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The waste land

Description: Recording of Elżbieta Sikora's The waste land, for fixed media. The piece is a journey through time and spaces. The present is mixed with the past, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream with reality. The work was commissioned by the Experimental Studio of Polish Radio and was realized in October 1979. The text comes from T. Elliot's poem "The Waste Land."
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Date: 1979
Duration: 24 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Sikora, Elżbieta, 1943-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Daisy story

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Daisy Story. Key sonorities include the twittering of birds, the croaking of frogs, and vocal phrases as well as whispers, laughter and shouts. The piece was realizes at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio in Warsaw.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
Partner: UNT Music Library

Memento

Description: Recording of Ryszard Klisowski's Memento for tape.
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Date: 1975
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Klisowski, Ryszard
Partner: UNT Music Library

Nous

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Nous.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz
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Lekcja

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's Lekcja.
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Date: 1965
Duration: 15 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Jerzy Popiełuszko]

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a portrait of the Catholic priest Jerzy Popiełuszko. The figure is depicted in black on a white background. In the margins, registration marks can be seen for creating multiples of this image and in the lower right are the handwritten in pencil words, kolor czarny (drugi), color black, second.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Najlepszego Jajka

Description: Postcard used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a bird wearing a crown breaking out of an egg that is decorated with a red pattern.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Wesołych Świąt. Niech przemówią wreszcie ludzkim głosem!

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicts a Christmas message, in Polish, across the top portion. A yellow star floats in the dark blue ground. Beneath are two figures, one resembles a donkey wearing sunglasses and the other a elephant or a man with huge ears. The two figures appear to be behind a trough, in red.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Kościoły Lwowa: Herb Lwowa, Polska; Katedra Ormianska, Polska; Katedra Łacińska, Polska; Katedra Unicka, Polska

Description: Postage stamps used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting churches in the once Polish town of Lwowa, Poland, now L'viv, Ukraine. The background is silver with black depictions for the church structures and the crest. The words, Poczta Solidarność [Solidarity Stamp], are in red at the bottom of each stamp.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Loteria Funduszu Niezależnych Plastyków

Description: Lottery ticket used during the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s. Four tickets, each stamped with a number in purple, depict a pencil, broken on one end in the center of the ticket. The Polish Solidarity logo is in the lower right hand corner.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Solidarność

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a group of soldiers wearing gas masks and wielding clubs. Across the bottom part of the poster, in red, is the word Solidarność. The boot of one soldier encroaches upon the word, Solidarność.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Wesolego 1987 Zyczy Solidarność Ciagle Młody

Description: Postcard used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting best wishes for the year 1987. The words wesolego 1987 zyczy solidarność ciagle młody are in red on a brownish tan background. The year, 1987, is depicted with people forming the shapes of the numbers.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Grudzien 1983. Solidarność

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a large group of upraised arms in black silhouette. Each of the hands is holding up two fingers. In the black sky above the crowd is a large white star with rays radiating from it. Across the bottom, the red portion contains the word Solidarność and a crest.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

RTPD 20 zł

Description: Postage stamp depicting a young female in the center. At the top of the stamp are the letters RTPD and in the lower section, the denomination of the stamp, 20 złoty. The stamp is printed in all blue on a cream paper.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

1987 ZYJ GODNIE! Solidarność nie pije

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting five figures in reddish orange silhouette. The figure on the far left is chimpanzee like and the next four figures evolve to man. The man at the front of the line is holding a flower in one hand and his other hand holds up two fingers.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Zapluty karzeł reakcji

Description: Poster used in the Polish Solidarity movement during the 1980s depicting a man with large ears, spectacles and spewing from his mouth. The words Zapluty karzeł reakcji are underneath the figure. The words and image are in black on a white ground.
Date: 1980/1990
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Piatek

Description: Recording of Daniel Park's Piatek. This work uses voice in different languages and styles, which are interrupted by fragments of electronics. The synthesized sound are very still and have many harmonies. The segments of speech are either processed and put through effects or kept as is containing little to no digital processing.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 54 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Bernstein, Daniel
Partner: UNT Music Library
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A random walk version of Robbins' problem: small horizon

Description: This article considers an analogous problem in which the observed random variables are the steps of a symmetric random walk. Assuming continuously distributed step sizes, it describes the optimal stopping rules for the cases n = 2 and n = 3 in two versions of the problem: a "full information" version in which the actual steps of the random walk are disclosed to the decision maker; and a "partial information" version in which only the relative ranks of the positions taken by the random walk are … more
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Allaart, Pieter C. & Allen, Andrew
Partner: UNT College of Science
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