53 10 868 Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/706">Christopher Hopkins</a> Instrumentation The current version (2009) is for C flute, although the original version (2006) was for alto flute and an opportunity to remix the electroacoustic sound with a new performance on this lower flute would be welcome. Assistant to perform audio cues. For concert performance the use of a footswitch by the flutist can detract from the drama of the work, so the audio files are best performed by an offstage assistant (often from the sound reinforcement console). The person performing cues should be able to read a musical score and take visual and aural cues from the flutist. Length 8:30 Technology Requirements The flute is normally amplified into on-stage speakers not used for the audio files, using reverberation in a live mix indicated by the score. The electroacoustic sound is performed from cues to start playback of quadraphonic sound files, and mixed into a quadrilateral speaker setup surrounding the audience. An alternate stereo version is available. The choice of software to perform the audio cues is up to the performer. Playback of the audio files must allow overlap, where one audio file can begin as the previous finishes. No more than two layers are required. There is a simple Max patch supplied for performance and rehearsal. An additional patch is supplied for an individual alone to practice in stereo with selection of a MIDI controller input to advance cues. These patches have been tested for Max 5 or later. URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/the-animus-winds/">SEAMUS Database</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Animus Winds Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource The Animus Winds is a composition for flute and electroacoustic sound. Thematically, the composition explores an opposition of two perceptions: the sensual experience of wind against a personification of wind as a supernatural force. The electroacoustic sound recolors and reshapes recordings of wind and flutes, such that flutes take on characteristics of the wind, and wind takes on both musical and vocal qualities. There is also a dramatic schema, in which the flute takes the role of a person who is at times drawn into the natural spirit of the wind, and at other times strongly confronts its more hostile animus. Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/706">Christopher Hopkins</a> Instrumentation two clarinets and electroacoustic sound Length 10:00 Technology Requirements The choice of software to perform the audio cues is up to the performer. Playback of the audio files must allow overlap, where one audio file can begin as the previous finishes. No more than two layers are required. There is a simple Max patch supplied for performance and rehearsal. An additional patch is supplied for an individual alone to practice in stereo with selection of a MIDI controller input to advance cues. These patches have been tested for Max 5 or later. URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/touche/">SEAMUS Database</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Touché Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Description An account of the resource Touché is a single movement duo-concertante in a toccata style. Two clarinet soloists are united in a musical contest, between themselves and together in opposition to an ensemble of synthetic clarinets automated from computer software. The toccata paradigm emphasizes the immediacy of touch upon the instruments, which traditionally serves to allow idioms of virtuosic performance to take the lead in determining musical form. Touché also takes the idea of musical touch to a yet more detailed level, that of articulation, the specific qualities of attack upon and the subsequent shaping of the musical tones. Here, therefore, the emphasis is on how the tones themselves are touched. The synthetic clarinets in particular emphasize these articulations, being made artificially sharp and separated, or more rarely, artificially dulled. There are also important shaping gestures, such as sudden swellings of tone with pointed conclusions, that suggest the rhythmic interchange of swordplay, notably fencing—en-garde. Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/706">Christopher Hopkins</a> Instrumentation for bowed piano and electroacoustic sound (computer) Length 14:30 Technology Requirements Quadraphonic sound file. Performer needs to follow clock display. URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/arched-interiors-ii/">SEAMUS Database</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Arched Interiors II Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008 Description An account of the resource Arched Interiors II (2008) is a musical composition for piano and electro-acoustically transformed sound. The mode of performance for the piano involves bowing and scraping the strings to produce timbral modulations shaped directly by the physical gesture. These sound-gestures provide both the motivic foundation for the composition and the recorded source audio for development of the electroacoustic sound. The original version of Arched Interiors was written in 1991 for Margaret Leng Tan, and premiered by her in 1992 in the ORF Funkhaus Wien. This original version, as well as another, Double Arched Interiors for two pianos without electroacoustic sound, included additional passages focused on complex plucking techniques. Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/707">Mark Eden</a> Instrumentation Fixed Media Length 2:09 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/sound-of-the-baskervilles/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mark-eden-3/sound-of-the-baskervilles">SoundCloud</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sound of the Baskervilles Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Description An account of the resource A fixed media sound collage, whose title was granted permission by Milton Babbitt. Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/678">Brian Riordan</a> Instrumentation For piano and electronics URL <div class="performance-clip-wrap"><a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/while-the-earth-is-still-turning/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Wb4FeOQhY">YouTube SoundCloud</a></div> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "while the earth is still turning" Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource This was written in collaboration with pianist Sonya Belaya. Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/678">Brian Riordan</a> Instrumentation for five performers- violin, viola, cello, double bass, electronics URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/turtles-all-the-way-up/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/brianriordan/turtles-all-the-way-up">SoundCloud</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Turtles All The Way Up Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Description An account of the resource Composed for New Music On The Point 2017 festival. Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/708">Niels Mestre</a> Instrumentation Electric guitar effects, voices and field recordings Length 3:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/%E9%9D%92%E3%81%84%E7%A9%BA-the-sky-is-blue/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/seamus-electroacoustic-miniatures-2015-sonic-haiku/id1098873793">iTunes</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 青い空 (the Sky is blue) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Description An account of the resource 3:00 Composition An original work. Instrumentation fixed media Length 2:00 Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/675">Andres Luz</a> URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/petit-hommage-a-rene-magritte-for-fixed-media-2017/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/andresrluz/petit_hommage">SoundCloud</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Petit Hommage a Rene Magritte for fixed media Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Description An account of the resource <div class="work-body"> Petit Hommage a René Magritte for fixed media (2017) is inspired by “L’Usage de la Parole,” a painting by the Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte (1898-1967). Famous for his approach in depicting every day, recognizable images in unusual juxtapositions within a single work, the painting centers around a cut-out of notated music in the shape of a person wearing a bowler hat. The figure is situated on top of a dull pink box, mysteriously inscribed with the words “Le savoir” (knowledge), which drifts upon what appears to be choppy, rose-colored waters amidst a dark, menacing sky. Petit Hommage a René Magritte for fixed media combines transformations of the notated music, particularly the I6 inversion, in dialogue with a variety of other sounds related (and sometimes unrelated) to the disparate elements found in Magritte’s painting. In the central section, the audio was extracted from an interview with René Magritte describing his thoughts on poetic content in his art: “Yes, in fact…eh… I believe that there is a familiar feeling to poetry, and this familiar feeling to poetry would be what I would call, for simplicity’s sake, the ‘tourist’ feeling…who will look far for poetry.” The audio clip ends at this point; but in the original, Magritte continues: “…and the poetry they find they know it before, it is a familiar poem given by very strange things, so that the familiar can become the occasion to discover the poetry which is not familiar– unknown poetry.” Special thanks to Monique Osorio for the pre-recorded piano sample and Jennifer La Rue for providing the English translation. Duration: 2 minutes. Note: It is recommended, but not required, to project an image of René Magritte’s “L’Usage de la Parole” during playback in a darkened hall. </div> A short fixed media work inspired by a surrealist painting by Rene Magritte Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/709">Hanna Lisa Stefansson</a> Instrumentation 4 dancers, percussion, flute, voice, lever harp, live electronics, fixed electronics Length ~37:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/ritual-habit/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyT4-qA1Hhc">YouTube</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ritual Habit Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Description An account of the resource An electroacoustic music composition and dance collaboration Composition An original work. Composed by a link back to one or more Person records responsible for the composition. <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/709">Hanna Lisa Stefansson</a> Instrumentation flute and fixed electronics Length 7:45 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/star-map/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUv7xpn7b1E">YouTube</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Star Map Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Description An account of the resource <div class="work-body"> Star Map (2014) is an electroacoustic piece for flute and quadraphonic playback that is inspired by the Forsyth Petroglyph, a rock with carvings that was first discovered in Forsyth County, Georgia in the early 1800s. The carvings consist of circles and other designs that are thought to be astronomical in nature, representing the constellations Draco, Scorpio, and a fragmenting comet. A comet event occurred around 3300 BC, and the carvings may represent this event due to the presence of other symbols that could be interpreted as the Cosmic Crocodile from Mayan mythology, which was decapitated, leading to a massive flood. The comet impact of 3300 BC caused tsunamis that destroyed coastal civilizations of the time. The piece is in three sections: the first features the constellations Scorpio, Draco and Sagittarius, and more specifically, the red giant star Antares in the Scorpio constellation (evoked by the drones and flute centered around the pitches B and C) and x-ray flares sent out by the constellation Sagittarius. The second section illustrates the comet breaking into fragments, and the manipulated recorded flute signifies our perspective of time. The third section returns to the environment of constellations from the first section. </div>