Marc Yeats - siren song (2006)

siren song (2006) by Marc Yeats

Marc Yeats is a composer and visual artist. His uncompromising music has been performed, commissioned and broadcast around the world. He has worked with many distinguished performers, ensembles and musicians including Psappha, the London Sinfonietta, the Endymion Ensemble, Paragon Ensemble, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic and Gewandhaus Radio Orchestra, among others.

Siren Song
Natalie Raybould, voices: Carla Rees, alto flutes

Dedicated to Natalie Raybould and Carla Rees

For three sopranos, three alto flutes, guitar, percussion and digital sound environment.

'Siren Song' enabled me to indulge my fascination for the siren, the mystical sea spirit, half human female, half sea creature that lures unsuspecting fisherman to their deaths by her seductive song. In this piece, I concentrate on the gentle, mystical aspect of the siren to paint a picture of her watery, ethereal nature, employing sounds that suggested seal cries and whale song as well as other nautical sounds all being part of her alluring aquatic nature. The music is evocative, gentle and hypnotic to the point where the three female voices and three alto flutes act as the one being, calling, enchanting and seducing. 'Siren Song' is assimilated from 'ASCII Dialogues', a piece for soprano and alto flute originally premiered by the artists on this recording.

Philemon Mukarno - Artrax

Artrax by Philemon Mukarno Composer

"Philemon Mukarno, composer, was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. He studied Audio Engineering, Composition and Composition Electronic Music in Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Codarts - University for the arts in the Netherlands. He finished Cum Laude and received the Prize for Composition.
Mukarno is a unique figure in Contemporary Music. The use of electronics is one of his trademarks. The compositions demonstrate in their own way his original ideas and his strife for intense expressiveness, in a musical language that does not refer to tradition. Each piece has a strong economy of Means and a strict control of Form. Means and Form are use by Mukarno in an elementary and powerful way.
His works are performed on International Music Festivals as: Gamelan Festival in Yogjakarta, Indonesia, El Segundo Festival International de Música Clásica Contemporánea in Lima, Peru, Rotterdam Music Biennial, the Netherlands, Internationale Studienwoche für Zeitgenössische Musik 2000 in Lunenburg, Germany and Internationaal Gamelan Festival Amsterdam (IGFA).
He cooperates frequently with artists from other disciplines such as choreographers, dancers, and performers. As well as music for theatre and motion pictures."

John Mallia

http://www.myspace.com/johnmallia
http://homepage.mac.com/jmallia/
http://necmusic.edu/faculty/john-mallia?lid=1&sid=

"John Malia was born in Stanford, CT in 1968. <...> He is currently on the Composition Faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music where he also directs the Electronic Music Studio.

John Mallia's compositions for diverse instrumental, vocal and electronic forces have been performed internationally by artists and organizations including Yo-Yo Ma, Gaudeamus (The Netherlands), International Computer Music Association, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art (Barcelona, Spain), Festival Synthese (Bourges, France), Society for New Music (New York), CyberArts (Boston, MA), Medi@terra's Travelling Mikromuseum (Greece, Bulgaria, Germany), and the Boston Microtonal Society.
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His work has been recognized by the Institut de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges' International Competition of Electro-acoustic Music and Sonic Art (1991, 2000 France), the Luigi Russolo competition (2000 Italy), and the Boston Microtonal Society's Annual Award for the creation of microtonal music. He was co-Director of the Auros Group for New Music (1992-99) and has produced more than seventy concerts of contemporary music in New England. He remains active as a presenter of concerts of electro-acoustic music in the Boston area."

JD Pirtle - Supercollider work

Supercollider work by jd_pirtle

JD Pirtle is an artist working in Chicago, a MFA candidate in New Media Arts at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a graduate research assistant at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory.

Ben Hayoz - Archetypen

Archetypes by Ben Hayoz

Benedikt Hayoz is a conductor and composer specializing in contemporary classical music, as well as in classical music. He graduated from the university of Arts in Zurich and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He worked recently with the ensembles Chroma in London and the ensemble TaG in Winterthur.

A piece about dance and colors in two movements, for clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, piano.
Played by:
Sarah Chardonnens Lehmann (clarinets)
Nancy Benda (violin/viola)
Etienne Murith (piano)