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A Walk through the City
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Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's A Walk through the City performed by Norbert Ruebsaat, speaker. The piece is for two electroacoustic sound tracks. The poetry was written by Norbert Ruebsaat. the piece is an urban environmental composition based on Ruebsaat's poem. It takes the listener into a specific urban location - Vancouver B.C.'s Skid Row area - with its sounds and languages. Traffic, carhorns, breaks, sirens, aircraft, construction, pinball machines, the throb of trains, human voices, and poetry are its "musical instruments." These sounds are used partly as they occur in reality and partly as sound objects altered in the studio. A continuous flux is created between the real and imaginary soundscapes, between recognizable and transformed places, between reality and composition. The poem is spoken by the author and appears throughout the piece, symbolizing the human presence in the urban soundscape. Its voice interacts with, comments on, dramatizes, struggles with the sounds and other voices it encounters in the piece. "A Walk Through the City" was composed at the Sonic Research Studio at Simon Fraser University and, in its final stage, at the CBC studios in Vancouver, with the technical assistance of Gary Heald. Many of the sounds were taken from …
Date:
1981
Creator:
Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Walkabout
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Recording of Paul Koonce's Walkabout. For pre-recorded sound and electronics. The goal behind this has been to explore ways in which more conventional sounds and idioms can be re-introduced through engagement with the musical associations of the environment and its places. This work continues the sentiment of this exploration with a work focused less on the environment than the juxtaposition and threading of musical styles.
Date:
1998
Creator:
Koonce, Paul C. (Paul Christian), 1956-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Walkin' by the River
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This is a manuscript score of Joseph [Joe] A. Coccia's arrangement for jazz ensemble of the song "Walkin' by the River," by Una Mae Carlisle. It includes chord symbols and sections of the music, dynamics and solo entrances were marked using red pencil. On the back of the last page of the manuscript, there are suggested performance instructions and an alternative ending addressed to Stan [Kenton]. Each page of the manuscript bears the inscription "Stan Kenton Orch."
Date:
July 16, 1957
Creator:
Carlisle, Una Mae, 1915-1956. & Sour, Robert, 1905-
Object Type:
Musical Score/Notation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Walking Bells
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Recording of David Porter's Walking Bells for tape. The piece is a tour through an environmental/concrete landscape. It is another variation on the "cumulative form." This is the second in a series of four tape pieces. As with all these pieces, this piece comments on political and compositional methods and devices. In this instance, the piece makes reference to another composer whose style is borrowed. Other than that, it is pure experience. This piece should be listened to with speakers placed well apart and volume up the the highest comfortable level at the last two minutes of the piece.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Porter, David, 1953-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Walking tune (a room-music for Percy Grainger)
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Recording of Charles Amirkhanian's Walking Tune (a room-music for Percy Grainger). Inspired by Grainger's Walking Tune for piano solo, Amirkhanian uses a Synclavier digital synthesizer to combine sounds from multiple locations, along with the sounds of a violin and voice. The violin and voice part is performed by Elizabeth Baker of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Date:
1986/1987
Creator:
Amirkhanian, Charles
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Walks through "Resonant Landscape" Nos. 1-5
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Recording of Frances White's Walks through "Resonant Landscape" Nos. 1-5. This work was inspired by walks in the woods around Princeton. An accompanying installation creates an imaginary sonic space. By moving around on a map projected onto a computer screen, a visitor would encounter different sounds and different mixtures of sounds. The tape pieces present a different experience: where Resonant Landscape was concerned with space and exploration, the Walks through "Resonant Landscape" emphasize time and memory.
Date:
1992
Creator:
White, Frances, 1960-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The wall and de panne
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Recording of David Berezan's The wall and de panne. This is a work for electronics that includes various vocal sound samples.
Date:
2001
Creator:
Berezan, David, 1967-
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Wallpapermusic
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Is a collection of fantasy and collected from a few excerpts of my favorite composers. The music begins to take shape as a kind of mask propelling its musical fragments. Intensive use has been made of the Vax numbering system in technical production. The programs used were: Chant, developed at IRCAM by Xavier Rodet; used for the synthesis of speech and song; Bada in conjunction with the mix. A transformation program developed at EMS by Paul Pignon.
Date:
1986
Creator:
Dyett, Kim, 1956-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wals van kwart voor middermacht
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Recording of Geurt Grosfeld's "Wals van kwart voor middermacht" for tape.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Grosfeld, Geurt
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wals van Kwart voor Middermacht
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The "Wal...." is an interactive composition for two computers and flute. Musical information, initially produced by the flutist, is transcribed to midi-code and digital loudness information. On basis of this information, the computers assemble a structural and harmonic environment in which the music is laid. Because the composer chooses the initial musical information, he knows this environment and is able to produce a score. In the composition an attempt is made to produce a balance between the well-defined and the improvised parts. In either way the computer-part is interactive: one computer deals with actions derived from the initial material and the other computer is 'spontaneous' (real-time reflection) throughout the piece. The latter is able to recognize melodic patterns, rhythms, trills, tremolos, etc.. Each computer commands a FB-01 FM sound generator, a simple but flexible synthesizer. As a whole, we have tried to avoid a technical complicated framework and we kept the system fairly cheap to enhance performance possibility by others than the composers.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Grosfeld, Geurt
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Walzer und Seltzer
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"Walzer und Seltzer" is the history of a fat and greedy man, who goes to eat in a refined and fashionable restaurant. Here, during eating, he listens to a strange futuristic waltz, played by a strange synthetic orchestra. While he come back home, after the abundant dinner, he still remembers that strange music, nearly a waltz, he had heard a little before. At home he begins to have some digestive problems and to disclose them with noisy corporal expressions. Then he decides to take a digestive medicine. He collapses on an armchair and falls asleep. He dreams. He dreams he is in a strange place, maybe in another planet, crowded by a little synthetic beings discussing and squabbling. After a little he wakes up and begins bodily rumbling and in the meantime he thinks again to that strange dream maybe caused by too much food, or by that strange music, or by that strange digestive medicine. The history has been set to music considering a possible scenic representation with mines. The base elements of the evolution of the piece are the constant use of timbrical mutations and rhythmic realization of the parts for sampled percussions. This piece has besides the …
Date:
1988
Creator:
Libretti, Andrea
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
De Wang
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"De Wang" is a monologue set to music and wants to emancipate the "sound" at the same time. The piece is a musical reflection on isolation (and psychiatry) as a political remedy and as a reflection on musical aesthetics. The specific use of psychiatry and the treatment of prisoners shows how an incumbent government can deal with its contentious elements. Sensory depravation, (isolation), electroshock, medical treatment, psychosurgery, in fact new means of torture that are not yet recognized as such. This work includes "pure" sounds in their raw form, which have not been blurred by aesthetic standards. FNME Prize (awarded to composers under 35 years old) of the XIVth International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Bourges.
Date:
[1984..1986]
Creator:
Clercq, Eric de, 1960-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wanna Be Heard: Conversations With the MARTIAL Eagles
Podcast interviewing with six members of the MARTIAL Eagles Living Learning Community about the influence of music in their lives and their experiences at UNT and in the MARTIAL Eagles program.
Date:
December 18, 2017
Creator:
Outhier, Sara
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
War in Ceylon
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"War in Ceylon" is one of twelve pieces written for a modern dance-ballet based on the Indian epic, The Ramayana. Altogether, these twelve pieces comprise my musical interpretation of The Ramayana. “War in Ceylon” is the tenth piece in the work. While this piece is for electronic tape alone, the work as a whole includes the following instrumentation: flute, piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, viola, cello, percussion quartet (playing forty-five percussion instruments, and electronic tape. The source material for “War in Ceylon” is called “Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant.” I recorded it from The Nonesuch Explorer/Music from Distant Corners of the World (Nonesuch H- 7-11). It was recorded in Bali by David Lewiston. Following is a description taken directly off the record jacket: “As dusk falls, more than 200 men gather in a temple courtyard, squatting in tight concentric circles around a small central space reserved for the chief protagonist. Suddenly, their sharp cries of tjak begin one of Bali’s most thrilling experiences. Ostensibly, the ketjak is a reenactment – complete with a chorus imitating monkeys – of the battle described in the Ramayana epic, in which the monkey army came to the aid of Prince Rama in his battle with the …
Date:
1982
Creator:
Malouf, Frederick L., 1954-
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Was der Wind zum Wingen Bringt
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Recording of Peter Bosch's and Simone Simons Was der Wind zum Wingen Bringt. 48 vacuum cleaners arranged in a circle provide air. This air is blown through rubber appendages into various pipes and rubber appendages creating four different sound groups: 16 open PVC-pipes, 16 metal pipes, 8 closed PVC-pipes and 8 freely vibrating rubbers, each group with its own sound characteristics. The arrangement is controlled by a computer which switches the vacuums on and off according to a score which is displayed on a monitor. This self-generating score is based on the principle of "cellular automata." The compositions generated by the computer gained in complexity due to the use of different procedures for different groups of pipes. In addition to the concept of an auto-composing self-supporting installation, we developed a fixed score with a duration of twenty-four minutes, making finite concerts possible.
Date:
1990
Creator:
Bosch, Peter, 1958- & Simons, Simone, 1961-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The waste land
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Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's The waste land, for fixed media. The piece is a journey through time and spaces. The present is mixed with the past, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream with reality. The work was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio and was realized in October 1979. The text comes from T. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land."
Date:
1979
Creator:
Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Watamolla Red
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Recording of Martin Wesley-Smith's Wattamolla Red.
Date:
1983
Creator:
Wesley-Smith, Martin
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Boulder Music
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Recording of Adolfo Núñez's Water Boulder Music. This work takes the primary sound source of water and heavily processes it. In the sound transformations the composer follows his erratic improvisation rather than a predetermined method. In this work, the composer was able to relax and play with sound in order to get many new materials.
Date:
2003
Creator:
Núñez, Adolfo 1954-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Water front buildings with fishermen]
Photograph of stilted buildings and docks on the water. Fishermen can be seen fishing by the water, as well as houses in the background.
Date:
1969
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack, Pansy Moon, *~~ poster]
Poster advertising an album release show for the album, "Glow City" by Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack with Pansy Moon and *~~ (Asterisk Tilde Tilde) on April 28, 2016, at Andy's Bar, 122 N. Locust St., Denton, Texas. Poster features event details in black and white text.
Date:
2016
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Music
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The idea for this piece came to me on a beautiful spring day as I listened, amazed, the music produced by droplets falling melting icicles. I was fascinated by the sonic complexity, the beauty of such a banal natural phenomenon, which usually receives very little attention. A channel had been dug. Melting in the slush, she would probably end up joining the swollen stream at the bottom of the stream. Everything was there: the climate, the tracks of development, the formal idea. Just be attentive.
Date:
1991
Creator:
Daoust, Yves
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Music
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The work was written in September and October 1985. The work was born from its first note, a violin note generated by computer and reverberated beyond any reasonable limit. The "off-tone" parts are really based on a 13-tone diatonic chord with some incursions into 48-tone diagrams. "Water Music" was performed on Stanford's system synthesizer (the Samson box).
Date:
1986
Creator:
Schottstaedt, Bill, 1951-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Music
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Recording of Iván Patachich's Water Music.
Date:
1990
Creator:
Patachich, Iván
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Water Phases
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Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Water Phases.
Date:
[1932..]
Creator:
Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library