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Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ombres des Feuilles, Ombres des Fleurs", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/BAS4V1, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Modal, performed by Neil Charak, Andy Radford, Jim Snodgrass and Marlow Fisher in Valencia, California in 1977. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ombres de la Pluie et de la Neige", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/TZGF8L, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Ombres de la pluie et de la neige (Shadows of the Rain and Snow) is a solo piece for piccolo and alto flute. The fast first section on piccolo is atonal and suggests the sporadic pattering of the Rain. The slow second section on alto flute is modal and suggests the slow drifting... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ombres de la Lune", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/WFVYEW, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Helix Song (The Helix Song is a microtonal percussion instrument invented by Erv Wilson, made of tuned electrical pipes). Performed by Todd Manley in Velencia, California in 1977; computer-generated version in 1998. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ombres Chinoises", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/3AMHJC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Ombres Chinoises is dedicated to my father, and was inspired by his shadow puppets. The special puppet techniques that he used in his most impressive show, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, resembled animation that is now done on computers, but which he performed in real time usin... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Nostalgia Strata", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/AKXISN, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; algorithmically composed adding multi-effect processing to veil the quotations from Bach, Berlioz, Debussy, Dukas, Dvorak, Mahler, Strauss and Stravinsky which illustrate the woodwind and brass designs in Cooking with Csound. |
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... |
