Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 30

Featuring

Christopher Biggs
Keith Kirchoff
Elizabeth Hoffman
Joo Won Park
Julie Herndon
Mei-Ling Lee

Jiayue Cecilia Wu
Lucina Yue
Daniel Fawcett
Francis Favis
Joanna Chen
Adam Vidiksis
Heather Stebbins
Lyn Goeringer
Kelley Sheehan

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Compositional Technique

Joo Won Park's 'Func Step Mode' uses a 'no-input mixer' in a feedback loop with a drum machine, transforming the mixer into an analog audio processor with many knobs to explore rich sounds.

Compositional Technique

Mei-ling Lee's 'Giant Dipper' is an interactive electronic music composition that uses sound material from a home recording of a child singing and talking, and field recordings from the historic Giant Dipper roller coaster.

Compositional Technique

Kelley Sheehan's 'Talk Circus' uses contact microphones on percussive instruments that feed into a 'no-input mixer' (NiPM), which then becomes an independent source for electronic sounds and morphs the input.

Album & Artwork

This album was produced by SEAMUS, a non-profit national organization dedicated to electro-acoustic music, which includes music dependent on electronic technology for creation or performance.

Historical Context

Julie Herndon's 'A Long Postlude' draws inspiration from Alexander Graham Bell's photophone, an 1880 invention that conveyed speech wirelessly by reflecting vibrated sunlight, which Bell considered one of his greatest inventions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Elizabeth Hoffman's computer music often creates mixed music works that are simultaneously instruments, compositions, and structures, allowing for interplay between the computer performer, the computer, and the instrumentalist.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Jiayue Cecilia Wu's 'For Tashi' is dedicated to mothers who lost children prematurely and aims to raise awareness about prenatal and mental care for women, and support for survivors of pregnancy loss.