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Catchwave 71

Description: Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's Catchwave 71.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 17 minutes
Creator: Kosugi, Takehisa
Partner: UNT Music Library

Rapid eye movement

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's Rapid eye movement. The title refers to the type of sleep called "Rapid Eye Movement" or REM, which is dream sleep. During REM sleep, the muscles of the eyes move as though the dreamer were watching something. Structurally, the work is conceived in the same way as Déjà vu occurs in life. There are 30 or 40 instances of mysterious familiarities of the same sounds placed in totally different contexts. Like the human cell, any extract from the composition will reveal the… more
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger
Partner: UNT Music Library

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."
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Date: 1979
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
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Sous le regard d'un soleil noir

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's "Sous le regard d'un soleil noir" )"Under the Glare of a Black Sun") performed by the speakers Pierre Louet, Marthe Forget, and Arthur Bergeron. This is the original recording of the piece that was created in 1982. The text is primarily by Ronald D. Laing and the piece also features quotes by Plato, Franz Kafka, and K. Georg Buchner. The eight sections of the work were inspired by reading the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Ronald D Laing. The eight sec… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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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
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Date: 1978/1980
Duration: 27 minutes
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
Partner: UNT Music Library

12 heures 45 minutes

Description: Recording of Patrick Fleury's 12 heures 45 minutes.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Fleury, Patrick, 1951-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fusar 3

Description: Recording of Arsène Souffriau's Fusar 3 for four mixed voices, four percussionist and two synthesizers. This piece is aleatoric music and is a collective improvisation by the performers. This recording of the collective improvisation took place on Thursday, September 1979 at around midnight. The interpreters were Viollette Beaujeant, Madeleine Fabrice, André Van Belle, and Arsène Souffriau. During the recording, each performer spoke, sang and manipulated various percussion instruments. Then, a … more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Souffriau, Arsène, 1926-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Droite, hommage à Le Corbusier

Description: Recording of Denis Lorrain's Droite, hommage à Le Corbusier. This piece uses ten basic materials whose durations are fixed in the range of 5-30 seconds and marked by percussive strikes. There are two free sequences that incorporate trombone and vibraphone. The piece is elaborated on by simple instrumental sounds and reading of texts.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 18 minutes
Creator: Lorrain, Denis
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Tu viens chéri(e)

Description: Recording of Bernard Heidsieck's Tu viens chéri(e). The composer recorded 5 men and 5 women saying the sentence "Tu viens, chéri(e)" 150 times in a row and then combined this recording with mixed tape. The tape is stereo, with the women at the beginning on one track and the men on another, until all voices are together on both tracks. The entire piece represents a verbal orgasm with an unexpected phenomenon of more panic in each voice than of tenderness.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Heidsieck, Bernard, 1928-2014
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Un téléphone

Description: Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Un téléphone.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 13 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Boeswillwald, Pierre, 1934-
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Chanson

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Chanson.
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Date: 1971
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter
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Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel. This piece begins with the poet himself (Jean Tortel) reading his poem aloud and then exchanging verses with a female speaker. Instrumental sections of music fill in the gaps between the speakers or play softly beneath the spoken voice.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
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Le soi, le choix et les autres

Description: Recording of Dimitrios Iatropoulos's "Le soi, le choix et les autres" ("The self, the choice and the others"), five songs composed on the voice of Tibby Sachet. Iatropoulos calls this work a "composition psychoacoustique" ("psychoacoustic composition"). It is a study on the expansion and travesty of the voice that corresponds to the continual contradiction between the self and the choice of the woman. The choices the woman is faced with it that of active/passive, dad/mom, woman/girl, self/other… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Iatropoulos, Dimitrios
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Unter dem Pflasterstein liegt der Strand

Description: Recording of Martin Schwarzenlander's Unter dem Pflasterstein liegt der Strand. The music is interspersed with text about demonstrations in East Germany during the 1970s.
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Date: 1977
Duration: 12 minutes
Creator: Schwarzenlander, Martin
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Personnage

Description: Recording of Makoto Shinohara's Personnage
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Date: 1973
Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Shinohara, Makoto
Partner: UNT Music Library

Reminiscences

Description: Recording of Gábor Darvas's Reminiscences for magnetic tape. The piece is made up of eight scenes which are built of concrete sounds reminiscent of past eras separated by distinct interludes. It composed at the Electronic Studio of Hungarian Radio during November and December 1979 and was realized at the Electronic Studio of Budapest Magyar Radio.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Darvas, Gábor
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Liège à Paris

Description: Recording of Henri Pousseur's Liège à Paris for tape. The preposition "à" refers to several possible verbs: first, Liège thinks of Paris, and his first way of expressing it is to go there in a fictitious way, to play to visit it, to be there. So one can perceive that this is not just an illusion, that Liege (just like Geneva or Montreal) is in Paris, in every sense of the word, including that of 'to belong'. All these cities are part of a vast linguistic and cultural fabric, of which Paris is u… more
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Date: 1977
Duration: 59 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Pousseur, Henri
Partner: UNT Music Library

Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris

Description: Recording of Pierre Mariétan's "Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris" ("Sketch of some part in Paris"). Uses sound clips of events in Paris (e.i. a car starting, kids playing, bells tolling, etc.).
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Date: 1978
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-
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Innominé

Description: Recording of Léo Kupper's Innominé.
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Date: 1974
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Kupper, Léo, 1935-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Bob Kap Archive #4

Description: Silent film of the Intercontinental Football League's (IFL's) 1976 European tour to promote American football as a leisure activity. It includes footage of players on buses and in cars, football games, spectators, cheerleaders, European scenery and promotional activities. Many stills of promotional brochures, newspaper articles, and photographs are included.
Date: 1976
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Intercontinental Football League
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Denis Diderot Lettres à Sophie Volland, 1759

Description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the letters of Diderot to Sophie Volland for the year 1759 as they are a source of important autobiographical, social, and psychological elements that shed light on Diderot's private and public life. In fact a turning point in the sentimental relationship between Diderot and Sophie Volland, the death of his father, the difficulties experienced in publishing the Encyclop6'die and consequently the coolness in his friendship with D'Alembert make 1759 a cruc… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Simmons, Marina C.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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