Lydia Ayers

Synthesized Sound Examples of Selected Compositions

Track Examples for the Virtual Gamelan CD are on the Recordings Page.

Name of Piece linked to .mp3 Example Year Description Full Duration
Ghost Winds Talking (0:22) 2007 Soundscape based on the melodious wind whistling across the edge of the bathroom window like a giant flute 5:02
Yazi's Dream (0:45) 2004 Soundscape of cat accompanied by birds, environmental sounds and synthesized Chinese flutes (dizi, xiao, xun and paixiao) and percussion (Buddha gongs and qing) in just intonation 7:23
Why Ask Questions? (0:40) 1996 concert version of (and formerly called) Deep Structure of Chinese Culture for microtonal soundscape; algorithmically composed adding multi-effect processing to Chinese voices and Chinese computer instrument designs for dizi, xiao, erhu, zheng and qing] [tuning chart] 8:59
Kaleidoscope (0:27) 1995 microtonal soundscape; pitch and timbre algorithmically generated using a random walk on two sets of intervals. In the last section, the scale array forms an otonality microtonal scale (part of an overtone series). [tuning chart] 4:30
Nostalgia Strata (0:42) 1995 Microtonal soundscape; algorithmically composed adding multi-effect processing to veil the quotations from Bach, Berlioz, Debussy, Dukas, Dvorak, Mahler, Strauss and Stravinsky which illustrate the woodwind and brass designs in Cooking with Csound 5:13
Glassminute (1:00) 1992 Click the link to go to the photo-phono gallery page on tracelab. Click my name in Collection no6 (October 2009) to see my glassminute photo. Then click the photo to hear the composition. 1:00
Hot Breath of Wind (0:22) 1988 Bassoon (synthesized demo); virtuosic; microtonal, using 11 Indian ragas and many multiphonics; commissioned by April Chapman; computer-generated version using Csound model of bassoon in 1997 20:00
Eggs (0:32) 1975 Trumpet in Bb (synthesized demo) 3:02