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[Project scope and goals - Thematic requirements]

Description: A document on project scope and goals for a collaboration between North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, the Getty Center and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a Portuguese foundation, whose intent is to organize a group of studies with educators, philosophers, psychologists, teachers, animators and plastic arts. The group is interested in incorporating and theorizing upon the educational event that happen, and organizing and implementing DBAE methodologies.
Date: [1997..]
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[Letter from D. Jack Davis to Maria Cristina Biazus, February 28, 1997]

Description: A letter from D. Jack Davis to Maria Cristina Biazus informing Biazus that the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts would like to have art teachers from Brazil to participate in the upcoming Summer Institute. Attached are newsletters from Brazil that outline art education activities and programs that are occurring throughout the country.
Date: February 28, 1997
Creator: Davis, D. Jack
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Comunicacones

Description: Recording of Miguel Azguime's Comunicacones. The sound materials in this piece come from concrete sounds from a Lisbon port, communication satellites, and texts in more than 30 different languages, as well as synthetic and instrumental sounds. This work was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 and the concert version premiered at the "Musica em Novembro" festival in Lisbon.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Azguime, Miguel
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Voo

Description: Recording of alcides lanza's Voo. The lyrics of this composition are primarily in Portuguese, but the composer specifically chose to play with the source material, basing lyrics on poems which appear in NO OUVIDO DO TEMPO/NO OLVIDO DO TEMPO, a remarkable book of poetry by the Brazilian poet and composer Gil Nuno Vaz. Special acknowledgement is given to the Brazilian poet Raul de Leoni (1895-1926), since Gil Nuno Vaz integrated into his own poems some lines from an unpublished book by de Leoni, … more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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The Turning of the Tide

Description: Recording of Eduardos Reck Miranda's The Turning of the Tide. The sounds of the piece can be divided into two main groups: continuous sounds and discrete sounds. Continuity is given by the vowel-like sounds, which were digitally synthesized using three synthesis techniques: frequency modulation, wave shaping and formant synthesis. Articulation, on the other hand, is produced by noise-like sounds generated by the violin, samples of the composer's speech, and amplitude modulation using an analogu… more
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Date: 1992
Duration: 24 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Miranda, Eduardo Reck, 1963-
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