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Mouvements

Description: Recording of Benno Ammann's Mouvements. Realized at the Ipem Studio in November 1976. Two main structures, computer-controlled (and partly alienated and distorted), form the basic material of the piece, and are mixed, varied and transformed into new sound formations in an aleatoric process by means of high-low filters, tempophones and feedback subjected to variable time. Contrasting sound elements (more figurative characters), produced on the apparatuses DATAPULSE and WAVETEK of Ipem’s studio,… more
Date: 1976
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Ammann, Benno, 1904-1986
Partner: UNT Music Library

Mouvements

Description: Recording of Benno Ammann's Mouvements.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Ammann, Benno, 1904-1986
Partner: UNT Music Library

Evolution inexorable et environnement humain

Description: Recording of Peter Beyls's Evolution inexorable et environnement humain.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Beyls, P. (Peter), 1950-
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Studie I

Description: Recording of Jeff Bossin's Studie I. The composer's first electronic work, composed in 1975. It represents a study in the development and structuring of material derived from three phonemes.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Bossin, Jeff
Partner: UNT Music Library

Studie I

Description: Recording of Jeffery Bossin's Studie I. The composer's first electronic work, composed in 1975. It represents a study in the development and structuring of material derived from three phonemes.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Bossin, Jeffery
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Chile Fertil Provincia...

Description: Recording of Gabriel Berncic's "Chile Fertil Provincia..." Electronic and instrumental sounds, recorded and processed onto four tracks, make up an autonomous flow. To this are added percussion, viola, double bass, tumbadoras and voices, these instruments-persons bringing new visions to the ensemble through the free creation of sequences and/or parallel discourses. "Chile fertil provincia" is the opening line in Alonso de Ercilla y Zœ–iga's La Araucana, the long epic poem which was the first to … more
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Date: 1976/1983
Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Music Library

Treesway Solo

Description: Recording of Lief Brush's Treesway Solo. The only coloration that was employed in early sound handling was through equalization, balancing and combining mix-downs. Structure-wise, the piece centers around spaces in spaces, scale and proportion and the composer's soundworks effect an awareness of the psychological effects of sounds, for instance, from trees and wind transformation via the composer's windribbon. The basic groundwork includes several recyclings of the TerraInstruments including t… more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Brush, Leif
Partner: UNT Music Library

Treesway Solo

Description: Recording of Leif Brush's Treesway Solo. “After an intense period of analog familiarization with the range and enormity of available sounds extraterrestrial and in nature, I tried the only techniques then available to me, tape manipulation and speaker placements. The only coloration that I employed in early sound handling was through equalization, balancing and combining mix-downs. I have always monitored from nearly neutral sensors, and my interest has been in trading, configuring and juxtapo… more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Brush, Leif
Partner: UNT Music Library

Tutti frutti

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Caesar's Tutt frutti.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Caesar, Rodolfo
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Espai Sonor

Description: Recording of José Luis Callejo's Espai Sonor for oboe and tape, performed by Gabriel Brnčić, oboe.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Callejo, José Luis
Partner: UNT Music Library

Sintering

Description: Recording of Tony Van Campen's Sintering.
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Date: 1976/1977
Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Campen, Tony van, 1951-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Timbral-Orchestral

Description: Recording of John Anthony Celona's Timbral-Orchestral.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Celona, John, 1947-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Abracadabra

Description: Recording of Edmund Cionek's Abracadabra.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Cionek, Edmund
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #7879-A, Music of Johnny Mercer

Description: The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, and the first of seven programs in memory of Johnny Mercer.
Date: July 26, 1976
Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #7881-A, Interview with Johnny Mercer

Description: The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, and the second of seven programs in memory of Johnny Mercer, including excerpts from an interview with Mercer conducted on January 30, 1970.
Date: July 28, 1976
Duration: 31 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #7893-A, Interview with Johnny Mercer

Description: The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, and the last of seven programs in memory of Johnny Mercer, including excerpts from an interview with Mercer conducted on January 30, 1970.
Date: August 9, 1976
Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library

Kiwi Mesh

Description: Recording of Matthew Crowe's Kiwi Mesh.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 7 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Crowe, Matthew
Partner: UNT Music Library

Natural Images

Description: Recording of Hugh Davies's Natural Images. This is the first of two compositions related to the sounds of the animal kingdom (two more are planned), and it was originally composed for a dance group. The different sections of the piece evoke but do not exactly imitate various sound-worlds from nature.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Davies, Hugh, 1943-2005
Partner: UNT Music Library

Moll (opéra-lilliput pour 6 roches molles)

Description: Recording of Marcelle Deschênes's Moll (opéra-lilliput pour 6 roches molles). An open composition, MOLL (“Soft”) is presented in its full version as an outdoor show and "plain-breath" in 60 beaches, known for: 1) mimes or dancers 2) mobile and sound decors, and floors with sound 3) wind, blast, white noise 4) acoustic instruments (vibrating air, percussion) 5) live electronic instruments 6) magnetic tape (concrete sounds not transformed: insects, water, birds, boat, etc.) electronic sounds, mus… more
Date: 1976
Duration: 23 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Deschênes, Marcelle
Partner: UNT Music Library

Métonymie ou le corps impossible

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Métonymie ou le corps impossible. Two possible readings: 1) "Metonymy", figure of rhetoric; "An object is designated by the no of a similar object". Uses 4 families of sound sources: musical instruments, voices, concert and electronic sounds. Most sound objects are "diverted" from their context; in this lies metonymy. Each family offers collections of objects cutting the duration in pulsed time/smooth time by contrasts, oppositions, slips ... It is also a discou… more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 17 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis
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Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Espaces sonores pour des textes de Jean Tortel. This piece begins with the poet himself (Jean Tortel) reading his poem aloud and then exchanging verses with a female speaker. Instrumental sections of music fill in the gaps between the speakers or play softly beneath the spoken voice.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis, 1926-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Création mondiale

Description: Recording of Jacques Diennet's Création mondiale. This piece is a synthetic prelude with a classic form. The composer used wide sound tracks/slides to spread concrete and electronic sound plates.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 10 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Diennet, Jacques
Partner: UNT Music Library

De Profundis

Description: Recording of Joseph Dorfman's De Profundis.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Dorfman, Joseph
Partner: UNT Music Library
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