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System test

Description: Recording of Maggi Payne's System test. This sounds of this work come from recordings of Jacob's ladders, ice melting, and paper sliding against each other. This work also includes a visual component and was premiered with video in the loft of Mills College Concert Hall in California.
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Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi

Thermal Diffraction

Description: Recording of Nikos Stavropoulos' Thermal Diffraction. This work is a video composed alongside a recording of a piano and live electronics, however at the time of metadata creation the recording is video only with no sound. The video was created by the composer James Mooney at the University of Sheffield and includes video footage of the compositional process and performance of the work on piano. These videos were then digitally processed to form abstract images that were arranged in a way to mi… more
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Date: 2002/2003
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Stavropoulos, Nikos, 1975-

Two Studies on Video Synthesis

Description: Recording of Riccardo Dapelo's Two Studies on Video Synthesis. The composers intention behind this composition was to explore the interaction between image (generally abstract) and sound. They explore an environment-system in which these two worlds interact simultaneously at both level of conception and perception. The work is split into two sections: Studio I - Variations of Complex Numbers Over a Green Space and Studio II - Dancing Line Patterns on the Borderline Between Darkness and Light.
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Date: 2005
Duration: 7 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Dapelo, Riccardo
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Various jazz performers

Description: Films of multiple jazz performances including artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson, and Duke Ellington, among others. Video only.
Date: 196X
Duration: 29 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Askey, Dennis

Vent

Description: Recording of Frederick Szymanski's Vent. This is a sound and image piece that attempts to develop a dialogue between sound and movement. The visual part was created through the use of real-time non-standard 3D techniques. The resulting series of movements are accompanied by sound gestures. Sound and image are sometimes aligned, but at other times they diverge as the sound becomes increasingly active and complex.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Szymanski, Frederick, 1956-
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The Voice

Description: A documentary on the Voice of America, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
Date: 199X
Duration: 58 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: United States Information Agency
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Voice of America documentary: 50 Magnificent Years

Description: A documentary produced for the 50th anniversary of the Voice of America. Among many other interviewees, Willis Conover appears at 7:56, and former Polish president Lech Wałęsa appears at 13:44.
Date: 1992
Duration: 17 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Voice of America
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Willis Conover and family

Description: Home movie of Willis Conover and his third wife, Johara, with unidentified family members.
Date: 1958~
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Willis Conover documentary on Polish television

Description: Documentary broadcast on Poland's TVP2, from Conover's final visit to Poland in 1995. The program includes comments from Andrzej Jaroszewski, Paweł Brodowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Andrzej Trzaskowski, and photos from Marek Karewicz. The program is followed by a musical interlude, and the news program Panorama, and additional programming.
Date: 1995
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: TVP2
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WRC feature on Willis Conover

Description: WRC television feature on Willis Conover.
Date: 198X
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: WRC-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
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