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Across the Evening Sky
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"Across the Evening Sky" consists of sustained, slowly changing sonorities and pedal figures which gradually evolve across a variety of registers, densities and intensities. Formal cohesion is achieved via a process akin to isorhythm, wherein large-scale repetitions occur at varying rates, thus resulting in ever-changing juxtapositions of material. The composition was realized at the computer music studio of Northwestern University in the winter and spring of 1987, and received its premiere at Dartmouth College in October of that year.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Mickel, John E., 1961-
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Act of Opening
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"Act of Openings" is a stereo composition made with Moog analog synthesis modules. Composed in 1968, its duration is 17'27. The score of the composition is a dense and modulated sound characterized by carefully controlled phase relationships. All the rhythmic and harmonic elements of the piece derive energy from a long, brilliant sound. Each part of the room is another glimpse of this sound, as a set of flowers form a bouquet. "Act of Openings" received the 2nd Prize at the 1969 Dartmouth International Electronic Music Competition.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Weiss, Jonathan, 1949-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Action/Passion
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Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Action/Passion. It is the result of a close collaboration where choreography and music were designed in interaction. The work is inspired by inner energy and its manifestation: movement. During the show, the dynamic movements of the sounds unfold in the space thanks to a spatialized interpretation. Music and dance play on very contrasting energies such as breaths, fluids, attack/immobility, attack/movement, rebounds, journeys, falls, crushing, rotations, oscillations, flights; causing so many stages of a sound metamorphosis of matter into movement.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Vande Gorne, Annette
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Actualitanie
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Recording of Serge Bouc's Actualitanie. This is a work for electronics that contains various samples of spoken word.
Date:
2000
Creator:
Bouc, Serge, 1955-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Acuerdor por Differencia
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Picture yourself travelling at ease on the train. As you look through the window, you notice the power cables, which run parallel to the tracks. As your eyes follow them, they seem to turn giving the impression of a volume that gently and continuously rotates as it changes shape. This flow seems to accelerate before being momentaneously interrupted by the posts that hold them at more or less regular distances; this is immediately followed by the previous soft change as you recapture the perspective of the hanging cables. Of course, you easily deduct how the illusion works and soon are off onto something else more productive. But imagine you were in a position to determine a few things beforehand, says the distance between posts. Or, if you are of the impulsive "hands on" type, imagine you were able to change the speed of the train instantaneously at your will. You would then be able to effect changes in the evolving pattern of the cables and on the rate of the change itself, thus giving the whole illusion a direction and a life of its own right in front of your eyes. In Acuerdos por Diferencia I have attempted to draw …
Date:
1989
Creator:
Alvarez, Javier, 1956-
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Acufenos V
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Recording of Alcides Lanza's Acufenos V, for trumpet, piano and electronic sounds. Written in 1980 for the trumpet player Robert Gibson, who did the premiere performance at Pollack Hall, Montreal, with the pianist with Alcides Lanza at the piano. The tape part of Acufenos V was made from sounds of recorded trumpet, with a diversity of mutes and styles of playing, and electronic imitations of the same sounds. Acufenos is a Spanish medical term meaning "tinnitus" (tinnitus: from the Latin ringing, French tinnitus or acuphene. It is the past participle of "tinnire", to ring: a sensation of noise (as a ringing or roaring) that is purely subjective. With the carapace of a porcupine type of animal. The tape part was realized at the electronic music studio, McGill University, Montreal, and finalized at the private studio of the composer (Shelan Studios).
Date:
1980
Creator:
Lanza, Alcides
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ad Nilo
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Recording of José Manrique's Ad Nilo. This is a work for electronics.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Manrique, José, 1962-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ad vitam aeternam
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Recording of Michel Tetreault's Ad vitam aeternam. This work is for electronics and pre-recorded sound. By using traditional electro-acoustic technique certain effects have allowed for pre-recorded sound fragments to transforms and change throughout the piece. While listening to these sound, fields recording of differing sonic environments are playing.
Date:
1994
Creator:
Tétreault, Michel, 1954-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adagio
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Recording of Raoul de Smet's Adagio. For this work the composer had proposed harmony and relaxation "before anything else.” From there, a slow and steady tempo and very simple form. The sound material is provided by twelve ordinary sound generators. The work begins with a chord in the treble, slowly emerging from the silence or void sound and sustained by a regular pulsation in the bass, the result of differential sounds. Then several new sounds are added while others change timbre, octave, or dynamics causing different sounds of other types. During a slow rise in crescendo, short glissandi roam and decorate the sound space until the climax is reached. A sound column, containing twelve frequencies, comes to rest for about a minute, allowing the ear to move in the audience and thus capture the sound shimmer. This passage is the opposite of the sound of nothingness and could thus appear as a sound universe where one could also lose the notion of time. A brutal blow breaks this sound column like a spring too long stretched. This universe collapses slowly to retreat into the depths of the sound nothingness from which it came. The work was realized on an analogue …
Date:
1975
Creator:
De Smet, Raoul
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adagio
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Adagio is, as the title suggests, cast very much in the tradition of the late-Romantic symphonic slow movement, with its carefully measured pacing combined with a dramatic use of weight and drive. In particular, Adagio has a special relationship with the slow movements of Mahler's symphonies, this relationship being present at different levels and to different degrees at various points in the piece, ranging from the use of generally expressive gestures to explicit 'quotations' (particularly from the Andante of the Sixth Symphony). Perhaps the most easily perceived Mahlerian trait in Adagio is the use of randomly struck cowbells which permeate the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies. Adagio was composed in the summer of 1985 in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham. It won the EMAS/PRS prize in 1986.
Date:
1985
Creator:
Lewis, Andrew, 1963-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adam et Eve
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Recording of Alain Basso's Adam et Eve. This is a work for electronics that was created as part of an open work project for the Synthése Festival in Bourges, France, under the theme "The mother, the father".
Date:
2003
Creator:
Basso, Alain
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adatontrum
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Recording of Betin Günes' Adatontrum.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Günes, Betin, 1957-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adieu a Terez
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Recording of László Király's Adieu a Terez. The sound materials of the composition were comprised of modulate female voice with diverse electronic mediums.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Király, László, 1954-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adieu à Terez
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Recording of László Király's Adieu à Terez. “The sound material of the composition is a female voice modulated by various electronic means. The composition consists of 3 parts: 1) The enchantment of Terez, 2) The dream at dawn 3) Farewell The first part is based solely on the modulation of the voice. The beginning of the second part consists of an indiscernible speech and vocal music, which becomes more and more discernible. The third part remains on the contrast of voice and vocal music. For me, the essential was the contrast and the correspondence and the emotional effect the different timbres of sound.” - László Király, composer
Date:
1978
Creator:
Király, László
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adieu, métamorphose d'une fugue de J.S. Bach
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Recording of Miro Bázlik's Adieu, métamorphose d'une fugue de J.S. Bach.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Bázlik, Miro
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adieu petit prince
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Recording of Ton Bruynèl's radio composition on the theme of "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Adieu petit prince." The text of the composition is partly taken from a critical analysis of the children's book entitled "Fantaisie et mystique dans le Petit Prince" by Yves le Hir. The piece was commissioned by the Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Bruynèl, Ton
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
El Adios
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A very short but important piece. It was the last composition produced in our old studio (the one offered by the Di Tella Institute that you visited at CICMAT in 1974). The pointillistic piece and its editing is done exclusively by means of tape bonding and sounds from the Arpe 2600. Pozzati, in my opinion, is our best talent. He made his song as a farewell to the old studio which is now replaced by two NeXT machines. He is now one of the people working with the new programs at LISP, in use with these computers. The piece was composed in 1990 in the former LIPM laboratory, just before it was dismantled in March 1990. The sounds were produced by an Arp 2600 synthesizer and resonance filters designed in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires. The work has a complex rhythmic structure which uses logarythmic and exponential curves. Its high speed attempts to conceal the origins of the sound sources and the transitions used between them. The work is of a humorous nature which conceals the melancholy engendered by the disappearance of the 23-year-old laboratory.
Date:
1990
Creator:
Pozzati, Guillermo D.
Object Type:
Sound
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The UNT Digital Library
Adjö
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Recording of Jukka Ruohomäki's Adjö. Sound material is all electronic sounds from the animation picture "Electric Bird Garden" (1974, manuscript by Marja Vesterinen, directed by Antti Kari). The piece was premiered at Young Nordic Music Festival (UNM) in the Temppelinaukio Church in Helsinki on 28 February 1975.
Date:
1974/1975
Creator:
Ruohomäki, Jukka
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adojio for Upic
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Recording of Georgiĭ Dmitriev's Adojio for Upic.
Date:
1990?
Creator:
Dmitriev, Georgiĭ
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adventus
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Recording of Milan Slavicky's Adventus. The main source of inspiration for this composition was a Czech liturgical tune from Renaissance times which used to be sung during Advent. Its unusual melodic form and great poetic quality inspired a bow-formed composition which uses mostly different vocal phrases of this song, an imitation of an organ sound and finally a tower bell transposed into lower and lower register.
Date:
1992
Creator:
Slavický, Milan, 1947-2009
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aegror
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Recording of Alfonso Belfiore's Aegror, a composition for computer made in 12 voices grouped in three channels. Two generating forces are at the basis of the development of the work, where one tends to the stratification (process also identifiable in the structure of the same sound) of the sound materials in massified and crystallized events, the other, contrary presence, tends, in the disintegration of these structures, to the restitution of a perceptible individuality to each layer up to the elementary ones of the acoustic parameters of a single sound.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Belfiore, Alfonso
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aeolian confluence
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Recording of Maggi Payne's Aeolian Confluence. In this work, distortion is utilized in many technical ways. This piece is a soundscape, which results from using electro-acoustic technique such as: real time mixing on the Ling seismographic filter, intermodulation distortion, heterodyning, and time delay.
Date:
1993
Creator:
Payne, Maggi
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Aeolian Harp
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Recording of Heinrich Taube's The Aeolian Harp. This work was created with recorded tape and an aeolian harp, which creates musical sound from air passing through the strings. The composer dedicates this song to their sister, who died of cancer in 1997. The composer says that the piece acts as a reflection of their struggle to come to terms with her death.
Date:
2000
Creator:
Taube, Heinrich, 1953-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aerial
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Recording of Monty Adkins' Aerial. This is a work for electronics and is included on the album "Mondes Inconnus" by the composer.
Date:
2002
Creator:
Adkins, Monty
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library