Mimoyecques

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Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concept of the departure of the souls of the victims.
Date: 1994
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library

La violence (mix2)

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Recording of Roald Baudoux's La violence (mix2). This short piece was composed for the Phonurgia Nova 2001 competition the rules of which stated that at least one extract of a radio library provided by the organizers had to be included in the composition. The record that grabbed the composer's attention was one that included words by French writer, Jean-Paul Sartre: "La violence est la seule chose qui reste, quel que soit le système". The composer used this question of violence to inspire the rest of the piece.
Date: 2001/2002
Creator: Baudoux, Roald
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pierre

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Recording of François Bayle's Pierre. This is a work for electronics that was written as an homage to Pierre Schaeffer.
Date: 1995
Creator: Bayle, François, 1932-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Apte

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Recording of David Behar's and Xavier Gipulo's Apte. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of electric guitar and French spoken word.
Date: 2003
Creator: Behar, David, 1973- & Gipulo, Xavier
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'arracheuse de poussière

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Recording of Julien Belet's L'arracheuse de poussière. This is a work for electronics that the composer describes as a "voluntarily unfinished piece of poetic character" with children's voices whispering.
Date: 2004
Creator: Belet, Julien
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creusement de l'être où surgissement de l'incontient de la forme et la chaire

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Recording of Maxime Benoist's Creusement de l'être où surgissement de l'incontient de la forme et la chaire. This is a work for electronics that includes samples of French spoken word and nature sounds.
Date: 2003
Creator: Benoist, Maxime
System: The UNT Digital Library
11 september transcript

11 september

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 …
Date: 1977
Creator: Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl
System: The UNT Digital Library

Emotions de guerre

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Recording of Bruno Bernard's Emotions de guerre. This work is a sound representation of what the composer imagines could have happened in an underground military shelter during WWII. The various sound materials explore different aspects of the situation, both above ground and under it.
Date: 2001
Creator: Bernard, Bruno, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Un singe blanc si rusé

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Recording of Marie-Hélène Bernard's Un singe blanc si rusé. The common thread of this sound fresco is drawn from the adventures of Hanuman, the hero white monkey of the Ramayana. The text extracts which appear fleetingly are taken from the French translation of the Reamker carried out by Franois Bizot. Most of the sounds of the band were collected during a stay in Cambodia.
Date: 1995
Creator: Bernard, Marie-Hélène
System: The UNT Digital Library

Personal relations

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Recording of Milos Betko's Personal relations. This piece is segmented into 9 parts by the composer: 1. just before, 2. micado of mammoths, 3. speech of birds, 4. celestial threats, 5. song 1, 6. up and down, 7. song 2: "How many times it sings...", 8. emotions, 9. trio. It's comprised of background noise, violin, voices of the composer's friends, etc. The piece seems to be a collection of sounds that the composer relates to his personal life and day to day.
Date: 1997
Creator: Betko, Milos
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tango

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Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Tango. This work was commissioned by the WDR 3 of Cologne, Germany. This radiophonic piece was inspired by the origin of Tango and uses fragments from old songs as well as a lecture by Jorge Luis Borges about the topic. The text has been translated into German and French for segments of the work.
Date: 1999
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Balloonarticularity 80

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Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Balloonarticularity 80. This work was inspired by Jules Verne and his novel, "Around the World In 80 Days". This piece plays with the possibility of that book being a futuristic novel, rather than a piece of 19th century literature. In this piece, a Victorian traveler journeys into the future of the present, listening for differences in an increasingly homogeneous world. This work for electronics includes balloon sounds the and sounds of counting numbers in French.
Date: 2005
Creator: Birtwistle, Andy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Un dimanche idéal

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Recording of Phillippe Blanchard's Un dimanche idéal. This work is a screenplay by Nicolas Fraix, with the composer creating the music. Sound manipulation techniques and vocal processing were used to explore the sonic possibilities of voice and electronics.
Date: 1997
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique)

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Recording of Philippe Blachard's L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique). Rabelais adored nothing so much as liberty and it therefore takes this anniversary to be remembered a little. The sound sources include Rabelaisian quotations and the five parts of a traditional mass, the selected texts being superimposed on a string of adulterated sounds. The sounds consists of many variety, such as, everyday sound object, voice, and synthetic sounds; which provide many musical dialogue.
Date: 1994
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Katastrophe

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Recording of Philippe Blanchard's Katastrophe. This work uses field recording of nature and animal sounds, voice, electronic and acoustic instruments, and pre-recorded sound. There is a big emphasis within musical transition, which at times is silence. The use of electronic technique also allows for musical space and sound travel.
Date: 1994
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-
System: The UNT Digital Library

A La bataille

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Recording of Philippe Blanchard's A La bataille. This piece is for electronics. This work has sounds from electronically manipulated voice, pre-recorded fragments, and synthetically built sounds.
Date: 1994
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-
System: The UNT Digital Library

1789-1989

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Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lamentation of Louis XVI" and "The Permanent Guillotine", and ends with a few words from the Declaration of 1789, in French.
Date: 1989
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008
System: The UNT Digital Library

Kyoto, le 15 septembre 1998

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Recording of Rainer Boesch's Kyoto, le 15 septembre 1998. This is a work for electronics and is meant to represent the memory of an unexpected disaster as well as a walk down the mountain, unsure which reality is being experienced.
Date: 2002
Creator: Boesch, Rainer, 1938-2014
System: The UNT Digital Library

La promenade du dimanche

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Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La promenade du dimanche. First encounter with the widest possible electroacoustic language. The shape and geometry of sounds fade away in favor of emotion, images and climates. Sunday, day of rest where we do nothing but the simulacrum of what we would like to do!
Date: 1968
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bouclettes

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Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Bouclettes. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds.
Date: 1996
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library

La création ; Madame !

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Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La création ; Madame !. This work was written for an openwork during the Synthèse Festival in Bourges, France.
Date: 2001
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library

L'Eté, j'étais...

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Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's L'Eté, j'étais.... This work was inspired by the seasons, specifically summer, in which the hottest weather typically takes place as well as vacation breaks. This work is for electronics and includes various concrete sounds, including excerpts from Vivaldi's "Summer (The Four Seasons)".
Date: 2002
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Le long voyage du professeur Romuald Hochking

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Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Le long voyage du professeur Romuald Hochking. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word. The piece tells a story about a professor taking a long trip to space.
Date: 2005
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pour la mort de Danton

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Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Pour la mort de Danton. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 2001
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library