I Am Not Yours is a poem by American poet Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933) published in 1917 in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Love Songs. This setting of Teasdale's text is an exploration in word painting, the textural context of the poem, and a reflection of my understanding of the poem. The contrasting progression of the poem's narrative from declarative resistance in the opening to relinquishing capitulation allowed for the compositional structure to also reflect that shift, while exploring the text's tonal duality in the inner sections. I chose to use microtones in the Soprano to reflect the uncertainty and nervous movement of the text, while also creating a lush atmosphere for the delivery of the text.

Performance by soprano Pamela Stein and Helix! New Music Ensemble

I Am Not Yours Live 20 Nov 2015

Erie Changys

C53b [cl]

April 13th 2019 - Winnipeg MB. Performed and Commissioned by Amanda Forest, at Solus: an Unaccompanied Clarinet Recital

Amanda associates each pitch of the chromatic scale with a specific color. For example, she visualizes G as a vibrant shade of Magenta.
I can't thank her enough for bringing my work to life.

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Magenta Variations

A guided meditation for calm contemplation with words and music by Sybil

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Guided Meditation

An Immersive sonic journey deep into the glade, where perilous encounters and texture laden colors surround the listener. Created with modular synthesis, clay whistles augmented with an array of digital signal processors.

Invocar Jaguar

Keith Kirchoff, Piano

Oiseaux Naturels: LA River (2019) for piano and fixed media electronics is based on the sounds of birds found in the Glendale Narrows section of the Los Angeles River. The title playfully references Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques, as the piece explores the sound of everyday birds of this natural oasis located in the middle of Los Angeles, including sparrows, finches, and geese. The piece consists of three sections, each focusing on a specific bird’s song, as well as a different perspective on the relationship between the river and the surrounding urban environment.

Oiseaux Naturels: LA River is the third piece in the composer’s Rhythmanalysis series that explores urban soundscapes. Henri Lefebvre developed the concept of Rhythmanalysis to analyze how the periodic sounds of urban spaces relate to the experience of a place. The electronic component of Oiseaux Naturels: LA River is based on audio recordings taken at the Glendale Narrows. This section of the river, just north of Downtown LA, has a soft bottom and is home to many different species of birds. The recorded bird songs are analyzed using sonographic analysis and music information retrieval (MIR) techniques to produce timing, amplitude, and frequency information. This data is mapped to rhythm and pitch, imparting the gestures and timing of the bird songs onto the piano part, which references Messiaen’s Catalogue d'oiseaux. Processed and unprocessed bird songs, as well as the sound of the environment, including airplanes, traffic, and water are also included. Oiseaux Naturels: LA River is based on the work of L.A. Listens (lalistens.org), a collective focused on urban sound co-founded by the composer.

Oiseaux Naturels: LA River

A brief study using Kofi Agawu's concept of re-composition as analysis to analyze the timbre of the theme song from "Friends." The song is reconstructed with attention payed as much as possible to what I perceive as the timbral elements of the song rather than the harmonic or pitch content, though these are inextricably linked.

Structure

Hi-Hat, West Fox

For the best experience, please listen with headphones.

Within Waves is piece for hi-hat and live immersive electronics.  Sound from the hi-hat drives a large multi channel waveguide mesh that is encoded to an ambisonic signal to envelop the audience in both subtle and dramatic spatial gestures generated by processing the hi-hat's input into the waveguide mesh.

Within Waves

Written for the cinema in the mind's eye.

Over Perilous Ground

Composer
PhD Candidate, University of North Texas

I Am Not Yours Live 20 Nov 2015

Louise Fristensky

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