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Faculty Recital: 1991-11-16 - David Sundquist, tenor

Description: Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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Date: November 16, 1991
Duration: 55 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Sundquist, David

Rab-à-quatre

Description: Recording of Philippe Ménard's Rep-à-quatre. This piece is inspired by François Rabelais and his satire, grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. On a technical level, most of the sound material comes from samples of the texts (ASR 10 sampler) and the musical organization is managed by the MAX software, my improvising assistant.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Ménard, Philippe, 1946-

L'Oracle de la Dive Bouteille

Description: Recording of Georg Katzer's L'Oracle de la Dive Bouteiller. This work is for actors and tapes. The nonsense lyrics are taken from the wonderful "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Rabelais. There is a very important use of space, the sounds are at times isolated to where you may hear two different sounds on both sides, instead of predominantly in the center of the stereo system.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Katzer, Georg, 1935-2019

Les Vagues

Description: Recording of Marcelle Deschênes' Les Vagues. This work is for voice and electronics. It is inspired by excerpts from Virginia Woolf's novel "Les Vagues". Moments of being of human are brought together haphazardly by the imagination of an old man. During the evening solitude, reflecting memories of incoherent and fleeting images from privileged moments of his life being to play and sensations emerge. This work represents a new stage which has been crossed; awakening the last rise of an endless f… more
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Date: 1990/1994
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Deschênes, Marcelle, 1939-

Rhapsodie parisienne

Description: Recording of Nicolas Vérin's Rhapsodie parisienne. This work uses texts taken from "Spleen de Paris" by Charles Baudelaire. The reciter is the guide is the base of the piece and the speech: is hammered, stretched, stopped by rhythms based on a pulsation, and synthetic sounds. Translated antagonisms reflect contrast: presence/absence, natural/artificial, melodic/noise, near/distant, as well as by contrasts of style.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 21 minutes
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas

Retour d'appel

Description: Recording of Yves Potvin's Retour d'appel. The use of voice and rhythm is the foreground of this piece. There are electronically built sounds and percussion which allow for the rhythmic aspect of the vocal part to have added complexity. Often times the voice is either syncopated or in unison.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Potvin, Yves

Vision urbaine II ou Annecy… et moi aussi !

Description: Recording of Philippe Moënne-Loccoz's Vision urbaine II ou Annecy… et moi aussi! This work discusses the dissatisfaction from a composer's point of view and adds musical touches. These added changes makes these atmospheres resonate, which makes the work more alive, timeless, and technical.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Moënne-Loccoz, Pierre

Hurlante

Description: Recording of Marc Pichelin's Hurlante. This piece uses samples and recordings to create a mysterious soundscape about the idea of wondering within the universe. The use of electro-acoustic technique allows for the listener to have a wide listening space with contrasting musical conversation.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Pichelin, Marc, 1967-

Figures de la nuit (Faces of the night)

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Figures de la nuit (Faces of the night). This piece is about dreams and the concept of one's existence within the night. There are samples of voices, sine tones, nature, and electronically built and/or manipulated sounds.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 26 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis

Rictus Nocturne

Description: Recording of Jacques Tremblay's Rictus Nocturne. This piece is divdied in six movements each named after a jazz standard: Blue Train, Blue Prints, The Duke, Quiet Now, Walkin, and The Shadow of Your Smile. There are many samples of jazz utilized in this piece and they pay homage to musicians in jazz.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Tremblay, Jacques, 1952-

Marche sonore I (Le matin du monde)

Description: Recording of Claude Schryer's Marche sonore I (Le matin du monde). The title translates to "Soundwalk I (The Morning of the World)." This piece is a radio fantasy based on the testimony of 25 people discussing their acoustic environments. The answers were orchesrated intp an electroacoustic soundwalk in six movements: Allô, Grenouilles, Auto-ville, Couches, Souffle de la terre, and Argument Electoral.
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Date: 1990/1992
Duration: 40 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Schryer, Claude, 1959-

Fête (3 mvt de Bruits)

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's Fête (3 mvt de Bruits). This is a work for electronics that includes 3 movements: Children's Corner, Nuit, and Fête. This work was commissioned by the Sonic Art Network (Great Britain) in which they asked the composer to create an environmental painting. The dominant element is noise: "smooth" noise, constant noise, and immutable noise made up of the sum of human machines.
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Date: 1997/2000
Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves

Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or)

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Amarcord - Golden age (l'age d'or). This piece is the first 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.
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor

Trim Assassia

Description: Recording of Yves Potvin's Trim Assassia.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Potvin, Yves

L'ouest du palmarès

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's L'ouest du palmarès. The composer describes this work as a live improvisation from a sample percussionists and speaker. The instrumentation was created by Yamaha drums and a Yamaha sampler.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert

Vox Alia

Description: Recording of Annette Vande Gorne's Vox Alia. This work is separated into 4 main movements: Giocoso, Amoroso, Inncentemente, and Furioso. The composer describes each of these as small vocal studies that have been transformed through electroacoustics. While this work is split into separate tracks, they are all meant to be played together in an octophonic setting. This work was commissioned by the GRM (a musical research group in Paris).
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Date: 1998
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette
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