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Environmental Ethics, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 1983

Description: Quarterly publication discussing various topics in environmental ethics, including features, discussion papers, book reviews, editorial commentaries, and other text related to environmental philosophies. Some issues also include announcements and other news related to the environmental studies community.
Date: 1983
Creator: The Center for Environmental Philosophy
Partner: UNT Center For Environmental Philosophy

National Gallery of Canada

Description: The view is of the entire south side of the museum and shows the glass walls as well as the glass geometrical shaped towers on either end. Banners grace the side of the building as well.
Date: 1983/1988
Creator: Safdie, Moshe
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Dialouge for Kendang and Tape

Description: The kendang is a Javanese drum. In Javanese music, the drum sounds are onomatopoetic, that is they are duplications of spoken language. An appropriate kendang player, however, will always tend to enrich his sound repertoire by imitating arbitrary sounds of the environment. My composition Dialogue refers to this. First the computer-generated sounds are introduced in an onomatopoetic way and imitated by the kendang player. Then the computer sounds develop in a way as to move finally far beyond th… more
Date: [1983,1984]
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner 1926-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Sequence Symbols

Description: Sequence Symbols exemplifies the composer's exploration of the concept of modulation spectra considered as inharmonic "harmonizations" or chords. The gradual transformation of basic note groups related by common tones provides the underlying pitch structure. Each group so derived in turn furnishes the intervals that are treated as generating dyads for the inharmonic chord-spectra. Chord-spectra can be enlarged by the simultaneous sounding of the chord with its transposition at a desired interv… more
Date: [1983,1984]
Duration: 27 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Winter Romantic

Description: Recording of Lárus Halldór Grímsson's Winter Romantic.
Date: 1983
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Lárus Halldór Grímsson, 1954-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Tigida Pipa

Description: Recording of Stephen Montague's Tigida Pipa. Commissioned by Elms Concerts for Singcircle, with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Tigida Pipa was composed in Ghent, Belgium, and completed in London in January, 1983, but revised several times until 1989. The text consists of invented words and percussive sounds whose inherent rhythmic structure propels the work at breakneck speed through a rondo of sonic adventures.
Date: 1983
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Montague, Stephen
Partner: UNT Music Library

Comeclose and sleepnow

Description: "Comeclose and sleepnow" is based on the homonymous poem by R. Mac Gough, recited by Stephen Montagne. The piece is composed in six sections. In each section are developed parts of the converted text and are highlighted phrases or words of poetry. All the sound material of the piece was composed solely by transforming the recited text.
Date: 1983
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Camilleri, Lelio (1957-)
Partner: UNT Music Library

Time Mark

Description: Within Time Mark (commissioned by percussionist Kathleen Kastner), are specific considerations including a continuum of timbre - thus providing for an integration of electroacoustic and live sounds without the loss of individuality, and spatial disposition - wherein the location from which sounds emanate within the host performance space is also a parameter for composition. Originally realized in 1983 with concrete and modular voltage-controlled synthesis techniques (including much analog tape… more
Date: 1983
Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Wyatt, Scott A.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Solar Wind

Description: Solar Wind is an electronic piece based on synthesized audio representations of bow shock interactions of Saturn and Venus with the solar wind as observed by Voyager, Voyager-2 and the Pioneer-Venus Orbiter. The source tape was generously supplied by the project director of the plasma wave instrument, Fred Scarf, of TRW, for NASA. The plasma wave instrument detects phenomena associated with solar wind interactions in space. The instrument, placed aboard this spacecraft, gathers information and… more
Date: 1983
Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi
Partner: UNT Music Library
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