's DMXnébula. This is a work for electroacoustics that was created to accompany a visual performance. A spherical inflatable structure with lighting and multi-track music was designed for an outdoor event and is meant to represent a gigantic planet. The music on eight tracks is synchronized to the automated lighting and is broadcast continuously over a multi-channel sound system. This piece was commissioned by the Festival Montréal. The themes of this work are: openness, cosmos, celestial, vox, urban, world, night, and day.
Date: 2000/2002
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne
System: The UNT Digital Library

Météo Marine ou "On peut rêver !"

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Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Météo Marine ou "On peut rêver !". This work was created to be part of a collaborative CD with other composers under the theme of "sea weather", drawing inspiration from a French weather broadcast. The composer describes this work as a "little sound film".
Date: 2000
Creator: Lenfant, Patrick
System: The UNT Digital Library

Circulation

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Recording of Junghae Lee's Circulation. This work was inspired by the solar eclipse in 1999 and consists of continuous repetitions of musical ideas. The energetic gesture at the beginning of the piece dissolves over time and is shattered into fragments. In the end, all that remains is a hint of sound.
Date: 2000
Creator: Lee, Junghae, 1964-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Neon

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Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Neon. This work is the third and final piece in a cycle of works that are based on the book "Owning your own shadow - Understanding the dark side of the psyche" by Robert A. Johnson. In this piece, the microcosm of human consciousness is elevated to an environmental scale; the creation of the divine takes shape in the exterior world when opposites touch.
Date: 2000/2001
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'ile re-sonante

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Recording of Éliane Radigue's L'ile re-sonante. This work is meant to immerse the listener in an experience that is peaceful, meditative, and hypnotic. It's goal is to remind the audience the importance of listening. The sound mass is constantly undergoing a progressive oscillation which gives the sound a swell effect. After a few minutes, the listener should be able to hear ghost melodies as their imagination takes over.
Date: 2000
Creator: Radigue, Éliane
System: The UNT Digital Library

RomANS

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Recording of Artem Vassiliev's RomANS. The title of this piece is a combination of two words: "romance" as a genre of vocal music and "ANS" the abbreviated name of composer, Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin after whom a photoelectronic musical instrument was named. The material of this work includes small fragments of men and women singing which have been processed in various ways. This creates a colorful blend in which "utopian" voices from the past coexists with the mid-20th century.
Date: 2000
Creator: Vassiliev, Artem
System: The UNT Digital Library

What is that sound from under the door

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Recording of Antonio Moliterni's What is that sound from under the door. This work was composed for the INA-GRM. This piece is for electronics and includes parts of a song by Tom Waits from his album, "Mule Variations" which is related to the musical gesture, adding rock elements.
Date: 2000
Creator: Moliterni, Antonio
System: The UNT Digital Library

Twitter tourniquet

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Recording of Lissa Meridan's Twitter tourniquet. This piece is based on an earlier instrumental micro-score written for 175 East titled, gash. This work is a sonic exploration which expands on the structure, textural transformations, and basic melodic gestures of gash while at the same time maintaining the intrinsic details of the original material. The sonic images of this piece suggest the sounds of birds and insects.
Date: 2000
Creator: Meridan, Lissa, 1972-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Agora

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Recording of Natasha Barrett's Agora. This work is an installation and a performance involving electroacoustic music, theatre, and the structural use of space. The theatre version of "Agora" is an event where spatial-music is the structural and theatrical driving force. There is one soprano performer but no "acting out". The work extends the aesthetic of the music theatre of Kagel and the consideration of delineated space defined in Oscar Schlemmer's theory of performance.
Date: 2000/2003
Creator: Barrett, Natasha
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aqua Salutaris auditur

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Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
Date: 2000
Creator: Turel, Bor
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aqua Salutaris auditur part 2

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Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur part 2. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
Date: 2000
Creator: Turel, Bor
System: The UNT Digital Library

Desde el Jardín del Tiempo

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Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel's Desde el Jardín del Tiempo. This work was created as an homage to John Lennon and the mark that his music has left on more than a generation of young people. It was created from samples of piano by digital sound editing and processing. It premiered at the "VIII Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica Primavera en La Habana".
Date: 2000
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén
System: The UNT Digital Library

Praia das catetrais

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Recording of María Inmaculada Cárdenas Serván's Praia das catetrais. This work premiered in Madrid within the framework of the "XI International Festival of Electroacoustic Music - Punto de Encuentro". This work is dedicated to the cliffs off of the north coast of Galicia and mixes the sounds of everyday life with clarinet improvisations. The text spoken in this work was done by Guillermo Abraldes, whom the composer thanks for his selfless collaboration.
Date: 2000
Creator: Cárdenas Serván, María Inmaculada
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cloy

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Recording of Silvia Matheus' Cloy. This work was inspired by the sounds people make that can create judgement from others. The foreground of the composition is the sound of laughter from a woman to bring forward the issues of desire, irony, and female agency to the attention of the listener. The composer took inspiration from the philosophers Aristotle and George Lewis.
Date: 2000
Creator: Matheus, Silvia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eight Directions

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Recording of Sylvi MacCormac's Eight Directions. This work includes instrumentation from congas, violin, flute, bouzouki, marimba, gong, penny whistle, and bagpipe. The sounds of thunder, rain, and birds are also included and were recorded in Italy.
Date: 2000
Creator: MacCormac, Sylvi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Triptico: Oceania, mondo sin angulos; Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola

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Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Triptico: Oceania, mondo sin angulos; Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola. This work consists of two pieces: "Oceania, mondo sin angulos" and "Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola". The first of which includes highly transformed concrete sounds while alluding to the idea of duality. The second piece draws inspiration from several games whose sounds are known to the public (tennis, ping-pong, pinball machines, etc.).
Date: 2000/2002
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tempora

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Recording of Daniel Barreiro's Tempora. This composition is a result of research on musical time that includes voice and the percussion of various objects. The voice presents excerpts of texts on musical time and narrative time written by various authors. This piece premiered during the IV Studio de Mœsica at the Instituto de Artes da UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2001.
Date: 2000/2001
Creator: Barreiro, Daniel Luís, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library

(b)contained

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Recording of Katharine Norman's (b)contained. This is a work for solo clarinet and digital fixed sound and was commissioned by Jane O'Leary/Concorde for Paul Roe to play at the Galway Arts Festival. The electronic material in this piece was created from an initial recording of the note 'b', played by clarinet, while the actual player doesn't get to play a 'b' until the final section of the piece. The composer states that this sound provides a sonic container for the live performer.
Date: 2000
Creator: Norman, Katharine
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ancestral Voices

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Recording of John Rimmer's Ancestral Voices. The idea for this composition came from the composers fascination with family history and genealogy, specifically the names of his eight great-grandparents. The composer associated the sounds of eight instruments with each ancestor beginning with New Zealand instruments and moving to other countries around the world. Throughout the work the sound of a women's choir singing the fifth century hymn, Caeli Deus Sanctissime, heightens the sense of ancestry.
Date: 2000/2001
Creator: Rimmer, John, 1939-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Version IV ou Temps/Matière

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Recording of Gabriel Poulard's Version IV ou Temps/Matière. This is a work for electronics and explores the impact of air and silence. The composer references the "Nuraghé" when discussing the presence of the piece.
Date: 2000
Creator: Poulard, Gabriel
System: The UNT Digital Library

A veil barely seen (for viola and tape)

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Recording of Frances White's A veil barely seen (for viola and tape). This piece was commissioned by, and is dedicated to, violist Liuh-Wen Ting. It was premiered in New York in April of 2001, at Merkin Hall. This piece was commissioned to be one of five pieces that would represent one of the five Chinese elements; this piece represents water. The sound materials of this piece consist of recordings of water as well as the viola.
Date: 2000/2001
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library

The secret of P.P.P.

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Recording of Sibylle Pomorin's The secret of P.P.P.. A major theme in this composers' works has been "the voice" as well as "language" and it's intellectual uses. This piece uses that theme while branching into abstract electroacoustics. The composer created this work with the team from NPS, who made the appropriate equipment available to them. The singing of Dutch soprano, Jannie Pranger, provided the building blocks for this arrangement.
Date: 2000
Creator: Pomorin, Sibylle
System: The UNT Digital Library