SOMNA M BULIST


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chronological list of music compositions and thematic performances

Sonic Salutations 2009
harp alone or several harps not necessarily in unison


The Cut-ups 2008
#1 Campbell's Soup, harp, vocals and laughter
Section A: Purple Haze This Is It Theme from Bugs Bunny Show
Section B: Walk on the Wild Side Maria
Section C: This Is It Miserlou
first performance: June 12, 2010 - The Gershwin Hotel NYC

#2 Paracelsus-Ives - harp
#3 So(mn)niloquy_Ives, Celebration Origami (in red) - harp, bow and origami paper
#4 The New Potatoes - folk harp
#5-9 The Resurrection of Jack Parsons in The New Potatoes and The Star of Babalon - harp, saxophone and narrator



I Thank the Sea for the Gifts She Gives Me 2008
open instrumentation - a mantra of gratitude transcribed to musical notation
first performance: June 12, 2010 - The Gershwin Hotel NYC

One is my foremost island of Oahu.. 2007
harp and spoken word - text from an ancient Hawaiian prayer of gratitude

first performance: FireTribe Hawaii, Spring Equinox Fire Circle, Oahu, Hawaii.



Invocation to Nonesuch of Nothingness 2006
harp and spoken word
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first performance(spoken word): Fall Equinox Ritual presentation by Kyklos Ton Asterion, NYC.




Esoteric Chord 2005
harp alone or several harps in unison and live electronics


sound documents. 2005
recording sessions in nine events on various harps documenting an hour of imaginary journey in sound.



FolkArt Songs and Spirituals 2005
for harp and voice rooted in American literary folklore, ancient Egyptian mythology and personal pathos.
Galadriel
Augustine/The Violet Bride
Morai
Thera
Laurel
Whip of the Willow
Vivian
Nimm

Invocation to ISIS
AMUN-AMAUNET-AMUN-KEMATET-AMUN-RE
She Sits In Darkness - Baost Invocation

first performance: The Harp Consortium, with fellow harpist/composer/performers: Shelley Burgon and Mia Theadoratus.
The Gershwin Hotel NYC



Fragrance of the Blue Lotus :: music with shadow 2004
harp and electronic processing where the processed sounds shadow the harp, preceded by vocal invocations to aspects of hiddenness, infinity, darkness and the primordial waters of NUN.
duration: 20-40 mins.


first performance: The Shadow:to conceal and reveal, Port of Call Gallery, Warwick, NY.

"singed" garment created by Rhonda Parker Pegg



Pedal Forms-New Episodes 2002
Brillo
for accordion and harp


first performance: FLUX 6, Pittsburgh, PA, with Elise Onlife aka Mary Grandelis, accordion.



Breath 2001
electronic installation of vocal recordings generated by the scrub wheel on a digital recording unit where the original vocal duration of 2 minutes is expanded to 84 minutes (approximately) _ setting up a perceptual relocation of awareness. What do our voices sound like to the infinitesimal listener?


Breath online presentation: The Virtual Mine Project at Gegenort Mine, Germany, 2001.

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Breath is documented on a 4 disc CD set


Valentine Stigmata, with Thom Parrott, co-composer. 2001
Operatic vocals, harp and guitar effect pedals, organ, electronic accompaniment in a musical ritual of ceremonial chant.
duration:40 minutes

The (Qabalistic) Cross
Indovine
Invocation to RAPHAEL
Invocation to GABRIEL
Invocation to MICHAEL
Invocation to AURIEL
Middle Pillar


first performance: preveiw at 2001 WOMEN'S WORK, Pittsburgh, PA. Full production at 2001 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
CD release Valentine Stigmata~suite featuring Lillian deNile, soprano



44 minutes on the flatline_A Cry for the Millenium 1999
harp and electronic processing
duration: 44 minutes
based on documented accounts of the banshee's cry - compiled by Patricia Lysaght in her book, The Irish Death Messenger
Akasha (1998 SMB)
The Wail, 1903, musically notated by Mr. James Butler, Lough Gur as heard during the burial of Thomas O'Connellan, the Irish bard. The wail is attributed to Aine.
Ragini Bageshwari, ascending scale for the midnight hour.
The Archetype, 1843, notated by Mr. and Mrs. James Hall who porclaimed the tune, 'the archetype of the Keen'.
Lament for SARALELYE (1998 SMB)
The Cry, 1867, heard in Central America by an anthropologist on the death of his father.
Song of the Banshee by a Kerry Pishogue, 1888.
Bhoopal Todi, descending scale for the early morning.


first performance: 1999 New York International Fringe Festival.



The Faerye Invocations 1998
harp alone.
duration: 30+ minutes
Invocations to:

ARALASSAE, The Wanders
ELIA, The Protector
MAREYNAE The Romantic
SULEY, The Familiar
WENDAE, The Healer
ANADYAE, The Erotic
ENDREE, The Unseen
AMANYE, The Golden
ORLYE, The Mysterious
Lament for SARAELYE
AINE


first performance: Representations: Asian and Asian-American Women Artists at Brew House SPACE 101, Pittsburgh, PA and 1998 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and The Faerie Tale Ball, Endless Night Productions, Mother, NYC.
CD release_Invocations Faerye, EP featuring, the Unseen, the Golden and the Mysterious



Suite of Modes 1995
harp alone.
duration: 20 minutes
Mixolydian in G (sorrow)
Dorian in D
Locrian in E (the meadow)
Aeolian in F (the chase)
Lydian in Db (paraphrase on Zamba)
Phrygian in Cb - Ode to the Hawaiians