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Rondo (Bevor Ariadne kommt)
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Recording of Georg Katzer's Rondo (Bevor Ariadne kommt). This piece incorporates the dramatic use of sound materials such as noises, instrumental and synthesized sounds. These materials were treated in the style of a classic rondo with three themes that were then interwoven for compositional purposes. The contrasting central part consists of an assembly of sounds. At the end of the work, there appears a recitation of a child related to the title and the subject.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Katzer, Georg, 1935-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gestes II
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Recording of Peter Tod Lewis's Gestes II.
Date:
1974
Creator:
Lewis, Peter Tod
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Daisy story
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Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Daisy Story. Key sonorities include the twittering of birds, the croaking of frogs, and vocal phrases as well as whispers, laughter and shouts. The piece was realizes at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Mazurek, Bohdan
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Inventio
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Recording of Sukhi Kang's "Inventio" for piano and prerecorded electronic sound. He used traditional Korean rhythmic elements (multirhythms) and blends them within the context of Western music and electronics to create the piece. The electronic sound is primarily derived from the pitch G on the piano, which is then electronically manipulated by duration, pitch and tone.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Kang, Sukhi, 1934-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Champs
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Recording of Georges Boeuf's Champs.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Boeuf, Georges
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
In Celebration
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Recording of Charles Dodge's In Celebration. "In Celebration" was composed during the first part of 1975. The composition tends to capture the spirit and structure of Mark Strand's poem and to give it a coherent sense musically. The poem has a two-part structure separated by the reappearance of the verse "You sit in a chair.” The two parts of the poem can be distinguished from each other by the different degrees of passivity attributed to the "You,” the person to whom the poem is addressed.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Dodge, Charles
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stria
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Recording of John Chowning's Stria. The work uses the processes of computer synthesis to precisely control the spectral components - the partials - of sound. A non-tonal division of the frequency space is based on the golden ratio which is also used to determine relationships between inharmonic spectral components. Chowning received one of the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music's (IRCAM) first commissions to compose a piece for the first series of concerts of the Institute (which was presented by Pierre Boulez in Paris of 1977) at the initiative of Luciano Berio. Stria was composed between the summer and autumn of 1977 at the Center for Computer Research in Music an Acoustics of Stanford University.
Date:
1977
Creator:
Chowning, John M.
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Andere die Welt, sie braucht es
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Recording of Wilhelm Zobl's Andere die Welt, sie braucht es.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Zobl, Wilhelm, 1950-1991
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Haauqui
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Recording of Graciela Paraskevaídis's Haauqui (pronounced Wauki or Ouaouki) for two-track tape. The title is a Qechua word referring to a small statue carried by the Incas that resembles their own image, a meaning extended to brotherhood, community, and friendship. The sound events, created from both microphonic and electronic sources, aim at a non-discursive, non-anecdotic function based on a self-imposed simplicity and on the presence of structural silence. It was realized at Elac, pequeno estudio de Montevideo, in 1975.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Paraskevaídis, Graciela, 1940-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tides
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Recording of Bengt Hambræus's Tides
Date:
1974
Creator:
Hambræus, Bengt, 1928-2000
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Matin, matinée, soirée, nuit
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Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's "Matin, matinée, soirée, nuit." It is a work for children who conform to the adopted principles which should be of aesthetic values to initiate the broader sense of the term music. Mazurek introduced program elements to the music in order to train the young listener to attain the sense of psychological concentration needed for the perception of music. The musical layer lacks a homogeneous style, which results from the preconceived idea the diversity of functions that must be fulfilled by music ranging from an autonomous role to mere illustration. The sound material ranges from instrumental sounds (both natural and transformed), human voice, and sounds of electronic origin in which often by their character recall birds singing, frogs croaking, and instruments playing. The piece, which is in four distinct sections, was commissioned by the Redaction of Children's Programs of Polish Broadcasting and written in November 1979 at the Experimental Studio.
Date:
1979
Creator:
Mazurek, Bohdan
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rupestre en el futuro
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Recording of Joaquin Orellana's "Rupestre en el futuro" for tape. Extra-musically, the piece is a "testimony of place" in a surrealist picture of a social situation, namely, the development of humans. The beginning of the piece uses phonemes in indigenous languages (Quiché, Tzutujil) and special instruments made by the composer to simulate the sounds of "a supposed primitive man."
Date:
1979
Creator:
Orellana, Joaquín, 1937-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ice breaker
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Recording of Kevin Jones's Ice breaker. Jones had just traveled from Helsinki to Stockholm by boat across the frozen Baltic Sea, which had been made more difficult due to a strike of icebreaker crews. During the crossing, the magical and mysterious sight of distant plains of ice reflecting the ship's searchlights contrasted strongly with the occasional violent thrusts of the bows ramming into thickly packed ice. The "ice breaker" concept also extends into the interpretation of breaking ice in social relationships. The piece builds up into a succession of waves or thrusts, which eventually break through into a teasing catharsis. A doubtful release unravels in an extended coda. It was realized at the studios of EMS (Electronic Music Studios) in Stockholm, Sweden in March 1980 on a PDP15 computer employed to control a bank of oscillators.
Date:
1980
Creator:
Jones, Kevin
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pot Pourri
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Recording of Alain Thibault and Marcelle Deschenes's "Pot Pourri," a reduced version of the multimedia work OPERAaaAAH.
Date:
1984
Creator:
Thibault, Alain, 1956- & Deschênes, Marcelle, 1939-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analogias paraboloides
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Recording of Pedro Caryeyschi's Analogias paraboloides.
Date:
1970
Creator:
Caryeyschi, Pedro
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Suite from inscape
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Recording of Felix Powell's Suite from inscape
Date:
1978/1979
Creator:
Powell, Felix Loren, 1933-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Abominable A
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Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps, rhythms, and intonations. To these are added other sequences in French, German, and English. The work is divided into fifteen sections, each of which has a different criterion for processing the timbre, rhythm, and space. It was realized at the Electronic Laboratory for Experimental Music at the Conservatory "G. Rossini" in Pesaro from 1978 to 1980.
Date:
1978/1980
Creator:
Ceccarelli, Luigi
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Metal harmonics
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Recording of Margaret Sambell's Metal Harmonics. The short piece uses sounds developed by concrete and electronic means of a metallic resonance, much of it utilizing the rich overtone content of the sound source. The work was completed in April 1983 at the University of Birmingham.
Date:
April 1983
Creator:
Sambell, Margaret
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aurora
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Recording of Leo Nilsson's Aurora.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Nilsson, Leo
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Conqueror Worm
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Recording of Krysztof Knittel's The Conqueror Worm. The music structure of this composition depends on the word structure of the poem of the same title written by Edgar Allan Poe. The sound material is based on electronic sounds as well as on the violin and trombone sounds transformed electronically and recorded by Weronika Szrajber-Knittel and Stanislaw Pierozek. The work was realized at the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio in collaboration with Barbara Okon in 1974 and premiered at the Warsaw Young Festival in Stodola Student Club in 1976 (March 18th). The version presented now was made on the basis of quadraphonic recording realized in 1976.
Date:
1974/1976
Creator:
Knittel, Krzysztof
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Memento
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Recording of Ryszard Klisowski's Memento for tape.
Date:
1975
Creator:
Klisowski, Ryszard
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Slow Dance on a Burial Ground
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Recording of Stephen Montague's "Slow Dance on a Burial Ground." Inspired by multi-traking and over-dubbling in pop music. Montague plays all various individual parts on folk flutes and log drums, playing at various speeds and other manipulations in an electronic studio to create at virtuosic product, even with modest skills on the instruments. The piece is an exploration in "Romantic minimalism," with its monthematic unfolding of a melody in the dorian mode and static harmony, but also with 18th/19th form influence.
Date:
1983
Creator:
Montague, Stephen
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fresca
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Recording of Liviu Dandara's Fresca. Fresca synthesizes folk sound phenomena that accompany the daily events of Romanians. There are three intensity curves, proportionally equal. They correspond to the songs/signals of work, funeral music, and love songs. The dynamic culmination is reached in the same section, which interferes with the space and time of the folk festival. The final represents the filtering of a reverberation of the culmination of the work, accompanied by fragments of the motive-echo, which suggests permanence.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Dandara, Liviu, 1933-1991
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library