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L'ouest du palmarès

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's L'ouest du palmarès. The composer describes this work as a live improvisation from a sample percussionists and speaker. The instrumentation was created by Yamaha drums and a Yamaha sampler.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert
Partner: UNT Music Library

Attendre et espérer

Description: Recording of Agnés Poisson's Attendre et espérer. This recording was produced within the framework of the open work "Le monde devenu musique l'écoute du siècle". Throughout this recording, the composer's father speaks about his time during war as a prisoner in a concentration camp. The piece overall touches on the horrors and tragedies of war around the world.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 01 second
Creator: Poisson, Agnès
Partner: UNT Music Library

Brain-Wash

Description: Recording of Yasuhiro Otani's Brain-Wash. This recording plays on the idea of the unspoken and the unheard as well as forgotten memories that return with new significance. The composer explores the idea of connecting electronic music with ones consciousness and thus making technology an essential humanizing force.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Otani, Yasuhiro
Partner: UNT Music Library

xscho-haii

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's xscho-haii. This recording was made for mini disc and is made up of percussion, electronic drums, and voice. The vocals in this work are impromptu of onomatopoeia and sound effects. The composer describes it as "vocal combat".
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Robert
Partner: UNT Music Library

Fuite de Centaures

Description: Recording of János Decsényi's Fuite de Centaures. This work is the fourth piece in a cycle called "Book of poems". This piece in particular is based on a poem by José Maria which revolves around Greek mythology, specifically centaurs.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Decsényi, János
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Ecoute, écoute!

Description: Recording of Roderik de Man's Ecoute, écoute!. This piece was commissioned by the Fund for the Creation of Music. Ecoute, écoute! was composed at the request of Harry Sparnaay for the occasion of the "Who's afraid of?" project, organized by Iris van der Goot. In this project, prominent contemporary solo works were combined with newly written compositions. Ecoute, écoute! is a tribute to promotors of contemporary music, in this case the renowned bass clarinetist Harry Sparnaay. This prominent mu… more
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Man, Roderik de, 1941-
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Dialogue avec Wittgenstein

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Dialogue avec Wittgenstein. This work is built on fragments of philosophical text spoken in both French and German, as well as various musical segments by composers Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and the composer himself. The work was produces at the ELAK Institute of the University of Vienna Music and had two premieres. The German version in Vienna (1999) and the French version in Bourges (1999).
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Date: 1999
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-
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L'autre

Description: Recording of Edmund Campion's L'autre. This work explores the similarity between "consciousness and the unconscious" and the "contention for ascendancy between poetry and music". The piece begins with an emergence of consciousness - the birth of language out of sounds and syllables and dives into the development of the two elemental principles.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 19 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Campion, Edmund J., 1957-
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Des ondes, toujours des ondes

Description: Recording of Etienne Saur's Des ondes, toujours des ondes. This piece was composed within the framework of the open work "le Monde devenu musique l'écoute du siècle". The concept behind the piece is the idea that we are all surrounded by waves constantly: the telephone, radio, television, etc. The composer focuses mainly on the importance of the radio over the last century by highlighting significant events and their broadcasts.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Saur, Etienne
Partner: UNT Music Library

Molecules

Description: Recording of Didier Gino Favotti's Molecules. This work consists of various concrete and electroacoustic sounds that the composer states do not sound pleasing on their own, but come together to create a new sound space. It's separated into five movements that are untitled.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Favotti, Didier Gino
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Train fantôme

Description: Recording of Bernard Donzel Gargand's Train fantôme. This is a work for electronics and various concrete sounds.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Donzel Gargand, Bernard
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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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Ensemble: 1999-11-30 - UNT Concert Choir

Description: Concert presented at Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center.
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Date: November 30, 1999
Duration: 38 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Concert Choir.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ensemble: 1999-12-02 - Women's Chorus

Description: Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall
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Date: December 2, 1999
Duration: 42 minutes 01 second
Creator: University of North Texas. Women's Chorus.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Tango

Description: Recording of Gonzalo Biffarella's Tango. This work was commissioned by the WDR 3 of Cologne, Germany. This radiophonic piece was inspired by the origin of Tango and uses fragments from old songs as well as a lecture by Jorge Luis Borges about the topic. The text has been translated into German and French for segments of the work.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 32 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Biffarela, Gonzalo, 1961-
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Songline

Description: Recording of Frank Schweizer's Songline. This work is made up of 10 untitled movements and contains various concrete and electronic sounds.
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Date: 1999/2000
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 01 second
Creator: Schweizer, Frank, 1962-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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