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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. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Glass-chi", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/QS5DA1, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Glass-chi uses computer processing of a rubbed crystal glass sound and synthesized glass and voice sounds; the word "glass-chi" means glass energy. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ghost Winds Talking", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/BCTHYC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
One day the wind blew across the open bathroom window as though it were playing harmonics on a giant flute. I set a microphone in the bathroom and recorded the sounds. Ghost Winds Talking combines the edited wind sounds with ghost voices synthesized from recordings of four famous... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Ghost Shadow in the Fragile Light", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/M37A5R, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Fragile sounds in the recording create a strange illumination surrounding a shadow orchestra from east and west. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Five Spice Rice", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/6TGNLH, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Five Spice Rice was created to illustrate our wavetable woodwind instrument designs. Microtonal; algorithmically composed using five 13-tone scales (13-tone equal temperament, 13-otonality, 13-utonality, Mayumi and inversion of Mayumi), with the saxophone and trombone designs wit... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Fireflies", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/Q4DPLV, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
The movements of Fireflies were inspired by seven very short poems of Rabindranath Tagore. (Words reprinted with permission from Macmillan Publishing Company from Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore. Copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed 1955 by Rabindranath Tagore... |
