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Yazi’s Dream Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Yazi’s Dream", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/BBUNB5, DataSpace@HKUST, V1 Yazi's Dream celebrates the life of Yazi, my first cat. In Looking at Birds, the recorded birds represent the birds Yazi watched and tried to talk to through the window. The synthesized trills on the bang di, a Chinese flute which resembles a keyless bamboo piccolo, represent Yaz...
Wild Herons Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Wild Herons", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/PTMGOF, DataSpace@HKUST, V1 A. Fast, Excited, Jazzy B. Very Expressive C. Two Birds Call and Respond D. Endangered Birds Wild Herons, for flute duet and recorded computer music soundscape, is inspired by my mother’s work in the environmental movement in the ‘60's. Imagine a scene of moving water, bird calls...
Why Ask Questions? Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Why Ask Questions?", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/Z4NM7T, DataSpace@HKUST, V1 Why Ask Questions? was commissioned by Danny Yung as background music for an installation art exhibition. At the time, the 1997 Handover was on the horizon, and many in Hong Kong were questioning what the future would bring. Others asked, "Why ask questions? Why not just accept f...
Time's Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Time's Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/8VLMUQ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1 Petroglyphs The Dancing Figure Blue Rain Raining on the Dancing Figure Time's Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy is inspired by Hawaiian petroglyphs and Australian rock paintings. It is in four continuous sections with an environmental soundscape in the background throughout. The first...
Theme and Improvisations for Woodstock Gamelan Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Theme and Improvisations for Woodstock Gamelan", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/YW31AA, DataSpace@HKUST, V1 Improvisations using quasi-Balinese themes.
The Chalky Desert Where Nothing Grows 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...
Temple of the Dancing Cascade 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...
Tala Malika Jak 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...
Tala Malika Gongs 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...
Suyun Gölgeleri 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...

Yazi’s Dream

Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions

Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Yazi’s Dream", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/BBUNB5, DataSpace@HKUST, V1

Yazi's Dream celebrates the life of Yazi, my first cat. In Looking at Birds, the recorded birds represent the birds Yazi watched and tried to talk to through the window. The synthesized trills on the bang di, a Chinese flute which resembles a keyless bamboo piccolo, represent Yaz...

Wild Herons

Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions

Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Wild Herons", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/PTMGOF, DataSpace@HKUST, V1

A. Fast, Excited, Jazzy B. Very Expressive C. Two Birds Call and Respond D. Endangered Birds Wild Herons, for flute duet and recorded computer music soundscape, is inspired by my mother’s work in the environmental movement in the ‘60's. Imagine a scene of moving water, bird calls...

Why Ask Questions?

Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions

Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Why Ask Questions?", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/Z4NM7T, DataSpace@HKUST, V1

Why Ask Questions? was commissioned by Danny Yung as background music for an installation art exhibition. At the time, the 1997 Handover was on the horizon, and many in Hong Kong were questioning what the future would bring. Others asked, "Why ask questions? Why not just accept f...

Time's Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy

Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions

Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Time's Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/8VLMUQ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1

Petroglyphs The Dancing Figure Blue Rain Raining on the Dancing Figure Time's Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy is inspired by Hawaiian petroglyphs and Australian rock paintings. It is in four continuous sections with an environmental soundscape in the background throughout. The first...

Theme and Improvisations for Woodstock Gamelan

Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions

Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Theme and Improvisations for Woodstock Gamelan", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/YW31AA, DataSpace@HKUST, V1

Improvisations using quasi-Balinese themes.

The Chalky Desert Where Nothing Grows

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...

Temple of the Dancing Cascade

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...

Tala Malika Jak

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...

Tala Malika Gongs

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...

Suyun Gölgeleri

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...

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