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Broken Crystals

Description: Recording of Larry Wendt's Broken Crystals, from "World-Class Technology." It is an extended narration piece that takes the form of a personal recollection. It is narrated by a Silicon Valley worker who works for an integrated circuit foundary that grows garnet crystals for the manufacturing of bubble memory. The factory is overcome with insects that destroy the crystals, and, in response, Silicon Valley is bombed with Cane Toads in order to get rid of the bugs. As a performance piece, the narr… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Wendt, Larry
Partner: UNT Music Library

Edit for Pauline

Description: Recording of John Cousins's "Edit for Pauline" for tape.
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Date: 1983
Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Cousins, John, 1943-
Partner: UNT Music Library

La Materia e sorda

Description: Recording of Roberto Doati, Gianantonio Patella, and Daniele Torresan's "La materia è sorda" performed by Lorenzo Rizzato (speaker) and electronically realized by Granziano Tisato.
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Date: 1983/1984
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Doati, Roberto; Patella, Gianantonio & Torresan, Daniele
Partner: UNT Music Library

He met her in the park

Description: Recording of Charles Dodge's "He met her in the park," poetry by Richard Kostelanetz. The poem consists of a boy-meets-girl story that is told eight times, and the retellings abridged versions of the previous ones, sometimes reversing the gender roles until the final retelling is just "He met her in the park." In the composition, the lines are read by a male and female actor alternating lines and each telling of the story is articulated in a different way. The voices are synthesized with melodi… more
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Date: 1983
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Dodge, Charles, 1942-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[News Clip: Gibson Lewis]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 20, 1983
Duration: 1 minute 55 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Chicarra's

Description: "Chicharra's" is an ode to the Spanish landscape and the men populating this landscape. Sounds of nature such as the breath of the wind, the rushing of the rain, the rustling of the sea carry life in themselves. Thus the rustling of "Chicharra's", the cicadas, their singing narrative was recorded as a set of precious voices. These voices were sent electronically to the strings and then turned into new sounds. This process is comparable to that of instrumental music where the violin bow is coate… more
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Date: 1984
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Bruynèl, Ton
Partner: UNT Music Library

Analytical discussion of dialectal variation

Description: Discussion and comparison of two Mizo dialects: the northern and southern dialect. For example, "in the north we say X, and in the south we say Y." The male speaker is from the south, and the female speaker is from the north.
Date: 1985
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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[News Clip: Legislature]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 8, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Noces noires

Description: To start, an order from the poet: it was a huge blow of heart. Say more? The beauty of the images of the text, the human sensibility of the poet, the restraint of the words and the tone of the voice, to imagine, to express, to make feel the passage to death and its reflection on us, the living. The music? At the service of the poem, in its traditional role of highlighting images and deep meaning, emotional support. After a first work of analysis and restructuring of the text by silence, comes t… more
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Date: 1986
Duration: 34 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Vande Gorne, Annette
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[News Clip: Cancer]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 10, 1986, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Lewis/ Lee]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 3, 1986, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Les filles du sommeil

Description: Recording of Georges Boeuf's Les filles du sommeil. This work was inspired by several paintings by Gustav Klimt which depict women according to the expression, "sleeping beauty". The composer has segmented this work into 4 movements: 1. Pluie d'or, 2. Écran de Nuit, 3. L’œil Profond, 4. Éloge de l'Apparence. This work has been dedicated to Rapha'l de Vivo.
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Date: 1987
Duration: 30 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Boeuf, Georges, 1937-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Take me away

Description: Recording of Eduardo Pérez Maseda's Take me away. The axis of this work is a text by the Italian writer, Italo Calvino. This text was taken from the novel, "Il barone rampante", and includes both English and Spanish.
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Date: 1988
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Pérez Maseda, Eduardo 1953-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[News Clip: Wright #1]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: January 5, 1988
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wright #2]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: January 6, 1988
Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wright Ethics]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 17, 1988, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Wright]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 6 P.M.
Date: June 14, 1988
Duration: 2 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Student advocating for voting]

Description: Photograph of a student advocate speaking with a blowhorn to encourage students to vote for an amendment to the state's constitution. During this time, a constitutional convention was held to revise the Texas Constitution, excluding the Bill of Rights. After passing through the legislature, the voters approved Article 17 Section 2 of the state's constitution concerning how to make amendments to the document.
Date: November 1988
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Beauty and the Beast

Description: Recording of Barry Truax's Beauty and the Beast. This work is for narrator who also plays oboe d'amore and English horn, computer images, and two computer soundtracks. The computer graphic images and text were created by Theo Goldberg. This is a modern retelling of the traditional story of a young girl's voyage of self-discovery through her encounter with the Beast in the enchanted castle. This version of the story is a modern interpretation as suggest by Bruno Bettelheim in his 1976 book The U… more
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Date: 1989
Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry
Partner: UNT Music Library

The kubrick suite

Description: Recording of Damian Roskill's The kubrick suite. This is a work for electronics that includes English spoken word and distorted voices.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Roskill, Damian
Partner: UNT Music Library

Metropolis - Buenos Aires

Description: Recording of Francisco Kropfl's Metropolis - Buenos Aires. This piece takes you on a sonic journey through the streets as a sound collage of Buenos Aires.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 59 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Kröpfl, Francisco, 1931-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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