Ashes is a piece written for

choreography based off of

the painting with the same
title by Edvard Munch,
pictured to the right. The
piece explores the line
between sanity and insanity.

Tri originally existed as a solo piano piece commissioned by Robin

Morace. Since then, the piano solo has turned into the first
movement you hear in the suite of four pieces. Each subsequent
movement was written as a concentrated version of the three
sections of Prologue. Tri explores the spectral style of composition.
Each of the pieces pitch material has been realized from the analysis
of a percussion triangle struck with a marimba mallet.

Tim Bausch
Senior Composition Recital

Dpart is a piece for solo piano that focuses on the idea of

permutation from one spectrum to another. The two spectra I chose
for this piece consist of the natural spectrum of B0 and a stretched
spectrum of A1. The piece consists of two layers of pitch material
that share motivic ideas. One layer is fixed on the B0 spectrum,
while the other layer travels from the static spectrum to the distorted
spectrum of A1. The piece ends with both of the spectra played at
the same time to finalize the sense of shifting within the piece.

Recitalist is a student of
Dr. Jeremy Sagala, Dr. Paul Coleman, and Dr. Rob Deemer.
This recital is in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music in
Composition degree.

Sunday, April 28th 2013, 12:00 PM

Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall
SUNY Fredonia

Program

Storm for solo cello and live electronics

Kelsey Sheldon, cello
Bang for two saxophones and live electronics
Sarah Marchitelli and Jacob Swanson, saxophones
Brief Intermission:
Intermission Music, tape
Ashes for vibraphone, violin, cello, double bass, and choreography
Annie Leue, vibraphone; Stephen Minor, violin;
Joshua Esptein, cello; Robert Webster, double bass.
Choreography by Mackenzie Lynch
Tri for modified Pierrot ensemble
I. Prologue
II. Periods
III. Pendulum
IV. Chaos
Eric Mahl, conductor
Esi Barnum, flute/piccolo; Corinne Smith, clarinet; Stephen
Minor, violin; John Chatterton, cello; Scott Miller, double
bass; Annie Leue, percussion; Robin Morace, piano
Dpart for solo piano
Josh Corcoran, piano

Program Notes
Storm is a piece written for solo cello with live electronics and is
designed to emulate the experience of a passing storm in a body of
water. Three prerecorded sounds were used to generate pitch
material: a rock being thrown into a lake, a foghorn, and a seagull.
Pitch material was generated by extracting frequency material from
each sound and rounding to the nearest quarter-tone. To generate
additional material, the application of the ring modulation formula as
well as the distortion formula were applied to the frequency
information of the rock being thrown into the lake sound sample.
Using these five groups of pitches, the piece can be broken up into
five musical objects, or distinct musical gestures. These objects
include a seagull object, a wave object, a raindrop object, a thunder
object, and a foghorn object. Each object has specific characteristics
that set them apart from the other objects.
Bang was written in an attempt to model the creation of our universe
following the big bang theory. In the piece, I have analyzed
harmony based off of real objects in outer space. The sounds were
used with permission from Paul Francis, and are found on his
website: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/index.html.
Francis realizes that sound does not travel through a vacuum;
instead, he calculated electromagnetic frequency information with a
spectrograph. He then reduced the electromagnetic radiation data
by 1.75 trillion times to achieve frequencies our ears can hear. I took
these sounds and converted the frequency information into musical
pitches (rounding to the nearest 1/4 tone). In the piece you will hear
a series of musical events that were interpreted as galactic events. In
order, a singularity becomes increasingly unstable, followed by a
bang, then a rapid expansion of material, the formation of the helix
nebula, and finally, after a little more expansion, our journey stops to
where we are today. This piece does not depict true scientific events,
only realizations of events.