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Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "The Chalky Desert Where Nothing Grows", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/ZPCYSV, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
The title, The Chalky Desert Where Nothing Grows jumped out of a sentence in an environmental magazine and inspired me to write this piece, which has the character of the subtle shimmer of the heat of the desert and motion within motionless. The magazine article referred to the d... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Temple of the Dancing Cascade", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/AZQCHL, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
In the Temple The Fire Spirit The Wind Spirit The Demon of Destruction Inspired by the beautiful landscapes of Zion, Bryce and Yosemite national parks in the southwest United States, Temple of the Dancing Cascade is a story of four spirits representing a waterfall, fire, wind and... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Tala Malika Jak", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/2VNOLI, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Tala Malika Jak is loosely inspired by the Indonesian Kecak (monkey chant) and the Indian tala malika (garland of talas). I asked each of the students in my Exploring Music class to record one sample of the sound "jak." I then had a group of more than 100 samples to use for the s... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Tala Malika Gongs", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/CGG1RH, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Tala Malika Gongs is inspired by Indonesian kecak, but uses Indian and Middle Eastern rhythms; where the Tala Malika Jak version of this piece emphasized the rhythms of vocal samples, this new gong version emphasizes the pitches derived from the vocal samples in the earlier versi... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Suyun Gölgeleri", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/RLM1XL, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Suyun Gölgeleri was composed in memory of Ray Adem, a Turkish friend who played the qanoun (a Middle Eastern plucked zither). It is a modal piece for alto flute in a very slow, soft, and melancholy, quasi-Middle Eastern style. The title, Suyun Gölgeleri, is Turkish for Shadows of... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Shadow Calligraphy", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/WO6KGF, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Shadow Calligraphy is a flute solo composed for Patricia Spencer as a coda to her recording of my flute music. The title comes from fragments of the titles of compositions on the CD, including Ombres du Vent, Ombres de la Pluie et de la Neige and Time’s Graffiti: Lucky Calligraph... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Rock Art in the Dream World", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/OFOUW0, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Journey to the Art Place Creating the Art Reflecting on the Art Finishing the Art Into the Dream World Return Rock Art in the Dream World is inspired by Hawaiian petroglyphs, and native American and Australian rock paintings. The characters depicted in the rock art, such as Kokop... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Prime Gongs", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/FLXAKW, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Prime Gongs uses prime number ratios in pluck and glide instruments; gets transformations of the timbre from inharmonic relationships and registral change. This new version of Prime uses gong timbres in place of plucked timbres. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Pendopos", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/RPJ3NP, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
In just intonation in gamelan style using Woodstock gamelan, Risset gongs and birds recorded in Bali. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Pearls", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/IHRAPU, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
The waves crash, the birds call as the pearl divers arrive on the beach in the early morning and chatter with each other as they prepare their boats to go out to sea. The first section of Pearls is based on Raga Lalita, the Indian raga of the dawn. The second section is slow and... |