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Jazz Faculty Recital: 1997-09-10 - John Adams, Dan Haerle, Fred Hamilton, Ed Soph, Mike Steinel

Description: A jazz faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.
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Date: September 10, 1997
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Adams, John; Haerle, Dan; Hamilton, Fred (Guitarist); Soph, Ed & Steinel, Mike

Silent red

Description: Recording of Mathew Adkins' Silent red. This work was written as part of a multimedia performance. For three dancers, three video projections and electroacoustic sound. This work was inspired by the triptych paintings of Francis Bacon. The sound was created from recording of the dancers during improvisation sessions. This current version is a shortened concert version of the original dance presentation.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Adkins, Mathew, 1972-

Mapping

Description: Recording of Mathew Adkins' Mapping. According to the composer, this work depicts the slow evolution of a landscape and brings the listener through unknown territory as sounds from the real world are transformed. The piece deals with the notion of "beginning" and the perception of objects over time.
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Date: 1997/1998
Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Adkins, Monty

On going on

Description: Recording of Javier Alvarez's On going on. For baritone saxophone and computer/tape. The piece puts forward the idea of ​​"out of sound" by juxtaposing the tempered saxophone played live with the computerized saxophone. The interaction between the two pieces ranges from minute changes in pitch to the clearly audible disagreement between them, especially evident in these sounds played in unison. This creates the evolution, sometimes with a tense atmosphere. This material is contrasted by percuss… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Alvarez, Javier

Cantiga en el umbral

Description: Recording of Juan Amenabar's Cantiga en el umbral. For voice, pre-recorded instruments, and electronics.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Amenábar, Juan, 1922-1999

Dimers liquids

Description: Recording of Cèsar Amiguet Puig's Dimers liquids.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 59 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Amiguet Puig, Cèsar

L'éveil

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's L'éveil. This piece is the first in a cycle that explores the paradox of opposition in the sense of physical appearance as well as in the psychological reality of mankind. The piece concerns itself with the creation of the universe and its two poles. The idea of contrasts presented in the introduction are then developed on a larger scale throughout the rest of the piece.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-

Kyai Pranaja

Description: Recording of Joseph Lloyd Anderson's Kyai Pranaja. The composer gives thanks to the help of Simon Gray and David Malham, he also thanks Dave for his advice and instruction regarding Ambisonic theory and techniques.
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Date: 1997/1998
Duration: 3 hours 1 minute 14 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Joseph L. (Joseph Lloyd), 1970-

Drop !

Description: Recording of Per Arvidsson-Bremmers' Drop !. This piece was commissioned by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health. The task was given to different artists to create a work that would shed light on HIV and AIDS.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 23 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Arvidsson Bremmers, Per

Djuro's Tree

Description: Recording of Larry Austin's Djuro's Tree. Octophonic computer music. Djuro's Tree is centered around a family portrait of three generations. The story is set in a dynamically moving octophonic "family" tree of sound. The sounds of the tree's limbs creaking and rustling were taken from the BBC Sound Effects Library. The creaking limbs are a recording of a squeaking wooden chair. Software and hardware systems used in Birmingham included Sound Designer, SoundHack, Audiosculpt, Csound, and GRM Tool… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Austin, Larry

De l'étant qui le nie

Description: Recording of Miguel Azguime's De l'étant qui le nie. The sound material in this piece was taken from a piano solo piece written by the composer years earlier. Some piano sounds have been modulated to create an electroacoustic counterpart.
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Date: 1997-1998
Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Azguime, Miguel & Azguime, Paula

Little Animals

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Little Animals. This work is an acousmatic composition. A forest of small creatures begin to transform and interact with their surrounding environment. Slowly, sound fragments lose their acoustic source-bond to leave the bare essence of their expressive content, and gradually unfold an abstract musical discourse. Flow characteristics, both intrinsic to the sound and freely imposed by the listener's own natural sense of time, gradually unfold, leaving an impression… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 13 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha

Discourse

Description: Recording of Peter Batchelor's Discourse. For electronics. This piece considers various levels of interaction (discourse) between its resonant and non-resonant source material. A number of different paths (courses) are followed in each section, ranging from the detailed exploration of a single sound-type to a broader investigation of the relationships between several. This discourse is purely musical; the anecdotal is latent, but direct images and meaning remain elusive, and even the whispered … more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Batchelor, Peter

Reel

Description: Recording of Peter Batchelor's Reel. This work uses uillean bagpipe as the main sound source. This piece was composed with a view to capturing the energy and intensity that characterizes the traditional Irish reel. Such an 'upbeat' quality is achieved in this genre not least by the upbeat itself (the anacrusis being essential to its iambic rhythmic structure) and the preparatory gesture that opens the piece thus becomes an important feature throughout.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 13 minutes 01 second
Creator: Batchelor, Peter (Peter James Elton)

On the presence of water

Description: Recording of Bret Battey's On the presence of water. The program note accompanying this composition goes as follows: The newest of technologies enable us to capture and shape the essence of one of the most ancient forms of revelation: the dream. Dreams can cohere and impact us in a way that reveals us to ourselves. They do so not so much through the specific elements that comprise them but through the dynamic, abstract relationships that arise between those elements. New technologies allow us t… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Battey, Bret, 1967-

Sarahnade

Description: Recording of Stephen David Beck's Sarahnade. For electronics. The composer explains how electroacoustic music is meant to enhance and expand a performer's potential for expressiveness, technique and, most importantly, timbre. Inspired by physical and mathematical laws of nature, a beauty of intense complexity bond by simplicity, order and logic; and the use of modern technology seems the perfect tool for expressing that inspiration and awe.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 3 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Beck, Stephen David

Bruit

Description: Recording of James Bentley's Bruit.
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Date: 1997/1998
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Bentley, James, 1973-

Im selben Raum

Description: Recording of Gary Berger's Im selben Raum. The composer equates this work to the concept of objects in a room with a constant changing of visual angles and lighting to bring new items to the foreground. The idea that for the onlookers nothing remains equal.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Berger, Gary
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