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The old rose reader

Description: Recording of Frances White's The old rose reader. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and flute performance. This recording includes two tracks, one for tape only and one with tape and flute.
Date: 2004
Duration: 30 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: White, Frances, 1960-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Jeu de carte

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Jeu de carte. This work was created for the open work project as part of the Synthèse Festival. This work is meant to celebrate the bicentenary for George Sand by using a computer playing traditional instruments. Sound material that has been used in this piece includes: music box sounds, barrel organ, and sound card for the computer.
Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
Partner: UNT Music Library

Evolu-Son

Description: Recording of Hervé Déjardin's Evolu-Son. This work was created as part of the Festival Synthèse under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". The composer used recordings of the mechanical work of an artisan-weaver with more traditional music of village festivals mixed in.
Date: 2004
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Déjardin, Hervé
Partner: UNT Music Library

Temps Fixé

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Temps Fixé. This work was commissioned by Media Arts Networks with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts. This work was inspired by a visit the composer made to a singer friend who now, as an elderly individual, lives in an assisted living facility. The composer was struck by the vision of "a worn man, deteriorated by time". The work represents not death but the idea of time and the unstoppable nature of it through the lens of a singer frozen in time at the heig… more
Date: 2004
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
Partner: UNT Music Library

La Wal-Manichette

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La Wal-Manichette. This work was premiered during a Synthèse Festival in Bourges under the appearance of a parody of a cultural radio program. The concept behind this work is "creation" and acts as a theatricalization of sound which is strictly in the domain of electroacoustics.
Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Inside a visit

Description: Recording of Olivier Labbe's Inside a visit. This work was created as part of an open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composition is a digital multi-track montage based on recordings made in an artist's studio within an industrial wasteland. These are random recordings of a demo of drum exercises, radio waves, radio broadcasts, and repetitive vocal cycles.
Date: 2004
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Labbe, Olivier
Partner: UNT Music Library

L'arracheuse de poussière

Description: 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
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Belet, Julien
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cadaveres exquisitos

Description: Recording of Jésus Jara's Cadaveres exquisitos. This work is for electronics that includes tuba sound samples. It was performed at the Alicante International Contemporary Music Festival which fell under the theme of "The View of the World".
Date: 2001
Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Jara, Jesús, 1977-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes

Description: Recording of Tomonari Higaki's Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes. This work includes quotes from the text "Les amants du Spoutnik" by Haruki Murakami. The composition is segmented into 5 movements that include 3 monologues of young people who stopped playing piano. These monologues reflect how demanding piano practice and performance is and how necessary is becomes to sacrifice everything as a pianist.
Date: 2003
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Higaki, Tomonari
Partner: UNT Music Library

Rayures

Description: Recording of Hubert Michel's Rayures. The inspiration for this work was the concept of stripes, more specifically sound stripes, and its travel through the colors of time and space. The sound materials used were derived from a credit card on a metal grid, the sounds of colleagues and friends, and synthesis mining.
Date: 2002
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Michel, Hubert, 1976-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Alba

Description: Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Cardi, Mauro
Partner: UNT Music Library

The weasel is living on the lofts now

Description: Recording of Dirk Veulemans' The weasel is living on the lofts now. This work is a composition for flute with digital processing and 8-track tape. This piece is inspired by our present cosmopolitan, informative, and communicative life environment. The tape version is made from several life recordings.
Date: 2003
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Veulemans, Dirk
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre. This work consists of spoken word with text by Kamal Ben Hameda and spoken by Eveline Legrand. The text describes the image of Western urban civilization in the eyes of an immigrant Arab poet. The reciter, her voice, and her expressiveness is at the center of the work.
Date: 2002
Duration: 36 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette, 1946
Partner: UNT Music Library

La violence (mix2)

Description: 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 r… more
Date: 2001/2002
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Baudoux, Roald
Partner: UNT Music Library

Lugares de Antiguas vecindades

Description: Recording of Abril Padilla's Lugares de Antiguas vecindades. This work was commissioned by the City of Zaragoza, Spain, following the MAP residency of the association Nurseries of Young Artists of Europe. This piece reflects the sonic impressions that the city produced during the composer's residency between 2003 and 2004. The composer has created a stereo version as well as a quadraphonic version.
Date: 2003
Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Padilla, Abril, 1970-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Drames brefs deux (de Philippe Minyana)

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Drames brefs deux (de Philippe Minyana). This composition was created to accompany a theatre piece by the same name and consists of eight short pieces that each represent a different major life event.
Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
Partner: UNT Music Library

Apte

Description: 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
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Behar, David, 1973- & Gipulo, Xavier
Partner: UNT Music Library

Au nom du père

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Au nom du père. This work was created as part of the open work project at the Synthése Bourges festival in 2003. It is meant to incapsulate the sounds that are heard from a newborns perspective. The voices of their father and mother and how these first sounds create the newborns first impressions of the parents.
Date: 2003
Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude
Partner: UNT Music Library

Mères et monde

Description: Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Mères et monde. In this work, the symbolism of the mother is linked to that of the sea and earth in the sense that they are both receptacles and matrices of life. The composer states that the idea behind this piece is a mother's triggering the cycle of life.
Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Turcotte, Roxanne
Partner: UNT Music Library

De Psicopatia - Igitur

Description: Recording of Catalina Peralta's De Psicopatia - Igitur. This work was commissioned by the Culture Ministry of Columbia and was created as part of the electroacoustic production for "PSICOPATIA-IGITUR...", a larger work in progress. This piece is divided into 6 mini-sections that are thought of as independent live parts and includes sound materials inspired by different concrete objects: human voice, birds, instrumentals, etc.
Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Peralta, Catalina, 1963-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Shalala ware

Description: Recording of Gérard Torres' Shalala ware. This work reflects a love story between a virtual couple, Fred and Cathy, who sing their song "Shalala" throughout the piece. The composer has separated this work into four parts: 1. R.A.M., 2. Shalala Song, 3. Love is bossa nova, and 4. Free loop. Each part has its own mode of composition.
Date: 2002
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Torres, Gérard
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cantos de antes

Description: Recording of Beatriz Ferreyra's Cantos de antes. This work was commissioned by the Association pour la recherche et l'Expérimentation Musicale and is dedicated to Simone Rist and Roger Cochini. This piece was created from transformed texts performed by Simone Rist, the voice of Roger Cochini, and other electroacoustic sounds. The composer states that this piece speaks to very old stories lost thousands of years ago.
Date: 2002
Duration: 10 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Ferreyra, Beatriz, 1937-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Les destins d'une berceuse

Description: Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's Les destins d'une berceuse. This work includes vocals and spoken word with text from the French lullaby "Fais dodo". The composer has also included segments from Beethoven's 5th Symphony and melds together these two songs under the theme of "destiny".
Date: 2003
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Ozanne, Jacqueline
Partner: UNT Music Library
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