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Earth-Star Songs

Description: Recording of Leif Brush's Earth-Star Songs. This work is considered a "stitching" of sounds and recordings taken from an array of the composer's analogue constructs and terrain instruments. These recordings have been paired with recordings produced by Jerry Chamkis' Kosmophone. The result is an inexhaustibly complex amalgamation of hard-edged terrestrial and tactile phenomena contrasted by cosmically sourced retro-futuristic synth interjections.
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Date: 2004/2005
Duration: 46 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Brush, Leif

L'eau et le vent me racontent à l'oreille...

Description: Recording of Karine Dumont's L'eau et le vent me racontent à l'oreille.... This work was inspired by Georges Sand's text in which the Master Ringers listen to what the water and the wind tell them. The composer poses the question of what the rain would say if it was given a voice and explores all the possibilities. The composer supposes that "they just grant us the right to listen and listen to their story".
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Date: 2004
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Dumont, Karine

The End

Description: Recording of Rudolf Pepucha's The End. This work uses only sound material derived from a cello and explores the area between pitch, timbre, and rhythm. The rhythmic and melodic structure of this piece is structured around the idea of death.
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Date: 2004
Duration: 11 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Pepucha, Rudolf

The Enigma Machines

Description: Recording of Lars-Gunnar Bodin's The Enigma Machines. The inspiration for this piece came from the composers fascination with the sounds produced by mechanical devices and machines and the often impossibility of figuring out what the machines actually manufacture. The composer lends this idea to the concept that one should learn to listen to sounds without taking into consideration their production "history". In this composition, the composer has attempted to create or imitate sounds from imagi… more
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Date: 2004
Duration: 11 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Bodin, Lars-Gunnar, 1935-
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