University of Toronto Music Library University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio tape collection CA OTUFM 54 © University of Toronto Music Library 2020 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 Contents University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio tape collection ...................................................... 1 Administrative history ..................................................................................................................................... 3 File list .................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Appendix A : Notes from Dennis Patrick ............................................................................................ 128 2 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 Administrative history The University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) was co-founded in May 1959 by Professor Myron Schaeffer and Dr. Arnold Walters, director of the Faculty of Music. Professor Harvey Olnick was also one of the original faculty members. It was the second electronic music studio in North America (preceded by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1958) and the first such studio in Canada. It was originally located at 2 Division Street before moving into the basement of the Edward Johnson Building, once the building was completed (1964). Users of the studio included music faculty, students, independent scholars, and visiting composers and composition students. In addition to electronic music composition, UTEMS commissioned and invented new instruments and equipment. Following Schaeffer's death in 1965, Professor Gustav Ciamaga became the director of the studio. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1994, at which point the position passed to Professor Dennis Patrick. Since 2019, UTEMS has been under the direction of Professor Eliot Britton. Sources: Greenleaf, Tyler. "New music: From Canada's first Electronic Music to today's New Music Festival #tbt", University of Toronto Faculty of Music: 100 years (January 17, 2019). Patrick, Dennis. "UTEMS Tape Library." eContact!, Vol. 10 (March 2009). Rancic, Michael. "A Nation of Tinkerers: How a Canadian University Shaped Electronic Music in North America." Noisey: Music by Vice (February 25, 2016). Schaeffer, Myron. "The Electronic Music Studio of the University of Toronto." Journal of Music Theory 7, no. 1 (Spring 1963): 73-81. Scope and content Collection 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 collection 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. 3 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 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. Date range 1949-1979 Extent 24 boxes of audio reels + 5 film reels + 2 card catalogues 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 are physically arranged by tape size and number (in accordance with the second card catalogue). Names of composers are indicated in the "Title Statement of Responsibility Area". Names of known studios are indicated as the "Creator" 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 as a "Cast Note". 4 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 File list Identifier Title Composer Studio Date Physical Storage 7.105-5 Canon Adamis, Michael, 1929- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic March Box 6 Music Studio 1965 7.105-1 Piece one Adamis, Michael, 1929- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic June 1964 Box 6 Music Studio 7.105-2 Piece two Adamis, Michael, 1929- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic October Box 6 Music Studio 1964 7.76-3 Proschemata Adamis, Michael, 1929- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic 1964 Box 6 Music Studio 7.105-4 Proschemata Adamis, Michael, 1929- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic 1964 Box 6 Music Studio 7.105-3 Proschemata Adamis, Michael, 1929- Brandeis Electro-Acoustic December Box 6 Music Studio 1964 7.280 Composition for flute and Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. [197-?] Box 11 tape Electronic Music Studio 5.97 Composition for flute and Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. 1963 Box 2 tape recorder Electronic Music Studio 5 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 Identifier Title Composer Studio Date Physical Storage 5.109 Composition for flute and Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. July 1963 Box 2 tape recorder Electronic Music Studio 7.270 Kebyar : for instruments Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. 1971 Box 10 and tape Electronic Music Studio 7.44 Noesis Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. 1963 Box 5 Electronic Music Studio 5.89 Soliloquy Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. May 1962 Box 2 Electronic Music Studio 5.130 Suite from music for Aitken, Robert, 1939- University of Toronto. 1964 Box 2 Hamlet Electronic Music Studio 10.2-5 Colonel Bogey : excerpt Alford, Kenneth J., 1881- Columbia-Princeton 1957 Box 13 1945 Electronic Music Center 7.101 Electronic compositions Anhalt, Istvan, 1919-2012 National Research Council Summer Box 6 no. 3 of Canada. Electronic 1960 Music Laboratory 7.47 Electronic music no. 4 Anhalt, Istvan, 1919-2012 National Research Council [196-?] Box 5 of Canada. Electronic Music Laboratory 6 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 Identifier Title Composer Studio Date Physical Storage 10.9-1 Sine nomine no. 1 Anhalt, Istvan, 1919-2012 National Research Council 1959 Box 13 of Canada. Electronic Music Laboratory 10.9-2 Sine nomine no. 2 Anhalt, Istvan, 1919-2012 National Research Council 1959 Box 13 of Canada. Electronic Music Laboratory 7.15 In the world of new Aniflow, Gleb Unknown [19--?] Box 3 sounds : a radio lecture 7.29 The mask : film sequences Applebaum, Louis, 1918- University of Toronto. 1961 Box 5 2000 ; Schaeffer, Myron, Electronic Music Studio 1908-1965 7.217 Electronic works Appleton, Jon, 1939- Flying Dutchman Records [1969] Box 9 5.90 Electronic music no. 1 Arel, Bulent, 1918-1990 Columbia-Princeton 1960 Box 2 Electronic Music Center 5.93-2 Fragment Arel, Bulent, 1918-1990 Columbia-Princeton 1960 Box 2 Electronic Music Center 7.306-1 Mimiana II : Frieze Arel, Bulent, 1918-1990 Columbia-Princeton 1969 Box 12 Electronic Music Center 7 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 Identifier Title Composer Studio Date Physical Storage 5.93-1 Music for a sacred service : Arel, Bulent, 1918-1990 Columbia-Princeton 1961 Box 2 Prelude and postlude Electronic Music Center 7.4 Stereo electronic music no. Arel, Bulent, 1918-1990 Columbia-Princeton 1961 Box 3 1 Electronic Music Center 7.68-1 Stereo electronic music no. Arel, Bulent, 1918-1990 Columbia-Princeton 1961 Box 6 1 Electronic Music Center 7.94-2 Detail for two pianists Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014 Cooperative Studio for 1963 Box 6 Electronic Music 7.89-1 Hum Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014 Cooperative Studio for 1961 Box 6 Electronic Music 7.89-2 Hum again Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014 Cooperative Studio for 1961 Box 6 Electronic Music 7.89-4 The fourth of July Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014 Cooperative Studio for 1960 Box 6 Electronic Music 7.89-3 Wolfman Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014 Cooperative Studio for 1964 Box 6 Electronic Music 7.90-1 Soundtrack to George Ashley, Robert, 1930- Cooperative Studio for 1963 Box 6 Manupelli's Five Short 2014|Mumma, Gordon, Electronic Music Films 1935- 8 UTEMS tape collection University of Toronto Music Library CA OTUFM 54 Identifier Title Composer Studio Date Physical Storage 7.123-4 Preludio la noche Asuar, Jose Vicente, 1933- Karlsruhe, Germany 1961 Box 7 2017 7.250 Accidents Austin, Larry, 1930-2018 Place of creation not [19--?] Box 10 specified. 7.247 Caritas Austin, Larry, 1930-2018 University of California, [197-?] Box 10 Davis 7.60 Study for "The tower of Avni, Tzvi, 1927- University of Toronto. March- Box 5 Babel" Electronic Music Studio April 1964 7.86-5 Vocalise Avni, Tzvi, 1927- Columbia-Princeton 1964 Box 6 Electronic Music Center 5.132 Vocalise Avni, Tzvi, 1927- Columbia-Princeton [1964] Box 2 Electronic Music Center 5.81 Composition for Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011 Columbia-Princeton 1961 Box 1 synthesizer Electronic Music Center 7.67-1 Composition for Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011 Columbia-Princeton 1961