Sound and Video Anthology: Program Notes

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About the MusicThis collection of works represents a journey through different sonic perspectives, from composers who have impacted us, and compelled us to think differently about music, sound art, composition, gender, or technology.They disrupt stereotypes about what music by women should be.Each composition represented here is an uncommon and meaningful adventure by a sound-exploring composer, ranging from Laurie Spiegel's 1987 work to Elizabeth Hoffman's piece from December 2019, and the approaches taken are diverse.The pieces are arranged to provide three concert-length listening sessions.The first session begins with the scratchy, driving rhythms of Judith Shatin's "Tape Music" in stereo or 5.1 audio, proceeds to explorations of remote, underwater sounds in Annea Lockwood's "Dusk," to Elizabeth Hoffman's subtle and timbrally churning "Clouds Pattern."The precise and playful acousmatic composition, "Bastet" by Elsa Justel, precedes Judy Klein's mesmerizing tribute to lost lives in "Railcar."An exuberant memorial follows this, to a former teacher, in Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner's "EvenMoreduSt."Laurie Spiegel's timbral rhythms from her piece "Passage" begins the second session, followed by Hildegard Westerkamp's sonic love poem "F ür Dich-For You," based on a text by Rainer Maria Rilke.Natasha Barrett's intricate audio work, "Pockets of Space," was originally created for a virtual reality environment and may be heard here in binaural (for headphones) or stereo audio versions.The new, spirited composition by Margaret Schedel, "QfwfQ," for the duo Hear | Say, presents melodic and rhythmic drive.The final work in this

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