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Faculty Recital: 1993-03-30 - Jill Trinka

Description: A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall. It includes a variety of folksongs and ballads from Anglo-American, British, and Irish traditions, and songs made by contemporary singer-songwriters that are passed in aural tradition.
Date: March 30, 1993
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Trinka, Jill
Partner: UNT Music Library

Orbitas elipticas

Description: Recording of Carlos Farinas' Orbitas elipticas. The Orbis Musicae program, developed at EMEC by Ruben Hinojosa, is based on the conception of the elliptical orbital motion of a planetary system, which generates sound frequencies. Then real-time sound generation with a chromatic scale and a pre-established configuration and MIDI output (the program allows 16 MIDI outputs). The piece is an optimal generation function of the five rises and falls. FM sources (DX7 II) were used in only three main ob… more
Date: 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Fariñas, Carlos, 1934-2002
Partner: UNT Music Library

Painting legs on the snake

Description: Recording of Ron Averill's Painting legs on a snake. This work refers to an exercise in futility, which describes why the composer came to appreciate piano composition. Many literary works of the 19th century deals with the piano reflecting a dissatisfaction linked to the timbre of this instrument, which sparked questions about tonal modes and tone color. Rather than composing a tonal piece on the piano, modified already existing piano works were put through the NEXT computer and organized to c… more
Date: 1993
Duration: 15 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Averill, Ron, 1962-
Partner: UNT Music Library

El otro Espejo

Description: Recording of Raul Minsburg's El otro Espejo. This work offers a type of action, sound, and in a sense, form of some works of the '50s and '60s made with analog equipment; but here made with recent equipment, digital and especially with a synthesizer having additive synthesis, which interferes with all the sounds of the work, including a kind of voice, at the end of the work. There are several sections that create a specific relationship of density, polyphony, and texture due to the interaction … more
Date: 1993/1994
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Minsburg, Raúl, 1965-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Duo concertant - le conte du troubadour

Description: Recording of YeeOn Lo's Duo concertant - le conte du troubadour. This work begins with a highly theatrical noisy environment. Throughout the piece the music transforms from layered, mobile imaginary to a soft, introspective soliloquy on the piano melding into a meditation about nature. The beginning plucked-string sound are derived from samples. All the other sounds, except the piano, are digitally synthesized.
Date: 1993
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Lo, YeeOn, 1945-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cymbals: reminiscencia

Description: Recording of Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso's Cymbal: reminiscencia. The piece is divided into two movements: Ostinato and Reminiscences. The first begins with a repeated phrase, performed by a pair of cymbals, punctuated by strong attacks. As this short talk progresses with the cymbal intervention becoming hectic and irregular, the initially limited spatial perspective widens when the first cymbal strike occurs. As the piece develops, new sounds enter the scene, interacting with each other and crea… more
Date: 1993
Duration: 15 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Velloso, Rodrigo Cicchelli
Partner: UNT Music Library

Musica par ninos (1)

Description: Recording of André Serre-Milan's Musica par ninos (1). This work is part of a collection of piece translating to "music for children". The piece uses electronic sound and pre-recorded electronically manipulated sound. There is a childish sound to this piece, which incorporates harmony, texture, and electronic orchestration to create a fun and upbeat sound environment for the listeners.
Date: 1993
Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Serre-Milan, André, 1965-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Transcending the body & soul...

Description: Recording of Simon Hall's Transcending the body & soul... The name was inspired by the source materials of the piece: brass instruments, percussion, bodily sounds, and samples from American soul artists. The sounds sources are then treated and transformed acousmatically using a whole range of analogue and digital technique. The intention is to take the listener on a series of contrasting soundscapes and to create links to the present sound world.
Date: 1993/1994
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Hall, Simon, 1964-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Si tan solo fueramos libres...

Description: Recording of Rodolfo Acosta's Si tan solo fueramos libres. This work is for guitar and electronics. This work explores the possibilities of electronically manipulated guitar and a wide variety of traditional electroacoustic technique.
Date: 1993
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Acosta R., Rodolfo, 1970-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Doppio solo (Neuromante)

Description: Recording of Luigi Ceccarelli's Doppio solo. It is for saxophone quartet. There is a lot of effects and contemporary technique. All the different instruments explore range, sound, different tonguing techniques, and simply using the mechanical structure and sounds. The electronic effects enhance the acoustic instruments and support the overall direction of the piece.
Date: 1993
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Ceccarelli, Luigi
Partner: UNT Music Library

Grand jeu

Description: Recording of Dieter Kaufmann's Grand jeu. Throughout this piece the accordion needs to find its identity. The pathos of "serious" music and an experimental position, he fights against his mirror image which is reflected to him by the loudspeakers. All the sounds of the band are produced in the "accordion sound factory", They have been transformed and worked in the studio to become the counter-image of the accordionist. The composition is made up of three scenes: sketch-waltz, sketch-tango, and … more
Date: 1993
Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Kaufmann, Dieter, 1941-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Vision urbaine II ou Annecy… et moi aussi !

Description: Recording of Philippe Moënne-Loccoz's Vision urbaine II ou Annecy… et moi aussi! This work discusses the dissatisfaction from a composer's point of view and adds musical touches. These added changes makes these atmospheres resonate, which makes the work more alive, timeless, and technical.
Date: 1993
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Moënne-Loccoz, Pierre
Partner: UNT Music Library

!Freedom anyway

Description: Recording of Robert Grassi's !Freedom anyway. Instruments include sampler akai s1100, tx 802 and Yamaha dx7 synthesizers, and effects from the spx 1000. The samples used where Jaco Pastorius, Michael Hedges, Santana Lard, Miles Davis, Steve Reich.
Date: 1993
Duration: 30 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Grassi, Roberto
Partner: UNT Music Library

Piatek

Description: Recording of Daniel Park's Piatek. This work uses voice in different languages and styles, which are interrupted by fragments of electronics. The synthesized sound are very still and have many harmonies. The segments of speech are either processed and put through effects or kept as is containing little to no digital processing.
Date: 1993
Duration: 54 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Bernstein, Daniel
Partner: UNT Music Library

Topos-2 or paradise has no apple-tree

Description: Recording of Petros Theodorou's Topos-2 or paradise has no apple-tree. The work is based on a series of works by Herman Blaut entitles "Paradise Has No Apple-tree". The musical piece has kept the initial title, but added the phrase "TOPOS-2", the meeting point of two artistic forms. There is a dream-like, purely "psychoanalytic" dimension to this work, with the harmonic complexity and electronics. This work is made up of five sections: White canvas, First draft, The child-painter, Fear, and The… more
Date: 1993
Duration: 14 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Theodorou, Petros
Partner: UNT Music Library

The Nagual

Description: Recording of Mesias Maiguashca's The Nagual. This work is inspired by the first four books by Carlos Casta–eda on the practice of magic among the Yaqui Indians in Mexico. The technical starting point of the cycle was a metal construction. This instrument consists of a framework on which metal objects are hung on nylon threads; these are then 'played' with a bow or mallet and amplified using contact microphones. There is a dialogue between the sounds played "live" by the two players and the soun… more
Date: 1993
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Maiguashca, Mesias
Partner: UNT Music Library

Three postludes in one movement

Description: Recording of YeeOn Lo's Three postludes in One movement. Each postlude attempts to explore a different range of timbre, texture, and sonority, with an overall goal of joining synthetic and natural sound. The piece was realized completely by digital means on a general purpose computer using four techniques: synthesis by analysis, convolution with various types of impulse responses, shaping, and mixing.
Date: 1993
Duration: 10 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Lo, YeeOn, 1945-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Inside Outfide Ghatam

Description: Recording of Jean-Marc Weber's Inside Outfide Ghatam. This piece is built from concrete sound elements of which we can only see a few snippets of the raw state. The transformations and progressive mutations of the basic sound material transcribe and reflect the inner voices / internal paths.
Date: 1993
Duration: 13 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Weber, Jean-Marc
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ajikan

Description: Recording of Atsushi Yamaji's Ajikan. This piece is music for a funeral. Its ceremonial landscape is on a method for deep meditation in native religion and for harmonizing with universal nature. Therefore, it is a requiem for a soul after death and a periodic divine providence of nature.
Date: 1993
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Yamaji, Atsushi, 1968-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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