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Sotto pressione

Description: Recording of Wolfgang Motz's Sotto pressione. It is for two oboes and computer sounds. There is the use of multiphonics and unusual tone colors, which requires different fingerings to produce the same pitches. Combining oboe and FM synthesis with the sue of a common pitch system allowed for the generation of three different oboes timbres. AM synthesis is also utilized towards the end of the piece for the notes A, B flat, and b; which are sustained.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Motz, Wolfgang, 1952-

Whalehailstones

Description: Recording of Joseph Hyde's Whalehailstones. Much of the material for this piece was derived from an old piece which was mainly concerned with pitch and the accumulation of harmonic fields of varying complexity. The old material is used to give gesture, rhythm, and form. There is additional processing and sound effects, but overall this piece is gesturally bold, simple, and has unambiguous surface shaping an inner movement that is more complex.
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Date: 1982
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Hyde, Joseph, 1969-

Il satellite sereno

Description: Recording of Claudio Ambrosini's Il satellite sereno. This piece revisions how early electronic music utilized certain sounds. The beginning white noise is used as a time marker. Then, it closes with an unexpected minimalistic section. The marimba transforms its timbre to eventually become the white noise heard at the beginning.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Ambrosini, Claudio

12 haiku pour la paix céleste

Description: Recording of Bernard Fort's 12 haiku pour la paix céleste. This piece is for 12 haikus for celestial peace. Haikus are very short Japanese poems which with reading, demonstrate the way of photography, as moments, sensations and feelings. There is a wide variety of both synthesized sounds and manipulated samples.
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Date: 1989/1992
Duration: 38 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Fort, Bernard

Teilstrategien

Description: Recording of Klaus Martin Kopitz's Teilstrategien. The piece's subtitle is "10 variations about the sound of a language". There are recorded improvisations of bass clarinet and piano, which were stacked up to 12 tracks with electronic effects. The 7th Variation is only made up of speech and incorporates nature recording.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 10 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Kopitz, Klaus Martin

Du lard à des cochons

Description: Recording of Jean-Luc Therminarias' Du lard à des cochons. This piece tells a story by integrating video editing concepts into electronic technique and music. The story referred to is of the three little pig and the big bad wolf. This piece uses Serre editing and tape.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Therminarias, Jean-Luc

Approcci a petrarca

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Approcci a petrarca. This work is made up of five sections, which are voice and electronics. The piece features many sounds such as voice, electronics, writing with a pencil, and sound effects.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 2 hours 58 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010

Clarienen tres (version para vila)

Description: Recording of Gabriel Brnčić's Clarienen tres (version para vila). This work is a 3-voice polyphony crafted with an algorithm developer and written by a computer. In Clarinen tres, the instrumental soloists follow the path of the recorded sounds with the same melodic approach. There are other versions with clarinet, alto flute, viola, and cello.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-

In Par

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's In Par. This work is for trombone and tape. The title enigmatically announces in a condensed form with the presence of the Hell (infernos) and of Paradise. In the first part a descension takes place, a descent into inferno until paroxysm. Everything develops in a shape of an arc, circle, and wheel. The sonorous flow creates time polyphony.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian

KBBL - The morning show

Description: Recording of Roger Doyle's KBBL - The morning show. This is an imaginary radio station broadcasting from the 25th floor of a mile-high futuristic tower of Babel. The composer has collaborated with D.J.D, singers and actors and in his private studio has re-created a parallel universe tower city where people of many cultures live together. The composer played all instruments and engineered and produced the whole thing.
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Date: 1989/1992
Duration: 29 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Doyle, Roger

Racter and eliza - A computer opera (of mistakes)

Description: Recording of Burt Warren's Racter and Eliza- A computer opera (of mistakes). For computer voice synthesis. Racter and Eliza are two computer programs which were early attempts at artificial intelligence. The computers were ran by feeding the outputs of one into the input of the other and they were able to interact. Using an Amiga computer little speech synthesis was used, and the voices were fed through a malfunctioning pitch to voltage converter; resulting the electronic accompaniment.
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Date: 1986/1993
Duration: 22 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Burt, Warren, 1949-

Faculty Recital: 1988-10-18 - North Texas Winds with Adam Wodnicki, piano

Description: A faculty recital performed at the UNT School of Music Recital Hall.
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Date: October 18, 1988
Duration: 52 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Gillespie, James; Scott, John C. (John Charles), 1947-; Scharnberg, William; Hofto, Jacqueline; Veazey, Charles; Schrier, Sue et al.

[Insect Rights benefit poster]

Description: Poster advertising the Insect Rights benefit for the homeless concert by No Excuse, Shitface, Snail, Why am I, Fly Spects, Rev Buck Naked, and Refractory Period on March 25, 1989, at Sons of Herman, 3414 Elm St., Dallas, Texas. Admission was five dollars. The event included the short film, "Communion in Room 410" by Joe Christ. Poster features a central black and white scientific illustration of several types of insects with the words 'INSECT RIGHTS' in black type, and event details below the … more
Date: 1989~
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