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Aesthetic and Technical Analysis on Soar!

Description: Soar! is a musical composition written for wind ensemble and computer music. The total duration of the work is approximately 10 minutes. Flocking behavior of migratory birds serves as the most prominent influence on the imagery and local structure of the composition. The cyclical nature of the birds' journey inspires palindromic designs in the temporal domain. Aesthetically, Soar! portrays the fluid shapes of the flocks with numerous grains in the sounds. This effect is achieved by giving indiv… more
Date: August 2010
Creator: Wang, Hsiao-Lan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Student doing task]

Description: Photograph of a student working on an activity in their class. Their pointer and middle fingers are taped to a stick that is also taped to their wrist and they are trying to do a task with paperclips. He is wearing a Cowboys football jersey and a nametag that reads "Gates Gan". He is a part of the Teach North Texas program.
Date: November 15, 2010
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Boxes with lab materials]

Description: Photograph of clear boxes holding various cables and materials in storage that are used by UTeach in Austin, Texas. The boxes are labeled "Sterile Cotton Balls", "Plastic Inoculating Loops", "Glue Gun & Sticks", "Assorted Balloons", "Dry Wall Anchors", "Plastic Calipers", "Compasses", "Engraver/Soldering Iron", "Scotch Tape", "Nitrate Sensing Modules", and "Magnifying Glasses".
Date: [2010-05-25..2010-05-27]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Students doing activities]

Description: Photograph of three students working on an activity in their class. Their pointer and middle fingers are taped to a stick that is also taped to their wrist and they are trying to do tasks with pennies and paperclips. The group is a part of the Teach North Texas UNT program.
Date: November 15, 2010
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Four students working on an activity]

Description: Photograph of four students that are part of the Teach North Texas program. They are all seated in a make-shift circle on the ground and are working on an activity. They have a baggie in the middle of them and are using a pair of scissors. They are attaching sticks to their pointer fingers.
Date: November 15, 2010
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Student being helped by the teacher]

Description: Photograph of students being helped by their teacher during an activity. She is attaching a stick to their fingers and wrist using tape. The students are waiting in a line to be helped. The teacher is a part of the Teach North Texas program.
Date: November 15, 2010
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Student raising hand]

Description: Photograph of a student that is part of the Teach North Texas program. They are seated on the ground by the classroom's backpack cubbies. Their hand is raised and on it they've taped a stick to their fingers and wrist.
Date: November 15, 2010
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Paul Inglis]

Description: Photograph of Paul Inglis sticking his head through the ceiling. He is standing on a wooden surface, sticking his head through a pre-made hole, and holding a roll of tape.
Date: 1962
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Limite inferiore sinistro

Description: Recording of Elio Martusciello's Limite inferiore sinistro. The matter of elimination, that is to say the sound of the rustle of a magnetic tape, constitutes the acoustic nature of this composition. The sole use of a tape recorder-mixer as a sound generator, gives a sufficient result for the creative operation, and ultimately to the gesture of the component. In all this hides a subtle complacency, a game of perspectives where this plan relegated to the bottom at the musical level and pushed fur… more
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Date: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Martusciello, Elio
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library

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
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Si tan solo fueramos libres...

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Acosta's Si tan solo fueramos libres. This work is for guitar and electronics. This work explores the possibilities of electronically manipulated guitar and a wide variety of traditional electroacoustic technique.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Acosta R., Rodolfo, 1970-
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Miroirs

Description: Recording of Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux's Miroirs. This work identifies the problem of togetherness with the coexistence of the two sound sources, mainly using as basic material a harpsichord score previously recorded and subsequently subjected to various electroacoustic treatments. Concrete sounds and modulated sounds (EMS synthesizer) are used, to which are added some electronic sounds recorded directly in the studio. The final cut of the magnetic tape then served as the basic material … more
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Date: 1975/1976
Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Micheline, 1938-1985
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Partner: UNT Music Library

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-
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The Nagual

Description: Recording of Mesias Maiguashca's The Nagual. This work is inspired by the first four books by Carlos Casta–eda on the practice of magic among the Yaqui Indians in Mexico. The technical starting point of the cycle was a metal construction. This instrument consists of a framework on which metal objects are hung on nylon threads; these are then 'played' with a bow or mallet and amplified using contact microphones. There is a dialogue between the sounds played "live" by the two players and the soun… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Maiguashca, Mesias
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Swim, Swam

Description: Recording of Kiyoshi Furukawa's Swim, Swam. This work is for acoustic instruments and electronics. There is lot of variety on how the instruments interact with the electronics. The piece begins very harmony focused and timeless, eventually the clarinet and electronics begin to grow with more movement and communication; sometimes in agreement, unison, or independent. There is also a manipulated voice repeating the pattern continuously, however, the electronics are changing the tone.
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Date: 1992/1993
Duration: 23 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Furukawa, Kiyoshi
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Singing boxes

Description: Recording of Andrew May's Singing boxes. This piece is a work for violin and tape, written at and according to the performer's request. All the tape sounds are processed samples of violin sounds; open string, bowed, pizzicato, col legno, and harmonics. Regarding the title, the loudspeaker and the violin body are both boxes which attempt to sing. The works presents a struggle by each to make its own particular voice heard.
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Date: 1991
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: May, Andrew, 1968-
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Partner: UNT Music Library

The temptations of St. Poob and the revelations of Dionysus

Description: Recording of Daniel Paul Rodger's The temptations of St. Poob and the revelations of Dionysus. This piece has a character "St. Poob," who is a real-time electro-acoustic manifestation of life-forces. Any endeavor to remove the tarnish would have sentenced St. Poob to undeserved crucifixion. The recording is a densely packed sound atmosphere with electronic bells and whistles for tape.
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Date: 1990
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Rodger, Daniel Paul
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Magna Sin

Description: Recording of Gabriela Ortiz's Magna Sin. This piece consists of of five rhythmic-melodic section. The tape functions as any other instrument and requires synchronization with the percussionist. The main components are tape, steel drum, flute multiphones, metal objects, guitar strokes, other percussion instruments, and all of these sounds are electronically manipulated.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Ortiz, Gabriela, 1964-
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Le Lethe

Description: Recording of Robert Dow's Le Lethe. The piece features tape and flute. Overall, the piece is quite slow and eerie. The tape and flute are consistently together and there if often times contrasting fragments of sound in between the unison tape and flute.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 20 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Dow, Robert
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L'invisible

Description: Recording of François Giraudon's L'invisible. This piece is for strings, live processing, and tape. L'invisible is based on the transfusion and possibilities of concrete sounds of double bass, violin, and synthetic sounds.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 9 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Giraudon, François
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Chromatism

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Chromatism. This piece is for tape and is a suite of 6 small pieces. The starting point of the work is the author's research on the analysis of electroacoustic music based on the concept of the sound object. The piece also incorporates some experiences in the field of the interaction of music and images.
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Date: 1992
Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-
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Cuchillos

Description: Recording of Juan Reyes's Cuchillos.This piece is about the Cacica's and the significance of knife sharpening. The piece takes uses sound produced by the sharpening of the knives and some Doppler effects. Towards the end, it becomes more tonal and uses the sound of the rocks. Cuchillos is a work for tape, computer with concrete sound, and an FM synthesizer.
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Date: unknown
Duration: 15 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Reyes, Juan, 1962-
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Ré

Description: Recording of Robin Minard's Ré. This piece is for clarinet and tape. The title Ré refers to the lowest sounding note of the clarinet range (about 147). A recording of this note was made by slowly crescendoing and decrescendoing over 30 seconds and its spectrum was analyzed on a computer. C-programs were written to expand this spectral information to musically-significant controls which were then reapplied to the originally recorded note, as well as four shorter elements heard in the work: a ton… more
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Date: 1991
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Minard, Robin, 1953-
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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
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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