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Rapid eye movement

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

Date: 1978/1980

Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

Creator: Doyle, Roger

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library

The waste land

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-

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library

A Walk through the City

Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's A Walk through the City performed by Norbert Ruebsaat, speaker. The piece is for two electroacoustic sound tracks. The poetry was written by Norbert Ruebsaat. the piece is an urban environmental composition based on Ruebsaat's poem. It takes the listener into a specific urban location - Vancouver B.C.'s Skid Row area - with its sounds and languages. Traffic, carhorns, breaks, sirens, aircraft, construction, pinball machines, the throb of trains, human voices,… more

Date: 1981

Duration: 16 minutes 02 seconds

Creator: Westerkamp, Hildegard, 1946-

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library

Kakophonie - Euphonie

Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's "Kakophonie - Euphonie." The piece acts as a test between two extremes: the music of daily life noises (train, tram, etc.) and the music of modern melodies of the trade. The composition tries to grant the extremes of "ugly music" and "too beautiful music" as one instrument. It was realized at the Studio ELAK in Vienna, Austria (Institute of Composition and Electroacoustics/College of Music and the Performing Arts).

Date: 1979/1980

Duration: 14 minutes 08 seconds

Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library

Liège à Paris

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

Date: 1977

Duration: 59 minutes 10 seconds

Creator: Pousseur, Henri

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library

Esquisse de quelques par dans Paris

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.).

Date: 1978

Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds

Creator: Mariétan, Pierre, 1935-

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library

Tramos

Recording of Eduardo Bértola's Tramos for tape. The piece was made from two sound sources: radio broadcasts and direct recordings of popular events. These materials were structured by simple juxtaposition excluding the mixes and any kind of development of the original sound. It is therefor a purely horizontal structure in which we note the union of fragments of hard edge, perfectly delimited, similar to that used in some works of North American Pop Art. In this way, Bértola expresses his own po… more

Date: 1975

Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds

Creator: Bértola, Eduardo, 1939-1996

Item Type: Sound

Partner: UNT Music Library