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Ensemble: 2017-04-18 – Women's Chorus and Men's Chorus

Description: Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall, and Recital presented in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
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Date: April 18, 2017
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Women's Chorus.
Partner: UNT Music Library

De front (Quatuor)

Description: Recording of Pierre Jodlowski's De front (Quatuor). The idea of ​​this piece is based on a set of writings around the processes of aggression in humans and animals, as well as on the notion of frontality (which relates to the intermediate, fuzzy zones of our experience - physical or intellectual). The principle of the work (hence the precision quartet) is based on the development, "in concentric circles," of four groups or entities: 1. clarinet / trumpet; 2. percussion; 3. string quintet; 4. pa… more
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Date: 1999
Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Jodlowski, Pierre, 1971-
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Invisible

Description: Recording of Jean-Claude Risset's Invisible. For soprano and tape, dedicated to Irène Jarsky. The piece is based on texts by Tchouang-tzu, the Chinese Taoist philosopher. In this book, sounds which respond to the character don't come from the physical and visible. The very transformations of the voice transport into fictitious acoustics, which is no longer the audible trace of mechanical vibrations in a material world. The use of synthesis and digital voice processing makes it possible to imple… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Risset, Jean-Claude
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Un dimanche idéal

Description: Recording of Phillippe Blanchard's Un dimanche idéal. This work is a screenplay by Nicolas Fraix, with the composer creating the music. Sound manipulation techniques and vocal processing were used to explore the sonic possibilities of voice and electronics.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 12 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Blanchard, Philippe
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Agnaby

Description: Recording of Francesco Giomi's Agnaby. Realized at the Sheffield University Sound Studio (UK). Agnaby is an electroacoustic drama freely inspired by the novel "L'Etranger" by Albert Camus. It is also an attempt to get in touch, from a musical point of view, with Arab culture and language. The material is derived from a) environmental sounds of the Arab urban life and culture; b) fragments from Arab traditional music and texts; c) excerpts from the French text of the book read by Daniel Arfib. T… more
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes
Creator: Giomi, Francesco, 1963-
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L'oeil neutrino

Description: Recording of Alexander Gabrys' L'oeil neutrino.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Gabrys, Alexander, 1974-
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Sweden

Description: Recording of Lennart Westman's Sweden. The music of Sweden was composed already in 1997. However, in 1999 the collaboration with the visual artist Gunnar Jutelius was set about which resulted in the intermedial work Sweden is today. It has been performed in the autumn of 1999 at Café Umbra and Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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Media Survival Kit

Description: Recording of James Dashow's Media Survival Kit. This work is a lyric satire in three parts for radio. This instruments heard include: harp, contrabass, percussion, cello, and soprano voice. The processed pre-recorded sound were put through synthesis which was done using a MUSIC30 system. The three differing movement are titled: Nico, Crema (Cream), and Tutti Collegati (We're All Connected).
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Date: 1995/1995
Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Dashow, James, 1944-
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Vent du Sud

Description: Recording of Nicolas Vérin's Vent du Sud.
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Date: 1997
Duration: 19 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Vérin, Nicolas
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Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer

Description: Recording of Christian Zanési's Arkheion, les voix de Pierre Schaeffer. The composer has these remarks on the creation of this piece: In 1996, on the initiative of the Experimental Music Group of Bourges (GMEB), around a hundred composers paid tribute to Pierre Schaeffer. It was on this occasion that I composed a short, outdated waltz, the theme of which is childhood (it is said of Pierre Schaeffer that, when he was a few years old, he would have written a 'treatise on the hoop'). Later, I cont… more
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Date: 1996/1997
Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Zanési, Christian
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Projet Proust I

Description: Recording of Gilles Gobeil's Projet Proust I. Personal reading of the first pages of Du côté de chez Swann (Swann's Way) (1913) by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). (Recorded narration: Marc Béland). Projet Proust was realized in the composer's studio in Montréal in 1995 and premiered on December 23, 1995 during the radiobroadcast of Le son électrisé produced by Georges Nicholson on Radio-Canada's FM network. The present version (with narration by Marc Béland; recorded by Pierre Labbé) was revised and… more
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Date: 1996
Duration: 1 minute 02 seconds
Creator: Gobeil, Gilles, 1954-
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Opening a Can of Worms

Description: Recording of Lars Larsson's Opening a Can of Worms. The composer speaks of the process behind this piece as follows: Talking gibberish, stopping mid-sentence only to find I forgot what I was talking about, and saying obscure quotes to communicate are things I do a lot. The work "Opening a can of Worms" reflects this in various ways: a) regarding the sound, I tried to incorporate as many conflicting sounds as possible, something that nobody would normally use in this way musically; b) regarding … more
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Date: 19XX
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Larsson, Lars, 1964-
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Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away

Description: Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Candide: Unterwegs - en cheminn en el camino - Away. This piece includes periods of overlapping voices, with voices speaking in French, German, English, and Spanish; sometimes these overlaps consist of two voices in different languages, sometimes more.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Humpert, Hans Ulrich, 1940-2010
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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
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