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Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "CatJak", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/GZHVZR, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
A sequel to Tala Malika Jak, inspired by Indonesian kecak, uses cat samples and a few birds, dogs and monkeys. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Caprice in Marava", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/HRFT2Z, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Caprice in Marava is inspired by Indian music, though the western alto flute is very different, in both timbre and pitch system, from the bamboo Indian bansuri flute. The melody is based on the Indian Raga Marava. The first section is an alap, unmetered slow section, with various... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Calligraphy of Shadows", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/XYCXAU, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Calligraphy of Shadows is a flute solo composed for Patricia Spencer as a prelude to her recording of my flute music. The title comes from fragments of the titles of compositions on the CD, including Time’s Graffiti: Lucky Calligraphy, Ombres du Vent and Ombres de la Pluie et de... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Butterfly Stir Fry", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/RMAPQ3, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Butterfly Stir Fry is inspired by Chuang Tzu’s awakening from his famous Taoist dream and wondering whether he had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether he is a butterfly dreaming that he is Chuang Tzu. The live erhu (Chinese two-string fiddle) is accompanied by "stir fried" reco... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Burlesque", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/GV0AEC, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
The original version of Burlesque featured words from the first scene of Arthur Schnitzler’s play, La Ronde (1900). On the bank of the Danube, a woman of the street asks a young soldier, “Want to come with me, Angel Face?” Taking care not to slip into the river, and warning him,... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Brassoufflé", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/D5OWTZ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Brassoufflé was created to illustrate wavetable brass instrument designs for Cooking with Csound. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Bioluminescense", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/YXSUXN, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Silvery; uses Indian tunings and Partch tunings up to the 23-limit. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Belfast Botanical Birds", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/COUC0H, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Belfast Botanical Birds is a piece for live tin whistle and soundscape inspired by the birds singing in the spring in the Belfast Botanical Garden. I spent one afternoon in the garden with my camera, attempting to photograph the birds. As usual, I didn’t get many fine pictures, b... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Balinese", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/FMVAZZ, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; uses a variety of Balinese tunings generated with an algorithm in a quasi-Balinese style. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Appetizer", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/TORNKV, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Microtonal; algorithmically composed in slendro using the flute design with multi-effect processing from Cooking with Csound and the Woodstock Gamelan. |
