David Q. Nguyen's "Whale Song Stranding" aims to create an immersive, rhizome-like sound world where different zones are successive, simultaneous, and float without rising or sinking.
Compositional Technique
Maggi Payne's "Heat Shield" uses only a Moog IIIP synthesizer and a cricket snippet as sound sources, choreographed to create immersive multiple spaces.
Composition History
Douglas McCausland's "Convergence" was composed for augmented double-bass and electronics performer in third-order ambisonics, exploring performative agency and machine-learning applications.
Album & Artwork
This album is produced by SEAMUS, a non-profit national organization dedicated to electro-acoustic music, which is music dependent on electronic technology for its creation or performance.
Composer Biography
Jon Christopher Nelson's piece is a memorial to poet Robert Gregory (1947-2018), whose work has inspired Nelson's compositions for many years.
Composition History
Eli Fieldsteel and Kerrith Livengood's "Sonic Crumbs" began as a game of passing programming code back and forth via email, evolving into a collaborative project.
Composition History
Nina C. Young's "Always and Forever" is a video collaboration with animator Yuliya Lanina, exploring themes of death, distance, relationships, and powerlessness.
