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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."
Date: 1979
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
Partner: UNT Music Library

A Walk through the City

Description: 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-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Kakophonie - Euphonie

Description: 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-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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