Act of Opening

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"Act of Openings" is a stereo composition made with Moog analog synthesis modules. Composed in 1968, its duration is 17'27. The score of the composition is a dense and modulated sound characterized by carefully controlled phase relationships. All the rhythmic and harmonic elements of the piece derive energy from a long, brilliant sound. Each part of the room is another glimpse of this sound, as a set of flowers form a bouquet. "Act of Openings" received the 2nd Prize at the 1969 Dartmouth International Electronic Music Competition.
Date: 1969
Creator: Weiss, Jonathan, 1949-
System: The UNT Digital Library

En avant la zizique

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Recording of Christian Clozier's En avant la zizique.
Date: 1969
Creator: Clozier, Christian
System: The UNT Digital Library

Batucadas

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Recording of Gabriel 's Batucadas. This is a piece entirely composed with electronic sounds. It is an elaboration based on pulsations that occur at different speeds leaning towards density accumulation. Static, shrill and strongly aggressive material that overflows the interrupted background of pulsations. The work was composed in 1973, during the last year of existence of the Laboratory of the Latin-American Center of High Music Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute.
Date: 1969
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bozzetti

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Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Bozzetti.
Date: 1967
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cadenza

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Recording of Lucien Goethals Cadenza. This composition is part of a work for orchestra and electroacoustic music. It is a solo for tape recorder, placed in the middle of the work. The basic material is electronic sounds and concert sounds (instrumental sounds). The overall shape is the result of superimposing a large number of fairly simple sound layers.
Date: 1963
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cellotape

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Recording of Lucien Goethals' Cellotape. The electroacoustic part of this work was produced in three versions: one-track, two-track, and four-track tapes. It is meant to be played with two performers, a cellist and pianist who become responsible for the synchronicity of the piece. The piece premiered in Brussels with cellist, Herman Sabbe and pianist, Pierre Bartholomé.
Date: 1964
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chant dans la Nuit

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Discover for me this fabulous world of electro-acoustics; this world that allows us to accurately retain the slightest gesture, to multiply the sound sources to infinity, to put things and distant sounds side by side and thus to create magical worlds of unheard-of expressiveness. Rainer Boesch
Date: 1967
Creator: Boesch, Rainer, 1938-2014
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chants de Maldoror

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Recording of Rainer Riehn's Chants de Maldoror.
Date: 1966
Creator: Riehn, Rainer
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chef d'Oeuvre

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Recording of Jon Appleton's Chef d'oeuvre.
Date: 1967
Creator: Appleton, Jon H., 1939-2022
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chef d’œuvre

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Recording of Jon Appleton's Chef-d’œuvre.
Date: 1967
Creator: Appleton, Jon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Combinaisons en cercles

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Recording of Octavian Nemescu's Combinaisons en cercles. It is a version at the request of Partita Radicale with a new timbral guise. The work is coceived in three different layers of sound. The surface, representing everyday (diurnal) consciousness, consists of brief and fleeting timbral events almost invariably played forte. A somewhat subdued middle layer provides semiconscious recollections and anticipations of the overall timbral fabric. The deepest layer is made up of complex static sounds, primarily consisting of the vibration of a universal whisper which reveals hidden Nature. This layer of immutable peace, into which all things converge, evokes the nocturnal state of the cosmic unconscious.
Date: 1965
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian
System: The UNT Digital Library

Concentric. A question with two answers.

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Recording of Octavian Nemescu's "Concentric. A question with two answers." for instrumental ensemble and tape. The piece is a reaction to Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question," which is, in comparison, schizoid in nature, marked by breach, discord, disparity and incommunicability. There are three layered music layers in "Concentric" which join together to create a kind of communion that is timeless through the use of resonant harmonic issued by a fundamental sound C, placed in the deepest register, like a natural archetype (of a cosmic and supercosmic presence coming from the depths of existence).
Date: 1969
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian
System: The UNT Digital Library

Concerto for tape

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Recording of Bogusław Schäffer's Concerto for tape.
Date: 1969
Creator: Schäffer, Bogusław
System: The UNT Digital Library

Contrapuntos

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Recording of Lucien Goethals' Contrapuntos
Date: 1966
Creator: Goethals, Lucien
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cronaca

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Recording of Walter S. Kimmel's Cronaca.
Date: 1968
Creator: Kimmel, Walter S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dialogos 1

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Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Dialogos 1. This work uses complexes of short of electronic sounds with long reverberations of the round 10 seconds each, thanks to the natural reverberation chamber build at the studio at that time. The name of the piece relates to the "dialog" between the long transparent sounds obtained through the aforementioned procedure and the original electronic pulses.
Date: 1964
Creator: Kropfl, Francisco
System: The UNT Digital Library

Don't hesitate, do it right now

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Recording of Sten Hanson's Don't hesitate, do it right now. This work consists of 4 separate pieces: 'Che', 'The Glorious Desertion', 'Don't hesitate, do it right now', and 'Revolution'. This collection of pieces were inspired by the ADC (American Deserters Committee), a group of American soldiers that found sanctuary in Sweden after deserting the American army during the Vietnam war. The spoken text in this piece is sampled from a speech given by Che Guevara, a public figure who took part in Castro's revolution.
Date: 1968
Creator: Hanson, Sten, 1936-2013
System: The UNT Digital Library

Doppelrohr II

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Recording of Bengt Hambraeus' Doppelroho II. The title indicates that Hambraeus has used as his basic material the range of tones produced by an organ. In this work timbral manipulation becomes a new compositional element. The importance of the organ is immediately established not only in its exclusive use, but as one of the most effective timbral fillers of the gap between live and electronic music.
Date: 1966
Creator: Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000
System: The UNT Digital Library

Electronic Compositions (1964-1965)

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1. Lemon Drops: commissioned by Magnavox Corp.; Darmstadt, W. Germany, 3.22.67; Pub. Lingua Press 2. For Harry: (dedicated to Harry Partch); Electronic Music Concert, U. Illinois, 3.10.64 3. Fat Millie's Lament: (dedicated to MF); Electronic Music Concert, University of Illinois, 3.10.64 Pub. Lingua Press 4. The Wasting of Lucrecetzia; Electronic Music Concert, University of Illinois, 1.2.65; Pub. Lingua Press 5. Dante's Joynte; incorporated into Lingua I: Poems & Other Theaters (cf. below for separate listing); Pub. Lingua Press
Date: [1964,1965]
Creator: Gaburo, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library

Energies

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"This piece made in 1969 with extremely modest means was integrated in 1972 into a triptych, Assemblages, which accompanied an exhibition of "Volumes éclatés" by the sculptor Michel Anasse. It can be considered the third of my "presentable" studies. “Energies” was part of the material submitted in 1988 for the first "Magisterium" of the Bourges Competition, which was obtained. "
Date: 1969
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 1962-04-03 – One O’Clock Lab Band

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Ensemble concert performed at UNT College of Music Main Auditorium.
Date: April 3, 1962
Creator: One O'Clock Lab Band
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exigencies

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Recording of George Balch Wilson's Exigencies for eight channel tape. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Balch_Wilson)
Date: 1968
Creator: Wilson, George Balch, 1927-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Der Frieden

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Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Der Frieden.
Date: 1968
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gargoyles

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Recording of Otto Luening's Gargoyles.
Date: 1960/1961
Creator: Luening, Otto, 1900-1996
System: The UNT Digital Library