Choral Fest 2005 performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall

Jazz vocals concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Concert presented at Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

The second part of a broadcast which featured Willis Conover discussing the music of Duke Ellington, followed by a translation in Swedish by an unknown speaker. This program occurred more than five years before the beginning of Conover's long-running VOA program, Music USA.

A Swedish exchange student senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Recording of Tommy Zwedberg's Röstband performed by Kerstin Ståhl (mezzo-soprano), Jorgen Johanson (trombone), and Göran Rydberg (percussion).

Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis match between Sweden and Chile with more than 4,000 participants. The text is taken in small excerpts from the document in Spanish, English, Swedish, Danish, French, Dutch, and Icelandic. The piece consists of three sections overlapping each other gradually, which shows the relationship between the spoken words and the immediate danger connected with that text. The first section "as a spontaneous statement," deals with the document at its direct background: the silence is broken, in spite of the danger connected with the writing, manifolding papers that criticize the politics and methods of the junta and discuss the strategy of the opposition. The second section deals with the document as a medium of discussion. At …

Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall, as well as recital presented in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree for Gideon Burrows (conductor).

Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the choir's perspective, showing the conductor.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall in partial fulfillment of the Graduate Artist Certificate in Music Performance.

A choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall, as well as recitals presented in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree for both Charlotte Botha (conducting the UNT Women's Chorus) and Gideon Burrows (conducting the UNT Men's Chorus).

Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Recording of Åke Parmerud's Närheter. The title of the piece is a plural form of the word "closeness," which is rather untranslatable. The piece is a text-sound-composition, and was commissioned by the Swedish Radio. A large part of the piece is inspired by various sleep and dream manifestations. The text was written by the Swedish author Ella Hillbäck. Throughout the piece, even without knowing the meaning of the words, I believe one can feel the different "scenes" taking place. The first part of the piece is sort of an "ultimate story of creation,” at the same time implying the first phase of sleeping in a state of half consciousness. The following part of the piece is "a vision of a declining culture,” looked upon from a series of different angles. The end of this piece is built on the Swedish word for dance, which keeps falling apart. This second part also reflects the state of deep sleep where each dream becomes a part of the "collective" dream consisting of different scenes and different levels of "reality.” These "scenes and levels" are in an extrapolated sense, taking place and existing simultaneously at the same place and the same time. The level …

Recording of Ake Parmerud's Narheter. The title of the piece is a plural form of the word "closeness" which is rather untranslatable. The piece is a text-sound-composition and was commissioned by the Sverige Radio. A large part of the piece is mainly derived from various sleeping and dreaming events. The text is written by the Swedish author Ella Hillbeck, The first part of the piece is an "Ultimate story of Creation", at the same time implying the first phase of sleeping "half-conscious". The following parts of the piece is "a vision of a declining culture", looked upon from as series of different angles. The final of this piece is built on the Swedish word for dance, which keeps falling apart. This second part also reflects the state of deep sleep where the individual dreaming becomes a part of the "collective" dreaming consisting of different scenes and different levels of "reality". These "scenes and levels" are in an extrapolated sense, taking place and existing simultaneously at the same place and the same time.

Recording of Rune Lindblad's Party.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Recording of Francesco Boschetto's Your heart is a red train. The concrete material is prevalent as the main sound source and it is derived from life in the city of Stockholm. It is based on three poems, mainly on "Ditt Hjarta Ar Ett Rott Tag", by the Swedish writer Rold Aggestam and on two sonnets by Lorenzo "il Magnifico". The composer's personal experience seeps troughout the course of the piece: the sound of trains, people in subway stations and streets, solitude in the crowd; it is an itinerary in the everyday routes in a foreign town and the elapsing of wintertime scanned by a faint light.

Recording of Erik Peters' Biography. For electronics utilizing traditional electro-acoustic technique. This work is made up of 12 parts: 1. Prologue, 2. Ritournelle I, 3. Entre pre et fils. 4. Ritournelle II, 5. Vue sur la grande vallée, 6. Trios amis, 7. Ritournelle III, 8. Entre un homme et une femme, 9. D'un endroit pas trop loin des cimes des arbes, 10. Ritournelle IV, 11. Antipatio, and 12. Epilogue.

Recording of Jonas Soderberg's Receiver. For voice and electronics. Towards the end of the century, the multitude of messages meeting over the airwaves and networks reached such a volume that transmitters as well as receivers lost their raison d'être. The amount of information has become an entity and the communicative aspect is no longer discernible. "Receiver" is an attempt to explore the function of the artist in this historical process.

Recording of Anders Blomqvist's Iops 3. The composer has written a description of the story of the piece as follows: The intergalax IOPS3 spacecraft is no larger than a seed, and yet is equipped with an array of media detectors, collected information storage, communications equipment and personnel. The main character of the story makes a navigation error, and is sucked into the large ventilation system of the Munich brewery. (GMS in Stockholm). He sends distress signals to the main ship, but receives back, with great disappointment, the hard-to-decipher word "continue". The engines start up with a bang and the journey that will follow will introduce our visitors to a new "mikrosmos" of the earth: EMS in Sweden.

Recording of Ragnar Grippe's L'Archer coupe l'air en deux. All the material was composed by the composer. The sound include soprano voice, voice, logs, water, toys, cello, piano, and radio waves. The technique used is very much based on the composers experiences from French Groupe de Recherches Musicales. MIDI sounds were made with a digital performer, sound on sound tools II, and manipulated with Turbo Synth SC.