released December 18, 2022

Interdimensional
By Ashley Ortiz
My music piece is about bringing two different sounds and combining them. One sound is calming yet rhythmic the other would make you want to get off your feet and dance. My inspiration for this piece is that I have two different backgrounds and separate it's good and normal. However, when bringing them together, makes me unique. Although these two different sounds alone sound good, bringing them together makes them sound amazing and good together.

Party
By Ty Reigns
This piece is an ode to my culture. My family comes from two countries Trinidad and Barbados. Both of these countries main genre of music is soca. I have been making music for over five years, but I have never tried to create soca music. With this piece I plan to mix my more synthetic sound and soca music together. Also there is a sense of groove to it. Within the piece the true meaning is in the title. To be obsessed with something or someone leads you to work harder on yourself and them. This piece is meant to not only show obsession with an individual, but also an obsession in music itself.

F r e a k d e a t h
By hole-god grace
“F r e a k d e a t h” is an explosive and exploratory declaration of grief and grievance. Produced by multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and composer Aubrey Sheppard working under the moniker of “hole-god grace,” the artist expresses their inner turmoil coping with tragic loss, disenfranchised grief, and the ostracization that comes with breaking the American death taboo. “F r e a k d e a t h” evokes the discordant sonic palette of 90s alternative rock, dipping its toes in multiple subgenres, while also being influenced by drum and bass, screamo, thrash metal and ska. Neither intentionally nostalgic, nor fastidiously on-model, “F r e a k d e a t h” is a secret third thing.

Untitled
By Katherine Whitlock
This piece started off as an experiment in minimalist rhythm and melody, trying to see how much could be done with a small seed starting point. I've also been learning about alternate tunings and microtonality, and wondered if I could do anything in that style in the standard chromatic scales.
As I worked on this, I kept thinking of the Iranian women currently fighting for their rights and lives. It's been a stark reminder that the rights we take for granted are not, and that the gradual erosion of them is not just possible, but actually currently happening, and that we need to fight for them. So in a way, this is for them.

Murtceps
By Gidong Kim
Most of the compositions I have created were mostly focused on melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. However, there is an exceedingly important one that I didn't deal with; Timber, the sound itself. Murtceps, the reversed word of “spectrum”, introduces a dynamic gradation of vivid colors on the palette of synthesizer sounds. I tried to make sections in this piece cohesive and coherent with gradual texture transitions. Among the repetitive polyrhythm patterns, you will meet a consecutively changing musical organism consisting of nobs and oscillators instead of flesh and bones.

Like A Religion
By Brenna Gannon
My piece is an original song named Like A Religion. The inspiration for this piece came from my own love for music as well as the desire to try writing a love song. I wrote the lyrics and composed the guitar chords at the same time, allowing the song to evolve naturally. I added harmonies and strings later in the process. When it comes to the lyrics and content of the piece, my intention was to compare love to religion - that love is meant to be about more than yourself. You as a person are allowed to be worshiped and adored, and love is a sacred thing. This piece means a lot to me and my hope is that someone can connect to it.

Sketch for horn and electronics
By Emre Tetik
This piece is inspired by the work of Richard Landry, a composer and saxophonist from the New York experimental music scene. In the 70s, Landry would perform shows in which he’d play his saxophone into a mic and send the signal to multiple channels with different delay values, allowing him to create massive soundscapes and rich textures with just his one instrument. Though I haven’t copied Landry’s setup exactly, I have tried to do a similar thing in this piece. I try to play my instrument in such a way that interesting sounds are created when the signal is layered on itself. This includes doing things like timbral trills, playing in the extreme registers, blowing into the horn without producing any notes and creating other “extra-musical” sounds. What is important is not actually what I am playing, but the sounds that result from the electronic manipulation of what I am playing.

Bond
By Joshua Rosa
From the beginning of the semester, I knew that I wanted to create a piece that was mainly hip hop, so I made a trap beat. Knowing myself, I tend to stray away from the projects that I plan on making (even though I don’t think this is a bad thing). This time however, I was successful in making a trap beat. The reason the song is named “Bond” is because it reminds me of the 007 theme song a little bit in terms of the main chorus, so I thought it would be a fitting title. I had a lot of fun making this piece and it was a good time to explore new genres of music making that I had never focused on fully before.

Audtion Tape, Cheap Speakers
By Chris Ruenes
This is a track from an EP I made. All the tracks are driving and complex, and they all feature sampler instruments constructed out of timbrely interesting, poorly recorded sound sources. One of these sources is a phone recording I surreptitiously made of my family’s Easter in 2016. At the time, I remember thinking I'd never wind up using this sample for anything, since it was just a lot of very loud people talking over one another. When I listened again the other day, though, the thing I noticed most was how clearly you can hear everyone enjoying themselves. Though I chose a different track for the concert, I hope that the vibe of everyone having a good time, talking excitedly over one another, comes out in all the tracks.


Type Shit... (Tight Ship)
By EuTheCypher A.K.A. Eugene Ross
This is the second song I've fully produced from writing lyrics, to the making the beat, to fleshing it our conceptually, and making the cover art. Hard work pays off and this embodies that. This song is about my hard work and dedication to making music. I’ve had a lot of sleepless nights locked in my personal studio. It's taken hours and a lot of fine tuning and editing to put this together. Day and night I continue to push. Music is a great tool for self-expression. When I rap about my life I talk about things that I deal with day-to-day and this is a reflection of that. Hip Hop allows me to express feelings that I can't normally articulate without writing and Rapping.