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Men, minds, and music

OTUFM 11-C-1
File
1963

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains budget notes, publicity releases, programs, and newspaper reviews.

Wordmusic : In the beginning was the word

OTUFM 11-F-1
File
[1973-1974]

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Item is a reel-to-reel tape from Pat Elliott, recorded at three schools of art in Toronto.

Lugu kolmest õest, op. 9 : for orchestra

OTUFM 11-A-1
File
1947

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Perception studies

OTUFM 11-D-1
File
1971

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Canavangard : correspondence with contributing composers

OTUFM 11-E-1
File
1967-1969

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains correspondence with: Istvan Anhalt, George Caccioppo, Barney Childs, Lowell Cross, Serge Garant, Hugh Hartwell, Syd Hodkinson, Peter Huse, Otto Joachim, Lynn Lonidier, Alvin Lucier, John Mills-Cockell, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, John Rea, Murray Schafer, and Gilles Tremblay.

Haiku : for voice, flute, violoncello, and piano

OTUFM 11-B-1
File
1961

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains sketches, manuscript and printed scores, playing instructions, and a typescript of the playing order for a performance on April 21, 1963. The file also includes correspondence from John Adaskin (Canadian Music Centre) and Geoffrey Payzant (Canadian Music Journal).

Preludio sinfonico, op. 23 : for orchestra

OTUFM 11-A-10
File
1950

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Terrestrial texts of the year of the iron cock

OTUFM 11-D-10
File
1981-1982

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains daily acrostics on I Ching and other readings.

Schoolmusics

OTUFM 11-E-10
File
1971

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains mini-midi-maxi-mix charts; songbirdsong tape charts; 1 + 1; musicgames; and, sound studies.

MMM : lecturessays on music, materi, makers, media : educational projects

OTUFM 11-C-10
File
1968

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains draft of texts, sketches of illustrations, and performance instruction charts.

Kasemets and Marina [Krilovici] : Trigon : part 2 of 2

OTUFM 11-F-10
File
[1964-1965]

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Timepiece : for one performer

OTUFM 11-B-10
File
1964

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes a realization for 2 lecturers and 3 instrumentalists.

Calendar round : Kaisernietzsche = Emperor Nietzsche : for guitar, percussion, and wind instruments and pre-recorded tape

OTUFM 11-B-100a
File
1989

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Calendar round : megalcides : for singer/speaker and electro-acoustics

OTUFM 11-B-100b
File
1989

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains two scores, sketches, and a program from the premiere performance at McGill University on April 24, 1990 by Meg Sheppard (voice) and Alcides Lanza (piano).

Calendar round : Malcgolmdstein : for solo violin

OTUFM 11-B-100c
File
1990

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes the autograph score.

Lun(h)armonics : music of the Chinese lunar calendar : for six sine-wave oscillators, mixing devices, and loudspeakers

OTUFM 11-B-101
File
1990-1992

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes autographed charts for the second moon and the ninth moon.

Marklewake : structured improvisation for one or (preferably) more instrument(s) and voice(s)

OTUFM 11-B-102
File
1990

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Muistsehiina muutusraamatu kaheksa koda = The eight houses of the I Ching : for string quartet

OTUFM 11-B-103a
File
1990

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

The eight houses of the I Ching : for twelve strings

OTUFM 11-B-103b
File
1993

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains the autograph performance instructions and sketches.

The eight houses of the I Ching : for twelve strings

OTUFM 11-B-103c
File
1993

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains a copy of the manuscript score, as issued by the Canadian Music Centre (CMC)

Thirty-two thirty-two-syllable interpretations of I Ching images of the thirty-two hexagrams of the four female houses

OTUFM 11-B-104
File
1990

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Requiem Renga : for the victims of wars and violence of our time : for 15 strings and 2 percussion

OTUFM 11-B-105
File
1991-1992

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains the manuscript score (and a bound copy) and some research notes.

Koch curves : for wind quintet

OTUFM 11-B-106
File
1992

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File consists of the autograph master score and sketches.

Mus(math)ics

OTUFM 11-B-107
File
1992-1993

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains sketches.

Palestrina on devil's staircase with dis(con)sonant contrapuntal connectors

OTUFM 11-B-108
File
1992-1993, 1997

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File consists of sketches and scores for the 1993 and 1997 (electro-acoustic) versions of this composition. The file includes an annotated Canadian Music Centre (CMC) score, published in 1997.

Kuradi kiik = Satan's swing : for solo accordion

OTUFM 11-B-109
File
1993

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File consists of sketches and a copy of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) score.

Timepiece : for one performer

OTUFM 11-B-10a
File
[1964]

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Udo Kasemets fonds

OTUFM 11
Fonds
1947-2011

Fonds consists of sketches, drafts, and texts for Udo Kasemets’s compositions, including scores prior to 1960 that use conventional media, and those after 1960, which consists of multi-purpose scores, combination scores, and theatre pieces. The fonds also contains programs and press notices for performances by Udo Kasemets and of his works; correspondence with many American avant-garde musicians; and Kasemets’s projects and notes from his time teaching at the Ontario College of Art.

Kasemets, Udo

Five performance pieces for the Isaacs Gallery Ensemble

OTUFM 11-B-11
File
1966

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Kasemets and Marina [Krilovici] : Trigon : part 1 of 2

OTUFM 11-F-11
File
[1964-1965]

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Serge Garant biography

OTUFM 11-E-11
File
1972-1976

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains typescript of Draft II, including 2 versions of conclusion: 113 1; Photocopies of music examples: 20 + 2 + 18 1; and, correspondence with Ron Schoeffel, John Beckwith, Garant, and Keith MacMillan.

Piano sonata, op. 24, no. 1

OTUFM 11-A-11
File
1951

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

3 lecturESSAYS / quollages

OTUFM 11-C-11
File
1972

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains: Prologue to an interlogue and an epilogue; Interlogue between a prologue and an epilogue; and, Epilogue to a prologue and an interlogue.

Timescapes

OTUFM 11-D-11
File
1982

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains a program, charts, Now is…, Dogday soundpoem, and Terrestrial texts of the year of the dog.

Mikesnowflakes

OTUFM 11-B-110
File
1993-1994

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains the score, handwritten basic modules, printouts of snowflakes, and a program from its performance on May 15, 1994 by Udo Kasemets and friends at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto.

15 [to the power of] 2 : a peacewordchant : for baritone voice and violoncello

OTUFM 11-B-111
File
1994

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File consists of the autograph score, performance instructions, and sketches.

Reading John Cage : a musical projection of the poem of Octavio Paz : for a singer and an instrumentalist

OTUFM 11-B-112
File
1994

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

Sappersong : for voice and cello

OTUFM 11-B-113
File
1994

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes the autograph score, sketches, and related correspondence and research.

Feigenbaum cascades : for solo piano

OTUFM 11-B-114
File
1995

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains the autograph score and performance instructions

SoUNdFLOWER TRIPLET and SoUNdFLOWER SONG

OTUFM 11-B-115
File
1995, 1998

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File consists of scores for SoUNdFLOWER SONG for vocal solo with two-track stereophonic playback (1995), and a second version: SoUNdFLOWER TRIPLET for solo voice and piano, two hands (1998).

SUliNgFLOWER : for suling solo with four-track quadraphonic playback

OTUFM 11-B-116
File
1995

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File consists of two autographs scores, performance instructions, and sketches.

fraCtal fibONaCciERTO : for piano solo, percussion duo, brass trio, wind quintet, and string quintet

OTUFM 11-B-117a
File
1996, 2005

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes a program from the performance of this piece at Willow Place Auditorium on February 17, 2005 by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, conducted by Petr Kotik, with Stephen Clarke (piano).

fraCtal fibONaCciERTO : for piano solo, percussion duo, brass trio, wind quintet, and string quintet

OTUFM 11-B-117b
File
1996

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes the autograph score and performance notes.

Sixteen stills of bp Nichol : for reader and piano

OTUFM 11-B-119
File
1996, 2000

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File contains the 1996 version and the revised 2000 version, and a "discarded" earlier version.

Timescapes

OTUFM 11-D-11a
File
1979-1982, 1985

Part of Udo Kasemets fonds

File includes an autograph score for CCCC: Comprehensive Crosscultural Calendar to coordinate the Timescapes; a program from a performance of Earthspin: A Timescape by Gordon Monahan (solo piano) and Chris Devonshire (tape and equalizer) in Hamilton on March 2, 1985; Kasemets's draft description of Timescapes; and, manuscript scores and charts for Celestial Timescapes (Stellar Sequence, Solar Cycles) and Planetary Patternings.

Earthspin : a timescape : for piano and electronic sound system