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The waste land

Description: 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
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Abominable A

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's "Abominable A" for magnetic tape. The piece includes the voices of Kadigia Bove, Francesca Furlanetto, Eugenio Giordani, Luciano Martinis, Michela Mollia, Achille Perilli, Marina Poggi, Enrico Pulsoni, Giovanni Puma, Kerstin Riemer, Claudio Rufa, Stefano Scodanibbio, Gaetano Trusso, and Catherine Verwilgen. The piece contains a recitation of all the words in the Italian vocabulary that begin with the letter A, read in sequence from voices with different stamps,… more
Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
Partner: UNT Music Library

Le grand silence d'un seul oiseau

Description: Recording of Will Eisma's "Le grand silence d'un seul oiseau" ("The great silence of a single bird") for tape. During World War II, a network of 40,000 km of trenches crossed South Flanders and the North of France. Still today, there remains part of these trenches as a long underground tunnel somewhere around Metz and Verdun. The composition represents an imaginary underground journey from Calais to the Swiss border, through the infernal moles, in the gloomy and frightening obscurity of this ab… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Eisma, Will, 1929-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Son recif

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's "Son recif" for voice and tape. This piece comes from a work on the myth of the sirens and includes texts written on this theme in their original languages. As the singer/speaker repeats the story, it is crossed by the sounds of these languages, by songs that cannot continue, as well as successive states of emotion. The electroacoustic tape plays a constant dramatic role: sometimes worrisome, sometimes reassuring, sometimes enveloping presences, it continually i… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline
Partner: UNT Music Library

Dialogue avec Wittgenstein

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Dialogue avec Wittgenstein. This work is built on fragments of philosophical text spoken in both French and German, as well as various musical segments by composers Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and the composer himself. The work was produces at the ELAK Institute of the University of Vienna Music and had two premieres. The German version in Vienna (1999) and the French version in Bourges (1999).
Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-
Partner: UNT Music Library

De front (Quatuor)

Description: Recording of Pierre Jodlowski's De front (Quatuor). The idea of ​​this piece is based on a set of writings around the processes of aggression in humans and animals, as well as on the notion of frontality (which relates to the intermediate, fuzzy zones of our experience - physical or intellectual). The principle of the work (hence the precision quartet) is based on the development, "in concentric circles," of four groups or entities: 1. clarinet / trumpet; 2. percussion; 3. string quintet; 4. pa… more
Date: 1999
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Jodlowski, Pierre, 1971-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away. This piece includes periods of overlapping voices, with voices speaking in French, German, English, and Spanish; sometimes these overlaps consist of two voices in different languages, sometimes more.
Date: 1995
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010
Partner: UNT Music Library

Media Survival Kit

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Media Survival Kit. This work is a lyric satire in three parts for radio. This instruments heard include: harp, contrabass, percussion, cello, and soprano voice. The processed pre-recorded sound were put through synthesis which was done using a MUSIC30 system. The three differing movement are titled: Nico, Crema (Cream), and Tutti Collegati (We're All Connected).
Date: 1995/1995
Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
Partner: UNT Music Library

La Confession

Description: This work was created from a story entitled "The Confession" that I wrote in 1989. In Spanish originally, it was translated into Hebrew, French, English and German. Some of these texts in different languages have been integrated into the work. "Confession" records the psychological oscillations - from mental stability to madness or vice versa - that the protagonist goes through. "The Confession" of the human voice, the electronic instruments (synclaiver), the acoustic instruments (harp, tromb… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Schmilovich, Sergio
Partner: UNT Music Library

Le bass de auf a bourges du dat

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger and Ulrich Süsse's Le bass de auf a bourges du dat. It is a work for saxophone, bass clarinet, and electronics. There are speech snippets which are accompanied by free improv from the saxophone and clarinet, while processed and manipulated recording of these instruments play in the background.
Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen & Süsse, Ulrich
Partner: UNT Music Library

Mimoyecques

Description: 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 concep… more
Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Sieben Stufen

Description: Recording of Hans Tutschku's Sibeben Stufen. This is an electro-acoustic composition based upon the poem "Verfall" (decline, decay) by Georg Trakl. All the sounds are derived by manipulations of two recordings: the poem spoken by four different voices (German and French) and four chosen German main-words sung seven different pitches and the same for the French speech. The piece is structured in 7 parts which each represent at once an approach and distortion of the text.
Date: 1995
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Tutschku, Hans, 1966-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Aï∂a ∂omi

Description: Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper a… more
Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-
Partner: UNT Music Library

I hear you think

Description: Recording of Johannes S. Sistermanns' I hear you think. This work consists of various concrete sounds as well as spoken text written by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Schmidt-Sistermanns, Johannes, 1955-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Tango

Description: 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
Duration: 32 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Songline

Description: Recording of Frank Schweizer's Songline. This work is made up of 10 untitled movements and contains various concrete and electronic sounds.
Date: 1999/2000
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 01 second
Creator: Schweizer, Frank, 1962-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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