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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Guest Artist Recital: 1991-09-06 – Godwin Agbeli, master drummer and dancer
- A guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
- Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover
- Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover in conjunction with the program Dobro Utro (Good Morning). The program features interviews with passersby on the street, as well as Jordan Rupchev, along with extensive footage of Conover inside VOA studios, performance footage from Milcho Leviev, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Other topics continue at the 17:50 mark, concluding with the video of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green for the movie Scrooged.
- Ensemble: 1995-10-16 – Nova and Canticum Novum
- An ensemble concert performed in the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
- Ensemble: 1995-10-19 – Canticum novum
- An Ensemble Concert performed in the UNT College of Music Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.
- Faculty Recital: 1991-10-08 - Dale Peters, organ; Juanita Teal-Peters, contralto; Harold Heiberg, piano
- Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Guest Artist: 1999-09-19 Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman, mridangam
- A guest artist concert of traditional Indian music performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
- Ensemble: 1997-04-24 - African Percussion Ensemble
- Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1999-04-05-African Cultural Festival
- An African music festival performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
- Ensemble: 1996-04-15 - Global Rhythms
- UNT Global Rhythms: Drums Around the World concert presented at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas.
- Ensemble: 1998-11-16 - Global Rhythms
- Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1994-03-22 - Celebration of Women in Music
- An Ensemble Concert performed in the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1996-11-05 - UNT African Percussion Ensemble
- African Percussion Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.
- Ensemble: 1997-12-02 - Men's and Women's Chorus
- Choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1997-04-13 – Global Rhythms Around the World
- Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1998-11-05 - Rhythms and Dances of Africa
- Ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1998-03-01 - African Percussion Ensemble
- Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
- Ensemble: 1998-02-28 - African Percussion Ensemble
- Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.