Matthew Lam - Composer

Duration: 6’05”

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Program notes:

Playper, as its title suggests, is a play on paper. The majority of the sounds in this piece are very familiar to our everyday lives: they are samples or processed samples related to paper, such as writing, wrinkling, tearing, printer noises, etc. These sounds are panned through a three-dimensional plane, creating surrealistic effects (for instance, you could not write on a sheet of paper three-dimensionally!). This piece is also inspired by the composer’s composition process: a frustrated composer who writes his idea on paper but immediately thinks that the idea is uninteresting, crosses out his drafts and tears the paper.

The youtube video is the stereo mixdown of the piece. Please send an email if you would like the original 5th-order ambisonics file, or if you would like it to be decoded into other speaker settings (4-channel, 8-channel ring, etc.)

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The ambisonics version is realised at Electroacoustic Music Studios at Eastman (EMuSE).

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