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Ensemble: 2001-11-08 - African Percussion Ensemble

Description: Ensemble performance at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.
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Date: November 8, 2001
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: African Percussion Ensemble
Partner: UNT Music Library

Ensemble: 2015-11-18 – African Percussion Ensemble

Description: A percussion ensemble recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
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Date: November 18, 2015
Duration: 55 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: African Percussion Ensemble
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Ensemble: 2015-04-11 - African Cultural Festival

Description: An ensemble concert performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
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Date: April 11, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Afrikania Cultural Troupe
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Ensemble: 2011-04-02 – African Cultural Festival

Description: Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.
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Date: April 2, 2011
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Afrikania Cultural Troupe & Alorwoyie, Torgbui Midawo Gideon Foli
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Spermanence

Description: This work uses, with rudimentary means, the fixed qualities of a piano sound sampled by the lack of an AKAI factory. Despite a rather hollow sound that I sought in this sonata to give a field of expression quite extended to the possibilities of putting in play offered by the computer. The piece is in three movements, essentially based on the deployment of an initial agreement. At any moment, I voluntarily appealed to a rhetorical break of form, an appeal to our routed memory, to become, and ye… more
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Date: 1980
Duration: 22 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Agam, Orram, 1963-
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C.L.B. 512

Description: Recording of Klaus Ager's C.L.B. 512 for clarinet and recording.
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Date: 1986
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Ager, Klaus
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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
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Date: 1981
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Aharonián, Coriún, 1940-2017
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Que

Description: Recording of Coriún Aharonián's Que, spoken text performed by Armando Halty. All of the sound material, besides the spoken text, is electronically generated sounds. It was composed between July and October 1969 and was realized in the Laboratorio de Moesica Electronica of the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 4 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Aharonián, Coriún, 1940-2017
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Secas las pilas de todos los timbre

Description: Recording of Coriun Aharonian's Secas las pilas de todos los timbre. This piece comes from sound documents of different places and times connected one way or another to the composer. With one exception, all pitches have been left un-modified and while there are no electronic sounds, the piece has been composed with a computer using various software programs. The title partially quotes two lines from the lyrics of a well known tango composed by Enrique Santos DiscŽpolo in 1930, and are untransla… more
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Date: 1995
Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Aharonián, Coriún, 1940-2017
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Fantasy

Description: Recording of James Aikman's Fantasy. It is a work for violin and tape. This piece is in five short sections ranging from lyric to bold sounds and there are quarter-tone inflections in the tape part. The violin is sampled and digitally edited which is used tp provide the bulk of the tape dialogue. There is also use of synchronous music with the soloist and the tape. The last instrument and technique is composing a unified free interplay where synchronization is not indented.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Aikman, James
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Hyper mix : sent to analyze lifeforms

Description: Recording of James Aikman's Hyper mix: sent to analyze lifeforms. The work combines digital sampling/editing of non-musical sound sources, including stationary exercise bicycles, rowing machines, clangorous weights, and a basketball scrimmage, with digitally sampled and edited musical source material (harp, flute, trumpet, voice, saxophone, drums, and full orchestra). Frequency modulation synthesis and digital effects processing are also used in this work. This piece refers not only to various … more
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Date: 1991
Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Aikman, James
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Tragoida/Komoidia

Description: Tragoidia 1) A dramatic or literary work depicting a protagonist engaged in a morally significal struggle ending in ruin or profound disappointment. 2) 2) Any dramatic, disastrous event. Komoidia : We now and now enter the region of a big guy who eats pies and does not lie in the sun but always tells the truth without shades. With his mephitic breath he sings for night watchmen who intrepidly become character traits as they watch him introduce the players. There are buzzards, there are child… more
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Date: 1987
Duration: 9 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Aikman, James
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Dreaming hills

Description: Recording of Marc Ainger's Dreaming hills. This work uses Javanese music to guide the temporal and spectral musical unfolding. Technique and instruments include a Super Phase Vocoder, and C-sound (granular synthesis and various combinations of additive and FM synthesis).
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Date: 1995
Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Ainger, Marc
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