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Composer List (Organized by rough category, with general descriptions of work, and select works. N.B. *Works are required listening) Experimentalism and Beyond (Not discussed, but related predecessors – Henry Cowell, Antheil, Charles Ives) • Harry Partch (USA) (1901 - 74) Interests: Just Intonation, Cultural Studies, Performance Art, Instrument Design, Experimentalism Important Works: Seventeen Lyrics by Li Po (1930 -33), Delusion of the Fury – A Ritual of Dream and Delusion (1965 - 66) • John Cage (USA) (1912 - 92) Interests: Experimentalism, Algorithmic Composition, Aleatoric Music, Electronic Music, Performance Art, Interdisciplinary Work, Sound Art, Collaborative Performance Important Works: 4:33 (1952), Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48), Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958), Variations (1958-67), Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62), Etudes Australes (1974- 75), Number Pieces (1987-92) • Colon Nancarrow (USA/Mexico) (1912 - 97) Interests: Player Piano, Rhythm Studies Important Works: Studies for Player Piano (1948 - 60 and 1965 - 92) • Morton Feldman (USA) (1926 - 87) Interests: Visual Art Connections, Graphic Scores Important Works: The Viola in My Life (1970 - 71), Rothko Chapel (1971), Neither (1977), For Philip Guston (1984), Palais de Mari (1986) • David Tudor (USA) (1926 - 96) Interests: Electronic Music, Performance Art, Visual Art Connection, Sound Art, Collaborative Performance Important Works: Rainforest (iv) (1976), Neural Synthesis 1-9 (1994) • Robert Ashley (USA) (1930 - 2014) Interests: Experimentalism, Language, Collaborative Performance, Electronics Important Works: She was a Visitor (1967), Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon (1968), Perfect Lives (1978 - 83), Concrete/The Old Man Lives in Concrete (2006 - 12) • Alvin Lucier (USA) (b. 1931) Interests: Sound Art, Psychoacoustics, Minimalism, Transmedia Work Important Works: Music for Solo Performer (1965), I Am Sitting in a Room (1969), Music on a Long Thin Wire (1977), Still and Moving Lines in Families of Hyperbolas (1973-74, 84), Sferics (1981) • Eliane Radigue (France)(b. 1932) Interests: Electronic Music, Pyschoacoustics, Instrument Techniques, Performer/Composers Collaborations Important Works: Adnos (1974, 80, 82), Trilogie de la Mort (1988 - 93), NalDJorlak (2005 - 09) • Pauline Oliveros (USA) (b. 1932) Interests: Deep Listening, Psychoacoustics, Improvisation, Spirituality Important Works: *Bye Bye Butterfly (1965), I of IV (1966), Sonic Meditations (1974) • James Tenney (USA) (1934 - 2006) Interests: Psychoacoustics, Electronic Music, Algorithmic Composition, Just Intonation Important Works: For Ann (Rising) (1971), Koan (Having Never Written a Note for Percussion) (1971), Spectral Cannon For Nancarrow (1974), *Koan for String Quartet (1984), Arbor Vitae (2006) • Christian Wolff (USA) (b. 1934) Interests: Relational Structures, Political Music Important Works: For 1, 2, or 3 People (1964) • La Monte Young (USA) (b 1935) + Mariam Zazeela (USA) (b 1940) Interests: Just intonation, Fluxism/Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Spirituality, Cultural Studies (India), Electronic Music, Visual Art Connections, Improvisation, Sound Art, Drone Important Works: Trio for Strings (1958, 84, 2001, 2005, 2015), Compositions 1960, *The Well- Tuned Piano (1964 - 71/81 - present), The Tortoise and His Dreams/The Dream House (1964 - present), Four Dreams of China (1962, 1984), • Terry Riley (USA) (b. 1935) Interests: Minimalism, Just Intonation, Cultural Studies (India), Improvisation, Electronic Music Important Works: In C (1964), A Rainbow in Curved Air (album) (1967-68) • Steve Reich (USA) (b. 1936) Interest: Minimalism, Process Music, Intermedia Work, Language Studies Important Works: Come Out (1966), Drumming (1970/71), Music for 18 Instruments (1974-76), Different Trains (1988) • Philip Glass (USA) (b. 1937) Interests: Minimalism, Visual Art, Intermedia Work Important Works: Two Pages (1969), Music with Changing Parts (1970), Music in Twelve Parts (1971 - 74), Einstein on the Beach (1976), Koyaanisqatsi (1981-82) • David Behrman (USA) (b 1937) Interests: Electronic Music, Algorithmic Composition, Network Structures, Computer Assisted Improvisation, Performer/Composer Compositions Important Works: On the Other Ocean (1978), Unforeseen Events (1991) • Maryanne Amacher (USA) (1938 - 2009) Interests: Psychoacoustics, Sound Space, Acoustics Important Works: Sound-Joined Rooms (1979), Head Rhythm/Plaything (1999) • Annea Lockwood (USA) (b. 1939) Interests: Conceptual Art, Sound Art, Field Recordings, Environmental Issues, Electronic Music Important Works: Piano Transplants (1967 - 2005) The World River Project (1982 -), Wild Energy (2014) • Tom Johnson (USA/France) (b. 1939) Interests: Minimalism, Algorithmic Composition, Mathematics Important Works: Nine Bells (1973), Rational Melodies (1982), The Chord Catalogue (1986) • Anthony Braxton (USA) (1945) Interests: Improvisation, Graphical Scores, Social Issues, Philosophy Important Works: Number compositions, Ghost Trance Music (1995 - present) • Clarence Barlow (UK/India) (b. 1945) Interests: Psychoacoustics, Cognition, Algorithmic Compositions Important Works: Fantasia Quasi Una Sonata (Con “Mantra” Di Stockhausen) (1973), …Until… (1981), Variazioni e un pianoforte meccanico (1986) • Paul DeMarinis (USA) (b. 1948) Interests: Sound Art and Psychoacoustics Important Works: In Sara, Mencken,Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women, The Edison Effect (1993), Firebirds (2004), • Christina Kubisch (German) (b 1948) Interests: Sound Art, Fluxism, Electronic Sound, Intermedia Work Important Works: The Clocktown Project (1996 -), Electronic Sound Walks (2003 -) • George Lewis (USA) (b. 1952) Interests: Computer Assisted Improvisation, Free Improvisation, Interactive Systems, Electronic Music, Social Issues, Collaborative Performance, Sound Art Important Works: Voyager (1987 - present), Ikons (2010) • John Luther Adams (USA) (b. 1953) Interests: Algorithmic Composition, Nature, Mathematics, Just Intonation, Performance Space Important Works: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing (1991-95), Inuksuit (2009), Become Ocean (2013) • David Dunn (USA) (b. 1953) Interests: Field Recordings, Chaos Theory, Interactive Systems, Environmental Issues Important Works: Angels and Insects (album) (1992), Autonomous Systems (2003), The Sound of Light in Trees (2006), Listening to What I Cannot Hear (2008) http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen_david-dunn-composition • Larry Polanski (USA) (b. 1954) Interests: Psychoacoustics, Cognition, Electronic Music, Algorithmic Composition Important Works: Four Voice Canons (1974 - ), Simple Actions/Rules of Compossibility (1989) • Michael Pisaro (USA) (b. 1961) Interests: Performer/Composer Collaborations, Post-Conceptual Art, Wandelweiser Important Works: Transparent City (2007), Ricefall (II) (2010), Hearing Metal 3 (2011) • Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) (German) (b. 1965) Interests: Transmedia Work, Electronic Music, Sound Art Important Works: polar (2001) • Ryoji Ikeda (Japan/France) (b. 1966) Interests: Sonification, Sound Art, Visual Music Important Works: +/- (1996), Dataphonics (2010), supersymmetry (2014) • Tristan Perich (USA) (b. 1982) Interests: Analogue/DYI Electronics, Minimalism, Algorithmic Composition Important Works: 1-bit symphony (2010) Surface Image (2013), Microtonal Wall (2013) Math and Music • Iannis Xenakis (Greece) (b. 1922) Interests: Algorithmic Compositions, Transmedia Work, Electronic Music, Granular Synthesis Important Works: Herma (1961), Eonta (1963 -64), Psappha (1975), La Legende d’Eer (1977), Tetras (1983), Naama (1984), A l’île de Gorée (1986) • Per Nørgård (Dutch) (1932) Interests: Just Intonation, Algorithmic Music, Visual Art Influences, Fractals Important Works: Voyage into the Golden Screen (1968), Symphony #5 (1990) • Alberto Posadas (Spain) (1967) Interests: Electronic Music, Fractals/Chao Structure Important Works: Liturgia Fractal (2003 - 07) Spectralism • Gérard Grisey (France) (1946 - 1998) Interests: Spectralism, Psychoacoustics, JI, Algorithmic Composition, Spirituality, Instrumental Techniques Important Works: Partiels (1975) (and Les Espaces Acoustiques (1974-85), Vortex temporum (1994-96, and Quatre Chants pour Franchir le Seuil (1997-98) • Tristan Murail (France) (b. 1947) Interests: Spectralism, Psychoacoustics, Algorithmic Composition, Electroacoustic Music Important Works: Territoire d’oubli (1977), Gondwana (1980), Déstingétraction, (1982), L’Esprit des dunes (1994) • Horatiu Radulescu (Romania) (1942 - 2008) Interests: JI, Psychoacoustics, Experimentalism, Mysticism/Numerology Important Works: String Quartet #4 (infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite) opus 33 (1976-87) • Jonathan Harvey (UK) (1939 - 2012) Interests: Post-Spectralism, Psychoacoustics, Algorithmic/Formula Composition, Electroacoustic Music, Spirituality Important Works: Mortuos Plango, Vicos Voco (1980), Advaya (1994), Tombeau de Messiaen (1994), Speakings (2007/8) • Iancu Dumitrescu (Romania) (b. 1942) Interests: Spectralism, Psychoacoustics, Electroacoustic Music Important Works: Medium III • Ana-Maria Avram (Romania) (b. 1961) Interests: Spectralism, Psychoacoustics, JI, Algorithmic Composition • Claude Vivier (Candian) (1948 - 83) Interests: Post-Spectralism, Spiritual/Ritualism, Cultural Studies, Language Important Works: Lonely Child (1980), Wo bist du licht (1981), Do you believe in the immortality of the soul? (1983) • Kaija Saariaho (Finland) (b. 1952) Interests: Post-Spectralism, Electroacoustic, Opera/Theater Important Works: Du cristal
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    CHINARY UNG: SINGING INSIDE AURA WATER RINGS OVERTURE | ANICCA | ANTIPHONAL SPIRALS | GRAND SPIRAL [1] WATER RINGS OVERTURE (1993) 6:46 CHINARY UNG b. 1942 WATER RINGS OVERTURE [2] ANICCA (1970) 8:27 ANICCA [3] ANTIPHONAL SPIRALS (1995) 11:03 ANTIPHONAL SPIRALS [4] SINGING INSIDE AURA (2013) 14:34 Susan Ung, viola and voice SINGING INSIDE AURA GRAND SPIRAL: DESERT FLOWERS BLOOM [5] GRAND SPIRAL: DESERT FLOWERS BLOOM (1991) 13:19 SUSAN UNG viola and voice TOTAL 54:10 BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT GIL ROSE, CONDUCTOR COMMENT By Chinary Ung The use of vocalization has become a central feature in my music over the past two decades. As a child growing up in a small village surrounded by rice fields, I was exposed to this practice as a part of folk music, and would later hear the music of other cultures share this approach. In contemporary Western music, however, vocalization was most often used as a special effect. I would eventually seek to incorporate vocalization in a more comprehensive manner that was integral to the work while reflecting a similar timelessness and cultural resonance as in the folk music I remembered. The first significant occasion I had to experiment with this idea was in Susan Ung’s Moon Ritual, a structured improvisation in the late 1970s in which Susan played her viola through a Buchla synthesizer while I played cello and vocalized, using syllables for their sound character. The idea remained on the back burner for twenty years before I brought it forth in a major work, Grand Alap, for cello and percussion, in which both parts featured extensive vocalization.