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Master's Recital: 2018-02-11 – Clara Zepeda, soprano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Master's Recital: 2018-02-11 – Amanda O'Toole, mezzo-soprano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Doctoral Recital: 2018-02-10 – Brandi Estwick, mezzo-soprano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Doctoral Recital: 2018-02-08 – Kristen Sullivan, soprano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Doctoral Recital: 2018-02-06 – Jung-An Chou, soprano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Master's Recital: 2018-01-28 – Emily Baltzer, collaborative piano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
L
Recording of Elsa Justel's L. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and sounds of a string instrument. The inspiration for this piece comes from Epicurean concepts which were put into poetry by Lucretius.
Fantaisie Urbaine
Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Fantaisie Urbaine. This is a work for vocals and electroacoustic sounds. The composer describes this piece as telling a story of different people walking through a city, meeting and discovering new things. Various sounds illustrate the suspense and intrigue.
Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil
Recording of Philippe Gonin's Et je poursuivais d'autres songes vers le réveil. This piece was built in two sections. The first section sets up a strange atmosphere that includes noises and distorted voices that emerge little by little. The second section introduces the poetic text. The work ends suddenly and only slight sounds of rain and music remain. This piece is part of a cycle titled "Musiques Écouter dans le Noir", a collection devoted to dreams.
Nuit Electronique opus 33
Recording of Peter De Moncey-Conegliano's Nuit Electronique opus 33. The composer states that this work was inspired by intimate memories from the last night of the Bourges festival 2003. He describes this piece as a "kind of cosmic electroacoustic jukebox quiz".
Triodes I
Recording of Stephan Dunkelman's Triodes I. In this work, the electroacoustics lay the foundation for the instrumentals to be created upon. The electroacoustics build upon the raw instrumentals. This work includes 8 tracks for separate speakers.
La Radeau
Recording of James Duhamel's La Radeau. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word.
Micro-trottoire
Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Micro-trottoire. This is a radio work that explores the idea of confrontation and was created from the voices of people from different backgrounds and ethnic origins. Each voice offers a different opinion on current affairs, lifestyles, dreams, and disillusions across generations and personalities.
Cordes Invisibles
Recording of Roderik De Man's Cordes Invisibles. This work was created by request of Doris Hochscheid and Frans van Ruth, it was also commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music. The text spoken in the work was written by the composer and refers to the ideas expressed by the German philosopher and psychologist, Carl Stumpf. His ideas explained that while listening to music we may not always be able to follow the structure of a piece, however, our subconscious understanding compensates this.
Sons et Tintamarre (jeunesse)
Recording of Roxanne Turcotte's Sons et Tintamarre (jeunesse). This is a work for electronic keyboard and tape that was intended for children and was created with animation, staging, and scenography. The work depicts a story of the progress of an electroacoustic work in the workshop of the composer. The composer thanks their daughter, Fannie, as their inspiration as well as her friends from daycare. The recording includes 5 untitled movements.
Un grand ensemble
Recording of Sébastien Roux's Un grand ensemble. This is a work for electronics that includes English and French spoken word.
Météo Marine ou "On peut rêver !"
Recording of Patrick Lenfant's Météo Marine ou "On peut rêver !". This work was created to be part of a collaborative CD with other composers under the theme of "sea weather", drawing inspiration from a French weather broadcast. The composer describes this work as a "little sound film".
Passe-Partout n°4
Recording of Bernard Heidsieck's Passe-Partout n°4. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word and radio sound materials.
Son-Frissons
Recording of Michel Redolfi's Son-Frissons. This is a work for electronics that includes various concrete sounds as well as French spoken word. This piece consists of 5 untitled movements.
Les accords d'Helsinki
Recording of Steve McCaffrey and François Dufrêne's Les accords d'Helsinki. These pieces are part of a suite for electronics. Sound materials include vocalizations and spoken text.
Balloonarticularity 80
Recording of Andy Birtwistle's Balloonarticularity 80. This work was inspired by Jules Verne and his novel, "Around the World In 80 Days". This piece plays with the possibility of that book being a futuristic novel, rather than a piece of 19th century literature. In this piece, a Victorian traveler journeys into the future of the present, listening for differences in an increasingly homogeneous world. This work for electronics includes balloon sounds the and sounds of counting numbers in French.
Le long voyage du professeur Romuald Hochking
Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's Le long voyage du professeur Romuald Hochking. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word. The piece tells a story about a professor taking a long trip to space.
Je n'aime que la liberté, la musique et la mer
Recording of Philippe Gonin's Je n'aime que la liberté, la musique et la mer. This is a work for electronics that is dedicated to French author, Jules Verne; the title of this piece is a quote from Verne. The music in this work is meant to highlight the descriptions of sound and music in Verne's novels as well as the author's own musical taste, which often reflected a bourgeois spirit.
Chansons françaises n°2
Recording of Miklos Sugar's Chansons françaises n°2. This is a work for electronics that includes the instrumentation of flute, violin, cello, and soprano voice. This piece was inspired by the poetic world of Samuel Beckett and the composer attempts to recreate his themes with short musical movements and motifs.
Le narval électrique
Recording of Charles-Édouard Platel's Le narval électrique. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word and is dedicated to French writer, Jules Verne. This piece in particular was inspired by the book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Verne. This work was created as a contribution to the Synthèse Festival open works project under the theme "Mondes futurs, automates et machines pour s'y projeter".
Les salades
Recording of Christian Clozier's Les salades. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word.
Ca c'est ma petite fille
Recording of Christian Clozier's Ca c'est ma petite fille. This is a work for electronics that includes French spoken word.
Senior Recital: 2018-11-17 – Alexandra Sanford, soprano
Senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) in Performance degree.
Jeu de carte
Recording of Etienne Saur's Jeu de carte. This work was created for the open work project as part of the Synthèse Festival. This work is meant to celebrate the bicentenary for George Sand by using a computer playing traditional instruments. Sound material that has been used in this piece includes: music box sounds, barrel organ, and sound card for the computer.
The old rose reader
Recording of Frances White's The old rose reader. This is a work for electronics that includes spoken word and flute performance. This recording includes two tracks, one for tape only and one with tape and flute.
Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes
Recording of Tomonari Higaki's Le Piano - Les mélancholies de trois jeunes pianistes. This work includes quotes from the text "Les amants du Spoutnik" by Haruki Murakami. The composition is segmented into 5 movements that include 3 monologues of young people who stopped playing piano. These monologues reflect how demanding piano practice and performance is and how necessary is becomes to sacrifice everything as a pianist.
Cadaveres exquisitos
Recording of Jésus Jara's Cadaveres exquisitos. This work is for electronics that includes tuba sound samples. It was performed at the Alicante International Contemporary Music Festival which fell under the theme of "The View of the World".
L'arracheuse de poussière
Recording of Julien Belet's L'arracheuse de poussière. This is a work for electronics that the composer describes as a "voluntarily unfinished piece of poetic character" with children's voices whispering.
Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or)
Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or). This piece is the first movement of the work "Amarcord" that the composer describes as a trilogy of sonorous memories. This work was conceived as a combination of electronic, electroacoustic, and ambient instrumental recordings that were all produced in the years from 1976 to 1996.
Inside a visit
Recording of Olivier Labbe's Inside a visit. This work was created as part of an open work project for the Synthèse Festival. The composition is a digital multi-track montage based on recordings made in an artist's studio within an industrial wasteland. These are random recordings of a demo of drum exercises, radio waves, radio broadcasts, and repetitive vocal cycles.
La Wal-Manichette
Recording of Pierre Boeswillwald's La Wal-Manichette. This work was premiered during a Synthèse Festival in Bourges under the appearance of a parody of a cultural radio program. The concept behind this work is "creation" and acts as a theatricalization of sound which is strictly in the domain of electroacoustics.
Temps Fixé
Recording of Yves Daoust's Temps Fixé. This work was commissioned by Media Arts Networks with the help of the Canada Council for the Arts. This work was inspired by a visit the composer made to a singer friend who now, as an elderly individual, lives in an assisted living facility. The composer was struck by the vision of "a worn man, deteriorated by time". The work represents not death but the idea of time and the unstoppable nature of it through the lens of a singer frozen in time at the height of their career.
Evolu-Son
Recording of Hervé Déjardin's Evolu-Son. This work was created as part of the Festival Synthèse under the theme "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". The composer used recordings of the mechanical work of an artisan-weaver with more traditional music of village festivals mixed in.
Himno a las lesbianas
Recording of Jesús Torres' Himno a las lesbianas. This is an electroacoustic work that includes sound objects of the same type (news, voices, groans, etc.). These sounds create a collage that shows a distorted view of humor in a cumulative and destructive series. This series is linked to Schwitters' Dadaism, the notion of surrealist chance and the desire to dissolve the border between art and life. Overall, it represents the aesthetic of negation.
Ouverture
Recording of Yves Daoust's Ouverture. This is a work for electronics.
Fête (3 mvt de Bruits)
Recording of Yves Daoust's Fête (3 mvt de Bruits). This is a work for electronics that includes 3 movements: Children's Corner, Nuit, and Fête. This work was commissioned by the Sonic Art Network (Great Britain) in which they asked the composer to create an environmental painting. The dominant element is noise: "smooth" noise, constant noise, and immutable noise made up of the sum of human machines.
Faculty Recital: 2018-11-30 – Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano and Elvia Puccinelli, piano
Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
Master's Recital: 2018-10-11 – Shinae Han, collaborative piano
Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.
Faculty Recital: 2018-09-30 – Carol Wilson, soprano, Mary Karen Clardy, flute, Nikola Ružević, cello, and Pamela Mia Paul, piano
Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
Lugares de Antiguas vecindades
Recording of Abril Padilla's Lugares de Antiguas vecindades. This work was commissioned by the City of Zaragoza, Spain, following the MAP residency of the association Nurseries of Young Artists of Europe. This piece reflects the sonic impressions that the city produced during the composer's residency between 2003 and 2004. The composer has created a stereo version as well as a quadraphonic version.
La violence (mix2)
Recording of Roald Baudoux's La violence (mix2). This short piece was composed for the Phonurgia Nova 2001 competition the rules of which stated that at least one extract of a radio library provided by the organizers had to be included in the composition. The record that grabbed the composer's attention was one that included words by French writer, Jean-Paul Sartre: "La violence est la seule chose qui reste, quel que soit le système". The composer used this question of violence to inspire the rest of the piece.
Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre
Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Fragments de lettre à un habitant du centre. This work consists of spoken word with text by Kamal Ben Hameda and spoken by Eveline Legrand. The text describes the image of Western urban civilization in the eyes of an immigrant Arab poet. The reciter, her voice, and her expressiveness is at the center of the work.
The weasel is living on the lofts now
Recording of Dirk Veulemans' The weasel is living on the lofts now. This work is a composition for flute with digital processing and 8-track tape. This piece is inspired by our present cosmopolitan, informative, and communicative life environment. The tape version is made from several life recordings.
Alba
Recording of Mauro Cardi's Alba. This is a work for electronics, zarb, and spoken word. The composer references the Persian God, Shams Tabrizi, in their description of the piece.
Rayures
Recording of Hubert Michel's Rayures. The inspiration for this work was the concept of stripes, more specifically sound stripes, and its travel through the colors of time and space. The sound materials used were derived from a credit card on a metal grid, the sounds of colleagues and friends, and synthesis mining.
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