Thrymmatízo explores the relationship between timbral and temporal realms.  Throughout the work, the brief sounds of glass smashing (thrymmatízo translates from Greek as "shatter") coalesce into sustained textures while the elongated sounds of bowed glass fragment into brief moments.  These timbral differences form a dialogue that creates the work's main interest and conflict.

Thrymmatízo

Lösgöra (Swedish for "detach")is an acousmatic work that explores sound on its terms. The source material for this works consists primarily of sampled audio that has been processed and manipulated to remove the sounds from their typically associated contexts and place them in a more abstract musical context. Singing becomes guttural drones, smashing oil cans become percussive drums, a guitar is used only for the gritty scraping of its strings, and an uncooperative tape measure serves as a returning foreground element throughout the piece. Sonic materials consist primarily of sampled audio with some use of synthesized sounds. The title Lösgöra comes from my growing interest in composing acousmatic music with sound objects free of any real-world contextual meaning. The use of Swedish translation is a nod to acousmatic music of various Swedish composers (specifically Rolf Enstrom and Ake Parmerud)which has been a growing source of inspiration to me.

Lösgöra was written for the 2016 Ears, Eyes and Feet concert at the University of Texas at Austin. This piece served as the audio component of a collaboration for dance, integrated media and music titled "Oculus"

Lösgöra

Music Tech II Final Project

All sounds are either trumpet or piano

Jessica Nguyen: Trumpet
Hazen Tobar: Piano & muted trumpet

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II.II. A Duet of Piano & Trumpet



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Jon Fielder is a native of Southeast Ohio currently living in Austin, TX where he is a DMA student in composition and an assistant instructor in the electronic music studios. Jon received his M.M. degree in composition in 2012 from Bowling Green State University where he studied primarily with Elainie Lillios and Mikel Kuehn.  He received B.M. degrees in both music composition and music theory from Ohio University in 2010 under the study of Mark Philips (composition) and Allyn Reily (theory). His music has been featured at the SEAMUS conference (2013), Electronic Music Midwest, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium, N-SEME, Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival, KcEMA, the 2012 IDRS conference, Omaha Under the Radar, the Northern Ohio Music Exchange (NOMA), and the Olmsted Festival of the Arts. His piece "Sublimation" was premiered as part of Alex Sramek's call for scores for the Voxnovus 15-minutes of fame series. Jon was also the first recipient of the Mark Phillips Distinguished Professor award for composition in 2009 (Ohio University).

Jon's primary interests as a composer are rooted in electronic music, working with both fixed media and live electronics. These interests have also permeated into his acoustic writing, which shows strong interest in timbre, texture and spatialization. Jon also remains active as a researcher and music theorist. His primary interest is in music of the New Complexity school (particularly Franklin Cox and Brian Ferneyhough) and post-1945 Darmstadt composers, primarily Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio. 

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