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Comunicacones

Description: 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.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Azguime, Miguel

Souvenirs linguistiques II

Description: 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.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Heuze, Henri

Toundra

Description: 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.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 17 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Loiselle, Richard

Personal relations

Description: 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.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Betko, Milos

Ensemble: 2017-04-11 – Concert Choir and University Singers

Description: 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.
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Date: April 11, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Concert Choir.; University of North Texas. University Singers. & Gordon, Gary

Everything is sound

Description: 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.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-

Shiffing spirits

Description: 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 … more
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Date: unknown
Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Grippe, Ragnar, 1951-

Moin Mor

Description: 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.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Rocha Iturbide, Manuel, 1963-

Singing more

Description: 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 a… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-

The stairwell

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's The stairwell. For violin, pre-recorded voice, and electronics.
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Date: 1992/1994
Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger

Vision

Description: 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).
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Date: 1994
Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de, 1941-

Ensemble Concert & Doctoral Recital: 2019-04-04 -- Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus

Description: 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.
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Date: April 4, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Men's Chorus.

Ensemble Concert & Doctoral Recital: 2019-04-02 -- UNT University Singers and UNT Concert Choir

Description: 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.
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Date: April 2, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Concert Choir.

Diamant

Description: Recording of John Elmsly's Diamant. This piece was composed in 1977, using a Flemish poem written and read by Chris Dries as text. Using a simple bank of tuned oscillators, a sequencer pattern to modulate an oscillator, and very simple tape manipulations to leave the words as intact as possible the work is intended as a meditative coloring of the poem.
Date: 1977
Duration: 11 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Elmsly, John
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