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Röstband

Description: Recording of Tommy Zwedberg's Röstband performed by Kerstin Ståhl (mezzo-soprano), Jorgen Johanson (trombone), and Göran Rydberg (percussion).
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Date: 1982/1983
Duration: 14 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Zwedberg, Tommy
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ensemble: 2005-09-27 – Choral Fest 2005

Description: Choral Fest 2005 performance at the UNT College of Music Winspear Performance Hall
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Date: September 27, 2005
Duration: 51 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. Concert Choir.
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Spiritus

Description: Recording of Lennart Westman's Spiritus. This is a work for audio and video and consists of 3 movements: 1. Passacaglia Spiritus, 2. Spiritus Animatus, and 3. Graal Hommage. The work as a whole was inspired by the poetry of the Swedish poet, Gustaf Fröding as well as the music of Bach. All three movements premiered at ICMC2002 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The work consists of synthesized sounds as well as segments performed by a four-part choir with singers from two Stockholm choirs.
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Date: 1999/2002
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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Vigsel

Description: Recording of Lennart Westman's Vigsel. This piece is the second movement of home land trilogy. This work includes four voices from the Swedish Radio choir and electronically processed sounds of a violin, a cello, and sounds of nature. The lyrics of this piece are from a poem by Lennart Westman himself and reflects the journey back to his earth. The title of this piece alludes to the reunion with the forests and waters of Westman's own childhood.
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Date: 2003
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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The black box of gravity

Description: Recording of Lars Hojerdahl's The black box of gravity. The composer describes this work as being a piece without compromises, it is dense and "slightly neurotic".
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Date: 2003
Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Hojerdahl, Lars
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Everything under the snow is gratis

Description: Recording of Erik Peter's Everything under the snow is gratis. This work is for electronics.
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Date: 1998
Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Peters, Erik (composer)
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Everything (get out in the sunshine and play)

Description: Recording of Patrik Thorell's Everything (get out in the sunshine and play). The composer states that the Text-Soundcomposition is a sketch that slowly grew into a piece and that it holds a chronological structure with a beginning, middle, and end. The composer credits the title of the piece to a poem and uses it as a message to his collaborators, himself, and the listener.
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Date: 1999
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Thorell, Patrik, 1963-
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Spiritus

Description: Recording of Lennart Westman's Spiritus. This work consists of three movements accompanied by a music video: 1. Passacaglia Spiritus, 2. Spiritus Animatus, 3. Graal Hommage. The work is inspired by the poetry of Gustaf Fröding and the music of Bach. All three movements were premiered at ICMC2002 (International Computer Music Conference).
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Date: 1999/2002
Duration: 14 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Westman, Lennart
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Iops 3

Description: Recording of Anders Blomqvist's Iops 3. The composer has written a description of the story of the piece as follows: The intergalax IOPS3 spacecraft is no larger than a seed, and yet is equipped with an array of media detectors, collected information storage, communications equipment and personnel. The main character of the story makes a navigation error, and is sucked into the large ventilation system of the Munich brewery. (GMS in Stockholm). He sends distress signals to the main ship, but re… more
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Date: 19XX
Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Blomqvist, Anders, 1956-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover: American Jazz #1

Description: The second part of a broadcast which featured Willis Conover discussing the music of Duke Ellington, followed by a translation in Swedish by an unknown speaker. This program occurred more than five years before the beginning of Conover's long-running VOA program, Music USA.
Date: August 23, 1949
Duration: 14 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ensemble: 2005-11-18 - UNT Jazz Singers II

Description: Jazz vocals concert performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.
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Date: November 18, 2005
Duration: 48 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: UNT Jazz Singers II
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Närheter

Description: Recording of Åke Parmerud's Närheter. The title of the piece is a plural form of the word "closeness," which is rather untranslatable. The piece is a text-sound-composition, and was commissioned by the Swedish Radio. A large part of the piece is inspired by various sleep and dream manifestations. The text was written by the Swedish author Ella Hillbäck. Throughout the piece, even without knowing the meaning of the words, I believe one can feel the different "scenes" taking place. The first part… more
Date: 1978
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, Åke
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Narheter

Description: Recording of Ake Parmerud's Narheter. The title of the piece is a plural form of the word "closeness" which is rather untranslatable. The piece is a text-sound-composition and was commissioned by the Sverige Radio. A large part of the piece is mainly derived from various sleeping and dreaming events. The text is written by the Swedish author Ella Hillbeck, The first part of the piece is an "Ultimate story of Creation", at the same time implying the first phase of sleeping "half-conscious". The … more
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Date: 1978
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, Åke, 1953-
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Party

Description: Recording of Rune Lindblad's Party.
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Date: 1953/1954
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Lindblad, Rune, 1923-1991
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Your heart is a red train

Description: Recording of Francesco Boschetto's Your heart is a red train. The concrete material is prevalent as the main sound source and it is derived from life in the city of Stockholm. It is based on three poems, mainly on "Ditt Hjarta Ar Ett Rott Tag", by the Swedish writer Rold Aggestam and on two sonnets by Lorenzo "il Magnifico". The composer's personal experience seeps troughout the course of the piece: the sound of trains, people in subway stations and streets, solitude in the crowd; it is an itin… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 12 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Boschetto, Francesco, 1970-
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Biography

Description: Recording of Erik Peters' Biography. For electronics utilizing traditional electro-acoustic technique. This work is made up of 12 parts: 1. Prologue, 2. Ritournelle I, 3. Entre pre et fils. 4. Ritournelle II, 5. Vue sur la grande vallée, 6. Trios amis, 7. Ritournelle III, 8. Entre un homme et une femme, 9. D'un endroit pas trop loin des cimes des arbes, 10. Ritournelle IV, 11. Antipatio, and 12. Epilogue.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Peter, Erik
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Receiver

Description: Recording of Jonas Soderberg's Receiver. For voice and electronics. Towards the end of the century, the multitude of messages meeting over the airwaves and networks reached such a volume that transmitters as well as receivers lost their raison d'être. The amount of information has become an entity and the communicative aspect is no longer discernible. "Receiver" is an attempt to explore the function of the artist in this historical process.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
Creator: Söderberg, Jonas, 1959-
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L'Archer coupe l'air en deux

Description: Recording of Ragnar Grippe's L'Archer coupe l'air en deux. All the material was composed by the composer. The sound include soprano voice, voice, logs, water, toys, cello, piano, and radio waves. The technique used is very much based on the composers experiences from French Groupe de Recherches Musicales. MIDI sounds were made with a digital performer, sound on sound tools II, and manipulated with Turbo Synth SC.
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Date: 1994
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Grippe, Ragnar, 1951-
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Grains of voices

Description: Recording of Åke Parmerud's Grains of voices. The piece is composed as a continuous flow where thematical ideas and voices are formed. The opening of the piece uses the biblical words of genesis where "darkness" and "light" has been substituted with "silence" and "sound". The second part of the piece has the theme of memories of childhood in the form of lullaby's and children's songs from different country's. The next section carries the theme of prayers through the combination of the provocati… more
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Date: 1993/1995
Duration: 31 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Parmerud, Åke, 1953-
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