Lydia Ayers (1952-2022) was a composer, flutist, educator, and puppeteer. Starting in 1996, she permanently resided in Hong Kong, where she taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Predominantly working in Csound on the NeXT computer, Lydia Ayers composed computer music with unlimited just intonation, re-creating numerous Indonesian, Native American, Australian, and Chinese instruments digitally. She also wrote acoustic music, including over 30 solo and ensemble works for flutes. Ayers performed on a wide range of flutes from various cultural traditions, utilizing extended vocal and woodwind techniques: quarter tones, multiphonics, buzz tones, and other unusual flute timbres.
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Butterfly Stir Fry
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Butterfly Stir Fry", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/RMAPQ3, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Butterfly Stir Fry is inspired by Chuang Tzu’s awakening from his famous Taoist dream and wondering whether he had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he is a butterfly dreaming that he is Chuang Tzu. The live erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle) is accompanied by "stir fried" reco...
Burlesque
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Burlesque", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/GV0AEC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
The original version of Burlesque featured words from the first scene of Arthur Schnitzler’s play, La Ronde (1900). On the bank of the Danube, a woman of the street asks a young soldier, “Want to come with me, Angel Face?” Taking care not to slip into the river, and warning him,...
Brassoufflé
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Brassoufflé", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/D5OWTZ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Brassoufflé was created to illustrate wavetable brass instrument designs for Cooking with Csound.
Bioluminescense
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Bioluminescense", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/YXSUXN, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Silvery; uses Indian tunings and Partch tunings up to the 23-limit.
Belfast Botanical Birds
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Belfast Botanical Birds", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/COUC0H, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Belfast Botanical Birds is a piece for live tin whistle and soundscape inspired by the birds singing in the spring in the Belfast Botanical Garden. I spent one afternoon in the garden with my camera, attempting to photograph the birds. As usual, I didn’t get many fine pictures, b...
Balinese
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Balinese", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/FMVAZZ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; uses a variety of Balinese tunings generated with an algorithm in a quasi-Balinese style.
Appetizer
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Appetizer", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/TORNKV, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; algorithmically composed in slendro using the flute design with multi-effect processing from Cooking with Csound and the Woodstock Gamelan.
Ansikten
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ansikten", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/PTMETR, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Ansikten (Faces) is dedicated to Swedish flutist Georgia Mohammar, for whom it was composed and who played the premiere. This piece uses the alto flute, bass flute, piccolo, and C flute in turn in the four sections, which are inspired by short, haiku-like poems about the four ele...
Another Victim Found in Rubble
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Another Victim Found in Rubble", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/DEJ9M9, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
"Another victim Found in Rubble" is a dramatic solo piece, which begins with the singer running onto the stage, fleeing an unknown "something." She is a bag lady, carrying her shopping bag full of her broken belongings, but she is wearing a faded, perhaps even torn, gray business...
Ah
Oct 9, 2024
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ah", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/F9NBBC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Ah is a humorous piece, algorithmically-generated using linear predictive coding, which allowed stretching and shrinking the sound, comb filters which made it metallic and some synthesized sounds. I also processed Andrew Horner's voice saying "ah" using adsyn, which gave the soun...
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