released May 19, 2021

1 Queen AndreYAH Maria Black: Who Will Go
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Who Will Go, Written, Recorded, Mixed and Produced by: AndreYAH Maria Black. The soulful and smooth vocals deliver a gentle message that we’re in the last days and reveals the Messiah’s returning soon. The song was inspired by the pandemic and the scripture in the Torah, Isaiah Chapter 6:8 “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, Here I am. Send me.” The concept is to awaken the children of God to share the love for God with others. The electroacoustic music magnifies the genre of Neo-Soul.

2 Taehee Kim: Fusion Gukak
I wanted to make a piece of music completely mixed with Western and Eastern instruments. In terms of arrangement, I used a rhythm similar to that of Korean court music. I can’t introduce all the instruments used in this song, but I want to introduce Korean instruments. Haegum is a string instrument. From 1:50 I played this instrument myself. Please listen carefully! Also, I used repeated notes like D and E, A and B, because the repeated melody makes suspense before the chorus. And repeated melody is one feature in Gukak, Korean traditional music genre.

3 Suzy Farber: put your nose on it
For this project, I challenged myself to perform theremin and flute with live electronics. During the performance, I'm operating my laptop keyboard as a midi controller with my left pinky toe, changing the clips and tracks on Ableton at the appropriate time. Playing live instruments with music I composed on Ableton is something I've wanted to do for a long time but never felt I had the time or energy to do, so I'm glad I was given the push to finally try it out. There were many roadblocks throughout the process, and I feel the final product is representative of overcoming those challenges.

4 W.A.Y.: 12V Glitch
Created using a modular synthesizer setup, a custom made MS-20 style filter, Clouds grain delay, and Animus video synth, 12V Glitch is the culmination of two years of electronics studies and a fascination for DIY synths combined. Referencing the Eurorack standard of 12 Volts, all the sounds were shaped and created on a modular synthesizer. This project represents a shift in production styles focusing heavily on sound synthesis and sound design rather than vocal production and mixing.

5 Gawayne Campbell: A Silly Beat
This was probably the most challenging instrumental I’ve ever made! The sample comes from the song “Silly,” by Deneice Williams. I’ve always liked the vocals on this song, so much so that I promised myself that one day I would figure out a way to isolate the vocals and turn it into a beat. I’m a fan of sampling classic soul music. I think it works really well with Hip-Hop, when done right. I played 3 different melodies live. I wanted to play the sampled vocals like an instrumental on my MPK but layering the vocals worked out better. I wanted to change the vocals to make it sound like Deneice Williams was doing a duet with a male singer. I wanted to do so much but in the end, I went with what felt right. This is the typical heartbreak love song with crazy vocals. I tried to incorporate both. I’m satisfied with the end result and the skills I learned along the way.

6 Logan Marrow: The Kingdom Of The Fairies (1903)- Tape Loop Score
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This piece is a (mostly) tape loop score I’d recorded to play alongside two scenes from Geroge Melies’ 1903 silent film “The Kingdom Of The Fairies”. I’ve been meaning to try scoring a silent movie for a while, and this one seemed perfect as it was short, visually interesting, well preserved, and worked within a narrative genre that provided opportunities for strange, untraditional sounds to be used. The lack of pacing in each scene lent itself to gelling well with the beat-less unsynchronized melodies that have been looped and digitally delayed.

7 Crystal Feliciano: I can be your angel or your devil
I can be your angel or your devil was originally a piece for flute and guitar. I decided to transform this composition from acoustic to electronic. There is only one acoustic element in this version, which is me playing the saxophone in small bits throughout the piece. All the other sounds are electronic in nature. The name and the visuals are inspired by my dog, Snoop. Snoop is a fun-loving, cheerful, sweet dog yet he has an inner demon that unleashes from time to time. The piece and visuals highlight these characteristics. Towards the middle of the piece there are more layers, and busy sounds happening to kind of showcase Snoop’s irregular ‘devil’ character.

8 Kyle Miller: Psysom
Psysom is composed for 7-string electric guitar and fixed electronics. The guitar part is the center of the work and was composed first. All the electronic sounds were a reaction to the guitar part and treated in an orchestral manner, serving as both the primary and accompaniment and depending on the moment. The intention of the work is to balance technology with acoustic sounds, and how sounds derived from each juxtaposing source can be united into equilibrium.

9 Andrew Cowie: Aleophonics
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Andrew Cowie, Bass Clarinet/Composer
Noah Dreiblatt, Baritone Saxophone/Collaborator
Simon Brown, Cello/Collaborator
Aleophonics is an experiment with chance and aleatoric compositional techniques. During the recording session, performers chose different techniques, melodies and orchestrations out of a hat. Then, they composed and improvised short phrases within their given parameters. The phrases were then input into Ableton and randomized to create the final composition. Composing with elements of chance this semester gave me the opportunity to take myself, the composer, out of some of the decision making process and allow for the music to be created organically. It should be noted that performers Noah Dreiblatt and Simon Brown were instrumental as collaborators in the compositional outcome of this piece.

10 Nicholas Sossi Romano: Janus
Janus is the Roman god of gates, and the beginnings and endings of the world. I wrote the song because someone I knew was severely challenging my opinions and using them against me in a combative way. Janus is able to declare the start and end of wartime, so the chorus declaratively yells, "Gatekeep like Janus/Do you know what time it is?" This track is very different from my usual style of music, which tends to be more dreamy alternative rock and ambient pop sounds. I was interested in tackling a semi-rap track because of its greater focus on vocal production, layering, and more beat/loop-based instrumental sound.

11 Vincent Cabreros: Floored
So my Final and Completed project for this class is a simple rock track I made called "Floored" by -vince-. It took me about a month to figure out and mix this whole assignment but I think it came out good. For now I will be releasing it as an instrumental track as I didn't have time to figure out what kinda vocals I should put on it. I am definitely keeping this instrumental around for a while and using ideas from it to maybe build a whole new one that I might release on my own one day.

12 Sebastian Moscoso: Cover Girl
The sensation is Vogue; a chill piece to kick back to at home. Picture a runway model on a photoshoot. Very Fashionable.

13 Ruba Amare: Fight Goes On
It’s been my intent, as an artist, to make music that is reflective and speaks to the current conditions of society and encourages people toward action. This time, I wanted to try to make a visual in this manner, and have music as the support. The music is only about 1:45 long, but I wanted to make something rich, expansive, and ever-growing. When you listen, you get the sense of a “building-up" of energy, emotion, and tension. To me, this idea is representative of the video and the history of the struggles of oppressed groups in the US, in general.

14 Suzan Ciftcikal: Leather N' Boots
I had a great time creating this piece because I've recently become interested in meditation. I decided to keep one repetitive guitar track in the background as I feel this is a good base to have for a song to meditate to. Along with meditation I've also become very interested in the aesthetics of spaghetti western films so I added in some whistling that seemed to fit that genre and also was a fun way to explore the use of sounds other than those made by my guitar or my midi.