Electroacoustic Music Compositions

all sink (2012) 07:13
electroacoustic music designed for eight-channel performance (stereo version available)
All material for the piece was derived from sounds recorded in and around the sink. All sounds were recorded at home, followed by processing and assembly into an eight-channel performance environment within the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios.
all sink
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...and nature is alone (2012) 10:51
in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl accident on the 30th anniversary of the disaster. electroacoustic music designed for eight-channel performance (stereo version available)
This piece is dedicated to the memory of those who experienced the horror of the world's worst nuclear accident – Chernobyl, and to the living who continue to experience the ramifications of such a disaster. Elena Filatova, who actually takes rides into the "dead zone", wrote the text presented in this composition.
...and nature is alone
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Circulation (1986) 10:06
electroacoustic music designed for stereo performance
Circulation was composed and realized in 1986 offering the listener a three-section work around the primal elements of Water, Air, and Fire.
Recorded on Beyond the Lines, crossings without drums by Scott A. Wyatt. OFFICE Records FIL-300. includes Scott A. Wyatt: Circulation.
Circulation
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ComLinks (2010) 08:20
electroacoustic music designed for eight-channel performance (5 channel and stereo versions available)
ComLinks is a setting of associated sounds and activities depicting our incessant pursuit of instant communication. Three-dimensional techniques were employed to position sounds and activities within the audience listening area.
Recorded on Music from SEAMUS volume 21. SEAMUS Records EAM-2010. includes Scott A. Wyatt: ComLinks.
ComLinks
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In the Arms of Peril (2001) 10:00
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary, this work was revised and remastered, and is now dedicated to the memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks. electroacoustic music designed for eight-channel performance (stereo version available)
As we proceed with our lives, hopes and dreams, and the daily ventures of life, we are at times exposed to increasingly dangerous provocations, threats, and serious challenges. For some, the real issue is survival. In this work, through the use of sonic environments and events, such confrontations are relived with the persistent search for threads of relief, from the shadow of being in the arms of peril. In the Arms of Peril was criginally completed just two months prior to September 11, 2001.
Unique miking and channel distribution techniques, along with three-dimensional encoding techniques were incorporated to enhance the spatialization and sonic imaging for the piece.
In the Arms of Peril
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Inquiry (1986) 1:38
electroacoustic music designed for stereo performance
Inquiry was realized as a brief soundscape exercise using SoundDesigner Il and HyperPrism software at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios.
Recorded on Beyond the Lines, crossings without drums by Scott A. Wyatt. OFFICE Records FIL-300. includes Scott A. Wyatt: Inquiry.
Inquiry
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Mask (1986) 6:46
electroacoustic music designed for stereo performance
Mask was the creative result of digital timescaling research and experiments with the then newly acquired
Studer Editech Dyaxis digital audio workstation within the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios. The Studer Editech Dyaxis system had one of the early time compression/expansion algorithms that actually permitted extensive timescaling application. Mask consists of numerous layers of timescaling of a single note that is exposed both at the very beginning, as well as the end.
Mask
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Night Visitors (2002) 8:48
electroacoustic music designed for eight-channel performance (stereo version available)
Night Visitors loosely reflects a few of the sometimes startling events initiated by my wife's cats in the middle of too many sleepless nights. On more than one occasion, this composer has been jolted out of a deep sleep, to the crash of...
Unique miking and channel distribution techniques were incorporated to enhance the spatialization and sonic imaging for the piece.
Recorded on Musicfrom SEAMUS volume 12. SEAMUS Records EAM-2003. includes Scott A. Wyatt: Night Visitors.
Night Visitors
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On a Roll (2004) 8:31
electroacoustic music designed for eight-channel performance (5 channel and stereo versions available)
On a Roll is a work designed specifically for, and recorded in an eight-channel environment and was realized within the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios. Unique miking and channel distribution techniques, along with three-dimensional encoding techniques were incorporated to enhance the spatialization and sonic imaging for the piece. Sonically, the obvious is not what it seems. As a challenge to myself with regard to sound design, the art of Foley was used to create illusions of rolling objects (sonic icons) that you may recognize; hence there are no recordings of actual rolling objects until the last few seconds of the piece.
Recorded on Radial Matrix, multi-dimensional electroacoustic music. Capstone Records CPS-8769. includes Scott A. Wyatt: On a Roll.
Recorded on Music from SEAMUS volume 14. SEAMUS Records EAM-2005. includes Scott A. Wyatt: on a Roll.
On a Roll
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Poems (1986) 12:34
electroacoustic music designed for dance performance in five movements
l. Genesis ll. Luna Ill. Quarks IV. Destiny V. Starfolk
Poems was requested and composed for the University of Illinois Department of Dance for performance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in 1986. The performance was under the direction of choreographer and Professor Patricia Knowles.
Recorded on Beyond the Lines, crossings without drums by Scott A. Wyatt. OFFICE Records FIL-300. includes Scott A. Wyatt: Poems.
Poems
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Still Hidden Laughs (1988, revised 1990) 7:40
electroacoustic music designed for stereo performance
Still Hidden Laughs is a tribute to composer, colleague, and friend - Herbert Brün on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It utilizes shaped sound mass parameters and combinations rather than specific pitch material and draws attention to the importance of subtle and sometimes even sensual musical "gestures" while attempting to avoid the commercial and decorative compositional traps. These gestures can be heard as both single events and as composite phrases creating a dialogue within and among the multiple layers of sound.
Recorded on CDCM Computer Music Series volume 3. CENTAUR Records CIRC-2045. includes Scott A. Wyatt: still Hidden Laughs.
Still Hidden Laughs
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