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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Fixed Media
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
4:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/study-for-vox-inhumana/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16104493&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/study-for-vox-inhumana" title="Study for Vox Inhumana for fixed media" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Study for Vox Inhumana for fixed media</a></div>
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Title
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<em>Study for Vox Inhumana</em>
Date
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2000
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/628">James Mobberley</a>
Description
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Study for Vox Inhumana (2000) is a brief exploration of the sound world that is to form the basis for a series of larger and varied works that combine vocal sounds (non-singing) with each other (tape compositions and works for vocal improvisation ensemble), with instruments, and with combinations of live vocal and instrumental sounds with both recorded and interactive computer elements. The human voice is the most varied instrument of all, and its rich soundfield has yet to be tapped fully – in fact it may never be. The sounds in this recording were produced and recorded by the composer, representing only one of thousands of vocal treasuries. The piece uses Csound and sound editing software to combine collage techniques with grooves and other devices. The structure is at times controlled and at times rhapsodic, reflecting the moods and bends of the creative (snapped) mind of its composer.
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
oboe, tenor saxophone, horn, trombone, melodica, percussion, electric guitar, piano, soprano, bass-baritone, violin, cello, and electronics
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
0:10
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/lets-celebrate-our-corpse-strewn-future/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="https://ethanhayden.com/works/pdf/Hayden-Corpses.pdf">Score (PDF)</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/402719790&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/ethan-hayden" title="EthanHayden" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">EthanHayden</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ethan-hayden/corpses" title="Let's celebrate our corpse-strewn future!" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Let's celebrate our corpse-strewn future!</a></div>
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Title
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<em>Let's celebrate our corpse-strewn future!</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2015
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/629">Ethan Hayden</a>
Description
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“For what is so grotesquely reduced is, in a sense, liberated from its meaning—its tininess being the outstanding thing about it. It is both a whole (that is, complete) and a fragment (so tiny, the wrong scale).” – Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn <br /><br /><em>Let’s celebrate our corpse strewn future!</em> was composed for Brendan Fitzgerald and Wooden Cities in the summer of 2015.
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
solo voice (with optional electronics & video)
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
9:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/ce-dangereux-supplement/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/156198149?h=155f2857f2" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/156198149">Hayden - "…ce dangereux supplément…" (studio)</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/ethayden">Ethan Hayden</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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Title
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<em>"…ce dangereux supplément…"</em>
Date
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2015
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/629">Ethan Hayden</a>
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An account of the resource
<em>“…ce dangereux supplément…”</em> is a set of phonetic studies for voice, video, and electronics. A suite of three pieces [<em>(tRas), (spɛktʁ), </em>and<em> (sɑ̃dʁ)</em>] the work is based on a close examination of the sounds used in everyday linguistic activity, which are juxtaposed against more extreme vocal effects. The live performance is supplemented with electronic voices which stretch and transform this common vocality. The visuals range from rapid-fire successions of symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet, to more suspended meditations on elaborately arranged orthographic tapestries made from the same symbols.<br /><br /><em>“…ce dangereux supplément…”</em> is a poetic rehearsal of the Derridean supplement, that unbelonging excess in a binary opposition which is (contradictorily) crucially indispensable. This takes place throughout the work via a dialectic between linguistic articulation (consonants) and voiced intonation (vowels). While moving between these two poles, the performer acts out a futile search for the primary referent (or “master signifier”), but eventually realizes all that is to be found is an infinite hauntology, a spectral chain of traces, specters, and cinders.
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Kalimba and electronics
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
7:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/in-wahrheit-sas-ein-buckliger-zwerg-darin-der-ein-meister-im-schachspiel-war-und-die-hand-der-puppe-an-schnuren-lenkte/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="https://ethanhayden.com/works/pdf/Hayden-InWahrheit.pdf">Score (PDF)</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/97928790&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/ethan-hayden" title="EthanHayden" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">EthanHayden</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ethan-hayden/wahrheit" title="In Wahrheit (excerpt)" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">In Wahrheit (excerpt)</a></div>
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<em>In Wahrheit saß ein buckliger Zwerg darin, der ein Meister im Schachspiel war und die Hand der Puppe an Schnüren lenkte</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2013
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/629">Ethan Hayden</a>
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<div class="sc-type-small sc-text-body">
<div>
<p>Excerpt of a live performance of "In Wahrheit saß ein buckliger Zwerg darin, der ein Meister im Schachspiel war und die Hand der Puppe an Schnüren lenkte" for kalimba and electronics by percussionist Patti Cudd (<a href="https://gate.sc?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patticudd.com&token=477a7e-1-1687874803309" rel="nofollow noopener ugc" target="_blank" title="http://www.patticudd.com">www.patticudd.com</a>).</p>
<p>In Wahrheit saß ein buckliger Zwerg darin, der ein Meister im Schachspiel war und die Hand der Puppe an Schnüren lenkte consists of contrapuntal dialogue between a live equal-tempered kalimba and its just-intoned and/or ring-modulated electronic reflections.</p>
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
two-channel fixed media
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
7:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/bats-with-baby-faces-in-the-violet-light/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/71235604&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/ethan-hayden" title="EthanHayden" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">EthanHayden</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ethan-hayden/bats-baby-faces" title="bats with baby faces in the violet light" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">bats with baby faces in the violet light</a></div>
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Title
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<em>bats with baby faces in the violet light</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2011
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/629">Ethan Hayden</a>
Description
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<em>bats with baby faces in the violet light</em> was created using the sounds of various objects the composer found around his home. the sounds are arranged into various gestural contexts, often with very little signal processing. the primary aesthetic aim of the piece is to exploit the unplanned and frequently unpredictable pitched sounds which often burst forth from, or which are components of, noisier, percussive gestures.
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Piano with Live Electronics
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
8:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/voices-in-memoriam/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="https://jamesmobberleymusic.com/list-of-works-score-samples/voices-in-memoriam-pages-1-6/">Score sample</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/24634893&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/voicesinmemoriam-for-piano" title="Voices In Memoriam for piano with optional electronics" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Voices In Memoriam for piano with optional electronics</a></div>
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Title
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<em>Voices: In Memoriam</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2001
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/628">James Mobberley</a>
Description
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Written for pianists Leah Hokanson and Daniel Koppelman, and dedicated to the 343 New York City Firefighters who lost their lives in the attacks on 9/11/2001.
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Fixed Media
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
8:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/vox-metallica/">SEAMUS Database</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15295716&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/vox-metallica" title="Vox Metallica for fixed media" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Vox Metallica for fixed media</a></div>
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Title
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<em>Vox Metallica</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2005
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
VOX METALLICA (2006), for fixed 2-channel digital media, uses a collection of recordings of non-singing sounds from several different voices, plus recordings of guitars, bass guitar, drum set, and organ as sound sources. Context being a critical part of our memory and pattern-recognition processes, Vox Metallica plays with familiar and non-familiar juxtapositions of elements from “classical” electro-acoustic and popular music. After all, it’s both a short walk, and a very long walk, from uptown to downtown…
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Solo 'cello and Fixed Media
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
13:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/alter-ego-for-cello-and-fixed-media/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="https://jamesmobberleymusic.com/list-of-works-score-samples/alter-ego-pages-1-6/">Score sample</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/24632813&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/alter-ego" title="Alter Ego for 'Cello and Fixed Media" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Alter Ego for 'Cello and Fixed Media</a></div>
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Title
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<em>Alter Ego for 'cello and Fixed Media: Homage á Hrothgar<br /></em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2006
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="sc-type-small sc-text-body">
<div>
<p>Alter Ego was written for my friend and colleague Carter Enyeart, who provided not only the idea behind the piece and its reason for being, but also the recorded sound material for the fixed media. Alter Ego combines a live instrumental performer with playback of organized and sculpted sounds taken from that same instrument. Hence the sound world of the performance remains that of the acoustic instrument, but the resulting piece enlarges that sound world with all the techniques that the digital medium provides.</p>
<p>The combination of live performance with fixed playback provides the opportunity to explore the changing relationships between the two entities. The live performer is the focus, both visual and emotional, for the audience, while the sounds in the speakers serve as invisible accompanist. As with a human accompanist, there are opportunities for leading as well as supporting roles as the piece progresses. After an opening instrumental solo, the CD playback begins to “learn” what the ‘cellist is doing. Its contribution begins as subtle environmental ambience, then moves through harmonic/rhythmic accompaniment to real counterpoint and eventually independence. At this point the roles reverse (the alter ego comes to the fore), as the CD provides a short solo, then begins a different type of music which the live performer begins to “learn.” The finale features the most complete integration of the two elements and the most tightly knit music of the piece. By this point the roles are as equal and cooperative as possible.</p>
<p>One other important note…in January of 2006 one of my most important mentors, Roger Hannay, passed away. I learned an enormous amount about composition, and especially about being a composer, from Roger, whose own alter ego, if he would allow me to characterize it that way, was ‘Hrothgar’, a Danish king from the Beowulf legends. Alter Ego is an homage, both to the man and to his music, with fond appreciation for both.</p>
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Solo Piano (4 of 6 movements with Fixed Media)
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
21:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/phenomena/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="https://jamesmobberleymusic.com/list-of-works-score-samples/744-2/">Score sample</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/59076496&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/sets/phenomena" title="Phenomena" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Phenomena</a></div>
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<em>Phenomena</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2007
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/628">James Mobberley</a>
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Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation and written for pianist Anthony de Mare. Premiere performance March 14, 2007 in Kansas City, MO.
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Composition
An original work.
Instrumentation
Standard Wind Ensemble (2222-4331-3perc-piano) and fixed media
Duration
Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)
8:00
URL
<a href="https://seamusonline.org/work/ascension/">SEAMUS Database</a><br /><a href="https://jamesmobberleymusic.com/list-of-works-score-samples/ascension-2010-pages-1-6/">Score sample</a>
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<p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/97971445&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe></p>
<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/ascension-2010" title="Ascension 2010" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Ascension 2010</a></div>
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<em>Ascension</em>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1988/rev.2010
Creator
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<a href="https://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/628">James Mobberley</a>
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An account of the resource
<div class="sc-type-small sc-text-body">
<div>
<p>Ascension was originally composed in 1988 for Gary Hill and the UMKC Conservatory Wind Ensemble. It is dedicated to my college roommate Kenneth Wayne Hill, who was killed in action in the Persian Gulf in April, 1988, shortly before I was scheduled to begin this work. It is also lovingly dedicated to his family and to our mutual friends. Kenneth's volatile, hilarious, energetic, and complex personality formed the basis of my musical ideas, while my own emotional reactions to the news of his death and to the heroic and poignant events surrounding the last day of his life, which were released by the U.S. Marines only very slowly and ultimately in incomplete form, shaped the work's structure.</p>
<p>Kenneth's life was often marked by tremendous obstacles, but my lasting memory of him is one of a spirit impossible to keep down. I imagine his life and his death as one grand ascension.</p>
<p>The original version was composed using the technology of the day, primarily with synthesized sounds that were selected for their timbral similarity to those of the wind ensemble. In this new version, most of these sounds have been replaced with sampled sounds of various instruments, providing an even more integrated sonic environment. I am very much indebted to James Smart for suggesting this idea. In the process of putting the new accompaniment together, I also fixed several score errors, added some more audible cues, adjusted the score and the playback for more precise synchronization, and lengthened the opening gesture to aid synchronization.</p>
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