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Treesway Solo

Description: Recording of Lief Brush's Treesway Solo. The only coloration that was employed in early sound handling was through equalization, balancing and combining mix-downs. Structure-wise, the piece centers around spaces in spaces, scale and proportion and the composer's soundworks effect an awareness of the psychological effects of sounds, for instance, from trees and wind transformation via the composer's windribbon. The basic groundwork includes several recyclings of the TerraInstruments including t… more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Brush, Leif
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Studie I

Description: Recording of Jeff Bossin's Studie I. The composer's first electronic work, composed in 1975. It represents a study in the development and structuring of material derived from three phonemes.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Bossin, Jeff
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Sintering

Description: Recording of Tony Van Campen's Sintering.
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Date: 1976/1977
Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Campen, Tony van, 1951-
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Childish Dreams

Description: Recording of Bohdan Mazurek's Childish Dreams.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Mazurek, Bohdan
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Ambulator Memorensis

Description: Recording of Michael Keane's Ambulator Nemorensis. This piece was put together as a preliminary study for an experimental film by Nicholas Kendall called Tala. While the actual music used in Tala was quite different from Ambulator Nemorensis both are attempts to create an imaginary landscape (or to use Murray Schaefer's term "soundscape").
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Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
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Mouvements

Description: Recording of Benno Ammann's Mouvements.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Ammann, Benno, 1904-1986
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Guimauve

Description: Recording of Franck Royon Le Mee's Guimauve.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 13 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Le Mée, Franck Royon
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Spheres

Description: Recording of Maggi Payne's Spheres. Composed using the Moog synthesizer, this four channel electronic piece deals with spatial displacement via carefully controlled phase, pitch, and location relationships.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 30 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi
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Drive

Description: Recording of Reynold Weidenaar's Drive.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Weidenaar, Reynold, 1945-
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Transparencies

Description: Recording of Maggi Payne's Transparencies. Composed using the Moog synthesizer, this four channel electronic piece deals with spatial displacement via carefully controlled phase, pitch, and location relationships. Synchronized slide projections frequently accompany performances of this work. The title derives from the projection of transparencies (slides) of oscilloscope images and from the transparency/delicacy of the sounds used in the piece.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 31 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Payne, Maggi
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Prélude Pour Fête Foraine Et Synthétiseur

Description: Recording of Jean Piche's Prélude Pour Fête Foraine Et Synthétiseur. This piece is an exploration of the acoustic structure of a popular party. The environmental sections of the work come from a binaural recording of a party crowd gathered for the annual Carnival parade in the city of Quebec. The moments preserved are those preceding the arrival of the parade. The core of the piece was done in the studio with a MOOG synthesizer, using the temporal structure of the environment as a medium. In a … more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Piché, Jean, 1951-
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Barriers

Description: Recording of Daniel Starr's Barriers. Barriers is a quadraphonic electronic composition, which was composed in the interval May-June of 1976 in the Yale Electronic Music Studio, using both classical and control-voltage technique. It comprises 30 brief sections lasting 8 to 45 second each, which are in turn divided into two larger sequences of 15 sections, separated from each other by several seconds of dead silence in the center of the piece. Each section on either side of the piece explores a … more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 40 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Starr, Daniel Victor
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Vertical Prelude

Description: Recording of Takehito Shimazu's Vertical Prelude. The material of this work consists of instrument sounds, violin, bassoon, clarinet, etc. and voices: man, woman, oscillators and concrete sounds. The tones appear mainly in the highest and lowest registers of instruments or voices in this work. This work was produced in the studio of Shimazu and that of the TAT in September 1976.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Shimazu, Takehito, 1949-
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17 Juni 1944

Description: Recording of Thorsteinn Hauksson's 17 Juni 1944.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 50 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Þorsteinn Hauksson, 1949-
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Timbral-Orchestral

Description: Recording of John Anthony Celona's Timbral-Orchestral.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Celona, John, 1947-
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Contort Continuum

Description: Recording of Satoshi Sumitani's Contort Continuum.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Sumitani, Satoshi, 1932-
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Melismi 2

Description: Recording of Teresa Rampazi's Melismi 2.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 39 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Rampazzi, Teresa
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4 Poèmes

Description: Recording of Eugeniusz Rudnik's 4 Poèmes made in a technique for a recording studio of hand-held electronic music. The sound material is based on electronic effects, rustling, instrumental and vocal sounds. Each part is integral, allowing them to present in the order of choice.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Rudnik, Eugeniusz
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Studie I

Description: Recording of Jeffery Bossin's Studie I. The composer's first electronic work, composed in 1975. It represents a study in the development and structuring of material derived from three phonemes.
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Date: 1976
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Bossin, Jeffery
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Métonymie ou le corps impossible

Description: Recording of Francis Dhomont's Métonymie ou le corps impossible. Two possible readings: 1) "Metonymy", figure of rhetoric; "An object is designated by the no of a similar object". Uses 4 families of sound sources: musical instruments, voices, concert and electronic sounds. Most sound objects are "diverted" from their context; in this lies metonymy. Each family offers collections of objects cutting the duration in pulsed time/smooth time by contrasts, oppositions, slips ... It is also a discou… more
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Date: 1976
Duration: 17 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Dhomont, Francis
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Ambulator Nemorensis

Description: Recording of David Keane's Ambulator Nemorensis. "Ambulator Nemorensis" was put together as a preliminary study for an experimental film by Nicholas Kendall called Tala. While the actual music used in Tala was quite different from “Ambulator Nemorensis” both are attempts to create an imaginary landscape (or to use Murray Schaefer's term "soundscape"). This piece is an honest attempt to create something beautiful.
Date: 1976
Duration: 9 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Keane, David, 1943-2017
Partner: UNT Music Library

Moll (opéra-lilliput pour 6 roches molles)

Description: Recording of Marcelle Deschênes's Moll (opéra-lilliput pour 6 roches molles). An open composition, MOLL (“Soft”) is presented in its full version as an outdoor show and "plain-breath" in 60 beaches, known for: 1) mimes or dancers 2) mobile and sound decors, and floors with sound 3) wind, blast, white noise 4) acoustic instruments (vibrating air, percussion) 5) live electronic instruments 6) magnetic tape (concrete sounds not transformed: insects, water, birds, boat, etc.) electronic sounds, mus… more
Date: 1976
Duration: 23 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Deschênes, Marcelle
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Prélude pour fête foraine et synthétiseur

Description: Recording of Jean Piché's Prélude pour fête foraine et synthétiseur. This piece is an exploration of the acoustic structure of a popular festival. The environmental sections of the work come from a binaural recording of a celebratory crowd gathered for the annual parade, Carnival of Quebec City. The moments preserved are those preceding the arrival of the parade. The core of the piece was made in the studio with a MOOG synthesizer, using the temporal structure of the environment as a support. T… more
Date: 1976
Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Piché, Jean
Partner: UNT Music Library
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