Title: Living between Seconds
Commission: 2018
Completed: 2021
Instrumentation: trumpet, piano, drum set, and live and fixed electronics
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Acclaimed as one of the “contemporary masters of the medium” by MIT Press’s Computer Music Journal, electroacoustic composer Elainie Lillios creates works that reflect her fascination with listening, sound, space, time, immersion and anecdote. Her compositions include stereo, multi-channel, and Ambisonic fixed media works, instrument(s) with live interactive electronics, collaborative experimental audio/visual animations, and installations. Elainie’s work has been recognized internationally and nationally through awards including a 2017–18 Grammy nomination, a 2016 Barlow Endowment Commission, and a 2013–14 Fulbright Scholar Award. She won First Prize in the Concours Internationale de Bourges, Areon Flutes International Composition Competition, Electroacoustic Piano International Competition, and Medea Electronique “Saxotronics” Competition. She has also received awards from the Destellos International Electroacoustic Competition, Concurso Internacional de Música Electroacústica de São Paulo, Concorso Internazionale Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer Competition, and La Muse en Circuit. She has received grants/commissions from INA/GRM, Rèseaux, International Computer Music Association, La Muse en Circuit, NAISA, ASCAP/SEAMUS, LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Ohio Arts Council, and National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.Reviews of Elainie’s solo electroacoustic compact disc Entre Espaces (Empreintes DIGITALes) praise her work for being “. . . elegantly assembled, and immersive enough to stand the test of deep listening” and as “. . . a journey not to be missed.” Additional fixed media and instrumental works are published by Centaur, Innova, MSR Classics, Ravello Records, StudioPANaroma, La Muse en Circuit, New Adventures in Sound Art, SEAMUS, Irritable Hedgehog and Leonardo Music Journal. Elainie serves a Director of Composition Activities for the SPLICE Institute (splicemusic.org) and is Professor of Composition at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.