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La Coquille et le Clergyman

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Recording of Andrea Szigetvari's La Coquille et le Clergyman. This is an electroacoustic work that was created to accompany a video of scenes from the silent movie "La Coquille et le Clergyman" by Germain Dulac. The composer attempted to express the inner selves of the characters with the music. The video includes a compilation of scenes from the black and white film, highlighting critical scenes in the movie.
Date: 1999
Creator: Szigetvari, Andrea
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Klangräume 2

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Recording of Gerald Eckert's Klangräume 2. This is a work for piccolo and tape that examines both the instruments and electronics as well as the combination of graphics and sound/timbre. The aim was to create a relationship between graphical constructions and sound.
Date: 1991/2000
Creator: Eckert, Gerald
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le Grain de Bruxelles

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Recording of Theodoros Lotis' Le Grain de Bruxelles. This composition is based on sudden changes of dynamics and acts as a symbolic description of everyday life in Brussels. Different planes and images are represented by different sonic spaces and dynamics. Sounds of the city as well as a string quartet were recorded and transformed to create different spatial planes. This work was commissioned by Musiques et Recherches.
Date: 1998
Creator: Lotis, Theodoros, 1967-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quasi una missa

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Recording of Frank Corcoran's Quasi una missa. This work is comprised of 4 movements and was composed as a mass. Sound materials for this piece include English and Irish spoken word.
Date: 1999
Creator: Corcoran, Frank
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Paisagens Londrinenses 2

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Recording of Guto Caminhoto's Paisagens Londrinenses 2. This piece is the second of a series of compositions based on soundscapes of Londrina city. The sound material uses recorded nature sounds as well as urban soundscapes. These sounds were then processed and synthesized over other sounds.
Date: 1999
Creator: Caminhoto, Guto
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pre-lute

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Recording of Artem Vassiliev's Pre-lute. This work includes improvised performance on a lute and explores various connections between sonic metaphors from different periods in history. It is an attempt to represent time by musical means. The structure of the piece was inspired by Franz Liszt's preludes.
Date: 1999
Creator: Vassiliev, Artem
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Son-Frissons

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Recording of Michel Redolfi's Son-Frissons. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds as well as French spoken word. This piece consists of 5 untitled movements.
Date: 1998
Creator: Redolfi, Michel, 1951-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Story 1

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Recording of Artem Vassiliev's Story 1. This is a work for violin and tape that is based on the interplay of a plot and a character as it often can be found in the stories of literature. The title reflects some extra-musical aspects, which mostly affect the structure and dynamic shape of the composition. The composer states that this piece can be performed in a live concert setting where the soloist should play using a clock and watching the time grid in the score.
Date: 1999
Creator: Vassiliev, Artem
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Las claviculas de Salomon

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Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Las claviculas de Salomon. This work includes sound materials of various origins that are arranged in a form close to 'ABA'. This piece includes sound samples from 3 different pieces by the composer including trumpet and guitar instrumentals. The final section returns to the materials already presented.
Date: 1999
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

El espiritu de la Iluvia

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Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's El espiritu de la Iluvia. This work moves away from the trend of concrete music by highlighting the origin of sounds and trying to transform the materials as little as possible. A natural narrative is created and evokes the ecological cycle. The main focus of this piece is rain and it's cycle. The sounds of nature as well as Altai throat singing are mixed into the piece in order to create compositional intention.
Date: 1999
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sweeney's Vision

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Recording of Frank Corcoran's Sweeney's Vision. This work is an ecstatic sound vision and musical structure that was loosely inspired by the figure of the schizophrenic poet-outcast, Sweeney, from the Early Irish epic, Mad sweeney Buile Suibhne. The composer considers this work a four-movement "symphony" at the end of the 20th century. This work was commissioned by the Studio Akustische Kunst of WDR, Cologne and was first broadcast by WDR in 1997.
Date: 1997
Creator: Corcoran, Frank
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wired Life. An analog live-electronic ecosystem

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Recording of René Uijlenhoet's Wired Life. An analog live-electronic ecosystem. This installation is an autonomous electric ecosystem and was inspired by recent artificial-life experiments. The musical output is sometimes percussive and fast and sometimes slow and quiet, but always with spatial development. This work was commissioned by Muziekcentrum De IJsbreker, Amsterdam and Het Haags Gemeente Museum, Den Haag. All of the equipment used is historical, modular, and analog.
Date: 1995/2000
Creator: Uijlenhoet, René, 1961-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Radiatus Sarchophagus

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Recording of Patrick Kosk's Radiatus Sarchophagus. This is a work for electronics and is meant to express small remarks or comments about contusions, repetitions, crossing overs, open minds, etc.
Date: 1999
Creator: Kosk, Patrick, 1951-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

La Mer Profonde

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Recording of Theodoros Lotis' La Mer Profonde. This piece is the second movement in a work titled "La Mer". This work expresses the joy and the purity of the water by using the hum of bees and a string quartet, both treated electronically, as main sound materials. This work offers two perceptions of the sea: the first being an imaginary, serene perception, and the second being a symbolic perception.
Date: 1996
Creator: Lotis, Theodoros, 1967-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Filamenti I

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Recording of René Uijlenhoet's Filamenti I. The title of this piece refers to the impossibility of creating a steady, sustaining sound on a harpsichord. This work attempts to work through the problematic characteristics of the harpsichord and in doing so the instrument will not be spared. The composition ends with the "tuning and testing" of a new prototype. This piece was written by order of the harpsichord players Annelie de Man and Thora Johansen, with financial support by the Fund for the Creation of Music.
Date: 1997
Creator: Uijlenhoet, René, 1961-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'éveil

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Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's L'éveil. This piece is the first in a cycle that explores the paradox of opposition in the sense of physical appearance as well as in the psychological reality of mankind. The piece concerns itself with the creation of the universe and its two poles. The idea of contrasts presented in the introduction are then developed on a larger scale throughout the rest of the piece.
Date: 1997
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archée

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Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Archée. The main material in this work is fire, an "electonic" fire made from exclusively analog wave generators. The second material is "time" and is an essential part of the work. This piece belongs to a collection of works the composer calls his "electronic sound paintings" which consist of pieces that suggest to the listener an image of the chosen model by stylizing it using electronic sources.
Date: 1994
Creator: Lenfant, Patrick
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rust

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Recording of Robert Scott Thompson's Rust. This is a work for computer which combines various kinds of metallic sounds - and their transformations, as well as other sounds sources such as clarinet, flute, and Tibetian and Gregorian chants. Both the acoustic and synthetic sounds have been subjected to various types of digital signal processing.
Date: 1994
Creator: Thompson, Robert Scott
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wedge. Music for two audio tracks

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Recording of René Uijlenhoet's Wedge. Music for two audio tracks. The composer describes this piece as being about sounds that wrench other sounds loose as well as frantically racing sounds or stationary sound planes. The piece was inspired by the rhythms and loops in Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's early Musique Concrète montages. Wedge was created with synthetic sounds from a variety of sources, as well as a pair of distorted bass clarinets and a manipulated cymbal.
Date: 1994
Creator: Uijlenhoet, René, 1961-
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Russell C. Ellis, May 15, 1997

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Interview with Russell Ellis, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the merchant ships USS Santa Leonara, USS Jose Bonaficio, USS Daniel H. Hill, and the repair ship USS Amphion in the European Theater during World War II. North Atlantic convoys; German submarine and aircraft threats; personal observations of civilian conditions in England, Belgium, and France.
Date: May 15, 1997
Creator: Byrd, Richard W. & Ellis, Russell C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Edra C. Bogle, April 16, 1997

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Interview with Dr. Edra C. Bogle, a university professor, concerning her experiences in the development of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Early interest in women writers; experiences concerning job discrimination; activities with National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1970s; introduction of women authors into her literature courses; activities with the Dallas Gay Political Alliance in 1970s; role in establishment of Gay and Lesbian Association of Denton (Texas) in 1970s; public acknowledgment of being a lesbian, 1978; personal and professional conflict with James W. Lee, chair of the UNT English Department; early stages of the Women's Studies Program, 1988; early courses about women in course offerings of the English Department; her appointment as coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, 1992; coordination of course offerings in women's studies; establishment of a specific course in women's studies, 1994; relationship of gay and multicultural issues to women's studies; views on integrating women's issues into regular survey courses; unsuccessful attempt to establish a women's center; her resignation as coordinator of the Women's Studies Program, 1994, and her replacement by Barbara Rodman; her overall relations with Nora Kizer Bell, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; her relationship with Barbara …
Date: April 16, 1997
Creator: Cook, Charles & Bogle, Edra C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Richard Grissom, May 9, 1996

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Interview with Richard Grissom, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences while aboard the submarine USS Tirante in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; his training as an electrician's mate; qualification examination; assignment to the Tirante, 1945; various patrols around the Japanese home islands.
Date: May 9, 1996
Creator: Maglaughlin, Barry & Grissom, Richard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Beth Eakman, March 28, 1997

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Interview with Beth Eakman, a graduate student, concerning her experiences with the establishment of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Her early introduction to feminism while a student at Texas Christian University, 1980s; activities with Planned Parenthood in Fort Worth; activities with Choice Dallas; involvement with the North Texas Democrats and Ann Richards's gubernatorial campaign, 1990; break-up of her marriage, 1991, and spousal abuse; stalking by her ex-husband; entry into therapy; enrollment in women's studies courses at the University of North Texas, 1994; organizing the Women's Studies Roundtable; her work with Barbara Rodman in establishing the Women's Studies Program, 1994; establishment of the Professing Women Award; establishment of the feminist newsletter, "The Gaze"; relations between the Women's Studies Roundtable and the Women's Collective; establishment of "Women's 'Her story' Month"; relations with Chancellor Alfred Hurley and the UNT administration; performance by Latina feminist poet Rosemary Meza; contributions of Dean Nora Kizer Bell to the Women's Studies Program; effects of English Department politics on the program; relations with Women's Programming at UNT; importance of maintaining a personal journal; her views of area studies as the future of higher education.
Date: March 28, 1997
Creator: Cook, Charles & Eakman, Beth
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Roy M. Gee, March 24, 1997

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Interview with Roy M. Gee, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: March 24, 1997
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Gee, Roy M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library