Some Musical Compositions by CDP Users

Richard Azim
  • The Flute Ascending – 5 tracks comprising a cycle of improvisations using the Indian bansuri (bamboo flute), spectral treatments on Track 5 – 2002
Natasha Barratt
  • Rocks & Wraiths – including "Red Snow"
Rodolpho Caesar
  • Introduction to the Stone – CDP prizewinner
Archer Endrich
  • Crossing the Dark Rift – Soundscape to accompany exhibition of Pat Warrington's sculptural textiles, 'Mystery of the Maya' – 2003
Ambrose Field
  • Geosphere – major Ambisonic soundscape
  • Grey Sky Traffic – CDP Commission, with funding from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts
  • Till – exploring electroacoustic cliché and context
  • Expanse Hotel – Ambisonic piece commissioned by ICMC for first performance at the ICMC in China, 1999
Rajmil Fischman
  • Los Dados Eternos – oboe & tape, with emphasis on spectral transformations
Peter Green
  • Grrearra Réson – a 3rd prize winner at Bourges (1997)
  • Epnom Bynom – with drummer Mike Dred, pvoc transformations of drum tracks
  • Dehs – a music and video piece, video by Amanda Terrington
  • Virtual Farmer – wide variety of styles & treatments
Tim Howle
  • Subplot – 20'19" entrancing electroacoustic textures
Peter Karkut
  • Heavy Like Saturn (1999)
Katharina Klement
  • Textur – für klavier & lautsprecher
  • BrandungI and II – produced with support from Werkstadt Graz (CD 02)
Simon Kunath and James A. Smith
  • Shiny Blackness (1998) Burn 1.0023) – 11 tracks, vocal, instrumental, and treatments
Odilon Marcenaro
  • Seven Light Pieces – written for contemporary dance
  • Mi Sveglio Cantando – 1993
Bertrand Merlier
  • Uni-Verre-Son – visual & sonic environment
  • (with B Froment & P Gallais)
Tony Myatt
  • Mechanicae – uses Csound extensively
Carey Nutman
  • Contrasts – various contrasting styles, including TGV (performed and broadcast in Canada, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Australia), Icicles/Reflect, and Facing the Infinite II
  • Contrasts 2 – contains a lengthy piece called Oloroso, which uses a variety of (CDP) transformation techniques
Richard Orton
  • 3 Monoliths: No. 1 The Hemlock Stone – evolving textures based on rock/stone source material – 2004
Dale Perkins
  • Submarine – motivated by the catastrophic suffering of the Kursk submarine crew – 2000-01
  • Excursions – moving from one sonic landscape to another through the process of sonic modulation – 2002
  • Holiday Snap 2002: A Sonic Document – sounds emanating from the small seaside town of Whitby – 2002
  • Fundamental Manoeuvre – a 3-part form that makes use of a fundamental melodic motif found hidden within the source material – 2003
  • Rubicon Drift – Caesar's Rubicon: boundaries and the (sometimes disastrous) consequences of crossing them – 2004

Klaus Roder
  • Kristallisation 4 – 1991
Harry-Ed Roland
  • Selbstverstümmelung (Self-Mutilation) – premiered in Berlin, Dec 1993
  • Emmaculate Darkness – first panel of The First Legend: Raindance 1994
  • Traversing Distant Interiors: BR 1-6 – composed Spring of 1999 [16'30"]
  • N.A.M.A: "booty" don't walk – composed Autumn 1999 [8'30"]
  • Circadian Rhythms: WT – composed Winter/Spring of 2001 [10']
  • Silenced Dreams: TMA – composed Winter/Spring of 2002 [10'48"]
  • The Warrior Weeps: Sparks and fumes – completed in November 2004 [13']
  • Shamanic Whispers – one movement of a larger composite composition that includes movements by 3 more composers, premiered in Spain in June 2005 [Harry-Ed's contribution is 4' in duration]
Fred Szymanski
  • Nozzle, a laminar project 2003 (ASP 2017), containing:
    • repulsion 8:17
    • trap 5:42
    • shear 6:46
    • burst 5:43
    • boil 8:28
    • nozzle 8:17
    • surge 6:13
Jukka Tiensuu
  • Tokko – winner of Radio France Prize
Mike Vaughan
  • CrossTalk – an exciting and dynamic reconstruction of harpsichord source material (CDP prizewinner)
Vedran Vucic
  • Aristid
  • Voices
Rob Waring
  • Baby Carriage Fantasy – an imaginative perception of the world from the baby's point of view inside the carriage
Trevor Wishart
  • Tongues of Fire – Linz Ars Electronica first prize 1995
  • Fabulous Paris – dense electroacoustic work featuring time-varying frequency handling
  • Imago – amazing evolution from a single source
  • Globalalia – a world view with every manner of speech processing (now available in CDP Release 5.0)
Gerhard Wolfstieg
  • diosmose – radio play, 54', 1994. Written in collaboration with Thomas Schulze and realised in the ZKM Studio Karlsruhe and in the Studio Des Komponisten. Available on CD: email: gw@wolfstieg.com

The Sonic Arts Network's Soundbytes contains information about CD's http://wwww.demon.co.uk/sonicart/ which include pieces by the following CDP members:

  • Natasha Barrett - Rocks & Wraiths
  • Michael Clarke - Uppvaknande, Malarsang, Refractions, Epicycle
  • Rajmil Fischman - Dreams of Being
  • Agustín Fernández - Wounded Angel
  • Peter Green (with Mike Dred) - Epnom Bynom
  • Jonty Harrison - Klang
  • Carey Nutman - Contrasts
  • Mike Vaughan - Ensphered
  • Trevor Wishart - The Vox Cycle

Last updated: 7 July 2005


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