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Tape 62 Side A

Description: Akha songs and narratives. Àbɔ́qɔ: sjhá daŋ daŋ ə, làq xhö́ thó ə Maeby 12/8-79
Date: August 12, 1979
Duration: 30 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Tape 62 Side B

Description: Akha songs and narratives. Continued from Side A. Àbɔ́qɔ: sjhá daŋ daŋ ə, làq xhö́ thó ə Maeby 12/8-79
Date: August 12, 1979
Duration: 30 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information

Ekphonesis V

Description: Recording of Alcides Lanza's Ekphonesis V. For actress-singer, lights, and electronic music. This work is rooted in the composer's continuing interest with "memories". This piece explores the "library" of memories, reflections, thoughts, and ideas, supposedly encountered if the soloist could enter the composer's brain. During this "tour of the brain," the "tourist" is confronted with the recollections of the composer, plus her own memories.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Lanza, Alcides
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Senza Voci 2

Description: Recording of Guido Baggiani's Senza Voci 2. This work is a piece in three parts. From a base material consisting of four sine waves, three groups of sine waves were derived. The frequency spectrum results from a process of amplitude modulation. There are two different levels of the same process. First level: frequencies belonging to the same group modulate each other. Such reports generate, for each group, four different "Group States". Second level: frequencies belonging to one group modulate … more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 6 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Baggiani, Guido
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Directions

Description: Recording of Rolf Enstrom's Directions. For computer and electronic sound. Most of the sound material was produced at EMS' electroacoustic music studio as well as its analog studio. Following the composers instructions, the computer gives some musical objects, to the performer. That are needed and that the composer or creator can work on in the analog studio. Another objective was to work in an instrumental way with electronic material.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Enström, Rolf, 1951-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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[JBAAL 1st "Medal of Merit" awards banquet]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the 1st "Medal of Merit" Annual Awards Banquet for the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters held on June 30th, 1979. The tape includes two tracks of audio that are generally noisy and intelligible. Track 1 covers the awards banquet speakers and track 2 a performance by Helen Monday of "My Living Shall Not Be in Vein".
Date: June 30, 1979
Duration: 59 minutes 05 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Book party and music performance]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a book party and associated performance. Track one records the performers and the second the book talk with people talking indistinctly.
Date: October 13, 1979
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 49 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Book party and music performance, tape 2]

Description: Audio cassette from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a book party and associated performance. The tape has one track that includes semi-clear dialogue that concludes with a choir singing.
Date: October 13, 1979
Duration: 16 minutes 06 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Sister kate, S. HZ

Description: Recording of Anthony Holland's Sister kate, S. HZ. Originally written for clarinettist Jeffrey C. West, this work is intended as an abstrack work for clarinet and tape. The work recounts some of the sounds heard by two young "bohemian" musicians on their first trip to Paris, France around 1978. It also references a missed appointment with Nadia Boulanger.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Holland, Anthony G.
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What the River Said

Description: Recording of Gene Carl's What the River Said. This composition is based on the sound of a piano string (played by an impulse generator through an electro magnet) is rotated around 4 loudspeakers. After many listenings, the movements of the sounds took on musical forms. The composer created both smallest and largest structures on which the piece is based. Through extensive tape manipulations a spectrum of sounds evolved from the first sound sources. The title comes from the poem, " the Wasteland… more
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Date: 1979/1981
Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Carl, Gene, 1953-
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Klangbild

Description: Recording of Klaus Röder's Klangbild. The basis of this piece was a guitar improvisation. The tape with the recorded guitar sounds was cut at suitable points. The cut pieces were sorted and classified. So there were several small musical motifs which were instrumented afterwards by electronic means.
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Date: 1979/1980
Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Röder, Klaus, 1948-
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The Pulses of Time

Description: Recording of Denis Smalley's The Pulses of Time. The Pulses of Time reflect the varied behavior of pulses: the regular pulses of meter, the much slower pulses which pace sections of music, and pulses which form the interior character of sounds - the accelerating pulses of a bouncing sound, and the fast pulses creating the grain in sound textures, for example. The different atmospheres in the work are generated by the major sound sources: the electronic bounced family of sounds, metallic harmoni… more
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Date: 1979/1980
Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Smalley, Denis, 1946-
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Trio Prosodico II

Description: Recording of Arrigo Lora-Totino's Trio Prosodico. This work is modeled after a 'da camera' musical. There is no instrumental music. There is the natural melody of the diction, in three contemporary voices. All three voices are the composer.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Lora-Totino, Arrigo
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Convergence and Divergence

Description: Recording of Shin'ichi Morita's Convergence and Divergence. This piece was made using the sound of spinning lens. The spinning lens gradually converges on account of gravitation. This sound makes rhythm of natural acceleration. And by reversion of tape, the convergence changes to divergence.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes
Creator: Morita, Shinʼichi, 1948-
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Ku-Gu-Ku

Description: Recording of Usko Merilainen's Ku-Gu-Ku.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Meriläinen, Usko
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B-A-C-H

Description: Recording of Jozef Malovec's B-A-C-H. The following materials are used in this composition: with a determined certain tone pitch such as succession of tones B-A-C-H at different pitches and transformations, two citations from the work of J. S. Bach realized on the synthesizer ARP plus the play-back of alto recorder/cantus firmus of the second--complete citation, slowed formants of the vowels in the introduction, with undetermined tone pitch such as noises and short impulsed formations at a diff… more
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Date: 1979
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Malovec, Jozef, 1933-1998
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Salve Regina

Description: Recording of Roland Willmann's Salve Regina. The Gregorian chorale Salve Regina was the point of departure of this work in that the composer tried to alter the original form but followed and supported it in a formal and expressive way using electronic sounds. The usage of the initial motif to the final corresponds to the cyclical form of the same chorale. The repetitive formula mentioned in the chorale is another structural element that were created in 3 echo recordings.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 8 minutes
Creator: Willmann, Roland, 1956-
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Le Lac

Description: Recording of Daniel Vermette's Le Lac.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Vermette, Daniel (Composer)
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Fromholz Live

Description: Audio recording of a live performance by Steven Fromholz. Tracklist: 1. Tequila. 2. Isla Mujeres. 3. Dear Darcy. 4. Dimmy Deans Poor Puke Sauce Linkages/Redneck Mother. 5. Rest Area Waltz. 6. Aunt Minnie and Bears. 7. She's A Lady. 8. Late Night Neon Shadows. 9. Jane's House.
Date: 1979
Duration: 50 minutes
Creator: Fromholz, Steven
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Unthaitled

Description: Recording of Carl Stone's Unthaitled.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Stone, Carl, 1953-
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Beginning of the Spring

Description: Recording of Takehito Shimazu's Beginning of the Spring.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Shimazu, Takehito, 1949-
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Picnic Four

Description: Recording of David Kenneth Mason's Picnic Four.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 54 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Mason, David Kenneth
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Apostagie

Description: Recording of Takehito Shimazu's Apostagie. This work is only composed with sine waves. This is one of Shimazu's conclusions for the pursuit of topological form. The piece was created at the Berlin Studio (FRG).
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Date: 1979
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Shimazu, Takehito, 1949-
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Waveforms

Description: Recording of John Celona's Waveforms. The source material is the Pacific Ocean recorded with a portable Stellavox while standing knee-deep in breaking waves and following their peaks and cascades with microphones. The material was then mixed in a studio according procedures derived from Fibonacci series with followed from the sequence of wave patterns on the particular day the recording was made.
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Date: 1979
Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Celona, John, 1947-
Partner: UNT Music Library
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