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About Howard Johnson/Affirmative

Description: Recording of Joshua Fried's About Howard Johnson/Affirmative. This work uses MIDI in unusual ways. Sound modules become a silent controller of analog gates, and continuous controllers manipulate digital processors in real time. When channel gates are triggered at an even rate, one obtains the well-known strobe effect of slowing down, stopping or even reversing the apparent motion of a rotating object. As trigger cycle and loop cycle move out of phase, bits of sound seem to wander from speaker … more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Fried, Joshua
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Le bass de auf a bourges du dat

Description: Recording of Jürgen Bräuninger and Ulrich Süsse's Le bass de auf a bourges du dat. It is a work for saxophone, bass clarinet, and electronics. There are speech snippets which are accompanied by free improv from the saxophone and clarinet, while processed and manipulated recording of these instruments play in the background.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Bräuninger, Jürgen & Süsse, Ulrich
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The blistering price of power

Description: Recording of Eric Lyon's The blistering price of power. It is for flute and electronics. This piece samples outside sources and changes the sound construction to accompany the flute. There is times when the electronics provide a percussive effect and guidance for musical transitions. The flute uses the full range of the instrument, contemporary technique, and explores different musical styles.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Lyon, Eric, 1962-
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Grains of voices

Description: Recording of Åke Parmerud's Grains of voices. The piece is composed as a continuous flow where thematical ideas and voices are formed. The opening of the piece uses the biblical words of genesis where "darkness" and "light" has been substituted with "silence" and "sound". The second part of the piece has the theme of memories of childhood in the form of lullaby's and children's songs from different country's. The next section carries the theme of prayers through the combination of the provocati… more
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Date: 1993/1995
Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, Åke, 1953-
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Manwich

Description: Recording of Christopher Penronse's Manwich. There are many samples which are integrated into this piece. The synthetically built sounds help to smooth the transitions between these differing sound sources. Therefore, the piece is able to take the listener through so many different sound spaces.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Penrose, Christopher, 1967-
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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
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Pigra giornata

Description: Recording of Roberto Doati's Pigra giornata. For solo voice and tape ad libitum. The formal structure is coming from a well-known Billie Holiday song: “Don’t Explain”. Each note of the song becomes a quotation from the same or other songs by Billie Holiday and jazz musicians considered by the singer true human and musical reference points. Computer programs written by the composer are used to transform, both in time and timbre, the songs fragments. The tape (ad libitum) contains a cymbal roll w… more
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Date: 1993/1994
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Doati, Roberto
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A-roving

Description: Recording of Eduardo Polonio's A-roving. This work begins with a reading of Lord Byson's "So We'll Go No More a Roving" and a story which is spoken in Spanish, about the architecture of Rome. The sounds are both pre-recorded and synthetic; there are nature sounds, sounds from inanimate objects, and synthetically built sounds.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Polonio, Eduardo, 1941-
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Seven Waves

Description: Recording of Jospeh Hyde's Seven Waves. This piece is for instrument, live electronics, and pre-recorded tracks. The flutist in this recording uses lots of extended technique, while the electronics are bases on a Csound system. The pre-recorded track is made up of manipulated flute and voice sounds. Electronic amplification is used on the flute for clicking keys, and mysterious whistling tones. The live electronics similarly function as a kind of microscope, picking out elements of the flute pa… more
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Date: 1993
Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Hyde, Joseph, 1969-
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Shadow dance carnival

Description: Recording of Mark Canfield-Taylor's Shadow dance carnival. This work uses samples from operas, voice, and electronic sounds to create an eerie soundscape. With the use of traditional electronic technique the sounds are able to manipulated to fit into this soundscape, creating a dense sound texture.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Canfield-Taylor, Mark
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Testa arcaica

Description: Recording of Roberto Doati's Testa Arcaica. For electronics and voice. The basic material for digital processing is coming from the recording of "Weep, weep, mine eyes", a 5 voices madrigal by John Wilbye (1574-1638). The different degrees of transformation of the vocal sounds performed by Marianne Pousseur, and the live voice articulation are conceived according to a semantic division of the poem.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 12 minutes 01 second
Creator: Doati, Roberto
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To the last syllable (one)

Description: Recording of Joseph Hyde's To the last syllable (one). This work is for four voices and tape. This work is sonically dense; there's no way the listener can hear everything at the same time, so they are left to pick their own way through. The text is an amalgam of hundreds of sources, whilst the tape employs recognizable sounds to tell a story of its own. All these threads are interleaved and overlaid into a rich and complex narrative tapestry.
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Date: 1993
Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Hyde, Joseph, 1969-
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Faculty Recital: 1993-03-30 - Jill Trinka

Description: A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall. It includes a variety of folksongs and ballads from Anglo-American, British, and Irish traditions, and songs made by contemporary singer-songwriters that are passed in aural tradition.
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Date: March 30, 1993
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Trinka, Jill
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H.Res.189 - Honoring cultural achievements of the Voice of America, 103rd Congress of the United States

Description: Representatives Lee H. Hamilton (D., Indiana), Benjamin A. Gilman (R., New York) and Robert H. Michel (R., Illinois) speak on H. Res. 189 in the 103rd Congress, honoring the Voice of America and Willis Conover for their cultural programming related to jazz. Rep. Michel notes at the 7:22 mark that Conover is present for the resolution, though he is not shown on camera. Speaker Pro Tempore G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery (D., Mississippi) presides.
Date: June 8, 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: United States. Congress. House
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