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Le bass de auf a bourges du dat

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger and Ulrich Süsse's Le bass de auf a bourges du dat. It is a work for saxophone, bass clarinet, and electronics. There are speech snippets which are accompanied by free improv from the saxophone and clarinet, while processed and manipulated recording of these instruments play in the background.
Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen & Süsse, Ulrich

Mimoyecques

Description: Recording of Elizabeth Anderson's Mimoyecques. The piece consists of two sets of recordings and electronics. One set of recordings would be made in and around the fortress and would serve as the base where the imprisonment, death, and transfiguration themes would be built. The second recording is in the languages of the 18 nationalities of the laborers. The central section of the work illustrates the idea of terror freedom is suddenly, inexplicably removed. The final section explores the concep… more
Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Anderson, Elizabeth, 1960-

Le vieux chant pour la cathédrale

Description: Recording of Lothar Voigtländer's Le vieux chant pour la cathédrale. This work uses synthetic sounds to produce a soundscape with bells, whistles, and harmonic metallic sounds. Accompanying the electronics is voice, which explores a wide variety of vocal range.
Date: 1994
Duration: 3 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Voigtländer, Lothar, 1943-

Les Vusions

Description: Recording of Ulrich Süsse's Les Vusions. Rabelais' ideologies and visions are musically represented in this piece. This is done by building structures and walking away from them. The structures are taken from the sound (preferably from a precise vocal) and the continuation of the language of Rabelais. There is the use of everyday normal objects, but the technique of electronic transformation demonstrate direction and transition.
Date: 1994
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Süsse, Ulrich

Aï∂a ∂omi

Description: Recording of Mia Schmidt's Aï∂a ∂omi. The spoken word, on which the composers short composition for tape "a rose is a rose" is basing, transfers two antithetical messages. The poem "rose is a rose" written by Gertrude Stein is a love- poem. The composer added sentences, taken from newspaper articles discussing the brutality of the pornographic industry. The poem is represented by this overtone-spectrum in form of sinus-tones or slightly modified sinus-tones. The sentences from the newspaper a… more
Date: 1995/1996
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Schmidt, Mia, 1952-

Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away. This piece includes periods of overlapping voices, with voices speaking in French, German, English, and Spanish; sometimes these overlaps consist of two voices in different languages, sometimes more.
Date: 1995
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Media Survival Kit

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Media Survival Kit. This work is a lyric satire in three parts for radio. This instruments heard include: harp, contrabass, percussion, cello, and soprano voice. The processed pre-recorded sound were put through synthesis which was done using a MUSIC30 system. The three differing movement are titled: Nico, Crema (Cream), and Tutti Collegati (We're All Connected).
Date: 1995/1995
Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-

Sieben Stufen

Description: Recording of Hans Tutschku's Sibeben Stufen. This is an electro-acoustic composition based upon the poem "Verfall" (decline, decay) by Georg Trakl. All the sounds are derived by manipulations of two recordings: the poem spoken by four different voices (German and French) and four chosen German main-words sung seven different pitches and the same for the French speech. The piece is structured in 7 parts which each represent at once an approach and distortion of the text.
Date: 1995
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Tutschku, Hans, 1966-

Unheimliches wasser

Description: Recording of Blas Payri's Unheimlickes wasser. This work uses spoken word, electronics, and pre-recorded sound to create a sonic environment which tells a story and holds suspense.
Date: 1995
Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Payri, Blas

Ensemble: 1995-11-28 – Opera

Description: Recording of the Tuesday evening performance of "Opera Without Elephants" presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
Date: November 28, 1995, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.

I hear you think

Description: Recording of Johannes S. Sistermanns' I hear you think. This work consists of various concrete sounds as well as spoken text written by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Schmidt-Sistermanns, Johannes, 1955-

Spring in Berlin

Description: Recording of Lothar Voigtländer's Spring in Berlin. This is a work for electronics that samples many concrete sounds from around Germany.
Date: 1996
Duration: 5 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Voigtländer, Lothar, 1943-

Die Unsichtbare front

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Die Unsichtbare front. The composer notes the following: The spatial installation of this work was designed and realized for the highest space in the building of the Technical Collections of the city of Dresden. This place just below the dome of the tower with its exceptional view of the city and the nearby radio tower is part of the work. The composition itself consists of 16 minutes of music on magnetic tape, constantly looped, spatialized and broadcast through the … more
Date: 1996
Duration: 16 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-

Ensemble: 1996-10-25 – Opera

Description: Recording of the Friday evening performance of "Opera Without Elephants" at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
Date: October 25, 1996, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.

Aquapolis

Description: Recording of Lou Mallozzi's Aquapolis. The sound material is language and ambient recordings. The text is written in English, and has been translated into German and Venetian Italian. There are aquatic sounds, body sounds, and sounds of physical labor. Conceptually, the piece is based on a fictional trans-historical walk through an aquatic city, loosely based on Venice. The piece is in four sections: Preamble, 2000 Years Ago, 200 Years Ago, and This Year.
Date: 1997
Duration: 28 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Mallozzi, Lou, 1957-

An die materie

Description: Recording of David Prior's An die materie. Written for dancer, choreographers, voice, and electronics. The relationship established between the music and the movement, was carefully considered throughout the collaborators. The piece was inspired by a poem by French Jesuit mystic Pierre Theilhard de Chardin in its German translation.
Date: 1997
Duration: 7 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Prior, David, 1972-
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