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Michael Williams  

When We Fell

 Year: 2011
for flute with digital effects and backing track

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    Having heard Adrianna Lis in concert, I was excited by the prospect of writing for her and was thrilled to contribute a piece for her CD Dialogue/Rozmowa produced by Atoll Records. We discovered in subsequent conversations that we shared a common interest in WWII history and decided there and then that this should be the central idea. The horrors of WWII remain very much part of the Polish collective memory. Like many of her countrymen Adrianna does not wish for the events of WWII, and in particular the treatment of the Polish people, to be forgotten or diluted by time, thereby diminishing the significance. When we Fell is a reflection of this idea. A fall from grace; a fall from humanity; a falling away from oneself. I have tried to imbue in this piece a sense of nostalgia, a hint of the military and in parts childlike innocence that in a strange way highlights the dismay at the loss of humility. The folk-like melody that runs through is an adaptation of the Polish song To Ostatnia Niedziela composed by Jerzy Petersburski (1936) – a nostalgic tango describing the final meeting of former loves who are parting, which had the dubious honor of often being poled while Jewish prisoners were led to their deaths in the gas chambers. The vocal track is recording of some of the text from this song but toward the end a passage from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra is quoted in Polish.

    Michael Williams

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Susan Frykberg  

Woman and House

Duration: 55' 00" Year: 1989, r. 1990
electroacoustic music theatre

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    singer, two actors, signal processed voice, live mixed tapes and diffusion. Characters include a singing/talking house, an obsessive compulsive housewife, a Sumerian priestess, home appliances that have their own songs, the 'Great Mother' and a bag lady.
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Annea Lockwood  

World Rhythms

Duration: 1h 00' 00" Year: 1975
10 channels of tape and large gong

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    This work combines tam-tam with 10 channels of taped environmental sounds mixed live as a improvisation.

    “The erratic astral sputtering of pulsars, and of rumbling volcanic and earthquake activity, are especially impressive. Human musicians will probably never produce sounds quite as awesome as these.” Tom Johnson, Village Voice.

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John Psathas  

Zeibekiko

Duration: 1h 15' 00" Year: 2004
collaboration for wind ensemble and Greek folk musicians

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