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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Rock Art in the Dream World", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/OFOUW0, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Journey to the Art Place Creating the Art Reflecting on the Art Finishing the Art Into the Dream World Return Rock Art in the Dream World is inspired by Hawaiian petroglyphs, and native American and Australian rock paintings. The characters depicted in the rock art, such as Kokop... |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Prime Gongs", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/FLXAKW, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
Prime Gongs uses prime number ratios in pluck and glide instruments; gets transformations of the timbre from inharmonic relationships and registral change. This new version of Prime uses gong timbres in place of plucked timbres. |
Oct 9, 2024 - Lydia Ayers Music Compositions
Ayers, Lydia, 2024, "Pendopos", https://doi.org/10.14711/dataset/RPJ3NP, DataSpace@HKUST, V1
In just intonation in gamelan style using Woodstock gamelan, Risset gongs and birds recorded in Bali. |
