CURRENTS - Electronic Music
(USA-ACA193428351646)
Electronic works by Various Artists
Contains White Heron Dance
On December 22, 2018 ACA released CURRENTS - Electronic Music, a collection of 14 pieces of electroacoustic music by contemporary American composers, featuring Alice Shields' White Heron Dance. Other composers include Beerman, Gibson, Greenbaum, Gressel, Howe, Kreiger, Miller, Semegen and Sollberger, Mark Thome, Thompson and Trombly.
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Le Pioniere della Musica Elettronica
(Auditorium Books, book and CD)
Includes Alice Shields', Coyote, electronic music on tape from the opera Shaman. (ISBN-10: 8886784910)
Contains Coyote
Stolen Gold
TROY1305
Includes the track, Kyrielle, for violin and computer music, by Alice Shields, performed by Airi Yoshioka.
Contains Kyrielle
Pioneers of Electronic Music
Includes The Transformation of Ani
New World Records #80644
Electronic music on tape: Shields' recorded voice chants and sings from the Egyptian Book of the Dead as the dying soul of the scribe Ani, chanting the words of his own resurrection.
Contains The Transformation of Ani
"...strangled cries, abortive screams and fragmented voices calling from some unimaginable beyond." — The New York Times
"Alice Shields tells us this story in fascinating detail." — Alex Ross, Fanfare
Shenandoah: Three Electronic Works
TROY699
Electronic works by Alice Shields
Contains Vegetable Karma / Dust / Shenandoah
[On Dust:]"exotic electronic score"
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
[On Dust:]"traditional Bharatanatyam jathis ... a musical setting inspired by the tillana" — The Hindu
Restless Spirits
Includes the track, Komachi at Sekidera
Koch International Classics #3-7503-2111
For mezzo-soprano, alto flute and koto.
Contains Komachi at Sekidera
"a fascinating exploration of the melismatic voice against the timbres of alto flute and koto." — Audiophile Audition
"Alice Shields' beautiful Komachi at Sekidera, adapted from a Noh play"
— Weekly Alibi, www.alibi.com
Apocalypse
New World Records #NWCR647
Electronic opera
Contains the entire opera, Apocalypse:
Sacrifice / The Sea / First Greeting / Here / Truth / On the Dark Mountain / Final Question-Aeon / Dismemberment and Eating / Someone, I Say, Will Remember / Someone Spoke of Your Death / Apocalypse Song / Heat Drum / Organ Screaming / The Dawn Wind
"dramatic and powerful"— CDE Music
"Highly recommended" — Contact (Montreal)
"a full-blown electronic opera" — The Splatter Effect
Reynolds/Kreiger/Shields
Includes the track, Coyote
CRI #495.
Electronic vocal work
Contains Coyote
"eerily evocative...holds the listener spellbound" — Musical America
The Composer-Performer 40th Anniversary
Includes the tracks, Organ Screaming and The Dawn Wind
New World Records #NWCR670
Excerpts for the electronic opera Apocalypse, sung by Shields
Contains Organ Screaming / The Dawn Wind
Pioneers of Electronic Music
Includes the track, The Transformation of Ani
CRI #611
Electronic vocal work
Contains The Transformation of Ani
"...a spooky ride...without cliche and chilling to the bone." — American Record Guide
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Includes the track, The Transformation of Ani
Original, 12" vinyl release
To purchase this album on CD, see the above listing (CRI #611)
Contains The Transformation of Ani
Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961- 1973
Includes the tracks, Study for Voice and Tape and Dance Piece No.3
New World Records #80521-2
Electronic music
Contains Dance Piece No. 3 / Study for Voice and Tape
"...alice shields (both pieces here are absolutely bubbling with psychedelic-era modular synth grankle...)..."
— Mimaroglu Music Sales
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Film Music
Includes the track, Line of Apogee
New World Records #80389-2
Composed assisting Vladimir Ussachevsky
Electronic film score
Contains Line of Apogee
Includes the track, Rhapsody for Piano and Tape
Opus One #94
Electronic music
Contains Rhapsody for Piano and Tape
"...moments of echoing beauty and sustain."
— Carl VP Groome, Ear Magazine
Gageego
Inclues the track, El's Aria
Opus One #90
Aria for soprano, flute and tape from the electronic opera Shaman
Contains El's Aria
"A harrowing work for soprano...vividly sung" — Fanfare
Includes the track, Neruda Songs
Opus One #83
Six songs for mezzo-soprano and cello, on poems of Pablo Neruda
Contains Neruda Songs:
This is Where We Live / Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks / Air in the Stone / Serenade / For Everyone / To Sorrow
Includes the track, Wildcat Songs
Opus One #13
Three songs for soprano and piccolo on a Native American shaman's song
Contains Wildcat Songs
