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Partial Distances

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Partial Distances. It is the last purely analog electronic work Dashow composed. There are a few sounds in this piece generated by computer but significantly transformed and altered by analog techniques of one kind or another, such as dynamic filtering, delay line processing, extreme velocity manipulations, etc. The piece was made by the old tape cut and splice method, mixing and re-mixing pairs of ReVoxes onto a third one, and avoiding tape hiss with the newly inven… more
Date: 1978/1979
Duration: 16 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Wellenformen 1981

Description: Recording of Anestis Logothetis's "Wellenformen 1981" ("Waveforms 1981"). The piece was created from one recorded waveform which then was modified in various ways. It was realized in Stockholm at the IMPAC Computer Program Studio.
Date: 1978
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Logothetis, Anestis
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fantasy Quintet

Description: "Fantasy quintet" for piano and computer was composed in 1977-78 for pianist Dwight Peltzer, on a commission from the National Endowment for the Art. The work is cast in three movements, with cadenza-like material appearing in the middle of the first movement and near the end of the final movement. It was my intention from the beginning to compose a work that would allow the performer to play with some degree of freedom and in a vituoso style. Throughout most of the work computer is limited to … more
Date: 1978
Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Morrill, Dexter
Partner: UNT Music Library

Dreamsong

Description: Recording of Michael McNabb's Dreamsong. It features a mixture of synthesized, digitally recorded and digitally processed sounds. These sound, along with the precision control of digital processing and mixing, result in an expressive sonic continuum ranging from unaltered real sounds to those that are totally imaginary. The melodic and harmonic structure provides the framework for continuous timbral and textural transformations. The work was done using digital synthesis, processing, and sound e… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: McNabb, Michael
Partner: UNT Music Library

Her Quiet Witchery

Description: Recording of Michael Hinton's Her Quiet Witchery. "Her Quiet Witchery" was made at EMS in 1978, with financial support from Swedish Radio. The original material is computer-generated, using the composer's own music programming system INT6. This material has since been considerably reworked with analogue equipment.
Date: 1978
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Hinton, Michael
Partner: UNT Music Library

Dedicate to you II

Description: Recording of Lars Gunnar Bodin's Dedicate to you II. A text is fragmented by the equipment of the electronic music studio and then processed to form a model of semi-subconscious communication. The voice fragments are then processed and manipulated with electronics to create the granular synthesis like sound.
Date: 1978
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Images of the dream and death

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Images of the dream and death. The intention of this piece is to musically portray good and evil. Rózmann worked with musical motives resembling sounds and phenomena in our environment that represent forces and feelings, composing according to traditional Western style (i.e. the dialectic form of the sonata or the repetition and change of the variation).
Date: 1978
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos
Partner: UNT Music Library
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