31 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/686">Jon Appleton</a> Instrumentation Fixed Media Length 6:29 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/nevsehir/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="http://media.dartmouth.edu/~jonesmedia/Appleton/APP1077.mp3">Listen to Nevsehir</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 Nevsehir Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1971 Description An account of the resource Source material collected in Turkey. 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/697">Matthew Polashek</a> Instrumentation EWI and Computer Length 7:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/no-entry-after-dark/">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 No Entry After Dark Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 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/700">Mike Olson</a> Instrumentation choir Length 20:32 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/noopiming/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/xkY1daX028c">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 Noopiming Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Description An account of the resource A cappella choral work constructed in the computer from fragments. This piece is included on the <a href="http://www.mikeolsonmusic.com/six-projects">Six Projects</a> CD/LP released on the <a href="http://www.innova.mu/">Innova Recordings</a> label in 2015. Noopiming is a single movement a cappella choral piece. The title of the work is also the text. Noopiming is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> word, which translates as “in the North, inland, in the woods”. All of the vocalizations in the piece are created using various elements of this single word. The piece has as it’s primary aesthetic underpinning, some of my own personal impressions of the <a href="http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.home">Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness</a>. I have been doing canoe trips in the <a href="http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.home">BWCA</a> my entire life and have often felt a sense of connection with the natural world there. It’s a feeling of being connected to something ancient and primordial – something darkly beautiful that seems to draw me in, while at the same time, if I’m not mindful, could swallow me whole, leaving no trace. Noopiming was created using my <a href="http://www.mikeolsonmusic.com/compositional-process">fragment-based compositional process</a>. I started by recording a group of eight singers performing various musical gestures and textures. The recording was done at the <a href="https://www.stthomas.edu/campusministry/liturgyworship/chapels/chapelofstmary/">St. Paul Seminary Chapel</a>. This material was then edited down into a palette of hundreds of short audio recordings, which I then layered, combined and endlessly manipulated to create the finished work. There was no actual score for the piece. Instead, I created two lists of verbal instructions for the singers. One was for inspecifically pitched material and the other for specifically pitched material, using only three chords, which could interlock in ways that I liked. Adding the visual component came after the music was completed. I searched for a photographer who had a significant body of work focusing on the <a href="http://www.bwca.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.home">BWCA</a>, and who’s work had the right aesthetic to match the music. I came upon the work of <a href="http://www.dalerobertklous.com/">Dale Robert Klous</a> and felt it had the right kind of primordial nature vibe about it. I approached Dale about allowing me to use some of his images, and not only did he agree, but he even went out and shot some additional material for the project. I think his work is a great fit for my piece and I can’t thank him enough for his collaboration on the project. Once I had the images, I synchronized them with the music in a way that reinforces the overall emotional/aesthetic impact of the work. 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/700">Mike Olson</a> Instrumentation Vintage Moog Model 12 modular synthesizer, vintage Minimoog D, contemporary Eurorack and 5U modular synthesizer components, Roland D550, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Tim Kaiser Quad Oscillator, various signal processors. Length 13:46 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/north-loop/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/CIiGwP1KylI">YouTube</a> <a href="http://www.mikeolsonmusic.com/north-loop">Mike Olson's website</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 North Loop Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016 Description An account of the resource Live/studio hybrid composition using hardware-based electronic instruments. I completed work on this project in the Winter of 2016. It’s a <a href="http://www.mikeolsonmusic.com/compositional-process">fragment piece</a>, which uses as it’s source material a recording of the live electronic music performance I did at my <a href="http://www.mikeolsonmusic.com/six-projects">Six Projects</a> record release party, and also some recordings of the rehearsals for that performance. I deliberately chose to NOT use a computer in this live performance, which was something new for me. I’m calling the piece “North Loop” for several reasons: 1.) The live performance took place in a part of downtown Minneapolis called the North Loop, 2.) though the piece is not particularly loop-intensive, it does make use of some loops, and 3.) I live and work in Minneapolis – a Northern city. The attached video is of the live performance. The music you’re hearing is the actual finished piece, which was created later in a computer, using audio from the performance and from rehearsals for that performance. There are multiple layers of audio, which have been highly edited and mixed to create the finished product. I edited the video to more or less line things up to match as best I could, but it’s really just an approximation. There was a lot of improvisation involved in the performance, and the finished music actually has more simultaneous layers than I would have been able to pull off live as a solo performance. Still, it’s nice to see the video with the music and I also like that we have some documentation of Paul Christian’s visual projection work. He was using the Processing software environment to create the imagery. I was feeding him about eight separate audio lines that he was working with live. Composition An original work. Instrumentation soprano voice Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 14:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/now-our-grief-is-put-away/">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/49479502&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/rob-mcclure" title="Robert McClure" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Robert McClure</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/rob-mcclure/now-our-grief-is-put-away" title="now our grief is put away" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">now our grief is put away</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 now our grief is put away 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 Music: <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/620">Robert McClure</a> Text: <a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/997">Anne Shaw</a> Description An account of the resource now our grief is put away uses the poem titled Khao Lak Paradise Resort by Anne Shaw in her book, Undertow. I found Anne after searching for poets I wanted to set for a different project. This poem leapt off the page with its vivid imagery and haunting descriptions of the tsunami that occurred on December 24, 2004 in the Southeast Pacific which included Thailand, the setting for this poem. Due to its length and singularity of subject, I decided to not include this poem in what would eventually become Transit for soprano, vibraphone, and double bass but rather set the work as its own piece. The poem is filled with Anne’s own description of her experience in the relief efforts, sayings from Thai culture, and descriptions from survivors of the tsunami. Shaw writes, “Thai culture allows a mourning period of 100 days, after which the soul of the departed - and the lives of the living - must move on,” as a description for the line, now our grief is put away. Relation A related resource now our grief is put away uses the poem titled Khao Lak Paradise Resort by Anne Shaw in her book, Undertow.  I found Anne after searching for poets I wanted to set for a different project.  This poem leapt off the page with its vivid imagery and haunting descriptions of the tsunami that occurred on December 24, 2004 in the Southeast Pacific which included Thailand, the setting for this poem. The poem is filled with Anne’s own description of her experience in the relief efforts, sayings from Thai culture, and descriptions from survivors of the tsunami.  Shaw writes, “Thai culture allows a mourning period of 100 days, after which the soul of the departed – and the lives of the living – must move on,” as a description for the line, now our grief is put away. In setting the work, I did not want to try and take the audience to the places described but rather give them snapshots of moments or resurfacing memories they might have if they experienced this horrific event.  The reader of the spoken text in the electronics is Anne Shaw who, kindly, lent her voice to this project. 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 12:16 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/nukuoro/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="http://media.dartmouth.edu/~jonesmedia/Appleton/APP1080.mp3">Listen to Nukuoro</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 Nukuoro Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979 Description An account of the resource Live Synclavier recorded January 12, 1980. 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 4:10 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/nyckelharpen-variations/">SEAMUS Database</a> <a href="http://media.dartmouth.edu/~jonesmedia/Appleton/APP1081.mp3">Listen to Nyckelharpen Variations</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 Nyckelharpen Variations Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968 Description An account of the resource Bregman Electronic Music Studio. Source material from Norwegian ‘keyed fiddle’ called the Nyckelharpa. Composition An original work. Instrumentation Upright Bass, Eletronics Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1:22 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/oberlin-audition-dance-video/">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 Oberlin Audition Dance Video 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 Spacious Electronics to reinforce the choreography of William Forsythe Composition An original work. Instrumentation Wind Ensemble Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 10:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/object-metamorphosis-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 Object Metamorphosis II 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="http://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/663">Christopher Biggs</a> Description An account of the resource This is an abstract piece of music influenced by spectralism Composition An original work. Instrumentation Wind Ensemble Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 12:00 URL <a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/object-metamorphosis/">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 Object Metamorphosis 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="http://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/663">Christopher Biggs</a> Description An account of the resource This work is based on a minimalist artwork by Jorge Almodovar. The piece is influenced by spectralism.