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Les Accords d'Helsinki
Recording of Trevor Wishart's Les Accords d'Helsinki for tape.
From the Tripod
Recording of Ton Bruynèl's From the Tripod. This program music musically retraces a kind of history of the West commented by a group of women, from Greece to American society. Charles Baudelaire's quote "Give me the strength and courage to contemplate this world without disgust," is heard at the end of Bruynel's work as a mechanical bird passes by and bells are ringing. From the Tripod is a piece for speakers, women and listeners.
Go
Recording of Alejandro Vinao's Go. The text used in "Go" was written by Ian Cross. It consists of 10 phonemes that as a set may form interrelationships analogous to those implicit in the 10 chords of chorale on which the piece based. The most prominent phoneme is the one, which gives the tittle to the piece, and the idea of the piece is to convey the concept of action as an absolute phenomenon in itself, without subject or object.
[Photocopy of Brave Combo promotional photograph]
Photocopy reproduction of a promotional photograph of the band, Brave Combo. Photograph is a black and white image of four band members posed in front of a wall of plastic Halloween masks. The band name, Brave Combo, is printed across the top above the photograph.
Pro Patria Mori
Recording of Stephen Perry's Pro Patria Mori. This piece has as its inspiration the first stanza of Wilfred Owen's poem, Apologia Pro Poemate Meo.
Refraction
Recording of Kim Dyett's Refraction for tape. The piece is composed from words that are twisted and transformed moving from meaning to sound images.. The work was inspired from poems by E. E. Cummings.
School of Music Program Book 1979-1980, Volume 1: Fall/Spring Performances
Fall/spring performances program book from the 1979-1980 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
School of Music Program Book 1979-1980, Volume 2: Student Recital Series
Student performances program book from the 1979-1980 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
Zoo logical
Recording of Andrew Bentley's Zoo-logical for tape. The piece functions as a sort of trilogy (if it is called a dialogue between three people) between a poem, sounds of animals that are electronic in origin. The work is related to the themes of the Helsinki Agreements which mainly are contained in the words "participant nations" and "United Nations." The poem that is spoken is Finnish in origin.
[Recital Program: Exposé, March 29, 1980]
Program for a concert performed by the Exposé ensemble on Saturday, March 29th, 1980 at the North Texas State University Recital Hall. It includes a listing of the pieces performed with artists and musicians.
[Recital Program: Exposé, November 10, 1980]
Program for a concert performed by the Exposé ensemble on Monday, November 10th, 1980 at the North Texas State University Main Auditorium. It includes a listing of the pieces performed with artists and musicians.
Debrecen Jazz Days 1981
Handwritten notes relating to the Debrecen Jazz Days, July-August 1981
The fly
Recording of Takehisa Kosugi's The fly for tape.
Nazca Liftoff et Time Arroyo
Recording of David Rosenboom's "Nazca liftoff et Time Arroyo." David Rosenboom: Nazca Liftoff and Time Arroyo. Nazca Liftoff and Time Arroyo are two sections of a series of seven pieces composed for the album, "Voyage Futur." These are two examples of what the author calls "high performance." These pieces are completely based on algorithms. Direct actions to the computer have the effect of directing the algorithm process to crucial branches and selecting sets of musical materials and / or relationships with what the program performs. All sounds are created by the author with "Key" controlled by computer with digital sound generation and "Patch-IV".
School of Music Program Book 1980-1981, Volume 1: Fall/Spring Performances
Fall/spring performances program book from the 1980-1981 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
School of Music Program Book 1980-1981, Volume 2: Student Recital Series
Student performances performances program book from the 1980-1981 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
Son recif
Recording of Jacqueline Ozanne's "Son recif" for voice and tape. This piece comes from a work on the myth of the sirens and includes texts written on this theme in their original languages. As the singer/speaker repeats the story, it is crossed by the sounds of these languages, by songs that cannot continue, as well as successive states of emotion. The electroacoustic tape plays a constant dramatic role: sometimes worrisome, sometimes reassuring, sometimes enveloping presences, it continually influences the interpreter in their vocal and dramatic production. The performance includes a video projection.
Targeting
Recording of Henry Kucharzyk's Targeting for tape. The piece is based on the composers personal observations of the presidential campaign.
A Walk through the City
Recording of Hildegard Westerkamp's A Walk through the City performed by Norbert Ruebsaat, speaker. The piece is for two electroacoustic sound tracks. The poetry was written by Norbert Ruebsaat. the piece is an urban environmental composition based on Ruebsaat's poem. It takes the listener into a specific urban location - Vancouver B.C.'s Skid Row area - with its sounds and languages. Traffic, carhorns, breaks, sirens, aircraft, construction, pinball machines, the throb of trains, human voices, and poetry are its "musical instruments." These sounds are used partly as they occur in reality and partly as sound objects altered in the studio. A continuous flux is created between the real and imaginary soundscapes, between recognizable and transformed places, between reality and composition. The poem is spoken by the author and appears throughout the piece, symbolizing the human presence in the urban soundscape. Its voice interacts with, comments on, dramatizes, struggles with the sounds and other voices it encounters in the piece. "A Walk Through the City" was composed at the Sonic Research Studio at Simon Fraser University and, in its final stage, at the CBC studios in Vancouver, with the technical assistance of Gary Heald. Many of the sounds were taken from the World Soundscape Project's environmental tape collection at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, including two of the street oldtimers, recorded by Howard Broomfield. Some were recorded by Westerkamp herself. The piece was commissioned by and first broadcast on CBC Radio's "Two New Hours."
Walking Bells
Recording of David Porter's Walking Bells for tape. The piece is a tour through an environmental/concrete landscape. It is another variation on the "cumulative form." This is the second in a series of four tape pieces. As with all these pieces, this piece comments on political and compositional methods and devices. In this instance, the piece makes reference to another composer whose style is borrowed. Other than that, it is pure experience. This piece should be listened to with speakers placed well apart and volume up the the highest comfortable level at the last two minutes of the piece.
Guest Recital: 1981-02-27 - Paula Robinson, flute
Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall
[Recital Program: Exposé, April 5, 1981]
Program for a concert performed by the Exposé ensemble on Sunday, April 5th, 1981 at the North Texas State University Recital Hall. It includes a listing of the pieces performed with artists and musicians.
[Recital Program: Exposé, August 13, 1981]
Program for a concert performed by the Exposé ensemble on Thursday, August 13th, 1981 at the North Texas State University Recital Hall. It includes a listing of the pieces performed with artists and musicians.
Anna's Magic Garden
Recording of Trevor Wishart's Anna's Magic Garden. It is an impressionist work that attempts to recreate the agitation of the world from the view of a three-year-old child. The voice is that of his daughter, Anne Ruth. The piece contains sounds both concrete and synthesized. Recorded over five weeks in the studios of San José State University and University of Texas, Austin.
Handwritten Program Lists, March-July 1982
Handwritten cue sheets for Music USA, March-July 1982.
Individual Program List, July-October 1982
Hour-by-hour breakdown of music played on Music USA, July-October 1982.
NBC News segment on the Voice of America
A report by John Dancy of NBC News about changes and debates within the Voice of America under the Reagan administration. Willis Conover appears from 3:20 to 4:10.
School of Music Program Book 1981-1982, Volume 1: Fall/Spring Performances
Fall/spring performances program book from the 1981-1982 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
School of Music Program Book 1981-1982, Volume 2: Student Recital Series
Student performances performances program book from the 1981-1982 school year at the North Texas State University School of Music.
Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein
Recording of Bruce Pennycook's Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein performed by Laurel Miller. The piece is for soprano and computer-generated tape. it was commissioned through the Canada Council for the Arts by Nera Pilgrim (soprano) and Dexter Morrill of Colgate University. It is a setting of four of the ten stanzas of the poem by Margaret Atwood, Canada's leading female author. This work has recieved numerous performances by Ms. Pilgrim and other in Canada and the U.S. This recording is a live performance of Laural Miller at the 1981 International Computer Music Conference in Denton, Texas.
Switch
Recording of Roger Doyle's Switch performed by Olwen Fouere, actress with the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument.
Nagasaki
Recording of Alden Jenks's Nagasaki made in the electronic music studio of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Both electronic and non-electronic sounds were used (of the latter the human voice and music of the Japanese court, "gagaku", figure prominently). The human voice appears to be electronically generated, or electronic sounds appear to be gagaku instruments, singing voices, or a percussion ensemble. The words used are those of Fujio Tsujimoto at the age of five, of Nagasaki; on the tape they are spoken by the Japanese violinist Mayumi Ohira.
[Bob Brookmeyer Lecture, March 2, 1982: Parts 1 and 2]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Bob Brookmeyer on March 2, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. The lecture is interspersed with examples, questions and answers.
[Bob Brookmeyer Lecture, March 3, 1982: Parts 1 and 2]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Bob Brookmeyer on March 2, 1982, 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. The lecture is interspersed with examples, questions and answers.
[Joanne Brackeen Lecture, March 9, 1982: Parts 1 and 2]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Joanne Brackeen on March 9, 1982, 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. The lecture includes a performance by Joanne Brackeen, piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Joanne Brackeen Lecture, March 9, 1982: Parts 3 and 4]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Joanne Brackeen on March 9, 1982, 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. The lecture a performance by Joanne Brackeen, piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Leonard Feather Lecture, March 23, 1982]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Leonard Feather on March 23, 1982, 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. This includes lecture by Leonard Feather, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Dizzy Gillespie Lecture, March 30, 1982]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Dizzy Gillespie on March 30, 1982, 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. Includes lecture and performance by Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Frank Foster, April 6, 1982: Part 1]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Frank Foster on April 6, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. This includes lecture and performance by Frank Foster, saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Frank Foster Lecture, April 6, 1982: Parts 2 and 3]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Frank Foster on April 6, 1982 at 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. This includes lecture and performance by Frank Foster, saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Tom Scott Lecture, April 13, 1982: Part 1]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Tom Scott on April 13, 1982, 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. The lecture includes a performance by Tom Scott, tenor saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Tom Scott Lecture, April 13, 1982: Part 2]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Tom Scott on April 13, 1982, 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. The lecture includes a performance by Tom Scott, tenor saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Clark Terry Lecture, April 20, 1982: Part 1]
Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clark Terry on April 20, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clark Terry, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Clark Terry Lecture, April 20, 1982: Part 2]
Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clark Terry on April 20, 1982 at 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clark Terry, trumpet, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Jackie Cain, April 27, 1982: Part 2]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Jackie Cain and Roy Kral on April 27, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. This includes lecture and performance by Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, vocals and piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Jackie Cain Lecture, April 27, 1982: Part 1]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Jackie Cain and Roy Kral on April 27, 1982 at 12:30PM at the UNT College of Music. This includes a lecture and performance by Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, vocals and piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Grady Tate Lecture, May 4, 1982: Part 1]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Grady Tate on May 4, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. This includes lecture and performance by Grady Tate, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Grady Tate Lecture, May 4, 1982: Part 2]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Grady Tate on May 4, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. This includes a lecture and performance by Grady Tate, drums, interspersed with questions from the audience.
[Don Sebeski Lecture, May 11, 1982: Part 1]
Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Don Sebeski on May 11, 1982 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music.
Broken Crystals
Recording of Larry Wendt's Broken Crystals, from "World-Class Technology." It is an extended narration piece that takes the form of a personal recollection. It is narrated by a Silicon Valley worker who works for an integrated circuit foundary that grows garnet crystals for the manufacturing of bubble memory. The factory is overcome with insects that destroy the crystals, and, in response, Silicon Valley is bombed with Cane Toads in order to get rid of the bugs. As a performance piece, the narrative would be read live while the background tape of manipulated environmental sounds along with a vocal processing device to allow immediacy to the live performance. Sometimes performed with theatrics or projected slides.
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