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Rab-à-quatre

Description: Recording of Philippe Ménard's Rep-à-quatre. This piece is inspired by François Rabelais and his satire, grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. On a technical level, most of the sound material comes from samples of the texts (ASR 10 sampler) and the musical organization is managed by the MAX software, my improvising assistant.
Date: 1994
Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Ménard, Philippe, 1946-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Un dimanche idéal

Description: Recording of Phillippe Blanchard's Un dimanche idéal. This work is a screenplay by Nicolas Fraix, with the composer creating the music. Sound manipulation techniques and vocal processing were used to explore the sonic possibilities of voice and electronics.
Date: 1997
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe
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

Double violence

Description: Recording of Jean-François Minjard's Double violence. This work is for electronics, pre-recorded sound, and voice.
Date: 1993
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Minjard, Jean-François
Partner: UNT Music Library

Celtic circles - I

Description: Recording of Ryszard Szeremeta's Celtic Circles - 1. It is for string plucked instruments, piano, wind instruments, percussion, and electronics. This piece uses synthetic instruments which eventually unfold into a upbeat song with a synthesizer providing a melody and the percussion accompanying. The piece switches between rhythmic sections and still almost-legato sections.
Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Szeremeta, Ryszard
Partner: UNT Music Library

Seven minutes desert

Description: Recording of José Iges Lebrancon's Seven minutes desert. This work explores the need to "measure everything" which is our way of exploring and experiencing the world around us. Although this piece has a fixed duration, the listener should try and listen presently without the fixed notion of waiting for an end. The elaboration of the random sequences help fit the sound characteristics of the voice.
Date: unknown
Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Iges Lebranco, José
Partner: UNT Music Library

Discours croises

Description: Recording of Jean-François Cavro's Discours Croises. The translation of the piece's title is "Crossed Discourse", and it is for tuba-bass in F and electronic device. The tuba evolves in a free, quasi-improvised way, on urban soundscapes collected in Japanese metropolises, such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. The dialogue between the instrument and the pre-recorded medium is played in the mode of a constant search for mutual imbalance with the tuba having to make its way through the richness of the r… more
Date: 1998
Duration: 41 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Cavro, Jean François
Partner: UNT Music Library

L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique)

Description: Recording of Philippe Blachard's L'Enfer est un petit début ou "la messe des pauvres" (requiem électroacoustique). Rabelais adored nothing so much as liberty and it therefore takes this anniversary to be remembered a little. The sound sources include Rabelaisian quotations and the five parts of a traditional mass, the selected texts being superimposed on a string of adulterated sounds. The sounds consists of many variety, such as, everyday sound object, voice, and synthetic sounds; which provid… more
Date: 1994
Duration: 21 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe, 1961-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cyber-Cerbère

Description: Recording of Jean Piche's Cyber-Cerbère. This work is for electronics and electro-acoustic technique.
Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Piche, Jean
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

1789-1989

Description: Recording of Juan Blanco's 1789-1989. This piece aims to expose how the French Revolution, through the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, inspired the liberation movements of the people against the oppressive and tyrannical governments. The piece is divided into two parts, which give a sound panorama of the triumph, using electronic and acoustic equipment, the latter taken from songs of the time: "Departure to Place de la Bastille"; "Place and capture of the Bastille", "Lament… more
Date: 1989
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanco, Juan, 1919-2008
Partner: UNT Music Library

Jus'givim

Description: Recording of Jean Piche's Jus'givim. First movement of a work entitled "Mouvements Browniens". The piece is made up of spectral manipulations on a 23-second excerpt from John Oswald's Plunderphonics. This sample is itself a doctored reprint of a performance by American "soul" singer James Brown.
Date: unknown
Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Piché, Jean, 1951-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Forêt profonde

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Forêt profonde. This work is an acousmatic melodrama, based on Bruno Bettelheim's essay The Uses of Enchantment, of which this is the third version. Forêt profonde comprises 13 sections, of which the 6 Rooms (sections 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12) constitute transit periods/areas, secret passages of sort, between the seven thematic sections (sections 2, 4,5, 7, 9, 11 and 13). These Rooms contain little or no text. Each of the 13 sections borrows a brief element, a color,… more
Date: 1994/1996
Duration: 58 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
Partner: UNT Music Library

De la vie et de la morte

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's De la vie de la mort. This work's music is conceived and produced from the Tibetan Book of Life and Death, Sogyal RinpochŽ, Editions de la Table Ronde, Paris, 1993. This work uses synthetic sound, pre-recorded processed and unprocessed audio, and sound effects to allow for more sonic possibilities.
Date: 1996
Duration: 19 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude
Partner: UNT Music Library

Voyage

Description: Recording of Bertrand Merlier's Voyage. For saxophone ensemble and electronics. All the sound materials used in the sampler come from the recordings of the instruments, where the emphasis is on the work of timbre and various modes of instrumental playing and transformation of these recordings in the studio.
Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Merlier, Bertrand
Partner: UNT Music Library

Un singe blanc si rusé

Description: Recording of Marie-Hélène Bernard's Un singe blanc si rusé. The common thread of this sound fresco is drawn from the adventures of Hanuman, the hero white monkey of the Ramayana. The text extracts which appear fleetingly are taken from the French translation of the Reamker carried out by Franois Bizot. Most of the sounds of the band were collected during a stay in Cambodia.
Date: 1995
Duration: 15 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Bernard, Marie-Hélène
Partner: UNT Music Library
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