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SANG MI AHN - Convergence

from SYNTHESIS VOL. 2 by International Compilation

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Sang Mi Ahn (South Korea) is a composer and sound artist whose blend of electronic and acoustic works have garnered numerous international awards. Her recent awards include winner of the 2014 Indiana University Dean's Prize in Composition, the 2013 Heckscher Composition Prize, the 31st Republic of Korea Composition Prize, the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize at the 2013 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), winner of the 2011 Women Composers Festival of Hartford International Composition Competition, and second prize at the Sixth International Musical Composition Contest held by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.

Her compositions have been featured in festivals and conferences across the United States as well as in Europe and Asia— at the 2014 International Trumpet Guild Conference, the 2014 Australasian Computer Music Conference, the 2013 and 2012 International Computer Music Conference, SEAMUS National Conference, Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, OLE.01 Festival, N_SEME, and at the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference. Ahn completed a Doctor of Music degree in Composition at the Indiana University, where she also earned her Master of Music in Composition and served as an Associate Instructor in Music Theory.

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Convergence was written for the saxophonist Heidi Radtke Siberz. I was interested in the interaction between the intrinsic qualities of electronic and acoustic mediums. In this piece, I used the electronics and saxophone as equal partners to take turns in background and foreground roles and to create timbral illusions. I also explored the altissimo range (very high notes) on the saxophone, which can provide unique timbral effects and is technically challenging.

There are two main ideas: trills or noodling figurations, and sustained notes. These are mutated into each other throughout the piece. The overflowing of recorded saxophone sounds at the climax is morphed into the live saxophone at the end. Most of electronic sound materials used in the piece are a manipulation of saxophone sounds pre-recorded by Heidi.

The piece is dedicated to Heidi, whose passion for new music inspires me.

www.sangmiahn.com

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from SYNTHESIS VOL. 2, released July 5, 2015

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