I Resound Press
I Resound Press provides digital access to scores and performance materials by women composers selected for their imagination, innovation and craft. By providing fast and affordable access to scholars, performers, and the general public, the digital archive facilitates the study and programming of music reflecting the varied experiences that constitute women’s lives. The press specializes in providing digital access to hand-copied scores, but also includes in its catalogue computer-copied scores, electroacoustic compositions, mixed media works, and audio CDs for purchase. Linda Dusman established I Resound Press in 2009 with research support from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
Infinite Transformations
Creating Transcendent Space with Projection and Sound
Infinite Transformations is a bioart gallery installation that combines surround audio with animation. It is a collaborative project joining Linda Dusman with Foad Hamidi, Alan Wonneberger, Lee Boot, and Ryan Zuber under the auspices of UMBC’s Imaging Research Center. The audio for the project emanates from the poetry itself, sounding out a layering of transformational continuities that “never die.” As a foundation, a recording of Foad Hamidi’s reading of a line of Hafiz poetry passes through a reductive filtering processes until it is processed to a near-sine tone, the fundamental building block of all sound. Music for the bass flute surrounds the audience, summoning the ancient Persian ney and focusing on the breath, and grows from the foundational sine tone while accompanying the text. From a distance, Persian morse code sounds out the poetry in high-pitched sine tones, reflecting the genetic coding of the yeast DNA that forms the basis of the bioart central to the installation. The melodies fragment and transform as they sound via speakers installed surrounding the space. Through multiple representations, the poem resonates both literally and metaphorically through the meditative space. The scraping sounds of the Persian reed pen ground the continuous calligraph around the wine created from bio-genetically altered yeast (encoded with the Hafiz poetry) in the center of the space.
