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Steven Michael Noll

2006 The Lunatic - Live solo keyboard-controlled electronics with processed declamatory vocals realized as a revision of the '87 Lunatic (studio version).

05/06 Heartbeats - Live Djembe played with 12 precomposed rhythmic percussion pieces.

03/04 EtherMusic - Several pieces generated by a live webcam-controlled interactive computer program.

1999 - 2002 AirGuitar - Photon-Modulated Computer Music. Light-modulated music using an The Lunatic 29minutes. Studio version of contemporary musical interpretation of poem Pierrot Lunaire.
Uses voice manipulation, miked sound effects and eclectic music styles.

Orpheus 12minutes. Greek tragedy text set to a polyphonic accompaniment of sampled instrumental sounds.

The Fool 28minutes. Atmospheric composition supporting a text based on dream sequences.

1986 Musique concrete

Analog or Digital? 15minutes. Sound material from wide range of sources collected on tape, spliced, manipulated, processed.

Zero Page 4minutes. Tape manipulated ambient sound study.

1984 - 85 Algorithmic composition

Pleres 2 12minutes. Culmination of Prisms studies integrated into a longer textural tape composition.

Prisms 35minutes. Nineteen computer generated algorithmic compositions based on expanding and contracting time parameters.

Pleres 1 32minutes. Employs techniques evolved in realizing shorter tape pieces from 1983-84.
FM sound sources organized by parameters creating timbral bands, superimposed with focal events.

1983 -84 Tape compositions

Seven untitled compositions were realized with analog equipment on 2- and 4- track recorders.
The organization of homo- and heterogeneous sound families based on envelope and timbre evolution, intuitively composed within conceptualized macrostructures.

1982 - 83 Percussion and tape

Juice Harp 12minutes.

GEW 10minutes. Percussion scores with visually synchronized graphic representation of Chink 11minutes. pre-recorded analog sounds.

Inklease 7minutes.

Z 9minutes.

1881 -82 Chamber ensembles and tape

no. 1 9minutes. Two percussionists, viola, flute. Serial double canon.

no. 2 11minutes. Bassoon, bass clarinet, oboe. Serial through-composed canon.

no. 3 8minutes. Three percussionists. Serial crab canon.

1978 - 80 Chamber ensembles

Wind 7minutes. Two flutes, two clarinets, oboe. Tripartite, pantonal, thematic.

Contour 3minutes. Piano, trombone, violin, cello. Serial, pointillistic, palindrome.

Pall 8minutes. Violin, cello, flute, clarinet. Serial cannon, moment form.

no. 4 7minutes. Chamber orchestra. Romantic style, sonata form.

no. 5 10minutes. Piccolo, xylophone, trumpet, bassoon, violin, marimba. Serial moment form with textural terracing.

Realms 5minutes. Clarinet, piano. Serial polyrhythms.


 

Steven Noll at work