Electroacoustic Music by Samuel Pellman

Electroacoustic Music by Samuel Pellman

NEW WORKS!

Selected Nebulae:
ngc6357

for digital sounds in just intonation

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.6 MB)
ngc1999

for digital sounds in just intonation

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.6 MB)
m45

for digital sounds

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.8 MB)

m17

for digital sounds in just intonation

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (4 MB)
ngc2818

for digital sounds in just intonation

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (2.7 MB)
3C461

for digital sounds in just intonation

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (3.6 MB)
ngc2080

for digital sounds in just intonation

Click to hear a stereo mix of the surround sound version: mp3 file (3.5 MB)

Selected Planets:
Messenger for digital sounds
Click to hear a 35 second audio clip from the middle of the piece: mp3 file (556K)
Perelandra for digital sounds
Click to hear an audio clip from the piece:
  • from Phrase 3, an mp3 file (1 MB, 66 seconds)
  • from Phrase 4, an mp3 file (948 K, 60 seconds)
  • from Phrase 5, an mp3 file (460 K, 29 seconds)
  • from Phrase 8, an mp3 file (1.2 MB, 82 seconds)
  • from Phrase 9, an mp3 file (1.4 MB, 95 seconds)
The Home Planet for digital sounds
Click to hear a 72 second audio clip from an early section of the piece: mp3 file (1136K)
or a 44 second audio clip from later in the piece: mp3 file (696K)
Ares Vallis for digital sounds
Click to hear a 39 second audio clip from a later section of the piece: mp3 file (608K)
Perijove for electroacoustic sounds
Click to hear a 35 second audio clip from near the beginning of the piece: mp3 file (540K)
or a 36 second audio clip from the middle of the piece: mp3 file (555K)
or a 76 second audio clip from near the end of the piece: mp3 file (1183K)
Guirlandes for digital sounds
Click to hear a 28 second audio clip from the middle of the piece: mp3 file (448K)
Vaporis Congeries Magnae for digital sounds
Click to hear a 22 second audio clip from the middle of the piece: mp3 file (352K)
Neptune Flyby for digital sounds
Click to hear a 68 second audio clip: mp3 file (1 MB)
Dancing in the Dark for digital sounds
Click to hear a 66 second audio clip: mp3 file (1 MB)

The Decider, in His Own Words

On March 19, 2008, the fifth anniversary of his decision to launch the "operation for Iraqi liberation," George W. Bush went to the Pentagon and delivered a speech. As expected, he stuck with his story.

Click to hear the 60 second composition: mp3 file (1 MB)
Kyrie

for choir (SATB) and stereo digital sounds

Click to hear a performance of the piece by the Heidelberg College Chamber Singers, conducted by Grant Cook: (mp3 file, 7.2 MB)
Warp 9

for 'cello octet and digitally-processed 'cello sounds

Click to hear a 34 second audio clip: mp3 File (548 K)
Click to hear a 33 second audio clip: mp3 File (528 K).

Final Autumn

for viola, prepared piano, and digital instruments.

Click to hear a 14 second audio clip from the beginning of the piece: (mp3 File, 256K)
or a 26 second clip of a rhapsodic passage a bit later the work: (mp3 File, 448K)
or a 12 second audio clip just a bit further into the work: (mp3 File, 224K).
Here's a 15 second audio clip from the ending: (mp3 File, 256K)

Suite from "MacBeth"

for digital sounds in two channels

Click to hear a 13 second audio clip from "Eye of newt:" (mp3 File, 252K)
or a 10 second audio clip from "Lament for renown and grace:" (mp3 File, 189K)
or a 53 second audio clip from "Midnight madness:" (mp3 File, 819K)
or a 30 second audio clip from "Enter three murderers:" (mp3 File, 504K)

Foonly Tunes

for digital sounds in two channels

Click to hear a 23 second audio clip: (mp3 File, 384K)
or a 17 second audio clip: (WAV File, 1.5MB) or (mp3 File, 288K)

 
Pentacle! for alto saxophone and electronic sounds

Click to hear a 92 second audio clip of a passage of electronic sounds: (mp3 File, 1.5 MB)


Other electroacoustic works:

  • Night of a Great and Unreturning Day, for clarinet, prepared piano, and digital instruments.
  • Shadow Play, for organ and two-channel tape
  • musica caelestis, for electronic sounds on tape with amplified ambient resonances of percussion instruments
  • Sentinel, for brass choir and electronic sounds on two-channel tape
  • Stauros, for electronic sounds on four-channel tape
  • Dynamic Study, for piano and electronic sounds on two-channel tape

To obtain performance materials or for further information, contact: .

Biographical information about the composer can be found here.

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