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- Eden
- Recording of Robert Normandeau's Eden. This work is based on the music composed for the play "L'Éden cinéma" by Marguerite Duras. The stage and concert music were composed in parallel as part of the same fiction but corresponding to different purposes. Given Duras' music, which was filled with instruction, the composer of this work responded to this by playing continuous music in the room. In the concert version sound elements are added to represent different facets of Duras' life.
- Quasi una missa
- Recording of Frank Corcoran's Quasi una missa. This work is comprised of 4 movements and was composed as a mass. Sound materials for this piece include English and Irish spoken word.
- Le tour du monde en 280 secondes
- Recording of Thomas Gerwin's Le tour du monde en 280 secondes. This is a work for electronics that explores sounds around the world. The composer compares it to the concept of travelling into the future: "a nearly imperceptible floating or gliding from one space to another".
- Amarcord - Chilhood (l'enfance)
- Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Chilhood (l'enfance). This piece is the third 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.
- 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.
- Globalcom
- Recording of Lennart Westman's Globalcom. The title comes from the combination of the words "global communication" and is meant to represent people expressing themselves in a universal acoustic room. This piece is for electronics and includes concrete sounds of violin, voice, percussion, etc.
- Cantos Rituales
- Recording of Manuel Rocha Iturbide's Cantos Rituales. The main idea behind this work was to search for different kinds of field sound recordings based in prayers and ritual singing from all around the world. These recordings were then processed through a computer and combined in order to make this composition. The composer describes this piece as a hymn dedicated to all humankind, where they are seeking a spiritual unity common to all, regardless of their culture and beliefs.
- Ensemble: 2018-12-07 – Concert Choir, Concert Orchestra, Men's Chorus, Women's Chorus, University Singers, and A Capella Choir
- Concert and Concert Orchestra performance at UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Gilgamesh
- Recording of Dirk Stromberg's Gilgamesh. This work was commissioned by Musik Gavleborg. This piece was inspired by the story of Gilgamesh which was written four thousand years ago. The story is considered a heroic epic and includes many adventures and battles. It ends with him finding the fountain of wisdom and asking timeless, philosophical questions.
- Bitter Orchids
- Recording of Steven Naylor's Bitter Orchids. This work was created with the support of the Nova Scotia Arts Council. The sound materials in this piece were recorded in northern Thailand and have been transformed to create a sonic fabric of memory and consciousness.
- Angels and devils
- Recording of Natasha Barrett's Angels and devils. This piece is one of two shorter acousmatic works underlying a theatre creation called "Agora". This recording is meant to explore the psychology of good versus evil and includes fragments from an old Norse poem: Volundkvadet.
- Sing a song
- Recording of Simo Lazarov's Sing a song. This is a work for electronics and includes singing by a Bulgarian Folk group.
- La Feria Fantástica
- Recording of Igor de Gandarias' La Feria Fantástica. This work was realized at the University of Maryland Electronic Music Studio using a Fairlight Series III station. The sound sources come from live recordings made in 1991 during the celebration of the most important popular feast in Guatemala City, called “Feria de Jocotenago” (Jocotenango’s fair). The feast, dedicated to celebrate the city’s patron anniversary (Virgin of the Assumption), takes place in August every year, enduring the complete month. Its activities contain not only religious ceremonies and processions with their particular musical environment (choirs and processional bands) but folk dances, food, games and entertainment. The recordings include: voices of a children's choir and voices of congregated people singing into the church, Indian speaking voices, snare drum processional patterns and rolls, a popular processional band piece, and a traditional Indian marimba piece which accompanies popular Indian dances during the procession. The sound of rhythmic patterns played on the rattles by the dancers; electronic games, church bells and the little bell of an ice-cream vendor were also recorded at the fair. Other sounds coming from three musical toys, which are usually on sale on these feasts, were recorded in studio.
- La mousson
- Recording of Marie-Hélène Bernard's La mousson. This work is meant to represent a Cambodian summer, punctuated by the sounds of rain and children playing outside despite the weather.
- Two small boys go shopping
- Recording of Peter Cusack's Two small boys go shopping. The piece is a representation of composer Peter Cusack and his son simply shopping together in North London. This trip includes a visit to a toy store and a musical instrument shop where Peter tries out a guitar by playing a few notes from Stairway to Heaven.
- En Babel éclatée
- Recording of Michel Karsky's En Babel éclatée. Mourning waltzes around Besieged Babels. The man is in the world. And the creator is not exempted from being in the world with the full enjoyment of his faculties of intelligence and sensitivity of intimate and collective memory, echo of history and art. In addition, when he is a musician, the sense of dance works on his sound material until he imprints an irresistible program on him. How can a frail waltz subject become a song of mercy for a wounded humanity? How can an armful of the languages of the earth bear witness suddenly to the history of human life, to their pains and their songs? How is the sensation amplified in the painful exchange in the attentive listener, open to the message of the things of the spirit, the resonance of being as cradled as a child, subjected to madness, wounded by history? With his personal writing, Michel Karsky once again takes up the challenge. His aesthetics of fragment, collage and superimposition, his subtle technique of intertwining themes and sound material, his lyricism of captured sounds, torn voices and his singular breathing produce here, in about thirty minutes, a block of sounds tenuous or enormous, dense or light whose linked sequences provide a particular shock, inimitable due to this unclassifiable composer: the anguish of the watchman listening to the world.
- Chimera in Kosovo
- Recording of Pekka Sirén and Agnieszka Waligórska's Chimera in Kosovo. This work represents the suffering of Kosovo refugees during wartime and utilizes radio mediums to further give the impression of the horrors and fears experienced by the victims. The piece uses radio voices and imaginary female cries as well as looped international newscaster voices.
- Petrounka
- Recording of Simo Lazarov's Petrounka. This recording is a collection of mixed and modified folk melodies from regions in Bulgaria, encapsulating the atmosphere of Bulgarian villages.
- Palabras del sur
- Recording of Federico Schumacher Ratti's Palabras del sur. This work was composed in response to the call for an open work "Le monde devenu Musique l'écoute du siècle". The sound materials in this piece come from instrumentals and vocals from the Kaweskar and Yamana indigenous groups as well as the Mapuche ethnic group and sheds a light on the perspective from the south.
- Comunicacones
- Recording of Miguel Azguime's Comunicacones. The sound materials in this piece come from concrete sounds from a Lisbon port, communication satellites, and texts in more than 30 different languages, as well as synthetic and instrumental sounds. This work was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 and the concert version premiered at the "Musica em Novembro" festival in Lisbon.
- Souvenirs linguistiques II
- Recording of Henri Heuze's Souvenirs linguistiques II. This work is an homage to the Picard language and culture, which has been slowly disappearing. It includes samples of a woman and her son speaking the language as they both come from Picardy, a region in Northern France.
- Toundra
- Recording of Richard Loiselle's Toundra. This work is an homage to the Inuit, a Northern Canadian indigenous group, and the hardships that come with living in the tundra. The composer uses recordings of the Inuit's specialized throat-singing called "katajjait" throughout the work.
- Personal relations
- Recording of Milos Betko's Personal relations. This piece is segmented into 9 parts by the composer: 1. just before, 2. micado of mammoths, 3. speech of birds, 4. celestial threats, 5. song 1, 6. up and down, 7. song 2: "How many times it sings...", 8. emotions, 9. trio. It's comprised of background noise, violin, voices of the composer's friends, etc. The piece seems to be a collection of sounds that the composer relates to his personal life and day to day.
- Come la voce della coscienza
- Recording of Juan Manuel Marrero's Come la voce della coscienza.
- Ensemble: 2017-04-11 – Concert Choir and University Singers
- Concert Choir and University Singers performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall, and Recital presented in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
- Everything is sound
- Recording of Simo Lazarov's Everything is sound. The composer's note simply states: "Everything around is sounds…and has a composer!" This piece utilizes quoted material and samples including J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, sung Bulgarian folk music, dog barks, and sweeping orchestral chords.
- Shiffing spirits
- Recording of Ragnar Grippe's Shiffing spirits. The work has been conducted through recordings of immigrants in Sweden, but it's important to notice that the words do not represent any context with any specific meaning, since words have been taken out of their context and may only appear alone in many places. The hardware used is PowerPC 8100/80, 5.7 Gb of hard disk storage, Audiomedia II, Roland synthesizers, Alesis D4, Korg M3R, Proteus 2, Synclavier with sampling, Midi channels, etc. As well as the use of hardware to conduct multiple effects.
- Moin Mor
- Recording of Manuel Rocha Iturbide's Moin Mor. In music using concepts or ideas which belong to other domains is something that has been realized by composers for a long time. The central element of sound work is language, which is what characterizes a determinate culture. Language is made out of sound and meaning, out of syntax (rhythm) and out of words (signs) For this work English, Gaelic, and Spanish are used.
- Singing more
- Recording of Simo Lazarov's Singing more. The language of this composition is Bulgarian, with vocal audio recorded from the mountains surrounding the Bulgarian region of Sofia serving as the basic sound source of the composition. The composer's goals are to submerge the listener in an atmosphere of Bulgarian folklore, and to attain an associative effect by means of overdubbing and modification of original sound and songs, bearing in mind the wide variety and richness of the Bulgarian folklore and the immense attention it has gained abroad.
- The stairwell
- Recording of Roger Doyle's The stairwell. For violin, pre-recorded voice, and electronics.
- Vision
- Recording of Roderik De Man's Vision. This composition is based on themes from the work of the Frisian painter Boele Bregman. He started out with a figurative and poetical approach of painting, later develop an abstract style. These aspects of his work form the basis of the composition: the idealism at the beginning of his career (boy soprano); the terror of war and meaningless speeches of politicians; and the final resignation and consolation found in his work (aria for baritone).
- Ensemble: 2016-11-18 – Baroque Orchestra and Collegium Singers
- Early music orchestra and choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble: 2016-11-15 – University Singers
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble: 2015-11-16 – Student Composition Readings, chorus
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- Ensemble Concert & Doctoral Recital: 2019-04-04 -- Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall, as well as recital presented in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degrees for Joshua R. Brown and Charlotte Botha.
- Ensemble: 2019-03-30 – 22nd Annual African Cultural Festival of Traditional Ethnic Music and Dance
- World ensembles concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
- Ensemble Concert & Doctoral Recital: 2019-04-02 -- UNT University Singers and UNT Concert Choir
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall featuring the UNT Concert Choir and the University Singers, with students (Brian C. Murray and Charlotte Botha) conducting in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degrees.
- Ensemble: 2018-10-02 – Choralfest! 2018
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble Concert & Doctoral Recital: 2018-11-16 -- Women's Chorus and Men's Chorus
- Ensemble concert presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree for both Joshua R. Brown -- conducting the UNT Men's Chorus -- and Charlotte Botha, conducting the UNT Women's Chorus.
- Ensemble: 2018-11-27 – UNT Concert Choir
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble Concert & Doctoral Recital: 2018-04-17 -- Women's Chorus and Men's Chorus
- Concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall, as well as recitals presented in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree for both Charlotte Botha (conducting the UNT Women's Chorus) and Gideon Burrows (conducting the UNT Men's Chorus).
- Ensemble: 2018-04-14 – 21st Annual African Cultural Festival of Traditional Ethnic Music and Dance
- World ensembles concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
- Ensemble: 2015-04-11 - African Cultural Festival
- An ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
- Ensemble: 2015-11-17 – Concert Choir and University Singers
- Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall in fulfillment of the Doctor of Music Arts (DMA) degree for Dwight Jilek (conducting the UNT Concert Choir) with an additional choir performance by the University Singers.
- Ensemble: 2015-11-12 – Women's Chorus and Men's Chorus
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble: 2017-11-13 – Nova
- Contemporary music concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
- Ensemble: 2017-12-08 – Sounds of the Holidays
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble: 2017-11-14 – UNT Concert Choir [Stage Perspective]
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the choir's perspective, showing the conductor.
- Ensemble: 2017-11-14 – UNT Concert Choir
- Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)
- Recording of Pekka Sirén's "Kasaanin Synty (Genesis of Kazan)" performed by Leena Schönberg, speaker. The poem "The Founding of Kazan" is a Mordovinian poem from the collection "Heimokannel," original translation of text from Mordavinian to Finnish by Otto Maninen. Realized in Finnish Radio's Experimental Studio and at Stockholm's EMS Studio from 1978-1980