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Michael Edgerton
Currently Associate Professor at the University of Malaya, Michael is a composer whose work elides
the boundaries of complexity wit h practical applications of physical and perceptual models. Since the
mid-90’s he has been pioneering work with Multidimensionality and Nonlinear Phenomenon applied to
sound production and composition. Michael’s compositions have received prizes and/or recognition
from: Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart , 2007 (First Prize, Tempo Mental Rap, #72,
2005); Composition Contest of the Net herlands Radio Choir, 2007 (Semifinalist, Kalevi Matus, #58,
2000); 5th Dutilleux International Composition Compétit ion, 2003 (Sélection, 1 sonata, #70, 2004);
31st Festival Synt hese Bourges, 2001 (Sélection, The Element s of Risk in Creat ion, #59, 2001);
MacDowell Club, 1996 (First prize, Unspoken Crime #09, 1988); Friends and Enemies of New Music,
1993 (Selection,Net/Byrinth:Rec.Study I, #15, 1991); Midwest Composers Symposium, 1989
(Selection, A Penny for the Young Guy #3, 1986); National Federation of Music Clubs, 1987 (Third
Prize, Ai #5, 1987); National Federation of Music Clubs, 1987 (Honorable Mention, Dwellers of the
Southwest , #2, 1986); Michigan State Univ-Orchestral Composition Contest, 1986 (First prize, The
Final Diary of a Branch, #1, 1985). His music has been performed by AuditivVokal Dresden, Ekmeles
Ensemble, Ensemble Ars Nova, Kairos String Quartet, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet , Quart et New
Generation, Works-in-Progress Ensemble and soloists Almut Kühne, Andreas Fröhling, Angela
Rademacher-W ingerath, Chatschatur Kanajan, Gary Verkade, Jan Heinke, Jeffrey Burns, Mats Möller,
Matthias Bauer, Philippe Arnaudet, Rebekka Uhlig, Stefan Östersjö, Timo Kinnunen, among others.
Michael is engaged with research into voice, acoustics and perception. His work with the extra-normal
voice is internationally known through performances, journal publications and a book, The 21st
Century Voice published in the New Instrumentation Series (Scarecrow Press).
Michael Edgerton
United States of
America-1961
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A Marriage of Shadows
Composer : Michael Edgerton
A Marriage of Shadows is a modern classical composition for voice, flute, saxophone, guitar and
percussion focusing on unusual and new sounds within complex structures. This piece was
commissioned by Dr. Jim TerKeurst, director of The Institute for Digita...
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Anaphora
Composer : Michael Edgerton
This unaccompanied solo utilises hitherto untapped resources of the human voice. In achieving this,
the central concern in this work was, in the words of the composer,” to maintain a sense of coherence
that would carry through the procedure of kaleidoscop...
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Apposte Messe
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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A one-manual tracker organ, owned by professor Max Yount of Beloit College, became an
unsuspected source of transient airflow characteristics sent through a not-fully opened valving
system....
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Ari(rang)
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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Ari(rang) for solo soprano saxophone, is from Edgerton’s series of “Folk Songs” for various
instruments. Somewhat similar to the Folk Songs of Luciano Berio, Edgerton says of the work: “In my
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folk songs, the texts have to do with workers songs and the li...
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Friedrich’s Comma
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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Friedrich’s Comma presents a heightened vocal expression by offering an increased graininess of
timbral complexity during sound production. This increased graininess becomes possible when
complexity of articulation is heightened through a novel comprehen...
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Illusions
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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Three separate processes formed illusions. The first process stemmed from a demonstration paper
titled “Demonstrations of Auditory Illusions” by Yoshitaka Nakajima, et al. that presented five classes
of auditory illusions (gap transfer, split-off illusion...
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Keltainen huone
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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Keltainen huone (Yellow Room) was written during a residency at the Nelimarkka Museum in Alajärvi,
Finland in 2008. This piece focuses on the sense of pitch movement of unvoiced sounds that are
achieved by highlighting the dominant formant frequencies of ...
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Le Critérion
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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In Le Critérion, the expression I was interested in presenting was similar to Edward Said’s notion of an
artwork exhibiting “intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved contradiction” in order to provide an
“occasion to stir up more anxiety, tamper irrevoca...
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Sangitasiromani
Composer : Michael Edgerton
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Sangitasiromani refers to a medieval handbook of Indian Music, the “Crest-Jewel of Music”, written in
1428 A.D....
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XHAIN
XHAIN was initially composed in Seoul, South Korea that uses in part, a translation of parts of DNA
coding into music - here processes such as the double helix, ß globin replication, koans "throan room",
mRNA transcription and cytoplasm inspire a musical ...
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