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Vanessa Sorce-Lévesque: Allegro (2010) — 00:07:57

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Composed on the basis of a poem by Édouard Lachapelle, “L’Allègre Léo”.

L’Allègre Léo a mis au lait
L’ange intègre au lit laid.

Mais un aigre nègre
change le mélange
Lait et eau
et met l’angelet
Haut

Dans d’aig…

Gabriel Ledoux: Le bruit, c’est comment je me sens (2010) — 00:05:50

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Mark Oliveiro: In Maluga (2009) — 00:08:59

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In Australian art and literature, a prevalent binary opposition emerges from works classic and contemporary, a dichotomy that permeates reality as much as fiction. In Maluga, a spatial fixed media work for five channels, explores notions of bush VS city. Often poets, artists and musicians explore the pervasive nature of the city as it etches away the beauty of an ancient omnipotent bushscape. Sometimes the soft and docile manmade city-limits are tested by the harsh reality of an unforgiving desolate wilderness. Maluga (the subject) is a resurrected traditional mangrove, a reborn spit of bush in the middle of Sydney’s suburbia, a fantasy of a lost living forest in historical Australia. Surrounded by the urbanized cacophony driven by business and industry, In Maluga presents a juxtaposition between a living serene bushland and a bustling city. The bird calls of Australian natives and the clang of a mechanized modern piano are two central samples that represent the bush VS city idiom. The audience is transported to and from a ‘happy place’, a gentle collage of nature’s orchestra and the ‘foreign’ harsh crack of industrial noise. Synthesized and manipulated sounds represent both calamity and tranquility as the listener is thrown between these opposing settings, common in a contemporary human habitat. This work is set in five channels, mixed in protocols with sounds manipulated using RTCmix.

Jay Bundy Johnson: Dusk (2010) — 00:05:30

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Soundscapes often reference place with the notion of time acting in direct relationship to duration. In the case of Dusk, the sonics suggest a specific moment in time (as a bird has its night call).

Sonia Wilkie: Cathexis (2008) — 00:01:58

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Cathexis is a Musique Concrete work that explores various timbres and textures, ranging from smooth harmonious tones to the juxtaposed sharp grains that is underscored with a rhythmic pulse exploring the 7/ 8 pulse. The sounds were sourced from the Sonia’s…

Natalie Cringle: The Collapse of Empires (2010) — 00:05:55

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Throughout history man has built elaborate empires to control people, nature, and materials. Empires have ruled by raping and pillaging the lands of others. The word in itself, “empire,” has a somewhat dark connotation to it. As empires grow, like any living entity, they follow the cycle of life. This piece tells the story of a great collapse and the aftermath of a land rebuilding itself. The sharp, jarring, harsh, and awkward sounds represent the overspill of power within the empire, that it no longer has control, and is decaying rapidly. Through all deaths there are births, a regeneration of the land. The warm sounding, thick, luscious, organic sounds symbolize the matter piecing itself together again. Perhaps one could draw an analogy between the struggles and the dualities within one’s mind and the struggles within the rise and fall of a seemingly omnipotent force. Both face a massive transformation: from dark to light, from death to birth, from terror to freedom. Through the collapse of any empire there is a birth of a new way of life.

Jane Aubourg: Finding Frangipanis (2008) — 00:04:55

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Finding Frangipanis was written as part of an album of works for electric violin and loop/delay. It is performed live, with no pre-recordings. It recently won the 2010 MusicOz Award for Best Instrumental Artist.

Blake Johnston: Submerge (2010) — 00:06:58

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

The piece derives from an idea of evolution of minute sonic objects to large environments. The piece takes the listener through water bassed sonic objects from as small as a wine glass to an aquatic environment.

Jack Hooker: Field Murmur (2010) — 00:05:48

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Monica Rouvellas: Memoirs of a Little Lady (2009) — 00:06:23

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

‘Memoirs of a Little Lady’ explores the concept of recording prerecorded and processed sounds in various spaces with different reverberation attributes.

The sounds were recorded in three of the main concert halls, stairwells and studios of the Sydne…

Nic McConaghy: Single Origin (2010) — 00:04:20

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Single Origin is an acousmatic miniature created entirely from the sounds of coffee beans. As a coffee enthusiast, I am often fascinated by the process of transformation that the humble coffee bean must undergo before it is enjoyed the world over as a deli…

Tim Tsoraklidis: The Beginning (2010) — 00:03:53

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Music was Composed and produced in Logic Pro. Genre is Modern Art Music or could be called Film music. Mood of piece is triumphant.

Laurent Aglat: Pays sages (2007) — 00:03:50

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Pays sages was created for an art movie made by Annie-Claude Roberge. It is describing a world of water with its kindness and its roughness.

Stéfan Kozminchuk: Metal (2008) — 00:14:08

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

This piece is supposed to be a voyage through the genesis of industrial music, where single sounds slowly come together to form what we now perceive as Industrial Rock.

Jesse Fegelman: Four Functions (2010) — 00:04:00

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Four Functions is the first piece in a set of computer works as part of a survey of compositional computer music software. It uses four mathematical functions to inform four copies of the same base instrument what to play, as each instrument only requires …

Justin Trubiano: A Rainy Tuesday Afternoon (2010) — 00:08:47

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

This piece is based around a rainy tuesday morning. Which a series of comedic unfortunate events took place.

Christopher Mclean: Sortie Céleste (2009) — 00:10:40

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Where the noble worker takes a day off, a leap into the unusual, and heads off for outer space.…

Aaron Oppenheim: BE(TPr->v1) (2010) — 00:10:10

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

Long drones were created by recording various instruments (including guitar, ukelele, musical saw, accordion, melodica, trombone and voice) using a max/msp patch which only recorded when the sound exactly matched a chosen pitch. Whenever an instrument woul…

Crystal Muller: Electric Sheep: Binary Clock (2010) — 00:03:50

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

This work combines natural and synthetic sound sources. The goal is to create a balanced soundscape in which “natural” and “synthetic” sounds are not considered by their binary division. Processes of selection, modification, processing and contextualizatio…

Brice Gatinet: L’œil seul (2010) — 00:06:15

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400