15 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/728">Christopher Poovey</a> Instrumentation Baritone Saxophone and 2-Channel Fixed Media URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/dripstone/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8CPZBPzxy8">Watch a video of this piece on 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 Dripstone Baritone Saxophone and 2-Channel Fixed Media Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Composition An original work. Instrumentation Synthesizers Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 4:14 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/drop-dead-long-top/">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 Drop Dead (Long Top) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2015 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="http://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/666">Matthew Perez</a> Description An account of the resource Juxtaposition between Modern Dance Music and Baroque music 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/686">Jon Appleton</a> Instrumentation Synclavier and Piano Length 11:56 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/duo-for-oscar/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="http://www.synclavier.com">Synclavier</a> <a href="http://media.dartmouth.edu/~jonesmedia/Appleton/APP1024.mp3">Listen to Duo for Oscar</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 Duo for Oscar Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985 Description An account of the resource Synclavier Concert, Lionel Hampton School of Music, University of Idaho, March 18, 1986. For one performer who plays alternately and together on both keyboard instruments. 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/686">Jon Appleton</a> Instrumentation Fixed Media Length 2:55 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/duobatoni/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="http://media.dartmouth.edu/~jonesmedia/Appleton/APP1025.mp3">Listen to Duobatoni</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 Duobatoni Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Composition An original work. Instrumentation for Laptop Ensemble Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) variable URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/dystopia/">SEAMUS Database</a> Representative Recording(s) Use this field to embed video or audio recordings that the composer(s) consider representative of the piece. <iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/14035956&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/mtfirn" title="Max" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Max</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mtfirn/dystopia" title="Dystopia" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Dystopia</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 Dystopia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/634">Maxwell Tfirn</a> Description An account of the resource Dystopia is a work for laptop ensemble that uses Max/MSP. There are 5 parts and a score. The piece is performed with a conductor that cues different gestures the performers should do with the patches. While the composition follows a score, time is not indicated and the conductor can choose to extended sections when they choose. Composition An original work. Instrumentation for Fixed Media Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 8:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/earth-tones/">SEAMUS Database</a> Representative Recording(s) Use this field to embed video or audio recordings that the composer(s) consider representative of the piece. <iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48960166&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/jim-mobberley" title="Jim Mobberley" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Jim Mobberley</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jim-mobberley/earth-tones" title="Earth Tones" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Earth Tones</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 Earth Tones Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/628">James Mobberley</a> Description An account of the resource <div class="work-body"> Earth Tones was the first significant piece of electroacoustic music I wrote in graduate school (1978), and was created using a 4-track recorder, a Moog Mark IV, an Arp 2600 with sequencer and an EchoPlex (analog echo). It’s now become an homage to the wonderful synth sounds of the 1970s and to the meeting point between contemporary concert music and progressive rock — a place I’ve been exploring and mining now for decades. Thanks for the memories. Composer contact:  mobberleyj@umkc.edu     Website (scores, recordings and info):  http://jamesmobberleymusic.com    </div> Composition An original work. Instrumentation stereo fixed media Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 4:37 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/earth/">SEAMUS Database</a> Representative Recording(s) Use this field to embed video or audio recordings that the composer(s) consider representative of the piece. <iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/124094350&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/steven-kemper" title="Steven Kemper" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Steven Kemper</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/steven-kemper/earth" title="Earth" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Earth</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 Earth Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/619">Steven Kemper</a> Composition An original work. Instrumentation Saxophone and Live Electronics Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 10:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/edgeplay/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/slilly/edgeplay">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 Edgeplay Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/655">Stephen Lilly</a> Description An account of the resource Guided improvisation with spectral processing. Edgeplay is a guided improvisation for saxophone and live signal processing (Max). As the title implies, the piece explores boundaries, thresholds, and extremes. The saxophonist is instructed to push technique beyond the limits of control and investigate timbre as a delineator of sound: differentiating registers, distinguishing tone from breath and focused pitch from bands of noise. The score is a hybrid of text and graphics, left intentionally vague to suggest rather than dictate the performer’s investigation. The electronics (primarily spectral manipulations of the live saxophone) react to extremes, dynamic and durational, and adjust to the performer over the course of the piece. The sonic result is a mapping, albeit partial, of the sonic transformations idiomatic to the saxophone when in the capable hands of a trained performer. 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/667">Scott Barton</a> Length 5:59 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/effusion/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/scottbarton/effusion-mix">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 Effusion Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Description An account of the resource micro-collage, polystylism, rock, electronica; 2 channel recording In “Pleasure Beats: Rhythm and the Aesthetics of Current Electronic Music”, Ben Neill describes how popular and art music are distinguished along rhythmic lines. He predicts a future music where such distinctions are less clear; where the rhythmic vernacular of pop music is spoken in artistic territory. Much of my recent creative compositional efforts, including this piece, exemplify movement in this direction, both in terms of rhythm as well as other musical elements. Here, a foundation is set with materials from the pop world: verse-chorus form, 4/4 time signatures, fuzzy synth basses, rock grooves and EDM breaks. These materials are then manipulated in electroacoustic-art-music ways: timbres are transformed, grains are made and re-ordered, meters are changed, and earlier materials are restated in discontinuous sequences. The result is less a fusion and more a congeries where non-ironic choruses and dizzying jump-cuts cohabitate. These combinations are not motivated by a desire to influence the language of art music for its own sake, rather, they are expressions of cultural heterogeneity that is not compartmentalized. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant https://soundcloud.com/scottbarton/effusion-mix 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/675">Andres Luz</a> Instrumentation baritone voice, fixed media, and live electronics Length 6:30 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/el-perdido-for-baritone-voice-fixed-media-and-live-electronics/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/andresrluz/el-perdido">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 El Perdido Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Language A language of the resource Spanish Description An account of the resource Art song for voice and electronics in Spanish As there are not many pieces for solo voice and electronic media, I wanted to take the opportunity to work toward making a contribution in this medium. “El Perdido” is my title for the setting of Alejo Valdés Pica’s poem, “El Amor de los Amores,” which is about a rejected lover so traumatized by a failed romance that his entire vision of reality has become lost to him: his world is falling apart around him. Everything has become an eternal wasteland to him with only a faint reminiscence to momentarily alleviate the pains that lie within. The sandstorm that envelopes him at the end of the song is therefore appropriate; it reflects the inner turmoil that has lead him to yearn to be free of his life, a yearning that becomes as infinite as all the grains of sand lost in the desert. Pica’s work is representative of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century Filipino poets who incorporated contemporary Symbolist imagery in an overwrought style of Spanish writing. Relation A related resource Text and Translation: La vida es un dolor. Es algo incierto, lleno da brumas y de ensoñaciones que nos hacen temblar. Sepulcro abierto para enterrar en él las ilusiones. Es triste caravana en el desierto. Nos morimos de sed. Las desazones son inquietantes, como un cuerpo muerto destrozado por garras de leones. De la vida en el áspero camino yo he sido como humilde peregrino que hizo el amor de su ideal un rito; atravesó el desierto con mis penas, y he quemado mis pies en sus arenas en un ansia infinita de infinito. 1919 –Alejo Valdés Pica (1890-1945) Life is pain. It is uncertain and full of foggy daydreams that make us tremble—a ready grave awaiting our illusions. On a sad desert caravan We die of thirst. Like lions clawing the carcass of dead prey, anxieties tear us apart. On a humble pilgrim’s journey I have traveled life’s rough roads, turning love’s ideal into perfect rituals. I walked along the desert with my hardships and burned my feet in the sands in an infinite yearning for the infinite. Translation: Carla Cao and Ruben Cao. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Alejo Valdés Pica (poetry) Carla Cao and Ruben Cao (translation)