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Traditional story about Sumphaai and Rangleen, Part 1

Description: Sumphai leh Rangleng [Sumphai and Rangleng] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of of Thamlakhuren, Part 1. Sumphai was a hardworking sister of Rangleng, but she was despised by the lazy wife of Rangleng, who nagged her husband into selling her off so that they could be alone. As the husband went to sell Sumphai, while they spent the night in a riverbank, the sister Sumphai had a dream in which their mother appeared. The mother was talking to the brother and asking him what on earth he was doin… more
Date: August 18, 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about the Squirrel and Rumnu narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu

Description: Theipaa leh rumnu paomin [The Story of Squirrel and Rumnu] as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. Squirrel [Theipa] pretended that he fell down and hurt his scrotum and so could not walk. He therefore asked Rumnu to carry him in her basket which was full of fig-like fruit [didit]. When she carried him in her basket, he ate up all the figlike fruit and jumped out of her basket and ran off. She was so angry that she cursed him so that he would be trapped in the traps set by people in olden t… more
Date: 2000
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of The Story of the Lamkang Hunter

Description: Lamkang Suk Paomin [The story of the Lamkang Hunter] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu. This is a story of how a Lamkang man who was a an expert hunter was captured and enslaved by the Kukis. When they planned to kill him, he was encouraged by his wife to escape. A tiger helped him cross the river and eventually return home to be united with his children.
Date: 2000
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of The Story of When There Is No Graveyard

Description: Wangchen paomin [The Story of When there is No Graveyard] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu of of Thamlakhuren. In this story, a woman marries and lives in a village that has no graveyard. She ends up marrying into this village and here they eat a person when they die.
Date: 2000
Duration: 2 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Thamptlum

Description: The Thamptlum paomin [the Story of Thamptlum] as told by Sankhil Thamnung Tholungnu of Thamlakhuren. The story tells of how a snake married a woman. Translated into English and input in SayMore by Sumshot Khular.
Date: 2000
Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about Raapa

Description: Raapa Paomin [The Story of Raapa] as narrated by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. This is a story about a young handsome man called Raapa. He was the son of a widow. He was known for his good deeds and for that people got jealous and tried to kill him in several ways. One time they hung him up in the middle of the sea to die, but to his great luck a bird called Chinraang came along wearing beautiful ornament called vori kangkool. This ornament is worn by Lamkangs today. When Raapa saw the bird he… more
Date: 2000
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about The Bad Woman and Good Woman

Description: Skinyernu and Penpenjur [The Bad Woman and Good Woman] as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu. In this story, a lady who was very good and industrious, Penpenjur, was killed by a bad woman, Skinyernu. Later Skinyernu played the role of the wife of Penpenjur, whom she had killed. However, the first wife, Penpenjur, was reborn to fight with the bad woman. The good woman won the fight, but the good woman killed again with the poison from the banana leaf that was used to wrap a food pack, a banana … more
Date: 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of Soombeel

Description: Sumshot Khular translates a recording of the story of Soombeel as told by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren village. Soombeel is known for her beauty and wit in the Lamkang traditional folk stories.
Date: August 18, 2000
Duration: 2 hours 34 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about the slave girl, part 2

Description: Retelling of Manhen Paomin [the story of the Slave Girl] part 2 as told by Thampol Khularnu Sankhil.
Date: 2000
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Partner: UNT College of Information
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[TBAAL "Gospel Gurls" concert audio tape]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the "Gospel Gurls" live performance over the weekend of April 8-9th, 2000 at the Clarence Muse Café Theatre. The tape includes six female vocalists performing jazz, gospel and spiritual medleys.
Date: April 2000
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 02 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[17th annual "Black Music and the Civil Rights Concert" tape]

Description: Audio tape from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert Featuring Albertina Walker, Karen Clark held on January 16th, 2000 at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas Texas. The tape includes the full concert of gospel and spiritual choral music along with speakers.
Date: January 16, 2000
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Walker, Albertina
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Agora

Description: Recording of Natasha Barrett's Agora. This work is an installation and a performance involving electroacoustic music, theatre, and the structural use of space. The theatre version of "Agora" is an event where spatial-music is the structural and theatrical driving force. There is one soprano performer but no "acting out". The work extends the aesthetic of the music theatre of Kagel and the consideration of delineated space defined in Oscar Schlemmer's theory of performance.
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Date: 2000/2003
Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds
Creator: Barrett, Natasha
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cloy

Description: Recording of Silvia Matheus' Cloy. This work was inspired by the sounds people make that can create judgement from others. The foreground of the composition is the sound of laughter from a woman to bring forward the issues of desire, irony, and female agency to the attention of the listener. The composer took inspiration from the philosophers Aristotle and George Lewis.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Matheus, Silvia
Partner: UNT Music Library

Praia das catetrais

Description: Recording of María Inmaculada Cárdenas Serván's Praia das catetrais. This work premiered in Madrid within the framework of the "XI International Festival of Electroacoustic Music - Punto de Encuentro". This work is dedicated to the cliffs off of the north coast of Galicia and mixes the sounds of everyday life with clarinet improvisations. The text spoken in this work was done by Guillermo Abraldes, whom the composer thanks for his selfless collaboration.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Cárdenas Serván, María Inmaculada
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Desde el Jardín del Tiempo

Description: Recording of Rubén Hinojosa Chapel's Desde el Jardín del Tiempo. This work was created as an homage to John Lennon and the mark that his music has left on more than a generation of young people. It was created from samples of piano by digital sound editing and processing. It premiered at the "VIII Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica Primavera en La Habana".
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Date: 2000
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Hinojosa Chapel, Rubén
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Aqua Salutaris auditur part 2

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur part 2. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor
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Aqua Salutaris auditur

Description: Recording of Bor Turel's Aqua Salutaris auditur. This is a work for electronics that includes water sounds.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 24 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Turel, Bor
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Ancestral Voices

Description: Recording of John Rimmer's Ancestral Voices. The idea for this composition came from the composers fascination with family history and genealogy, specifically the names of his eight great-grandparents. The composer associated the sounds of eight instruments with each ancestor beginning with New Zealand instruments and moving to other countries around the world. Throughout the work the sound of a women's choir singing the fifth century hymn, Caeli Deus Sanctissime, heightens the sense of ancestr… more
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Date: 2000/2001
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Rimmer, John, 1939-
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(b)contained

Description: Recording of Katharine Norman's (b)contained. This is a work for solo clarinet and digital fixed sound and was commissioned by Jane O'Leary/Concorde for Paul Roe to play at the Galway Arts Festival. The electronic material in this piece was created from an initial recording of the note 'b', played by clarinet, while the actual player doesn't get to play a 'b' until the final section of the piece. The composer states that this sound provides a sonic container for the live performer.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Norman, Katharine
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Tempora

Description: Recording of Daniel Barreiro's Tempora. This composition is a result of research on musical time that includes voice and the percussion of various objects. The voice presents excerpts of texts on musical time and narrative time written by various authors. This piece premiered during the IV Studio de Mœsica at the Instituto de Artes da UNESP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October 2001.
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Date: 2000/2001
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Barreiro, Daniel Luís, 1974-
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Triptico: Oceania, mondo sin angulos; Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Triptico: Oceania, mondo sin angulos; Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola. This work consists of two pieces: "Oceania, mondo sin angulos" and "Variaciones sobre juegos de pelota y bola". The first of which includes highly transformed concrete sounds while alluding to the idea of duality. The second piece draws inspiration from several games whose sounds are known to the public (tennis, ping-pong, pinball machines, etc.).
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Date: 2000/2002
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950-
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Eight Directions

Description: Recording of Sylvi MacCormac's Eight Directions. This work includes instrumentation from congas, violin, flute, bouzouki, marimba, gong, penny whistle, and bagpipe. The sounds of thunder, rain, and birds are also included and were recorded in Italy.
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Date: 2000
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: MacCormac, Sylvi
Partner: UNT Music Library
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