Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1949-1988, predominant 1959-1979 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
27 boxes of audio reels + 5 film reels + 2 card catalogues
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Materials were transferred to the Music Library with from the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS). The transfer (A2020-05) also included some personal papers of Gustav Ciamaga and Myron Schaeffer, which had been left in the Studio. The administrative records of UTEMS are held at the University of Toronto Archives.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Series consists of electronic music compositions created at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) and copies of tapes made at other electronic music studios around the world. The series includes the two original card-catalogue indices for the tape collection, organized by tape number and by composer.
Among the tapes that originated at UTEMS are compositions by faculty and students from the Faculty of Music, independent composers who were granted access to the studio, and compositions created by visiting artists, scholars, and composers. Composers at UTEMS included Robert Aitken, John Beckwith, Brian Cherney, Gustav Ciamaga, Richard Henninger, David Jaeger, Larry Lake, John Mills-Cockell, James Montgomery, Harvey Olnick, Dennis Patrick, Myron Schaeffer, David Williams, and many others. Composers from other studios include Milton Babbitt, Henk Badings, Luciano Berio, Hugh Le Caine, Douglas Lilburn, Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Vladimir Ussachevsky.
In addition to tapes created at UTEMS, the collections includes compositions created at the following studios, listed alphabetically:
- APELAC (Brussels, Belgium)
- Bell Telephone Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey)
- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (Waltham, Massachussetss)
- Bregman Electronic Music Studio (Hanover, New Hampshire)
- California State University, Northridge. Electronic Music Studio (Los Angeles, California)
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Vancouver, Canada ; Montreal, Canada ; Toronto, Canada)
- Colgate Computer Music Studio (Hamilton, New York)
- Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Centre (New York, New York)
- Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
- East Carolina University. School of Music. Electronic Music Studio (Greenville, North Carolina)
- Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. (London, England ; Putney, England ; Oxfordshire, England)
- Electronic Music Studios of Victoria University (Wellington, N.Z.) (Wellington, New Zealand)
- Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Germany (East). Rundfunk- und Fernsehtechnisches Zentralamt. Studio für Künstliche Klang- und Geräuscherzeugung (Berlin, Germany)
- Gotham Recording Studios (New York, New York)
- Groupe de musique expérimentale de Bourges (Bourges, France)
- Hartt College of Music (Hartford, Connecticut)
- Independent Electronic Music Center (Trumansburg, N.Y.) (Trumansburg, New York)
- Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique musique Paris (Paris, France)
- Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France). Groupe de recherches musicales (Paris, France)
- Instituut voor Psychoakoestiek en Elektronische Muziek (Ghent, Belgium) (Ghent, Belgium)
- Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. (Darmstadt, Germany)
- Israel Center for Electronic Music (Jerusalem, Israel)
- M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio (Cambridge, Massacusetts)
- McGill University. Electronic Music Studio (Montreal, Canada)
- National Research Council of Canada. Electronic Music Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada)
- National University of Córdoba. Centro de Música Experimental (Córdoba, Argentina)
- New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai. Electronic Music Studio (Tokyo, Japan)
- Norsk rikskringkasting (Oslo, Norway)
- Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
- Princeton University. Computer Center (Princeton, New Jersey)
- Princeton University. Department of music (Princeton, New Jersey)
- Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. Instituut voor Sonologie (Utrecht, Netherlands)
- S 2F M (Electronic music studio) (Florence, Italy)
- Siemens-Studio für Elektronische Musik (Munich, Germany)
- Simon Fraser University. Centre for the Arts (Burnaby, British Columbia)
- Southern Illinois University. Electronic Music Studio (Carbondale, Illinois)
- State University of New York at Albany. Electronic Music Studio (Albany, New York)
- Studio Apsome (Paris, France)
- Studio de recherches et de structurations électroniques auditives de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
- Studio di fonologia RAI Milano (Milan, Italy)
- Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino (Torino, Italy)
- Studio Eksperymentalne Polskiego Radia (Warsaw, Poland)
- Tulane University. Electronic Music Studio (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Electronic Music Studio (Champaign, Illinois ; Urbana, Illinois)
- University of New Mexico. Electronic Music Laboratory (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Studio für Elektronische Musik (Cologne, Germany)
- York University Electronic Music Studio (York, England) (York, England)
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Tapes are arranged alphabetically by last name of the composer (following one of the card catalogue indices). Identifiers for each item indicate the tape size, reel number (as assigned during cataloguing at UTEMS), and Side and/or Band number, if applicable (e.g., [Reel size].[Reel number]-[Side, if applicable]-[Band, if applicable]). Tapes physically arranged by tape size and number (in accordance with the second card catalogue). Names of composers are indicated as "Creators". Names of known studios are indicated as "Contributors" or as an "Event note," in the case of private studios. If performers (other than the composer) were involved in the production of the tape, and were indicated in the UTEMS card catalogue, these names are transcribed in the "Scope and Contents" notes.
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Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Streaming copies of some tapes available. For digital copies of other tapes, contact the Music Library.