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Pilgrim Carnival

Description: This thesis explores an experimental music approach to writing autobiography. As a composition, Pilgrim Carnival took place as a travelling series of events. The central event was a sound installation for a blindfolded audience. This essay is a description of that series of events as well as a discussion of similar precedents in interdisciplinary art. Beginning with Luigi Russolo and Marcel Duchamp, aspects of autobiography are examined in both noise music and the concept of the ready-made a… more
Date: August 2002
Creator: House, Kayli
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Rhapsody in Green - A Happening: An Examination of the Happening as a Rhetorical Tool

Description: In this study I outline seven characteristics of a traditional Happening (the use of games and play, an inherent intertextual element, an emphasis on place/space, an element/spirit of anarchy, an element of chance, an emphasis on the fusion of art with everyday life, and the existence of both a purpose and a meaning) and seek to determine which characteristics contribute to the Happening's current usage as a rhetorical tool. I created a traditional Happening containing a message of environment… more
Date: December 2004
Creator: Walker, Rebecca Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Disney Dancers]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 13, 1989, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Students on stage with red lights, Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows students standing and illuminated by a red light.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Musicians performing, Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows musicians on the right side of the screen and an audience on the left side of the image. Three screens are also shown on the stage in between the musicians and all read "I was origin Age ringroad stimulating the not for."
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Close-up of cellist and singer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a cellist on the left side and foreground of this image. A singer is also visible in the center of the image. The performance's audience is shown on the right side of the image. Two screens on stage read "or national origin black bile and yellow be mistaken that she could not."
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 4]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer in an art installation consisting of cloth and rope illuminated by pink and yellow lights. the performer is shown in the center-left side of the image.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 1]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer in the center-left side of the image. The performer has their arms up holding pieces of cloth. An art installation illuminated with yellow lights is shown behind them.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performers at Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer inside the art installation and additional performers in the foreground and background of the image outside of the art installation. The art installation is illuminated by pink, purple, and yellow light.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Person wearing headphones at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a close-up of a person wearing headphones and holding up an object up to their eyes.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Person wearing headphones at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a close-up of a person wearing headphones and holding up a small box to their eyes. The person is facing the direction of the left side of the image.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two people wearing headphones at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows two people each wearing headphones and holding up a small box up to their eyes. The person in the center-left side of the image has their back turned to the camera. The other person shown in the background on the right side of the image is facing the camera.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performers and musicians at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows two musicians on the left side of the image wearing all black outfits and standing next to microphones. The right side of the image shows two performers wearing white dresses and standing near a wall illuminated by light.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two performers at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows two performers standing next to each other. The performer on the right side of the image appears to be pointing and gesturing at the performer in the center of the image who is facing forward. The performer in the center has a yellow spotlight on them.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Audience interacting with the installation at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 1]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a little over a dozen audience members interacting with the installation such as looking at the video screens, sitting in the installation chairs with attached screens, and looking through small boxes.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 6]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer in a glittery dress and illuminated by a dark blue light.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 8]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a close-up of a performer wearing a glittery dress and illuminated by a white light.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 10]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer mid-dance illuminated by a light. Large visual projections are visible in the background of the image.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Finger Spirits: Piano Concerto

Description: Finger Spirits is a concerto for piano and orchestra. The traditional concerto form of three, large, separate movements is not present here. It is a one-movement work in three continuous sections. Certain premises of the concerto are retained: (1) the interplay of soloists and orchestra; (2) the display of vistuosity; and (3) the use of fixed thematic elements. Throughout the performance, the pianist alternates playing actual notes with gestures used in manual communication and mimetic elaborat… more
Date: August 1982
Creator: Conlin, Virginia P. (Virginia Patricia)
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Screen of snake eyes, Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows three screens showing what appears to be a close-up of snake eyes.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cello player, Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. A cello player is visible in the background of this photo playing for the audience shown in the foreground of this image.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 2]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer in a costume and illuminated by yellow and purple lights.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at the Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 3]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer standing on the left side of the image with their back to the camera. The performer is wearing a white dress and is facing an art installation created by white cloth. The performer and artwork is illuminated by purple light.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Performer at Intermedia Performance Art Class Concert, 5]

Description: Photograph of a concert performed by a University of North Texas College of Music class on Intermedia Performance Art. The performance includes music, dance, media, and technology. This photo shows a performer on the left side of the image with cloth attached to their arms. An art installation made of cloth, strings, and pipe. Other performers are also visible inside the art installation.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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