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6 electronic preludes

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's 6 electronic preludes for tape.
Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
Partner: UNT Music Library

8 Deustche Tänze

Description: Recording of Peter Wessing's 8 Deutsche Tanze.
Date: 1981/1982
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Wessing, Peter
Partner: UNT Music Library

Are we?

Description: Recording of Þorsteinn Hauksson's Are we? performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Fabrice Pierre. The piece if for two trumpets, two trombones, two percussionists, and tape. The message of the piece of music is unstated by the composer, but he says "music of the Muses can express it in a much clearer way" than spoken or written words.
Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Þorsteinn Hauksson, 1949-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Aux lampions

Description: Recording of Bertand Dubedout's "Aux lampions" ("To the lanterns"). Lampions are small oil lamps, formerly popular as a carriage light. It is a concrete piece in three movements: "Bal convexe" ("Convex ball"), "Le cocher" ("The coachman"), and "Sous les planches" ("Under the boards"). For writers like Bulgakov, Gogol, and Chekhov, the ball scene is often a story of action, tragedy, or desperation; the ball can ruin an existence or bring hope. Delight, delusion, and loneliness are the multiple s… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Dubedout, Bertrand
Partner: UNT Music Library

Aw/wW

Description: Recording of Miloš Petrović's Aw/wW ("Anton with-without Webern") for tape, interpreted by Ruža Petrović, Paul Pignon, and Miloš Petrović. Petrović uses the sound and structure in Anton Webern's works as a way of broadening the sound media in his own work. He places this work in a space defined by primal elements of different media, which allows for a greater number of operations on the speech-gesture relationship, while contributing to the cohesiveness of the result. Magnetic tape-transfected … more
Date: 1981
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Petrović, Miloš, 1952-2010
Partner: UNT Music Library

Blendings

Description: Recording of Clifford Taylor's "Blendings" performed by Clifford Taylor, clarinet. The piece focuses primarily on combining various registral sounds of the clarinet with synthesized sounds of a variety of timbres.
Date: 1981
Duration: 8 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Taylor, Clifford
Partner: UNT Music Library

Blueberry

Description: Recording of Gabriel Poulard's Blueberry for tape. The title refers to the name of a cartoon character. The piece was realized at Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourges (GMEB).
Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Poulard, Gabriel
Partner: UNT Music Library

Cancion de Madera y Agua

Description: Recording of Ricardo Mandolini's Cancion de Madera y Agua. This is an electroacoustic piece that was created with concrete sound materials. These materials include water and wood which are represented by means of two different musical propositions.
Date: 1981
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Mandolini, Ricardo, 1950
Partner: UNT Music Library

Circular Motions

Description: A recording of Maggi Payne's Circular Motions. Circular Motions was composed using a Moog III synthesizer and multi-track recording studio. Major concerns deal with spatial location and complex timbral changes. The video was created in real time utilizing a digital frame storage video system designed and built by video artist Ed Tannenbaum as well as and a Fairlight video processor. Reflective tape was used on a variety of objects which the composer choreographed, as well as fireworks and othe… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi
Partner: UNT Music Library

City of Reflexion

Description: Recording of Michael McNabb's City of Reflexion.
Date: 1981
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: McNabb, Michael, 1952-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Clair-Obscur

Description: Clair-Obscur, commissioned by the Musical Research Group, was composed in 1981-1982. The title refers to the chiaroscuro found in Rembrandt's works: the play of light and shadows that suggests a quasi-autonomous life on the surface of these paintings. In the composition, we find this game, realized in the sound matter, on the surface of which there are perpetual changes of nuances, colors and rhythm. Throughout today's western idiom and the technical means employed, we can hear distant echoes o… more
Date: 1981/1982
Duration: 17 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Leeuw, Ton de, 1926-1996
Partner: UNT Music Library

Conte à Niro II

Description: Recording of Philippe Menard's Conte à Niro II.
Date: 1981?
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Menard, Philippe, 1946-1999
Partner: UNT Music Library

Conversations

Description: Recording of Werner Kaegi's Conversations: Partie 2: Automne.
Date: 1981/1982
Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Kaegi, Werner
Partner: UNT Music Library

Couches 7s

Description: Recording of Simo Lazarov's Couches 7s. This piece uses 7 different layers of sound mixed to create a musical picture of Bulgarian folklore.
Date: 1981
Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Lazarov, Simo, 1948-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Danza Seconda

Description: Recording Theresa Rampazzi's Danza Seconda.
Date: 1981/1982
Duration: 40 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
Partner: UNT Music Library

The difference between a bird

Description: Recording of Peter Plompen's "The difference between a bird" for tape. The piece consists of three parts. The first part was created with a electronic music system. The second part is made with a piano and two microphones. The third part is made with an electronic music system, a piano and a microphone.
Date: 1981
Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Plompen, Peter
Partner: UNT Music Library

East Wind

Description: A recording of Barry Truax's East Wind for amplified recorder and four soundtracks. This work creates an intimate relation between the soloist, who performs on both alto and tenor recorder, and the tape, whose sounds are entirely derived from the modern and Renaissance soprano, alto, tenor, and contrabass recorders. The transformed sounds on tape create a "larger than life" image of the recorder through its harmonic drones, its extensions of human breath, its pipe-like resonances and percussive… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 55 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Truax, Barry
Partner: UNT Music Library

Eso silencios

Description: Recording of Coriún Aharonián's "Esos silencios" ("Those silences"). "Esos silencios" are the silences of our daily vital experience of the seventies in almost all Latin America. "We do not desire them, but they surround us always, until we finally succeed in breaking them," Aharonián wrote. It exclusively uses materials of microphonic origin. Some of the sounds have been made with instruments constructed in Guatemala by Joaqu’n Orellana. The decision to bring to life the piece at that histor… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Aharonián, Coriún, 1940-2017
Partner: UNT Music Library

Espaces III

Description: Spaces first, they coexist, they pass from one to the other, mix, then, a break, the dimension is different: we have entered the micromonds of the sound that develop, as if the spaces had become immense -
Date: 1981
Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Boesch, Rainer, 1938-2014
Partner: UNT Music Library

Flautas, voces, animales, pájaros, sierra, la fragua de protones, trompetas, frialdad con sangre, arpas judías, trompetillas, agua, agujero negro

Description: Music for a fantastic choreography of black holes. Here are its parts: dancing black holes play the mirliton, the trumpet and the jew's harp; devouring black holes forge protons; vociferous black holes engulf birds and animals; black flutes fill the cold holes with blood; proton saws trump water; fluttering forges arouse black voices.
Date: 1981
Duration: 15 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Polonio, Eduardo, 1941-
Partner: UNT Music Library

Funny Death

Description: Recording of Durand Begault's Funny Death. "The composition invites the listener to consider the movement of sounds and the synthetic space which they move through. Funny Death should be listened to in darkness so that concentration of the movement may be facilitated." - Durand Begault
Date: 1981
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Begault, Durand R., 1957-
Partner: UNT Music Library

La gamme

Description: Recording of Yves Daoust's La gamme. This is a work for electronics.
Date: 1981/2000
Duration: 15 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Daoust, Yves
Partner: UNT Music Library

L'imminence de la lumière

Description: Recording of Daniel Arfib's "L'imminence de la lumière" ("The imminence of light"). It is one of the several pieces of computer music Arfib created as a researcher and composer.
Date: 1981
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Arfib, Daniel
Partner: UNT Music Library

Impulsioni I-IV

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Impulsioni I-IV. Impulsioni I-III was realized at the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm. The three etudes are built on synthetic sound material. There is a strong influence from The Basilica di san Clemente in Rome and a sense of Good and Evil, a theme that was to remain important all through Rózmann’s life. In 1981, he made Impulsioni I-IV adding on a fourth part containing sounds from sparrows, among other things.
Date: 1981
Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos
Partner: UNT Music Library
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