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ChAnGE'S Music

Description: Recording of Joseph Lloyd Anderson's ChAnGE'S Music. A translation of the composer's words, from a letter to pianist Hadley McCarroll, illuminate that the composer tends "to think of ChanG E S Music as a phonographic fantasy because it plays out in each of Dellaria's three sound recording modes: Record-as-Document, Pseudo-Document, and abstraction. In order to really begin to understand him, I believe the listener needs to have an idea of ​​who [composer John] Cage is and why he is interesting.… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 26 minutes 01 second
Creator: Anderson, Joseph L. (Joseph Lloyd), 1970-

Rappel à l'ordre

Description: Recording of Roland Cahen's Rappel à l'ordre. This is a work for electronics and includes the story of a deep-sea diver spoken in both English and French.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 1 minute 06 seconds
Creator: Cahen, Roland, 1958-

Life unseen

Description: Recording of Darren Copeland's Life unseen. This is a short piece from an hour long radiophonic work entitled "Life Unseen". The text and vocals are by Alex Bulmer. Alex is a writer and actor from Toronto (Canada) who has lost most of her vision over the past ten years. "Elegy" is a celebration of experiences which are no longer accessible to Alex. The many plays of light, shape, and nuance that once consumed are recollected and cherished in both the text and sound composition.
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 28 minutes 01 second
Creator: Copeland, Darren, 1968-

A la Recherche...

Description: Recording of Simon Emmerson's A la Recherche... Schaeffer's "A la recherche d'une musique conrète" and Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" both influence this short study which layers and links materials previously heard in works of the composers "Time Past" series (and its offshoots). Technique from musique conrète were used in this work, sounds of natural origin are recorded and electronically manipulated so that the unprocessed sounds are altered and combined in a musical fashion.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Emmerson, Simon, 1950-

Alma latina

Description: Recording of Rajmil Fischman's Alma latina. The composer has this to say on the background of the piece, and of this piece itself: Time is a strange background against which our lives develop. Linearity is usually out of the question and memory cunningly warps and re-invents our past experience to such an extent that the latter becomes alive, threading between past and future. It has been forty years since my personal thread started, more than twenty since I left the birthplace and a long time … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 13 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Fischman, Rajmil, 1956-

Ciels

Description: Recording of Claude Hermitte's Ciels. The text comes from the revolutionary poem "Egy gondolat bánt engemet..." ("One Thought Torments Me") by Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi (1823-1849), and can be roughly translated into English as: "When every enslaved people / Will rise up breaking his chains / Red faces will carry red flags / And on the flags we will write: / Freedom for the whole world!"
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Date: 1996
Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Hermitte, Claude

Composer X.X.X...

Description: Recording of Vladimir Komarov's Composer X.X.X... This piece was composed in 1996, and is constructed on the text of conditions Bourges Competition.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Komarov, V. (Vladimir)

The answer which the court gives

Description: Recording of Christopher Rolfe's The answer which the court give you. The two sections here were excerpted from a longer work for piano and tape. The text material is drawn from documentary recordings of oral arguments before the U. S. Supreme Court, and processed by various resonant synthesis techniques (Karplus- Strong, convolution). The piece sonically depicts that public speakers are fundamentally creating music.
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Date: 1996
Duration: 25 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Rolfe, Christopher, 1962-2021

I hear you think

Description: Recording of Johannes S. Sistermanns' I hear you think. This work consists of various concrete sounds as well as spoken text written by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 33 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Schmidt-Sistermanns, Johannes, 1955-

Die Unsichtbare front

Description: Recording of Ipke Starke's Die Unsichtbare front. The composer notes the following: The spatial installation of this work was designed and realized for the highest space in the building of the Technical Collections of the city of Dresden. This place just below the dome of the tower with its exceptional view of the city and the nearby radio tower is part of the work. The composition itself consists of 16 minutes of music on magnetic tape, constantly looped, spatialized and broadcast through the … more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 16 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Starke, Ipke, 1965-

Wings of Fire

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Wings of Fire. For cello and digital soundtracks. This work uses Wings of Fire by B.C. poet Joy Kirstin. In the work, the lover addressed in the poem is personified by the instrument which is also the source of all the material used to create the tape part. This material consists of short fragments of bowing on the bridge of the instrument, natural and artificial harmonics, snap pizzicato, and col legno attacks. The sounds on tape that resemble bowed notes are in fact… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 14 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry

Ensemble: 1996-03-30 – Opera

Description: Recording of the Saturday evening UNT Opera Theater performance of "The Telephone" and "The Child in the Twilight Zone" at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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Date: March 30, 1996, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.

Ensemble: 1996-03-31 – Opera

Description: Recording of the Sunday evening UNT Opera Theater performance of "The Telephone" and "The Child in the Twilight Zone" at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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Date: March 31, 1996, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.

Ensemble: 1996-10-25 – Opera

Description: Recording of the Friday evening performance of "Opera Without Elephants" at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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Date: October 25, 1996, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.
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