Compositions

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Steve Antosca (Washington, DC) [+] Screeem Steve Antosca has a Master’s degree in Computer Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is Artistic Director of VERGE ensemble, the new music ensemble in residence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He was awarded a McKim Fund commission from the Library of Congress and a Fromm Fund commission from Harvard. His most recent work, chamber set ~ threads for ensemble and computer, funded by the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, was premiered at June in Buffalo in 2009 .steveantosca.com Gina Biver (Washington, DC) [+] ECONOCIDE Gina Biver, Washington DC, writes music for concert, film, multimedia and dance, and is Director/Composer of Fuse Ensemble, a new music/new media project. www.ginabiver.com For Econocide I juxtaposed the naive sounds of toy piano to represent the consumers who were borrowing, spending and thinking all was just fine until the screams start to happen and end up taking over everything because they really are the truth in the economic situation. The pianos were just the appearances of everything being ok, -- the artlessness, the denial pitted against what was happening in reality. Gernot Reetz (Berlin, Germany) [+] The wall street screams Gernot Reetz, Berlin Germany Gernot perceives his work as an intensive exposition with jazz, traditional ethnic and classical music, minimal music and free improvisation. www.one-world-music.com the wall street screams expresses the need of trust towards a natural life on planet earth (elementary sounds as ocean, thunderstorms and whale sounds). The human path will survive any disturbances (crisis of any kind) with the help of exercise of self-centeredness (Buddhist chants), still allowing expression of our emotional states to be free (screams).	Evan Benjamin (New York, NY) [+] "TARP YOU" Evan Benjamin is a sound designer who lives in Brooklyn, near many members of the financial services industry. His piece is dedicated to them. TARP You Enraged hordes, banging on pots and pans, trash cans, and whatever else is at hand, march down Wall Street and demand the heads of anyone within a mile of a collateralized debt obligation. Their screams for justice, while fervent, eventually die down to silence, and all is at it was. Jorge Said (Buenos Aires, Argentina) [+] It's the war stupid! Jorge Sad Levi, Buenos Aires, 1959. His music ranges from works for soloists and small chamber groups and live electronics, composed improvisation, acousmatic works and musical productions for multimedia spectacles and video. www.myspace.com/jorgesad It’ s the war, stupid! The materials I used in this piece other than the recorded screams of participants are a computer-processed fragment of Robert Plant’s voice as appears in my former piece Vox, a recitation of Quran from youtube and the bark of my dog. In every case, there was similarity between the recorded materials and those that I had previously in my database. In the case of the Quran recitation, there was an amazing tonal and rhythmic similarity with a Bulgarian style choir that was recorded as part of the project. I hope this piece will contribute to make noise at Wall St. a little bit louder.
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Steve Antosca (Washington, DC)
[+] Screeem

Steve Antosca has a Master’s degree in Computer Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is Artistic Director of VERGE ensemble, the new music ensemble in residence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. He was awarded a McKim Fund commission from the Library of Congress and a Fromm Fund commission from Harvard. His most recent work, chamber set ~ threads for ensemble and computer, funded by the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, was premiered at June in Buffalo in 2009 .steveantosca.com

Gina Biver (Washington, DC)
[+] ECONOCIDE

Gina Biver, Washington DC, writes music for concert, film, multimedia and dance, and is Director/Composer of Fuse Ensemble, a new music/new media project. www.ginabiver.com

For Econocide I juxtaposed the naive sounds of toy piano to represent the consumers who were borrowing, spending and thinking all was just fine until the screams start to happen and end up taking over everything because they really are the truth in the economic situation. The pianos were just the appearances of everything being ok, -- the artlessness, the denial pitted against what was happening in reality.

Gernot Reetz (Berlin, Germany)
[+] The wall street screams

Gernot Reetz, Berlin Germany Gernot perceives his work as an intensive exposition with jazz, traditional ethnic and classical music, minimal music and free improvisation. www.one-world-music.com

the wall street screams expresses the need of trust towards a natural life on planet earth (elementary sounds as ocean, thunderstorms and whale sounds). The human path will survive any disturbances (crisis of any kind) with the help of exercise of self-centeredness (Buddhist chants), still allowing expression of our emotional states to be free (screams).

Evan Benjamin (New York, NY)
[+] "TARP YOU"

Evan Benjamin is a sound designer who lives in Brooklyn, near many members of the financial services industry. His piece is dedicated to them.

TARP You Enraged hordes, banging on pots and pans, trash cans, and whatever else is at hand, march down Wall Street and demand the heads of anyone within a mile of a collateralized debt obligation. Their screams for justice, while fervent, eventually die down to silence, and all is at it was.

Jorge Said (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
[+] It's the war stupid!

Jorge Sad Levi, Buenos Aires, 1959. His music ranges from works for soloists and small chamber groups and live electronics, composed improvisation, acousmatic works and musical productions for multimedia spectacles and video. www.myspace.com/jorgesad

It’ s the war, stupid! The materials I used in this piece other than the recorded screams of participants are a computer-processed fragment of Robert Plant’s voice as appears in my former piece Vox, a recitation of Quran from youtube and the bark of my dog. In every case, there was similarity between the recorded materials and those that I had previously in my database. In the case of the Quran recitation, there was an amazing tonal and rhythmic similarity with a Bulgarian style choir that was recorded as part of the project. I hope this piece will contribute to make noise at Wall St. a little bit louder.

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