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Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Nineteen", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/Y28OCC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Nineteen is an algorithmically-composed piece using a 19-tone-per-octave scale in just intonation, starting with 37/37 as 1/1. The scale continues to 37/36, 37/35, etc and up to 37/1, forming a utonality series (an inversion of an overtone series). The algorithm randomly chooses... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Mountain of the Fire Wind", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/QFSUM6, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Mountain of the Fire Wind was inspired by Indian music, my life-long love affair with the flute (which is my instrument) and the wind whistling through the holes in a rusty metal sign at Mono Pass, Yosemite National Park, California after a long, chilly but breathtaking hike. On... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Merapi", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/NFPFCW, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; algorithmically-generated; the computer uses and inflects the slendro and pelog tunings of the live gamelan, if the tuning information is available. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Live and in ... PURPLE!", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/ZQ4IK4, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Even in my earliest memories, my mother, Nancy Ayers, wore only one color, purple. She soon started coloring her graying hair purple as well. Inspired by Anna Rubin’s Family Stories: Sophie, Sally, I finally persuaded my own mother, when she was 80, to record some of the stories... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Lips of Stone", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/YYZXLE, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
In the wild days of my youth, I took many photos during camping trips in the American southwest, including Bryce Canyon in Utah. When I returned home, the suggestive shapes of the scenery inspired my imagination to write a poem. Lips of Stone is a setting of that poem for live xu... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Kaleidoscope", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/XOAOU0, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; pitch and timbre algorithmically generated using a random walk on two sets of intervals. In the last section, the scale array forms an otonality microtonal scale (part of an overtone series). |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Island of Marava", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/TUDZX3, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Island of Marava is composed of two parts, the first slow, with pale microtonal passages and delicate multiphonic trills reminiscent of the colors, the winds and the waves surrounding an island, and the second faster and more rhythmic, with loud cries of distress interrupting the... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "In the Throne Room of the Mountain Spirits", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/8ZESDC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
In the Throne Room of the Mountain Spirits is a movement from Journey to the Mountain Spirits, which represents my personal “journey to the west.” West, of course, is relative, so for me west is anywhere west of New York. The southwest of the United States contains particularly b... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Great Spirit Song", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/OTXOBJ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Great Spirit Song, for treble choir, Native American flute and recorded computer music soundscape, is an invocation to the Great Spirit inspired by the culture of the Native American people. The choir sings a two-part adaptation of the text “Great Life-Giving Spirit.” Interludes... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Glassminute", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/N05MWO, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Glassminute uses linear predictive coding analysis of a rubbed crystal glass sound; gets transformations of the timbre into male vocal sound by transposition into very low register. |
